Kareem
@shadetooth.bsky.social
Dialogue Lead @ Insomniac Games
he/him
he/him
I just finished "Blood Over Bright Haven", a novel by M. L. Wang.
I highly recommend it! It's like a fantasy version of "This is what radicalized me." It's curious, detailed, and infuriating in all the best ways. I blasted through it and now I can't stop thinking about it!
I highly recommend it! It's like a fantasy version of "This is what radicalized me." It's curious, detailed, and infuriating in all the best ways. I blasted through it and now I can't stop thinking about it!
September 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I just finished "Blood Over Bright Haven", a novel by M. L. Wang.
I highly recommend it! It's like a fantasy version of "This is what radicalized me." It's curious, detailed, and infuriating in all the best ways. I blasted through it and now I can't stop thinking about it!
I highly recommend it! It's like a fantasy version of "This is what radicalized me." It's curious, detailed, and infuriating in all the best ways. I blasted through it and now I can't stop thinking about it!
I've finally figured out why Esquie felt so familiar...
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I've finally figured out why Esquie felt so familiar...
Happy Q1 to those of you who celebrate!
April 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Happy Q1 to those of you who celebrate!
Trans rights are human rights!
March 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trans rights are human rights!
Happy to introduce myself from Seattle.
I'm Kareem and I'm a Dialogue Lead at Insomniac Games working hard on Marvel's Wolverine! I have a pinned thread in my profile explaining my work. This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!
Shout out to my friend @drjclau.bsky.social for creating this awesome trend!
I'm Kareem and I'm a Dialogue Lead at Insomniac Games working hard on Marvel's Wolverine! I have a pinned thread in my profile explaining my work. This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!
Shout out to my friend @drjclau.bsky.social for creating this awesome trend!
March 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Happy to introduce myself from Seattle.
I'm Kareem and I'm a Dialogue Lead at Insomniac Games working hard on Marvel's Wolverine! I have a pinned thread in my profile explaining my work. This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!
Shout out to my friend @drjclau.bsky.social for creating this awesome trend!
I'm Kareem and I'm a Dialogue Lead at Insomniac Games working hard on Marvel's Wolverine! I have a pinned thread in my profile explaining my work. This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!
Shout out to my friend @drjclau.bsky.social for creating this awesome trend!
I think of him as Morland Holmes from the show Elementary!
March 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I think of him as Morland Holmes from the show Elementary!
And that's it!
A list of 29 things I've learned. One for each day of February and Black History Month!
It's a ridiculously long thread, so thanks for making it this far. To cap things off, here's a poem I wrote during the summer of 2020 about police brutality.
Thanks for reading!
A list of 29 things I've learned. One for each day of February and Black History Month!
It's a ridiculously long thread, so thanks for making it this far. To cap things off, here's a poem I wrote during the summer of 2020 about police brutality.
Thanks for reading!
February 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
And that's it!
A list of 29 things I've learned. One for each day of February and Black History Month!
It's a ridiculously long thread, so thanks for making it this far. To cap things off, here's a poem I wrote during the summer of 2020 about police brutality.
Thanks for reading!
A list of 29 things I've learned. One for each day of February and Black History Month!
It's a ridiculously long thread, so thanks for making it this far. To cap things off, here's a poem I wrote during the summer of 2020 about police brutality.
Thanks for reading!
BHM #29:
The Equal Justice Initiative (@eji.org) is a non-profit that works to fight racial injustice in the United States. Their program includes efforts in criminal justice reform, public education, poverty relief, and racial justice.
The film Just Mercy is about their founder Bryan Stevenson.🧵
The Equal Justice Initiative (@eji.org) is a non-profit that works to fight racial injustice in the United States. Their program includes efforts in criminal justice reform, public education, poverty relief, and racial justice.
The film Just Mercy is about their founder Bryan Stevenson.🧵
February 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
BHM #29:
The Equal Justice Initiative (@eji.org) is a non-profit that works to fight racial injustice in the United States. Their program includes efforts in criminal justice reform, public education, poverty relief, and racial justice.
The film Just Mercy is about their founder Bryan Stevenson.🧵
The Equal Justice Initiative (@eji.org) is a non-profit that works to fight racial injustice in the United States. Their program includes efforts in criminal justice reform, public education, poverty relief, and racial justice.
The film Just Mercy is about their founder Bryan Stevenson.🧵
And then when it's review period, or time to consider who among you and your peers deserves a chance at a leadership role or a new management position.
How do we know the same type of name bias isn't worming it's way into those systems too?
How do we know the same type of name bias isn't worming it's way into those systems too?
February 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And then when it's review period, or time to consider who among you and your peers deserves a chance at a leadership role or a new management position.
How do we know the same type of name bias isn't worming it's way into those systems too?
How do we know the same type of name bias isn't worming it's way into those systems too?
This type of bias can occur at every level: the algorithms that stack rank the applicants before a recruiter looks through, the recruiter's biases, then the hiring manager's biases, and then the interviewer's biases after that.
February 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This type of bias can occur at every level: the algorithms that stack rank the applicants before a recruiter looks through, the recruiter's biases, then the hiring manager's biases, and then the interviewer's biases after that.
BHM #28:
The name on your resume has a huge impact on whether or not you get a callback when applying to a job.
Multiple studies have shown that in the US, resumes for applicants with white-sounding names get more callbacks than identical resumes with Black-sounding names...🧵
The name on your resume has a huge impact on whether or not you get a callback when applying to a job.
Multiple studies have shown that in the US, resumes for applicants with white-sounding names get more callbacks than identical resumes with Black-sounding names...🧵
February 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
BHM #28:
The name on your resume has a huge impact on whether or not you get a callback when applying to a job.
