Take This, IGDA, and IGDAF Statement on Recent Events
Take This, IGDA, and IGDAF Statement on Recent Events Video game organizations seek to create safer, more inclusive environments SEATTLE, WA – September 4, 2019 — In this past week,…
Posts filed “Suicide”
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Six Years Ago Today…
Read MoreCONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide Six years ago today, Matt Hughes, a freelance games journalist and colleague of Take This’ founders, took his own life. It was a tragedy made…
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Suicide is a Scourge
Read MoreToday, news broke that the world lost one of my heroes to suicide. I love food and cooking with a passion, and Anthony Bourdain was responsible for that in no…
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The Power of Music
Read More[font_text link=”” icon=”star” color=”dark” size=”small” border=”off” spin=”off”]Content notice: Discussion of suicide and death.[/font_text] In 2002, shortly after I came out of the closet and life as I knew it was…
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A Poem About Finding a Reason to Hope
Read More[font_text link=”” icon=”star” color=”dark” size=”small” border=”off” spin=”off”]Content warning: Discussion of suicide.[/font_text] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ktdf2KQ58c In ‘Don’t Kill Yourself Today,’ Poet Hanna Dains shares a beautiful argument for keeping going even when keeping…
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A Message of Hope on World Suicide Prevention Day
Read MoreOver 42,000 people in the US took their own lives in 2014, according to the CDC, and far more make attempts. It’s the leading cause of preventable deaths in those…
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That Time Deadpool Helped Someone Through Their Darkest Moment
Read MoreAs superheroes go, Deadpool is not the most inclined toward heroics. He’s a foul-mouthed mercenary who started his career as a ultra-violent villain. Since his shift to being a 4th-wall…
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On Grief and Loss When We Lose an Icon
Read MoreThis week, we lost a brilliant artist to an unexpected death. Chris Cornell’s death is hitting me harder than I might have expected. I’ve lived in Seattle my whole life.…