2015-02-03
#solidarityisforwhitewomen
Sometimes you look at a certain narrative and you see a problem. You express how you see the problem only to be hit on the head by people who say you have no right to look at the problem that way. Then you realize that many others have seen the problem the way you do, especially the people who actually suffer that problem in their daily lifes. Let's just say I was happy to find out about the whole debate that black feminists have been raising with the hashtag #solidarityisforwhitewomen. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is expressed with such a hashtag, but I am happy to see a vigorous debate on that topic.
This is perfect cuz just like IRL discussion of sexism in tech there’s no racial diversity #solidarityisforwhitewomen pic.twitter.com/9346fnnedf
— Septembre Anderson (@SeptembreA) January 31, 2015
Labels: #Diversity
2015-01-14
Variations on white
Another year without a single african-american in my (aprox. 40 student) undergraduate class at IU School of Informatics and Computing, Bloomington. This is even more under-represented than the national statistics, which are already so bad, especially for african-american males: olny close to 10% of bachelors degrees in all fields go to african-americans, and only 3.5% to african-american males. I guess in computing we approach the near-zero and diversity is in practice dealt with variations on white. Some thoughts for MLK day next monday. I guess we have to keep going west to that multicolor utopia.
Labels: #Diversity, #MLK
