What happens when #DEI becomes DOA in the #aerospace industry?
Last month a nonprofit that recognizes exceptional undergraduate #women and gender #minorities with #space and# aviation internships, the #BrookeOwensFellowship, announced its latest class of "#Brookies."
They may be the last class of Brookies to receive aerospace internships. The reason for this is an executive order signed by President Trump on Jan 20 to end diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, or DEI.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/popular-program-to-promote-women-becoming-aerospace-engineers-is-at-risk/

Just saw an excellent convo about affirmations for #masculine people. I got happy. Then I got sad when I remembered what's happening in the USA. We're being dragged backward at an alarming rate. We're back to struggling merely to affirm that #women, #LGBTQIA+ people, ethnic/racial #minorities, people with #disabilities, etc. deserve the same rights as everyone else, and to be free from harassment and violence. "Advanced" things like how stereotypes about #men (and similar topics) support and entrench #patriarchy seem like almost luxuries at this point. I feel like I'm going to spend all my day-to-day social justice time explaining to people that trans and queer and #Black and #Native and #Hispanic and #autistic and female people are human for the next few years. Ugh.

Oppression can be described as the elimination of enjoyment.

People who endure oppression have to work harder to find enjoyment in life.

Also from Cyndi Saurez's 'Manual of Power'

#Oppression #Minorities #Marginalized #Power #BlackLivesMatter
#Patriarchy
#WomensRights #Capitalism

#HotTake: Every #human should be entitled by international #law to free, unseizeable #ID documents in the form of a travel #passport to evidence their #identity and have #FreedomOfMovement as well as a chance to #flee.

• It should also be illegal to demand #biometrics like #Fingerprints which are trivial to forge anyway!

Why?

• Because in past and in present day denying the issue and/or confiscation of #passports has been used and abused solely to commit #democide, #genocide and #hatecrime both #opposition groups and #minorities.

NDTV Exclusive: Hunted Down, Massacred, Syria's Alawites Ask India For Help "'Come out, you Alawite pigs": The horror of mass killings in Syria, described by a man who survived being stabbed in the head, back and stomach. #Minorities are unsafe in Syria.
#SYRIA #Genocide #humanrights #India #Massacre #EU #Hypocrisy #Terrorism
@mastodonindians

Headline: The Trump Administration Has Made 150 Million American Workers Newly Vulnerable to Workplace Discrimination

Source: Center for American Progress

From the article: "Essentially, all employees and job seekers, a total of approximately 153 million Americans, benefit from the protections the EEOC provides. The Equal Pay Act—a law requiring equal pay for equal work that the EEOC enforces—covers virtually all employers, while other laws enforced by the EEOC apply to all but the smallest employers. Whether they work in the private sector or for the government, practically all employees and those applying for jobs are protected by the EEOC against illegal employer actions" (Annotations removed for clarity)

#EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #AcceptanceMatters

#Discrimination #Disabled #Ableism #ADA #Elderly #Ageism #Minorities #PeopleOfColor #Racism #Gender #Sexism #Pregnancy

#SexualOrientation #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQDiscrimination #LGBTQIAPlus #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #TransgenderDiscrimination #Queer #Intersex #Asexual #NonBinary

#HumanResources #Recruiters #TalentAcquisition

#USPolitics #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

URL for article because thumbnail is not displaying:
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-has-made-150-million-american-workers-newly-vulnerable-to-workplace-discrimination/

Yesterday I shared this poignant watercolor, but I did not know the artist's name and now I do thanks to @SnarkWasABoojum

The artist is Jerome Stueart and you can find more information about them at the site at the bottom of this post. Please consider buying them a coffee or purchasing a copy of the print.

#BishopBudde
#Art #Gay #Politics #Queer #Religion #Empathy #Faith #Mercy #USPolitics #LGBTQ #Immigrant #MigrantWorkers #PeopleOfColor #Women #Minorities

https://jeromestueart.com/2025/01/30/the-gulf-of-empathy/

The anti-DEI backlash is being led by a loud minority that doesn't actually reflect how the public feels.

Don't patronize a business that wouldn't hire or support you.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/consumers-increasingly-support-companies-that-keep-their-dei-commitments/ #DEI #Politics #Business #Diversity #LGBTQ #Minorities

@mcnado When #Trump was first elected a second time *shudder* I thought this would probably be another bungling fiasco, but the last week I've been reading the news has me very worried. #Fascism #Nazi #minorities #transrights

We're all in boxes.

On giving the little people the impression they’ve “got the power”

A thread

“It’s your choice to feel hurt or not.”
“Take back your power!”

A thread.

Telling people they ‘have the choice’ and to ‘take back their power’ can, at times, be a bit less helpful than one might think.

1/8

https://www.europesays.com/1730361/ French FM Calls For Inclusive Syria Transition #conflict #Conflicts #france #minorities #SYND #Syria

‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-15/judith-butler-philosopher-if-you-sacrifice-a-minority-like-trans-people-you-are-operating-within-a-fascist-logic.html

Racist text messages raise alarms in New York

https://www.wwnytv.com/2024/11/08/racist-text-messages-raise-alarms-new-york/

#NewYork #NYS
#Blacks #Minorities #HateCrime

For me, #2025 will be "The Year of the Marginalized." (Or the Margins.)

It won't be perfect, but essentially I'm going for 80% of the media I consume is written / directed / created by or starring people from marginalized populations. Music is impacted too, though likely by creating marginalized-centric playlists and listening to those.

If the name seems familiar, it echoes 1992 in the US after the election which was called "The Year of the Woman."

I'm definitely up for suggestions, though of course no guarantees.

The contrast--the majority--is to me for purposes of this, white, straight, male, US or England since they have an inordinate amount of influence over everything. And marginalized is basically everyone else. (FYI, I am white, male-presenting and in the US.)

To be clear, it's not to remove the majority, just to find more balance in what I consume.

#lgbtqia #lgbtq #marginalized #nonbinary #genderfluid #women #minorities #blackfilm #AANHPI @movies @bookstodon @lgbtqia