Rethinking the stereotype of the solitary gamer.
Jahara Jayde remembers the first time she felt isolated as a Black girl who obsessed over all things. During a sleepover, “I remember leaving the room and coming back to a couple of my friends talking about how I liked anime, which I didn’t talk about openly to a lot of people,” she recalls. “They were like, ‘She just wants to be Japanese so bad. Jahara doesn’t wanna be Black; she wants to be Japanese.
This wasn’t the only instance that left Jayde, now a gamer-streamer-cosplayer with over 23,000 followers , feeling judged about the things she liked to do for fun. “I was used to feeling like the hobbies I had almost made me less ‘Black,’” she says. “Because that was the understanding I was getting from people around me.”Jayde as Geralt of Rivia from Netflix'sIt wasn’t until the pandemic, when Jayde began streaming on Twitch, that she realized there were thousands of women like her, all around the world.
flooded the chat in her stream, commenting on how affirming it felt to see someone who looked like them hosting a livestream on Twitch, appearing front and center at video game releases, and dominating the cosplay game.The feeling of isolation that Jayde had previously experienced was no anomaly. In May, the US Surgeon General’s office
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