>SusanneVejdemo: Added a link and an additional larp.

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'''Susanne Vejdemo''' is a linguist, larper, and larpwright. She's Swedish, but currently lives in New York, USA. She often writes games involving politics or ethical dilemmas.<Br>

==Larps==

*Frizon, 2010, Sweden. A mobile adventure/drama larp about the legacy of a past genocide. With [[Daniel Armyr]].
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/0ByClnFqJVNqBT0JucG1SUjB4d28/edit?resourcekey=0-kYzLmaswJ2CnUnJhgH2zMw#bookmark=id.gjdgxs Once More with Passion], 2011, Sweden. A chamber larp about the nature of inter-human conflict. With [[Elli Åhlvik|Elli Garperian]].
*[http://vejdemo.se/drom/ A Midsummer Night's Dream] - A Shakespeare larp. With [[Love Sjögren]], [[Constance Bell Long]], [[Stefan Björk]].
*[[Granny's Great-granny's Tiara]], 2012. A chamber larp about the Swedish female gender role and mother-daughter relationships. With [[Daniel Armyr]]. Available on [https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309134/Grannys-Great-Grandmas-Tiara-PDF DriveThruRPG].
*[[Suffragette!|Suffragett!]], 2014. A larp about the Women's Right to Vote movement in 1918, in collaboration with Hallwylska Museet. With [[Daniel Armyr]], [[Cecilia Billskog]], [[Siri Sandquist]].
*[[Fädernesgården Ett spökspel i sex mansgenerationer. Ett lajv om manlig kärlek och plikten att stanna.|Fädernesgården]]. Ett spökspel i sex mansgenerationer. Ett lajv om manlig kärlek och plikten att stanna. (The Ancestral Farm). 2014. A chamber larp about the Swedish male gender role and father-son relationships. With [[Daniel Armyr]].
*So Mom I Made This Sex Tape, 2016 in [[Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology|#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology]], Different generations (waves) of feminists argue it out about sex, porn and what the main point of feminism really is. Available here https://feministnanogames.wordpress.com/ . Sessions of this game has been recorded in podcasts like: [https://podcastaddict.com/episode/110915748 Gauntlet Run 1], [https://podcastaddict.com/episode/110915748 Gauntlet Run 2] , [http://sasgeek.com/podcasts/60-so-mom-i-made-this-sex-tape-feminism/ She's A Super Geek #60]. The game was also part of the "[https://medium.com/@futuryst/theatre-in-pandemic-an-experimental-syllabus-ac66885e886b Theatre in Pandemic: An Experimental Syllabus]" (by Stuart Candy (School of Design) and Nica Ross (School of Drama), Carnegie Mellon University). It can be played online with the help of this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rAOII1FLX3_RKtxkKBlGV7Ru_7Sxrx39UE_RHr3XydI/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=101422108049991617387 template].
*[https://gamewrap.interactiveliterature.org/vol2/now-listen-young-lady/ Now Listen Young Lady,] a larp about intergenerational conflicts and gender roles. published in GameWrap#2 2017
*[https://scenariofestival.se/archive/scenarios-2017/athenas-chosen/ Athena's Chosen, 2017]. A larp set in Arcadian Ancient Greece about power, empowerment, lust, love, faith, choice, drama, and Greek goddesses. With [[Anna-Karin Linder]].
*[https://suffragettelarp.wordpress.com/ Suffragette! International], 2018. An expanded version of the 2014 Suffragett! larp, with participants from all over Europe, playing characters based on their own countries' women's movement heroes in 1912. With [[Siri Sandquist]], [[Rosalind Göthberg]], [[Christina Bodling]].
*[https://flaglarp.wordpress.com/ Fight Like A Girl]. 2018. An international post-ap larp "about the suffragette wars of the 22nd century." With [[Frida Gamero]] and [[Karin Fonnaland]].
*[http://www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2020/VejdemoBradshaw_Exodiplomacy.pdf Exodiplomacy]. 2021. A research-based game about how we talk to each other. And aliens. With [[Marshall Bradshaw]].
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXZjIG394j-7pKH1_AqPDvGhRvBpaUnJbkBd1KCr2js/edit?tab=t.0 Bad Omens]. 2021. A larp about Angels, Demons, Apocalypses, Shenanigans.
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gvjZEiliAim7X6Ng4zgTsFOCAiUClN8AuaZqWhdrlRA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kbrk5hyfy0pl Orestes Choice] - a larp about love and fury in mythic Greece. 2023. With @Staffan Fladvad.

==Other events==
Susanne has held several workshops on good ways (and bad ways) to use ciphers, puzzles and codes in larps. A small pamphlet is available [http://susanne.vejdemo.se/lajv/chiffer/chifferbokFINAL.pdf here].

Susanne and [[Anna Westerling]] held a seminar and a workshop about collaborations between larps and museums at the Swedish State Museums yearly convention in 2015.

Together with [[Eva Wei]], Susanne held a workshop on culturally and ethnically based discrimination in the Swedish larp scene, on [[Prolog]] 2016.

Susanne has held workshops on how to create fake magic rituals in larps at various larps and cons, e.g. Intercon 2020. See "[https://nordiclarp.org/2018/02/27/group-improvisation-larp-rituals/ Group improvisation of Larp Rituals]".

Susanne has led sampler (play what you want) sessions of [[Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology|#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology]] at several cons.

Susanne often facilitates run of an online version of So Mom I Made This Sex Tape,from [[Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology|#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology]], using this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rAOII1FLX3_RKtxkKBlGV7Ru_7Sxrx39UE_RHr3XydI/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=101422108049991617387 template] created by [[Gerrit Reininghaus]].

Susanne was editor of [https://arrtankar.wordpress.com/ Arrtankar] 2017–2018, a Swedish community blog about larp design.

==Articles==

*[[Anpassningsstrategier i lajvspråk]] (Adaption strategies in larp conlangs), 2004. Master thesis, Stockholm University. Available [http://tolkiensarda.se/new/alster/lajvsprak.pdf here]
*''Confessing, Gossipping and Confronting as conscious tools for a better larp'', 2015. Available at [https://workshophandbook.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/confessing-gossipping-and-confronting-as-conscious-tools-for-a-better-larp/ The Larp Workshop Handbook].
*''Design Strategies for Discussion-Heavy Larps'', 2016, with [[Theo Axner]]. In [[Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp]] and on nordiclarp.org.
*[https://nordiclarp.org/2018/02/27/group-improvisation-larp-rituals/ Group improvisation of Larp Rituals] , 2018 (a workshop). (Susanne has facilitated this at various cons and larps.) Knutpunkt proceedings. With Elli Garperian.
*[https://nordiclarp.org/2018/02/21/play-lift-not-just-lose/ Play to Lift, Not Just to Lose], 2018. Knutpunkt proceedings and nordiclarp.org.

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