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Would you like to support queer art in Providence, RI? GRID Gallery is a 100% volunteer-run art space dedicated to empowering queer and trans photographers of color with educational and professional development opportunities and alleviating hardships created by socioeconomic and institutional biases in the arts. They are currently running a fundraiser at the following link.

401gives.org/organizations/gri

Please boost! :boosts_ok_gay:

www.401gives.orgSupport GRID Gallery | 401 Gives 2025 I’m ready to support GRID Gallery on April 1, 2025 during 401 Gives 2025. Learn more about GRID Gallery and all the other organizations participating in 401 Gives 2025.

Talk by @atjscreams and me is up on #GDoCExpo's youtube!

Listen to how it's *AWESOME* to be #Cripplepunk! (and ideas to accessibility your life *and* make games!) youtube.com/watch?v=HKHly0Jr11

Here's the companion page I made for it with the maaaany links in it evel.life/articles/cripplepunk

And hey white folks, throw us a few bucks eh!
- ko-fi.com/atonyjerome
- ko-fi.com/aldercone

--:gay_cactus:

An anthology that I was invited to be in is now available for pre-order!
Silk & Sinew is an anthology of Asian Diaspora folk horror, with stories, poems and essays exploring the relationship between body and land. Amazing authors involved, with gorgeous cover art by Eileen Kai Hing Kwan. It’s been so exciting to watch this project come together, and I’d love if you gave it a look.
#books #horror #bipoc #bookstadon

badhandbooks.com/preorders/sil

I'm seeing an uptick in video essays under the guise of "just asking questions" attempting to claim there is a conspiracy to destroy #OpenSource, #OpenHardware, #FOSS projects and culture by Far-Left Extremists, #Wokeism, and the #DEI agenda.

None of this is new. They only exploit a new sense of entitlement to more openly speak and act as they long have, emboldened by the spread of anti-democratic, authoritarian, irrational, emotion-driven, ethnocentric rhetoric and assaults on liberty by #Trump and the #TrumpRegime
#Culture #Identity #Poltics #SolidarityEconomics #Coop #BIPOC #LGBTQ #BlackMastodon

Du: Behindert, BIPoC und Developer*in / UXler*in / Grafikdesigner*in / in einer ähnlichen beruflichen Ausrichtung.

Mein Angebot: Wenn du fit im Thema digitale Barrierefreiheit werden willst, dann biete ich dir kostenloses, langfristiges, privates Mentoring an. Ich bringe 20+ Jahre an Erfahrung im Bereich der digitalen Barrierefreiheit mit und möchte dieses Wissen gerne mit dir teilen.

Wenn du Interesse hast, schreib mir gerne eine Nachricht.

I have three percent African DNA

However, you won’t see me claim I’m African-American

Or a Black person… though I’d be thrilled and honored to make these claims. My Senegal, Ivory Coast/Ghana and Nigeria DNA together beat Elizabeth Warren’s Native-American DNA 3 times over, but I don’t know my African ancestor(s). I haven’t lived a life with any of their experiences. I can’t own this.

DNA does not equal culture or identity

#BIPOC #Native #Indigenous
yehudarothschild.com/2024/07/1

Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde) is a young woman of mixed African and European ancestry, living in Chicago with her family, and she is mistaken for a fully white woman by a white man, who tries to hit on her repeatedly. Her brother, more obviously of mixed heritage, fights off the man. Bernice's grandmother consoles her when she confides her troubles.

After a failed attempt at looking for employment as a black woman...

#BIPOC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Passed

@Ex_spurt@aus.social

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
The #UnitedStates is a hostile Country. A Banana Republic that is currently run by criminal despots. Caution is advised, and travelers are encouraged to avoid all contact at all costs. The #safety and #well-being of #immigrants and #travelers, especially #women, #BIPOC, and #non-binary individuals arriving from outside its borders can not be guaranteed. #USpol

RE:
https://aus.social/users/Ex_spurt/statuses/114090059741975261
Aus.SocialKim (@Ex_spurt@aus.social)Do not travel to the US German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility | KPBS Public Media https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

I have been researching organizations that support and help diverse populations (#BIPOC, #LGBTQ+, girls in #STEM, immigrants, etc.) in my state (#Colorado) and city, so I can make financial donations. During my research, I learned to my surprise, embarrassment, and dismay that one of the leaders of the anti-DEI movement hails from my own city, and has been pivotal in shaping FOTUS’ #DEI purge at the national level. Disgusting. I hope he has the day he voted for.

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"Aspirational Whiteness'
More nuanced than the knee-jerk old school Oreo, Apple, or contemporary Bougie, and not exclusively male.

It's the uncritical embracing of an entire ecosystem self-deceptions prepared in advance that enables anyone to buy into a primarily racialized and gendered class based Ponzi scheme, while feeling good about themselves.

This actually includes poor whites who for generations have been treated as and literally called trash, but instead of allying themselves with #BIPoC in the struggle for justice, fight even harder for the sake of #whiteness.