[group-organizers] handling incidents (cf public vs private)

[Don Sheu]

I don't want to speak for Dusty, but I think his point is that yes we
support women but not to forget other marginalized populations. Of course
Naomi Ceder has been at the forefront of transgender awareness amongst
engineering circles globally. We do have a trans member in Seattle also. We
certainly want to encourage more minorities to participate. Weirdly for
example we're way behind in Asian American male participation at our
events.

I contacted Ada Initiative about information on their Ally Workshop. I
missed it at PyCon because I flew out on the Sunday it was held.
Disappointingly the response was if I have to ask for the price I can't
afford it.


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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:20 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dusty Phillips made a good point, nobody should be in a situation that
>> feels uncomfortable independent of gender and race.
>
>
> I think this is an excellent dream, but it will take a long time to
> achieve.
>
> On the path towards the goal, people become uncomfortable because they
> learn that they have commited -isms in the past. I get distressed when I
> remember sexist, racist, and ablists things I've done in the past, and end
> of working through those feelings and educating myself.
>
> For example, as someone who has to work extra hard to develop social
> skills, I've had to learn no to violates all the rules in the Recurse
> Center's manual, <https://www.recurse.com/manual#sec-environment>, and
> it's a continual challenge. I do the "well actually" and "backseat driving"
> a lot.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> shekay at pobox.com
>



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