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'@@ -1,23 +1,30 @@ -{{Short description|Female gamer}} -'''Jennifer Lufau''' (born in 1993 in [[Togo]]) is a gamer, and expert in [[digital marketing]], who lives in [[France]]. +{{Short description|Female gamer}}{{Infobox person +| name = Jennifer Lufau +| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1993}} +| birth_place = [[Togo]] +| occupation = Digital marketer; [[diversity and inclusion]] consultant, [[sensitivity reader]] +| employer = Independent; [[Ubisoft]] (former) +| known_for = Anti-[[misogynoir]] activist in the video game community +| website = {{URL|jenniferlufau.com}} +}} -She is the founder and president of the [[:fr:Jennifer Lufau#Le collectif Afrogameuses|Afrogameuses association]], which fights against racism in the field of [[Video game|video games]] and tries to promote better representation of black women. +'''Jennifer Lufau''' (born in {{Birth year and age|1993}} in [[Togo]]) is a gamer, and expert in [[digital marketing]], based in [[Paris|Paris, France]]. -Active and involved in the field of video games, she is also the author of the blog "Call me Jane Bond". +She is the founder and president of the [[Afrogameuses]], an association which fights against racism and sexism (see: [[misogynoir]]) in the field of [[Video game|video games]] and tries to promote better representation of black women. Active and involved in the field of video games, she is also the author of the blog "Call me Jane Bond". -In November 2020, [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'' magazine]] elected Jennifer Lufau as one of the "fifty French women who made 2020".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-30 |title=Les 50 Françaises les plus influentes en 2020 |url=https://www.vanityfair.fr/pouvoir/business/diaporama/50-francaises-qui-ont-fait-2020/61218 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Vanity Fair |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=JENNIFER LUFAU, UNE AFROGAMEUSE QUI VEUT CHANGER LE GAME |url=https://nanasbenz.com/magazine/jennifer-lufau-une-afrogameuse-qui-veut-changer-le-game |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Nanas Benz |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ces 50 femmes qui ont marqué 2020 selon Vanity Fair : Despentes, Marine Serre, Assa Traoré... |url=https://www.rtbf.be/article/ces-50-femmes-qui-ont-marque-2020-selon-vanity-fair-despentes-marine-serre-assa-traore-10642900 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=RTBF |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-02 |title=Les Françaises de moins de 35 ans qui ont fait l'année 2020 |url=https://start.lesechos.fr/societe/culture-tendances/les-francaises-de-moins-de-35-ans-qui-ont-fait-lannee-2020-1270254 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Les Echos Start |language=fr}}</ref> +In November 2020, [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'']] elected Jennifer Lufau as one of the "fifty French women who made 2020".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-30 |title=Les 50 Françaises les plus influentes en 2020 |trans-title=Society: 50 French women who made 2020 |url=https://www.vanityfair.fr/pouvoir/business/diaporama/50-francaises-qui-ont-fait-2020/61218 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[Vanity Fair]] |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Dor |first=Fabiola |date=December 13, 2020 |title=Jennifer Lufau, une afrogameuse qui vuet changer le game |trans-title=Jennifer Lufau, an afrogamer who wants to change the game |url=https://nanasbenz.com/magazine/jennifer-lufau-une-afrogameuse-qui-veut-changer-le-game |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Nanas Benz |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-01 |title=Ces 50 femmes qui ont marqué 2020 selon Vanity Fair : Despentes, Marine Serre, Assa Traoré... |trans-title=These 50 women who marked 2020 according to Vanity Fair: Despentes, Marine Serre, Assa Traoré... |url=https://www.rtbf.be/article/ces-50-femmes-qui-ont-marque-2020-selon-vanity-fair-despentes-marine-serre-assa-traore-10642900 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=RTBF.be - [[Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française]] |language=fr-be |publication-place=Brussels}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-02 |title=Les Françaises de moins de 35 ans qui ont fait l'année 2020 |trans-title=French women under 35 who made the year 2020 |url=https://start.lesechos.fr/societe/culture-tendances/les-francaises-de-moins-de-35-ans-qui-ont-fait-lannee-2020-1270254 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Les Echos Start |language=fr}}</ref> == Life == -Jennifer Lufau was born in Togo in 1993. She grew up in [[Benin]], then moved to [[France]] around the age of seven.