Publications

Books

W. Pow. People Orientations: Toward a Transgender Software and Video Game History. In progress, solicited for review at Duke University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

W. Pow. “How the Computer Taught Us to See” Camera Obscura (Duke University Press), forthcoming.

W. Pow. “Critical Game Studies and Its Afterlives: Digital Games, History, and Identity.” In revision stage for Just Tech by the Social Science Research Council, forthcoming.

W. Pow. “A Trans Historiography of Glitches and Errors.” Feminist Media Histories (2021) 7 (1): 197-230. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.197 (PDF)

W. Pow. “Reaching Toward Home: Software Interface as Queer Orientation in the Video Game Curtain.” The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 81, 2018, p. 43-56. https://doi.org/10.7560/VLT8105 (PDF)

Book Chapters

W. Pow. “That’s Not Who I Am: Calling Out and Challenging Stereotypes of Asian Americans.” Gendered Lives, Intersectional Perspectives, Seventh Edition. Eds. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. New York: Oxford University Press, 84-88.

Essays and Book Reviews

W. Pow. “Glitch, Body, Anti-Body: Legacy Russell’s feminist theory of the glitch yields insights into how social and technological systems of control can be disrupted by the art and lives of queer and trans people of color.” For the special issue on glitch edited by foundational glitch artist and theorist Rosa Menkman and editor-in-chief Brian Droitcour for Outland: An Online Art Magazine for the NFT Era, December 14, 2023. https://outland.art/legacy-russell-glitch-feminism/

W. Pow. “Review of the books Gaming Representation edited by Jennifer Malkowski and TreaAndrea M. Russworm and Woke Gaming edited by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59, no. 4 (2020): 205-209. 10.1353/cj.2020.0052

W. Pow. “Outside of the Folder, the Box, the Archive: Moving Toward a Reparative Video Game History.” ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, Vol 1, No. 1, July 2019. http://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/76

Selected Popular Publications

W. Pow. “All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer,” Autostraddle, March 28. 2019. https://www.autostraddle.com/all-bones-and-blood-and-breath-remembering-barbara-hammer/

W. Pow. “I Would Grow My Hair to Cover the City: On My Hair, My Identity and My Family,” Autostraddle, January 3, 2014. http://www.autostraddle.com/i-would-grow-my-hair-to-cover-the-city-211799/.