If you get a chance to see this film/documentary I can recommend it,
interesting and funny. The film (funded via Kickstarter) had its
European premier this week at BFI Flare, you can find information on
the director's website and see the trailer on Vimeo.[1][2]
One point made by some of the gay men interviewed, was that the
"internalized homophobia" of not wanting to use a non-effeminate voice
came from the misogynistic attitudes imprinted during childhood on all
men, that a masculine voice was a good thing as it grants power and
authority.
These are difficult areas to write about or to find good sources for.
It is no surprise that the section about effeminacy and gay men on the
English Wikipedia is both short and out of date.[3]
Links
1. http://www.doisoundgay.com
2. https://vimeo.com/93323057
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effeminacy
Fae
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Quoted from the publicly logged #wikimedia-office IRC channel, and emailing
with the consent of Emily:
[17:14:19] <harej> Finnegan: or in emily's case, "there are not enough
articles on women scientists. this is an outrage to us."
[17:15:19] <Finnegan> i am now enjoying a mental image of her delivering a
podium-pounding speech to rouse the feminists
[17:15:52] <marktraceur> I want you to get up, walk to your windows, throw
them open, and yell "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M GOING TO WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT
WOMEN SCIENTISTS"
[17:15:54] <ragesoss> DOWN WITH THE PATRIARCHY
[17:16:46] <Finnegan> marktraceur: i think you honestly just summarized her
operating philosophy. If only everyone could channel their anger like
that..."
I thought (and apparently other people do as well!) that Emily's approach
is quite motivational! (:
Pine
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*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Hi,
I've posted a project for the Inspire Campaign and am looking for your
feedback and potential support. The idea is to gather and maintain a
publicly accessible repository of stories of marginalization for use by
admins and researchers in understanding patterns of discrimination. You
can see the full summary on the proposal page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising…>
.
I would definitely like feedback from folks on this list about whether the
structure of the project is reasonable (i.e. a group of administrators
recruiting and polishing stories and maintaining the page/site). In
addition, I believe this proposal can only succeed if there is a diverse
group of administrators capable of reaching out and recruiting stories from
diverse users. In that vein, my second request is for suggestions on how
to go about reaching out to Wikipedians/Wikimedians with other,
traditionally marginalized identities.
Thanks!
Jason
Links:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising…
From: Katherine Casey
> My guess would be that the "open to" bit is intended to bring in people
who might otherwise feel they're not welcome if they're not
specifically invited,
more than it's intended to dis-invite people who already know they're
always welcome at Wikimedia events.
From: Jeremy Baron
> I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple
of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there
was a very high proportion of African descent. I think the point was
actually to be extra inclusionary: to cover all of the above not just a
subset when recruiting new editors. So potential recruits don't think but
I'm not really {{label}} and exclude themselves. I'm pretty sure others
won't be excluded but these events will be *focused* on topics related to
those groups and editors with some sort of a connection to Africa.
I think it is important to be explicit, not to be "pretty sure others won't
be excluded" or "think the point is to be inclusionary". The text of the
announcement seemed very clear about the subject matter and attendees.
Intent isn't sufficient if the wording says otherwise.
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with an edit group that was
specifically restricted to African or Afrodescendant attendees. Yes, it is
exclusionary, but there are plenty of other groups for African people to
edit with.
Alternatively, one could make the wording more inclusive, but state very
clearly that the editthon subject matter will be specific to topics and
biographies directly relevant to Africa and African heritage globally, now
or historically, ONLY. The same is applicable to women's editathons.
Without laying down some sort of fixed guidelines (either attendees,
subject matter or both) it is too easy for dominant others to derail an
event, even without intending to do so.
- FeralOink
Hello Wikimedians,
On March 4th, the Community Engagement team initiated the first “Inspire
Campaign”, a drive to foster and support new ideas to improve gender
diversity on Wikimedia projects. The organizers set a goal of having 100
proposals by the end of March; this was met in the first week, and the
total now stands at 220 ideas, with a few more days more to go! The
campaign has brought in 492 participants to the process so far, nearly
hitting its target of 500 participants.
While discussion about gender has been active, the environment has largely
remained friendly and productive. The Inspire team would like to especially
thank the Meta community and its admins for helping to keep the process
positive and running smoothly. Discussion has been further aided by a
friendly spaces guideline for participants, which most everyone involved
has respectfully followed.[1]
However, the campaign is far from done.
The next step is developing and supporting viable ideas to become real
initiatives. We need your help, whether in the form of an endorsement for a
strong idea, or constructive suggestions on a proposal that needs more
work. Feedback from community members is key to helping an idea evolve,
and incorporating past learning and knowledge is very important for the
future success of these proposals.
You can explore ideas by category[2] or through a ‘leaderboard’ of the most
endorsed ideas[3]. And a list of ideas that have already expanded into
grant proposals can be seen here[4]. We hope to see you over at the
IdeaLab, and, remember, there are still a few days to help create
actionable ideas before March 31st!
If funding is needed to implement your idea, be sure to expand your idea
into a grant proposal before the campaign ends March 31st. Funding
decisions will be made by April 30th.
Cheers,
The Inspire Team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Friendly_space
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Ideas_by_theme
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Funding#Open_Grant_P…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2015
Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for the
project's 14th birthday,* to be held on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at
Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia
New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.
There are various events, sessions, talks, etc. Nothing women oriented
but I do see involvement by a new NYC meetup group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd"
Talk page hasn't even been opened yet to comment on its goal: "to
increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in
the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements." I
guess meetups targeted on certain groups are less controversial than
task forces.
Dear all,
Happy March! Out of the energy and collaborative conversation at the I Love
To You edit-a-thon, there is now an Inspire Idea proposal that I would like
to invite you to view the proposal, and offer feedback if you wish:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Ad…
All the best,
Monika
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> Good story about Amanda and Monika's edit-a-thon!
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> CM
>
>From the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/18/ashley-judd-to-press-charges-tw…:
"The actor Ashley Judd has said she will inform police about Twitter users
who sexually harass her, and press charges against them."...
...Her stance comes as other female stars have stopped using the social
network thanks to abuse. Rapper Iggy Azalea wrote that social media “is too
negative and draining” and handed her Twitter account to her management,
while Lena Dunham said: “I deleted Twitter because I’m trying to create a
safer space for myself emotionally.”...
....[T]he company’s CEO Dick Costolo wrote: “We suck at dealing with abuse
and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years... I’m frankly
ashamed of how poorly we’ve dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO.
It’s absurd. There’s no excuse for it.”...It shouldn’t be the person who’s
being harassed who has to do a lot of work.”
Hi everyone,
I too am uncomfortable with the "under 20%" message. I would say "around 10% according to the most recent editor survey".
In 2011, the WMF set a target of having 25 percent of its contributors identifying as female by 2015. The "under 20%" message may give the impression that we are almost there.
Re:
> (personally, I prefer the wording "less than one in five" which is mathematically identical but a bit
> better at avoiding to evoke the kind of false sense of precision that has developed about this topic at times).
The highest reasonable estimate we have is 16.1% (2008 survey data corrected for sampling bias by Hill and Shaw). That is less than one in six.
Cheers,
Su-Laine Brodsky (née Su-Laine Yeo)
Yesterday and the day before yesterday, we had an event in Copenhagen.
The event page is
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:We_can_edit-a-thon_K%C3%B8benhavn_2…,
and the resulting articles (including a few expansions) are listed in
the section "Oprettede og opdaterede artikler".
It was very cool. We should totally do it again.
-Ole
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