Rebecca Camelon

Rebecca (Reia) Jirapa Camelon is a mixed-race artist born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Chiang Mai. She is now living and working in Leeds, UK. She works with digital mediums as well as printmaking and painting. Rebecca also writes novels and short stories online.

Rebecca employs the struggles with racism, sexism, and misogyny within the gaming community in her work, mostly using videos and online content to send a message of female empowerment. She often works with other online creators such as streamers, server owners, and artists to create safe online gaming space for women to find enjoyment in. Rebecca creates video works that highlight online misogyny and the different ways to go about deflecting the violent and harmful sexism typical of an online gaming community. In recent works Camelon focusses on popular video games such as Call of Duty and Valorant for the ways they protect (or do not protect) people within the gaming community, arguing whether or not a large company does enough to protect the people playing and buying their games from other gamers.

Her work includes the good and bad side of being an online gamer - whether that be creating friendships, or being put in a terrible situation that you are unable to escape due to in-game functions. For example, certain games will ban a player from playing if they leave the game, even if it’s due to harassment. Other games do a better job at condemning players for toxic behaviour with the report system, and some do not.