Q

cyclicaluniverse asked:

Hi Carolyn, now that you've unfortunately been let go by Gamespot/CBS, what are your future plans? Are you going freelance? I'd hoped you'd be the new Giantbomb hire, it would have awesome to have been able to listen to you on the Bombcast. :) - Just another trans* woman who finds you inspiring. :)

A

Hi. Thank you so much. 

image

Perhaps the post I wrote yesterday gave some idea of where I’m at currently, but the long and short of it is that I don’t yet have a good sense of what my next steps will be. Sometimes I wonder how much of an audience there is for the kind of writing about games that I tend to find the most valuable and interesting. Sometimes I worry that everything is going the way of short blog post news updates, aggregation, and video content. I see some of the voices I respect the most turning to things like Patreon, and right now, I’m considering everything. (I definitely might do some freelance work for a while.) But I admit that ideally I would like to be back in a situation that brings with it a health plan and a steady paycheck. My HRT was covered by my health care provider while I was working for CBS, and I was going to have my SRS covered as well. I can’t discount the importance of those things. So I am also definitely considering looking for opportunities on the other side of the games industry fence. If I felt like a company was forward-thinking enough, and that there was potential for my perspective to be valuable and useful in some way, then I think there’s a chance for that to be a rewarding move. But who knows?