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Zander Otavka
Zander Otavka

Zander Otavka

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From I fought academia’s cult of civility and all I got was this lousy PTSD diagnosis by Naima Lowe

They are c… to talk about racism as an idea, few seem able to address or transform their own racist behaviors. I constantly heard my colleagues use their academic training to speak articulately about systems and structures that uphold racism, but would stop short at recognizing that those systems aren’t just theoretical constructs. They are created and maintained by the choices that everyday people make to preserve their own comfort, ease and status.

From If gender and race are artificial constructs, does diversity matter? by Exquisite Corpse

This is an idea I like… but if this is the case, shouldn’t we be encouraging people to fixate less on the artificial constructs of gender and race—aka the “patriarchy” and the “white devil”? Both follow arbitrarily biological lines of categorisat…

From If gender and race are artificial constructs, does diversity matter? by Exquisite Corpse

That criticism is that diversity isn’t about biological composition and abilities. It’s about cultures and communal experiences, and how those shape individuals.

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The Truth About Aging in the Tech Industry

Angela DeLillio Galper

Thank you for the comment, for some reason I have missed that, and I didn’t know that…

Eytan Manor

Hunting Mutants with Mutmut

Marc-Antoine Aubé