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DiffEQ #EmbracingDifferenceofAllKinds
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DiffEQ specializes in working with white-identifying organization leaders to help them navigate DEI efforts in environments where political polarization poses a significant barrier to effective non-performative equity program implementation.
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
Trump Administration policies are centered identity politics, and they always have been. But too many only label politics so when the identities are Black, POC, LGBTQ, and then suddenly identity is fringe and problematic.
April 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
Coercing companies to purge dangerous DEI while enacting policies that will disrupt supply chains and lead to empty shelves and spiking prices. Ending dangerous DEI while promising to focus solely on military lethality. Ending dangerous DEI while those struggling to pay student loans to creditors.
April 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I wrote about this too, in my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
It took me ten years and dozens of feminist essays from that morning I wrote “Men Explain Things to Me” to realize that I was not talking and writing, after all, about violence against women, though I was reading about it incessantly. I was writing about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for a redistribution of that vital power. The crucial sentence in “Men Ex- plain Things to Me” is “Credibility is a basic survival tool.” But I was wrong that it’s a tool. You hold a tool in your own hands, and you use it yourself. What it does is up to you. Your credibility arises in part from how your society perceives people like you, and we have seen over and over again that no mat- ter how credible some women are by supposedly objective stan- dards reinforced by evidence and witnesses and ­ well-​­ documented patterns, they will not be believed by people committed to protect- ing men and their privileges. The very definition of women under patriarchy is designed to justify inequality, including inequality of credibility.
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Mary Beard, in her landmark 2014 essay "The Public Voice of Women" traces this silencing/dismissal/exclusion of women's voices (in Europe/Near East) cultures back to Telemachus telling his mother to shut up in The Odyssey.
There is something faintly ridiculous about this wet-behind-the-ears lad shutting up the savvy, middle-aged Penelope. But it’s a nice demonstration that right where written evidence for Western culture starts, women’s voices are not being heard in the public sphere; more than that, as Homer has it, an integral part of growing up, as a man, is learning to take control of public utterance and to silence the female of the species. The actual words Telemachus uses are significant too. When he says ‘speech’ is ‘men’s business’, the word is muthos – not in the sense that it has come down to us of ‘myth’. In Homeric Greek it signals authoritative public speech (not the kind of chatting, prattling or gossip that anyone – women included, or especially women – could do). What interests me is the relationship between that classic Homeric moment of silencing a woman and some of the ways women’s voices are not publicly heard in our own contemporary culture, and in our own politics from the front bench to the shop floor. It’s a well-known deafness that’s nicely parodied in the old Punch cartoon: ‘That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.’3 I want to look too at how it might relate to the abuse that many women who do speak out are subjected to even now, and one of the questions at the back of my mind is the connection between publicly speaking out in support of a female logo on a banknote, Twitter threats of rape and decapitation, and Telemachus’ put-down of Penelope.
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Luke 24, King James version:
"It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not."
The Holy Women at the Tomb" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Three women gathered in the stone doorway in their draperies, an angel in the luminous far side of that doorway, the women seemingly exclaiming in wonder...
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
rachaelmcleod.bsky.social
Come on media. You're complicit in this coup with your underreporting. MILLIONS, not thousands. People at home need to see they are not alone and that the number of people who feel that way is growing.
April 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM