"As a female gamer, being able to play a game where the female characters/toons aren’t dressed as sexual objects is refreshing."
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Diane and her family live in South Carolina with their three cats. She is currently working on several fiction projects. She graduated in 2019 with an MFA in Creative Writing with a certificate to teach writing online from Southern New Hampshire University. In 2021 she received an MA in English from Southern New Hampshire University. You can follow her as she continues her journey of Tolkien's world of Middle-earth in her column "Worlds without Women". You can find her on Facebook @drigginsauthor.
Diane Riggins·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic WritingReflections on MethodVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
··5 min read"My thesis began to unfold after doing some research on my final topic idea about Tolkien’s world, female characters, female gamers, and the stereotype that females are the love interests or damsels in distress. I chose autoethnography because it allowed me to add that personal angle to the paper because I am a female writer, reader, and gamer."
