Critical policy analysis and gameplay.

After showing Jeeyon's tweet about the tiny person's campsite and a rich conversation about being resourced vs. being safe, we decided to make a tiny campsite, each of us, for someone impacted by the surge in anti-LGBTQIA2P laws and policies that were being debated, approved, and the site of much contestation over, quite simply, who get to be human. These critical policy classes departed sharply from similar courses that might include implications and suggestions from analyzing education policies for the interplay of power. We all had to analyze these policies in depth, and in keeping with a critical policy analysis class. I offered this rather unusual assignment soon after I was able to participate in an enlivening workshop led by outdoor educator and analog game designer, Jeeyon Shim. [Extracted from the article]