**This episode originally aired November 30, 2016.

For millions of people, online gaming is a magical -- even addictive -- space to escape to. A place for storytelling, exploration and adventure with other gamers.

Emma Vossen's love of gaming started when she was a kid growing up in small-town Ontario. Now as a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo Games Institute, she looks to gamer culture as a microcosm of how sexism is seeded and replicated within broader society, and she draws connections between gamer culture and the rise of the political extreme right.

The examples of harassment that women gamers experience when playing on line 1:17



Guests in the program: (in order of appearance)

**Ideas from the Trenches is produced by Nicola Luksic & Tom Howell