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Coffee All Night Games ➡️ Arcane Con @coffeeallnight.itch.io · 01/07/2026

I sent this email, but I am also posting this as an open letter to @officialpax.bsky.social . #savetheintersection

email:
I have attended both the PAX East and PAX Unplugged events for years now. I was at the first PAX East. I was at the first PAX Unplugged. I have rarely missed any since then. They are the vacations I look forward to every year, and it is now a cherished tradition I share with my kids. Not to mention spending a not inconsiderable amount of money at these events.

One of the constants at the shows that I have always appreciated are the PAX Together Intersectionality room and associated programs. It's always been important to me that EVERYONE feels welcome at PAX. And the sad truth of the matter is some people need more assurances than being let in the front door. The LGBT and BIPOC communities need spaces like this more than ever. I have heard that the PTI program is no longer being supported by PAX, and I simply disagree with this on so many levels. As a parent of two queer children, I don't want them to feel like they've had the rug pulled out from under them if I bring them to a formerly welcoming convention only to see it forgetting about them. So I'm putting on my dad voice now, I'm mad AND disappointed.

It is also pretty hard to see this as anything other than kowtowing to the rise a fascist hate that places like PAX are supposed to be a shelter from. What's next? Are we getting people checking genders at the restroom doors? A booth for the Proud Boys? PAX started as a reaction to E3 keeping people out. It was a convention where everyone was supposed to be welcomed over their love of gaming. Everyone. If that is no longer the case, then PAX is no longer a place for me (or my money).

Sincerely,
Matthew Nevers

Cassie aka Lamia@intersectionscch.blacksky.app

With the nightmares for QTBIPOC in the United States right now, it is so so telling that @officialpax.bsky.social has decided that 2026 is the year to cut support and funding for The PAX Intersection & its PTI programs that made a PAX safer & life changing event for devs & attendees of color alike.