Gaining Advantage 021: When a Foam Sword Heals

Gaining Advantage: Making Lives Better through tabletop role-playing games; Wyrmworks Publishing Logo; Disability symbol with wheelchair wheel replaced by d20; Brain with embedded d20; Kitty Rodé headshot

What does accessibility look like in Live Action Role-Play (LARP)? We welcome Kitty Rodé from the Golden Feather Initiative to talk about that!

Kitty Rodé is a queer, South Asian artist and organizer who is passionate about storytelling, community building and trauma-informed gaming. They are a lifelong student of anti-oppression work, creating safer spaces and design for social change. Kitty is also a member of the Community Resistance Intimacy Project (CRIP) Collective, providing disability justice education and training. Visit kittyrode.com to see more of their work.

  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 4:36 Interview: Kitty Rodé, Golden Feather Initiative
  • 36:05 Wrap-up

Manually captioned. Transcript available at our website.

Golden Feather Initiative Links

Wyrmworks Publishing

And here’s the video Kitty references: