: Monday, April 27, 2009
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jadelennox: dreamwidth -- it's not all or nothing - The platform is just a tool, and the communities we enable are much larger and richer than those tools. To me, the Dreamwidth commitment to diversity includes a commitment to a large community of people, even people who aren't necessarily using Dreamwidth. -- hapex_legomena: Thinky Thoughts: A Semi-Organized Post Including a Lurker's Belated Thoughts on Racefail - I've been lurking racefail damn near since the beginning, and I really can't say that I'm all that surprised by any of the individual incidents that have highlighted racefail. The many instances of derailing, attempted silencing, threats and intimidation, and ad hominem attacks in one surprisingly long event, all paired with such a holier-than-thou attitude, was what made it special. -
- zevinboots: Dreamwidth.org (please feel free to repost) - They have a pretty fantastic Diversity Statement on their website. But when I looked at it, they had gender and sexual orientation listed, but not gender identity and expression. So I wrote them an email.//To my great surprise, I received a response within 48 hours. It was not a form letter. It was from Denise Paolucci, co-owner of Dreamwidth Studies. Here's some of what she said://[...]When we wrote the diversity statement, we actually did mean for "gender" to cover not just cisgender individuals, but also transgender, genderqueer, and other non-cisgendered expressions and presentations as well.//It took hearing feedback from someone else to realize that just saying "gender" wasn't sufficiently inclusive -