Gaming creators with disabilities connect and learn through Xbox pilot program<\/p>\n
Bee Poshek\u00a0<\/strong>found community as a full-time streamer and content creator after the pandemic disrupted a completely different career path.<\/p>\n \u201cAs an educator, one of my favorite aspects of teaching was kind of stripped out from under me \u2013 not getting to see students in person,\u201d says Poshek, who was working at a university in Wisconsin. \u201cI didn\u2019t get to connect with them in that way or have deeper conversations. I also felt like students were going through some of the hardest things that I\u2019d ever seen them go through and the systems in place were not giving me the tools I needed to really be able to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n Poshek, who uses they\/them pronouns, burned out. Their disabilities \u2013 chronic pain and polycystic ovarian syndrome \u2013 got worse. They also have autism. All those combined are a \u201ctriple whammy\u201d that make traditional work challenging, says Poshek, who moved back in with their parents.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing an openly queer and disabled person in rural Wisconsin during the middle of a pandemic was an experience, to say the least, so I started seeking that community that I missed,\u201d says Poshek, who found Twitch via some of their favorite Sims creators on YouTube. \u201cI started finding niche communities that I really felt comfortable in, and eventually I worked up the courage to try it for myself. It\u2019s been more than I ever expected it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n Poshek, pictured above, was one of five people who joined the first Xbox Next Level (XNL) Creator Program, a six-week accelerator designed to help gaming streamers from underrepresented communities. Free virtual sessions focused on tools and resources to help them succeed in making creation a full-time job, and they received guidance on potential partnerships, creating a hosting reel, camera presentation, social media best practices and more.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a> about Poshek and the other program creators on Source, which also has a shortform version<\/a> of their experiences. Gaming creators with disabilities connect and learn through Xbox pilot program Bee Poshek\u00a0found community as a full-time streamer and content creator after the pandemic disrupted a completely different career path. \u201cAs an educator, one of my favorite aspects of teaching was kind of stripped out from under me \u2013 not getting to see students in person,\u201d says Poshek, who was working at a university in Wisconsin. \u201cI didn\u2019t get to connect with them in that way or have deeper conversations. I also felt like students were going through some of the hardest things that I\u2019d ever seen them go through and the systems in place were not giving me the tools I needed to really be able to help them.\u201d Poshek, who uses they\/them pronouns, burned out. Their disabilities \u2013 chronic pain and polycystic ovarian syndrome \u2013 got worse. They [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-49679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-windows"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49680,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49679\/revisions\/49680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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