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Photo editors: no point in pushing stories about inequality and diversity if one can't even recognise, let alone, denounce and address the same problems in our own industry. Hearing the voices of women and minorities is achieved by actually hiring women and minorities. 1/

Diversity and equality isn’t just a bandwagon for people to hitch a ride on.
It begins at home and at work. Otherwise it is performative BS. 2/

Having voices of women and minorities truly heard is not achieved by using and tokenizing us just for story topics if not accompanied by true actions to denounce and change the same problems within the photojournalism industry by pushing for hiring more women and minorities. 3/

It is easier to feel outraged and denounce situations of injustice in which we're not part of those who benefit from it. It requires much more effort and sacrifice to even acknowledge — let alone denounce — situations of injustice in our own realm and from which we benefit. 4/

And the news and editorial industry, especially the photojournalism one, is all too happy in maintaining its white, male and heteronormative status quo unchallenged. 5/