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Viala |first=Océane |date=2020-08-19 |title=" Dans le jeu vidéo, une photo d’une fille noire, c’est un motif de harcèlement " |url=https://www.madmoizelle.com/afrogameuses-racisme-sexisme-jeux-videos-1061368 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Madmoizelle |language=fr-FR}}</ref> She played a lot of video games during her childhood.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-08 |title=" Afrogameuses ", l'asso qui combat sexisme et racisme dans le jeu vidéo |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/3247555-20220308-journee-droits-femmes-jennifer-lufau-afrogameuse-combat-sexisme-racisme-jeu-video |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=www.20minutes.fr |language=fr}}</ref> +Jennifer Lufau was born in Togo in 1993. She grew up in [[Benin]], then moved to [[France]] around the age of seven.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Viala |first=Océane |date=2020-08-19 |title=Dans le jeu vidéo, une photo d’une fille noire, c’est un motif de harcèlement |trans-title="In the video game, a photo of a black girl is a reason for harassment" |url=https://www.madmoizelle.com/afrogameuses-racisme-sexisme-jeux-videos-1061368 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Madmoizelle |language=fr-FR}}</ref> She played a lot of video games during her childhood.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-08 |title=" Afrogameuses ", l'asso qui combat sexisme et racisme dans le jeu vidéo |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/3247555-20220308-journee-droits-femmes-jennifer-lufau-afrogameuse-combat-sexisme-racisme-jeu-video |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=www.20minutes.fr |language=fr}}</ref> -She is an expert in digital marketing,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-29 |title=Jennifer Lufau, Afrogameuses : "Les discriminations n’épargnent pas le monde du gaming" - JEU.VIDEO |url=https://jeu.video/interview/jennifer-lufau-afrogameuses-discriminations-nepargnent-monde-gaming/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=web.archive.org |archive-date=2020-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129094402/https://jeu.video/interview/jennifer-lufau-afrogameuses-discriminations-nepargnent-monde-gaming/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> and works as a consultant in diversity and inclusion (D&I) and sensitivity reader in the field of video games. She is the author of a professional thesis entitled “How Big Data is already transforming marketing? », published in July 2017.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jennifer LUFAU |date=2018-02-08 |title=En quoi le Big Data transforme déjà le marketing ? |url=https://fr.slideshare.net/JenniferLUFAU/thse-professionnelle-jennifer-lufau}}</ref> +She worked as a Social Media & Content Manager at [[Ubisoft]] for two years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lufau |first=Jennifer |title=Jennifer "Invincible Jane" Lufau |url=https://invinciblejane700058867.wordpress.com/}}</ref> She is an expert in digital marketing,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dadrit |first=LF |date=2020-11-29 |title=Jennifer Lufau, Afrogameuses : "Les discriminations n’épargnent pas le monde du gaming" |trans-title=Jennifer Lufau, Afrogameuses : "Discrimination does not spare the world of gaming" |url=https://jeu.video/interview/jennifer-lufau-afrogameuses-discriminations-nepargnent-monde-gaming/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129094402/https://jeu.video/interview/jennifer-lufau-afrogameuses-discriminations-nepargnent-monde-gaming/ |archive-date=2020-11-29 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=JEU.VIDEO |language=fr}}</ref> and now works as a consultant in [[Diversity (business)|diversity and inclusion]] (D&I) and [[sensitivity reader]] in the field of video games. In 2016, she defended her thesis on video games at the Sorbonne for her master's in international project management.<ref name=":2" /> She is also the author of a professional thesis entitled “How Big Data is already transforming marketing? », published in July 2017.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lufau |first=Jennifer |date=2018-02-08 |title=En quoi le Big Data transforme déjà le marketing ? |trans-title=How Big Data is already transforming marketing? |url=https://fr.slideshare.net/JenniferLUFAU/thse-professionnelle-jennifer-lufau |journal=INSTITUT LÉONARD DE VINCI; Responsable e-Business / Responsable e-Marketing}}</ref> -As a child, she frequented a cybercafé every day after school to play [[Prince of Persia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Lufau {{!}} Institut français |url=https://www.institutfrancais.com/fr/magazine/rencontre/jennifer-lufau |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=www.institutfrancais.com |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-21 |title=Jennifer Lufau, la gameuse qui combat les dérives de l'industrie du jeu video |url=https://www.maddyness.com/2021/08/21/jennifer-lufau-inclusion-jeu-video-afrogameuses/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Maddyness - Le média pour comprendre l'économie de demain |language=fr-FR}}</ref> Later she played [[League of Legends]], [[Mortal Kombat]] and [[Tekken]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2020-10-19 |title=Les Afrogameuses : un mouvement pour inclure les femmes noires dans le jeu vidéo |url=https://leseclaireurs.canalplus.com/articles/agir/les-afrogameuses-un-mouvement-pour-inclure-les-femmes-noires-dans-le-jeu-video?tl=fr?tl=fr?tl=fr?tl=fr?tl=fr |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Les Éclaireurs |language=FR}}</ref> Around her, there was no girl to share her passion, and it was not a subject addressed by her classmates. Once she arrived in France, she remained without a computer for a long time, and it was only around the age of seventeen that she began to play regularly again. Once again, she found, that she was one of the few young women to play. As an adult, another question arose for her: “Where are the black women in video games? ».<ref name="ladepeche.fr">{{Cite web |title="Comme le cinéma, le jeu vidéo est là pour faire rêver. Tout le monde devrait pouvoir s'identifier" (Jennifer Lufau) |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2020/11/20/comme-le-cinema-le-jeu-video-est-la-pour-faire-rever-tout-le-monde-devrait-pouvoir-sidentifier-jennifer-lufau-9212190.php |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=ladepeche.fr |language=fr}}</ref> She realized that as a player, she saw herself as a kind of anomaly: female and black. She met extraordinary people on multi-player game platforms, and appreciated the socializing aspect which allowed her to make many friends. However, “this is not the world of Care Bears, far from it”.<ref name=":0" /> +As a child, she frequented a [[Internet café|cybercafé]] every day after school to play [[Prince of Persia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-02 |title=Rencontre {{!}} Jennifer Lufau |url=https://www.institutfrancais.com/fr/magazine/rencontre/jennifer-lufau |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[Institut français]] |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pons |first=Heloise |date=2021-08-21 |title=Jennifer Lufau, la gameuse qui combat les dérives de l'industrie du jeu video |trans-title=Jennifer Lufau, the gamer who fights the excesses of the video game industry |url=https://www.maddyness.com/2021/08/21/jennifer-lufau-inclusion-jeu-video-afrogameuses/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Maddyness - Le média pour comprendre l'économie de demain |language=fr-FR}}</ref> Later she played [[League of Legends]], [[Mortal Kombat]] and [[Tekken]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Molinari |first=Helene |date=2020-10-19 |title=Les Afrogameuses : un mouvement pour inclure les femmes noires dans le jeu vidéo |trans-title=Afrogamers: a movement to include black women in video games |url=https://leseclaireurs.canalplus.com/articles/agir/les-afrogameuses-un-mouvement-pour-inclure-les-femmes-noires-dans-le-jeu-video?tl=fr?tl=fr?tl=fr?tl=fr?tl=fr |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Les Éclaireurs |language=FR}}</ref> Around her, there was no girl to share her passion, and it was not a subject addressed by her classmates. Once she arrived in France, she remained without a computer for a long time, and it was only around the age of seventeen that she began to play regularly again. Once again, she found, that she was one of the few young women to play. As an adult, another question arose for her: “Where are the black women in video games? ».<ref name="ladepeche.fr">{{Cite web |date=2020-11-20 |title="Comme le cinéma, le jeu vidéo est là pour faire rêver. Tout le monde devrait pouvoir s'identifier" (Jennifer Lufau) |trans-title="Like cinema, video games are there to make people dream. Everyone should be able to identify with them" |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2020/11/20/comme-le-cinema-le-jeu-video-est-la-pour-faire-rever-tout-le-monde-devrait-pouvoir-sidentifier-jennifer-lufau-9212190.php |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[La Dépêche]] |language=fr}}</ref> She realized that as a player, she saw herself as a kind of anomaly: female and black. She met extraordinary people on multi-player game platforms, and appreciated the socializing aspect which allowed her to make many friends. However, “this is not the world of [[Care Bears]], far from it”.<ref name=":0" /> -For Jennifer Lufau, being a black woman geek, in the racist and sexist world of gaming, was in itself a militant gesture. She suffered through the regular receipt of hateful comments. "Playing black characters is a real “insult magnet”.<ref name=":0" /> To avoid this situation, many racialized women evolved in this environment under male-sounding nicknames.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-01 |title=Femme noire dans le monde des jeux vidéos, un acte militant |url=https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/11561752-femme-noire-dans-le-monde-des-jeux-videos-un-acte-militant.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=rts.ch |language=fr}}</ref> Too often a witness, but also a victim, of discriminatory behavior, she reported being often the victim of racism in the world of streaming and deplored the fact that the only possible action to counter insults is to ban, report and block people. However, these people retain “the possibility of endlessly reproducing these same insults". For her, it is up to the platforms to take their responsibilities; for example, she cites [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]]. In fact, the players develop many avoidance strategies to dodge this harassment. For example, by modifying their nicknames, by deactivating their microphones or by playing male characters, because these are “reputed to be stronger, more virile”, the female characters being considered as weak characters. +For Jennifer Lufau, being a black woman geek, in the racist and sexist world of gaming, was in itself a militant gesture. She suffered through the regular receipt of hateful comments. "Playing black characters is a real “insult magnet”.<ref name=":0" /> To avoid this situation, many racialized women evolved in this environment under male-sounding nicknames.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coca-Cozma |first=Miruna |date=2020-09-01 |title=Femme noire dans le monde des jeux vidéos, un acte militant |trans-title=Black woman in the world of video games, a militant act |url=https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/11561752-femme-noire-dans-le-monde-des-jeux-videos-un-acte-militant.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[Radio Télévision Suisse]] |language=fr-ch}}</ref> Too often a witness, but also a victim, of discriminatory behavior, she reported being often the victim of racism in the world of streaming and deplored the fact that the only possible action to counter insults is to ban, report and block people. However, these people retain “the possibility of endlessly reproducing these same insults". For her, it is up to the platforms to take their responsibilities; for example, she cites [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]]. In fact, the players develop many avoidance strategies to dodge this harassment. For example, by modifying their nicknames, by deactivating their microphones or by playing male characters, because these are “reputed to be stronger, more virile”, the female characters being considered as weak characters. -Inspired by the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, she embarked on writing an article on the Afrogamer community,<ref name="ladepeche.fr"/> which she published on the "Call me Jane Bond" blog,<ref>{{Cite web |title=À propos de Jane Bond de l'auteur |url=https://www.callmejanebond.com/fr/a-propos-jane-bond/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=CallMeJaneBond |language=fr-FR}}</ref> which she has been running since April 2020. Her meetings with other women in the same situation allow her to discuss their respective experiences. This is how she created, with three other women, on 14 July 2020, the "[[Afrogameuses]]" collective,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=SIMON-RAINAUD |first=Marion |date=2020-12-13 |title=Le combat des Afrogameuses pour être visibles dans la communauté gaming est un combat pour la réalité |url=https://www.01net.com/actualites/le-combat-des-afrogameuses-pour-etre-visibles-dans-la-communaute-gaming-est-un-combat-pour-la-realite-2005687.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=01net.