Dame of Arcana

Game footage of the Gemini level for the game Dame of Arcana. Gemini represents the balance we have to find in order to gain self acceptance. Sometimes we become hypermasculine or hyperfeminine in order to protect ourselves from the patriarchy. In turn we lose ourselves and, instead, conform to patriarchal ideas of gender and gender expression.

The game centers around how people who are assigned female at birth equip themselves throughout their life to defend or work around the challenges that the patriarchy gives them. In doing this, we construct ideas, roles, and rules in which to follow which only reinforce the patriarchy. The more set in these rules we become the more ignorant we become to the changing society around us and progression becomes something conflicting and blurry. We abandon all we have known or we defend them.