I started researching it years ago after being told that I shouldn’t do re-enactment combat because “women couldn’t do that in those days”…

In doing my labour studies classes this semester, I was constantly introduced to literature about brave and radical women. I was also constantly introduced to analysis of the ways that those women were systemically edited out of history.

Thanks for giving me a channel/prompt for sharing those names.

I’m really excited about Agnes Smedley – often cited as the first feminist-proletariat writer, Agnes was brilliant in her ability to clearly express the interrelations of different types of oppression. She was a political activist, a groundbreaking author, a journalist in China during their civil war, an advocate of numerous progressive causes, and a ComIntern spy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Smedley

Where is the link to the demo?

The game concept is you play emotionally-broken people who are outcasts from the communities of survivors, but they’re the only ones who can travel in the Forest unmolested by the siren call of the trees. The communities depend on these “drifters” for trade, escort, scavenging, and other problem-solving, and the drifters confront their emotional scars and seek redemption, and eventually acceptance into the communities they serve.

There isn’t an explicit mechanical hook to make things like taking a life for the first time matter, but the relentless focus on the PCs’ emotional state through the Trauma and Stress mechanics means that, narratively, it’s not going to be easily overlooked, and it will fit right into the themes of standard play.