Reflecting on their experience as a queer person of color, Baidoo transforms their pain, joy and grief into game lore. They created the avatar ‘S.’ whose memories and safe havens you may visit. Each space becomes a sanctuary, where players are invited to slow down and wander. Exploring means diving deeper into S.’s psyche. Wandering and encountering becomes an archeological process of grief, healing and gaming. Levels, graphics and tones shift as one explores deeper into this world, and in the process, ourselves.

Plum Road Tea Dream evolves the videogame and its association to violence and imperialism to reappropriate its form and center its experience on connection, introspection, and healing. It uses the video game as a way to connect the individual and the societal.

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