These are the women who don’t see color and just came here to do their craft thing and why does everything have to be about politics?
Here are there I’m seeing surprise expressed at the white women players in storming the capitol.
I want to talk about that because I’m not surprised.
I’m not surprised because as a fiber artist I’ve seen these women for DECADES.
Thread.
These are the women who don’t see color and just came here to do their craft thing and why does everything have to be about politics?
These are the women who, along with their hovering spouses, have open carried in my handspinning classroom.
These are the women who post reviews on Amazon saying “she’s a racist who banned me because I’m white.”
These are the WHITE WOMEN who say “stop the hate! This is supposed to be about the knitting.” Or spinning or weaving or whatever.
These are the women I worry about when they follow me into a bathroom at a hotel or fairground.
Stop thinking you can be apolitical in fiber arts or “white women’s hobbies.”
You can’t. “Not being political” IS political.
/end
I still see colleagues saying it’s important to maintain the appearance of neutrality.
I want you to know: when that’s your priority, it tells me you actually picked a side, and which one, and it’s not the one I picked.
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ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference.
Apple's head of diversity (a black woman) got in trouble for promoting a vision of diversity that is at odds with contemporary progressive dogma. (She left the company shortly after this
Also in the name of diversity, there is unabashed discrimination against men (especially white men) in tech, in both hiring policies and in other arenas. One such example is this, a developer workshop that specifically excluded men: https://t.co/N0SkH4hR35