Multiple studies have shown that in the US, resumes for applicants with white-sounding names get more callbacks than identical resumes with Black-sounding names...🧵
The name on your resume has a huge impact on whether or not you get a callback when applying to a job.
Multiple studies have shown that in the US, resumes for applicants with white-sounding names get more callbacks than identical resumes with Black-sounding names...🧵
These are just a few examples, there are more!
And if you look at the communities and organizations that come together during times of crisis and protest you will see that there is a long history of solidarity and teamwork. We have helped each other for decades.
And if you look at the communities and organizations that come together during times of crisis and protest you will see that there is a long history of solidarity and teamwork. We have helped each other for decades.
February 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
These are just a few examples, there are more!
And if you look at the communities and organizations that come together during times of crisis and protest you will see that there is a long history of solidarity and teamwork. We have helped each other for decades.
And if you look at the communities and organizations that come together during times of crisis and protest you will see that there is a long history of solidarity and teamwork. We have helped each other for decades.
Chinese American Grace Lee Boggs and her Black husband James Boggs were also partners when it came to their social activism in Detroit. In addition to founding multiple organizations for social change, their home now serves as the Bogg Center; a community hub for activism.
February 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Chinese American Grace Lee Boggs and her Black husband James Boggs were also partners when it came to their social activism in Detroit. In addition to founding multiple organizations for social change, their home now serves as the Bogg Center; a community hub for activism.
In that same time period Malcolm X was good friends with Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese American activist who had personally suffered 3 years of imprisonment at an internment camp during WWII.
Her friendship and activist work with Malcolm X benefited them both.
Her friendship and activist work with Malcolm X benefited them both.
February 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In that same time period Malcolm X was good friends with Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese American activist who had personally suffered 3 years of imprisonment at an internment camp during WWII.
Her friendship and activist work with Malcolm X benefited them both.
Her friendship and activist work with Malcolm X benefited them both.
Bayard Rustin worked with MLK and organized the 1963 march on Washington DC. As a gay Black man his activism in gay rights and civil rights is remarkable. And yet his solidarity with the Asian community means his legacy also includes founding the Free India Committee and more...
February 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bayard Rustin worked with MLK and organized the 1963 march on Washington DC. As a gay Black man his activism in gay rights and civil rights is remarkable. And yet his solidarity with the Asian community means his legacy also includes founding the Free India Committee and more...
BHM #27:
Asian and Black communities in America have stood in solidarity with each other more than most people know. But the white supremacist status quo benefits the most by highlighting racial tension over solidarity in media and education.
Asian and Black communities in America have stood in solidarity with each other more than most people know. But the white supremacist status quo benefits the most by highlighting racial tension over solidarity in media and education.
February 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
BHM #27:
Asian and Black communities in America have stood in solidarity with each other more than most people know. But the white supremacist status quo benefits the most by highlighting racial tension over solidarity in media and education.
Asian and Black communities in America have stood in solidarity with each other more than most people know. But the white supremacist status quo benefits the most by highlighting racial tension over solidarity in media and education.
And K-Pop fans have organized and disrupted multiple white-supremacy efforts online. Flooding hashtags and forums with fancams and musical positivity.
So like I said in the beginning, it's complex.
So like I said in the beginning, it's complex.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
And K-Pop fans have organized and disrupted multiple white-supremacy efforts online. Flooding hashtags and forums with fancams and musical positivity.
So like I said in the beginning, it's complex.
So like I said in the beginning, it's complex.
Outside of K-Pop, South Korea has a huge hip-hop scene. With incredible rappers, and dancers that often dominate at international competitions.
And Black people are a huge part of the fanbase when it comes to Korean music these days so there's a lot to love.
And Black people are a huge part of the fanbase when it comes to Korean music these days so there's a lot to love.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Outside of K-Pop, South Korea has a huge hip-hop scene. With incredible rappers, and dancers that often dominate at international competitions.
And Black people are a huge part of the fanbase when it comes to Korean music these days so there's a lot to love.
And Black people are a huge part of the fanbase when it comes to Korean music these days so there's a lot to love.
There are examples of K-Pop artists performing in black-face, saying the N-word, and taking vocals and choreography from Black artists without crediting or paying them.
The line between understandable and unacceptable is often blurry, but not in those cases.
The line between understandable and unacceptable is often blurry, but not in those cases.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
There are examples of K-Pop artists performing in black-face, saying the N-word, and taking vocals and choreography from Black artists without crediting or paying them.
The line between understandable and unacceptable is often blurry, but not in those cases.
The line between understandable and unacceptable is often blurry, but not in those cases.
And today one of Korea's biggest exports is it's massive music industry. K-Pop as an art form pulls from a ton of influences, but it's ties to Black music and culture are especially strong and visible. This is a powerful combo that sometimes crosses the line into appropriation.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
And today one of Korea's biggest exports is it's massive music industry. K-Pop as an art form pulls from a ton of influences, but it's ties to Black music and culture are especially strong and visible. This is a powerful combo that sometimes crosses the line into appropriation.
If we look at the Korean War (1950-1953), where the US and 14 other countries (including South Africa and Ethiopia) sent fighting units to support South Korea, Black soldiers were an important part of that military force.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If we look at the Korean War (1950-1953), where the US and 14 other countries (including South Africa and Ethiopia) sent fighting units to support South Korea, Black soldiers were an important part of that military force.
That being said, Black people have existed in South Korea for a while and the cultural exchange has been uniquely beautiful. And yet individuals still experience harrowing examples of anti-Black racism in South Korea regularly.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
That being said, Black people have existed in South Korea for a while and the cultural exchange has been uniquely beautiful. And yet individuals still experience harrowing examples of anti-Black racism in South Korea regularly.