I just bought a book “Strong Female Character” by Fern Brady & it’s a good preparation for “#Diversity in Tech” session on Thursday at #RIPE88 : it “ is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.” #ActuallyAutistic#feminism#books#Krakow#neurodiversity
If you're involved in electronic music-making and you're not white, please DM me on here.
I've just been watching loads of #SuperBooth footage and was aghast at how overwhelmingly white the whole thing is. I've seen more diversity at EDL marches.
So, I'm gonna try and do something about it. And the first thing is organising.
Re: David Stannard, author of American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, up to one hundred million #AboriginalPeople lived in the #WesternHemisphere before the arrival of Europeans. Indigenous peoples #coexisted in relative harmony with nature, supported by #diversity of native plants & animals.
"Ableism looks like calling people 'inspiring' for navigating a system that is designed for exclusion, while doing nothing to hold the system accountable." - Carson Tueller
Goldman Sachs is being accused of securities fraud by the Nat. Inst. for Workers' Rights, asserting -an affiliated DAF, GS Gives, gave$ to causes: work agst. Goldman's stated #diversity goals.
Last week I failed a Product Design / Verbal Reasoning test for a senior role. Today I wrote an email reasoning why I firmly believe that these tests exclude perfectly good professionals.
Here’s the email – feel free to use it should you need it.
Never ceases to vex me how men are whining online about the appearance of female protagonists in video games because they don't look like Jennifer Lopez and God forbid if they're queer or not white. Go touch grass. 🤦♀️
In a year that will be remembered for its relentless assault on intellectual freedom, 2023 saw an unprecedented wave of book bans sweeping across the United States.
The numbers are staggering and the targets are clear. In the first half of the 2022-23 school year alone, 30% of banned books focused on racial topics or featured characters of color, while over half of the bans in 2023 took aim at LGBTQ+ content. —via takeitback.org #Censorship#BookBans#Education#Diversity#DEI#Racism#LGBTQ