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref> with the aim of remedying this lack of visibility,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-30 |title=Afrogameuses veut valoriser les joueuses et streameuses noires |url=https://start.lesechos.fr/societe/egalite-diversite/afrogameuses-veut-valoriser-les-joueuses-et-streameuses-noires-1269485 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Les Echos Start |language=fr}}</ref> by contacting concerned women through feminist networks, such as such as [[Women in Games]], and anti-racist groups, such as Black Geeks.<ref name=":1" /> Since then, this association has been actively campaigning to make the video game industry more inclusive, denouncing racism and sexism and calling on companies in the sector to take up the subject. +Inspired by the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, she embarked on writing an article on the Afrogamer community,<ref name="ladepeche.fr"/> which she published on the "Call me Jane Bond" blog,<ref>{{Cite web |title=À propos de Jane Bond de l'auteur |url=https://www.callmejanebond.com/fr/a-propos-jane-bond/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=CallMeJaneBond |language=fr-FR}}</ref> which she has been running since April 2020. Her meetings with other women in the same situation allow her to discuss their respective experiences. This is how she created, with three other women, on 14 July 2020, the "[[Afrogameuses]]" collective,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Simon-Rainaud |first=Marion |date=2020-12-13 |title=Le combat des Afrogameuses pour être visibles dans la communauté gaming est un combat pour la réalité |trans-title=The Afrogameuses' fight to be visible in the gaming community is a fight for reality |url=https://www.01net.com/actualites/le-combat-des-afrogameuses-pour-etre-visibles-dans-la-communaute-gaming-est-un-combat-pour-la-realite-2005687.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=01net.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref> with the aim of remedying this lack of visibility,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dillenseger |first=Corinne |date=2020-11-30 |title=Afrogameuses veut valoriser les joueuses et streameuses noires |trans-title=Afrogameuses wants to promote black players and streamers |url=https://start.lesechos.fr/societe/egalite-diversite/afrogameuses-veut-valoriser-les-joueuses-et-streameuses-noires-1269485 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[Les Echos Start]] |language=fr}}</ref> by contacting concerned women through feminist networks, such as such as [[Women in Games]], and anti-racist groups, such as Black Geeks.<ref name=":1" /> Since then, this association has been actively campaigning to make the video game industry more inclusive, denouncing racism and sexism and calling on companies in the sector to take up the subject. -In August 2020, the Swiss television channel RTS devoted part of its program "Vertigo" to her, in a report entitled “Being a racialized woman in the sexist universe of video games”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-24 |title=Être une femme racisée dans lʹunivers sexiste des jeux vidéo |url=https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2020/audio/etre-une-femme-racisee-dans-l-univers-sexiste-des-jeux-video-25144241.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=rts.ch |language=fr}}</ref> +In August 2020, the Swiss television channel ''[[Radio Télévision Suisse|Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS)]]'' devoted part of its program "Vertigo" to her, in a report entitled “Being a racialized woman in the sexist universe of video games”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-24 |title=Être une femme racisée dans lʹunivers sexiste des jeux vidéo |trans-title=Being a racialized woman in the sexist world of video games |url=https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2020/audio/etre-une-femme-racisee-dans-l-univers-sexiste-des-jeux-video-25144241.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Vertigo |publisher=[[Radio Télévision Suisse]] |language=fr-ch}}</ref> == References == @@ -34,2 +41,14 @@ [[Category:21st-century Togolese women writers]] [[Category:Togolese women activists]] +[[Category:Women in the video game industry]] +[[Category:Togolese emigrants to France]] +[[Category:Togolese expatriates in Benin]] +[[Category:21st-century French women writers]] +[[Category:Diversity management people]] +[[Category:French anti-racism activists]] +[[Category:French women bloggers]] +[[Category:Video game researchers]] +[[Category:French people in the video game industry]] +[[Category:Video game critics]] +[[Category:French women activists]] +[[Category:Ubisoft people]] '