Nathan Rogers (they/them) is a second-year P.h.D. student at University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. Their primary research interests are in tabletop roleplaying games (like Dungeons & Dragons but other titles also apply) as tools for people to express and explore marginalized or stigmatized identity. Nathan mostly performs qualitative style interviews and ethnographic observation, but recognizing the existence of marginalization and stigmatization of identities demands critical examination of related media and discourses where those processes occur.
