“These demands to remove and restrict books and other library materials are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment,” read the ALA’s 2025 State of America’s Libraries report, published on Monday. “The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.”
#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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"72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups, government entities and elected officials, board members and administrators, reported the American Library Association (ALA). Just 16% of ban attempts were made by parents, while 5% were brought forward by individual library users."
~ Ella Creamer
#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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I wonder what Dr. Lakshmi Chilukuri, professor of molecular biology, provost of 6th College at #UCSD, and mother of Usha Vance thinks of the #fascism. Have any students in her lab lost their visas? Has her research been affected by the #NIH cuts?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-ucla-stanford-among-schools-011815174.html
Also, note the department wesbsite's link to #Equity, #Diversity, #Inclusion
Top US admiral at NATO fired in latest purge of senior military officers https://www.byteseu.com/902681/ #AmericanAccountabilityFoundation #DefenseSecretaryPeteHegseth #diversity #Europe #MilitaryOfficers #NATO #TrumpAdministration #ViceAdm.ShoshanaChatfield #Women'sEqualityDay
"It’s far more an attack on the real diversity that characterizes today’s America, the real equity that a nation can aspire to, the real inclusion that marks a healthy society."
#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity
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"It’s not a moment for national pride that [Maya] Angelou’s [I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings] is being purged from a military academy.
And it is a moment to acknowledge that the attack on DEI by the Trump administration, and by many on today’s right, is not some kind of good-faith reconsideration of the excesses of the DEI industry over the last couple of decades."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegseth-maya-aneglou-naval-academy-caged-bird-sings-dei
Friendly reminder: The fifth edition of "DH in Focus" starts today at 5:15 pm at #UniRostock ! Join us for the first lecture of the semester, presented by Deb Verhoeven ( @bestqualitycrab ), as she discusses the current collapse of knowledge institutions and the demise of #dei.
More info and Zoom login details: https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/en/forschung/digital-humanities/rosdh/lecture-series/suse-2025/n/where-data-goes-to-dei-edi-die-information-infrastructure-and-the-protracted-collapse-of-institutional-courage-235041/
Was ich mir hier bei Mastodon - gerade da es größer wird - weiterhin wünsche:
Ein Bewusstsein von allen
dafür, dass sich hier auch Menschen befinden,
die nicht mit dem Mainstream gehen,
weil anderer Informationszugang, andere Wahrnehmung, anderer (Sinn-)Fokus, anderer Alltag aus den verschiedensten Gründen uvm.
#Diversity im Fediverse
#Barrierefreiheit
As there's many new users joining today and in the future, here's a re #introduction #introductions refresh for those new or want to get a reminder of who I'm about:
Here's some hashtags for reference, and if you relate to any of these and more, I would love to interact with you all!
#film
#culture
#tech
#coding
#programming
#podcasts
#software
#opensource
#fandom
#diversity
#windows
#linux
#gaming
#retrogaming
#hardware
And many more, just ask!
let's address the question of
"(powerful) men lead,
(subservient) women follow"
yes - the origins of tango are in a cultural context of clear roles for men and women in a macho society
things change - and today, all around the world tango is danced in pairs of all sexes, genders and identities - and that's good
there is nothing about your identity that prevents you from being a good leader or follower
Just saw the ending of #SexEducation. I'm surprised by some negative reviews of this season. To me it was the #best - #funny, #intelligent, #respectful & it made me #cry.
The whole series should be recommended to watch for ages between 13 & ∞. It celebrates #diversity, nuanced identities, emotional #maturity, and interpersonal #healing.
I hope for a world where #sexuality is not a label but accepted as part of complex, unique personalities. Until then, we have good people making good shows. 
“‘Justice’ is the key word. How do we begin to transform the institutions themselves? How do we change this society? We don’t want to be participants in the exploitation of capitalism. We don’t want to be participants in the marginalization of immigrants. And so there has to be a way to think about the connection among all of these issues and how we can begin to imagine a very different kind of society.”
– Angela Davis
https://jezebel.com/angela-davis-on-racial-reckoning-diversity-and-inclusi-1844853369
“Virtually every institution seized upon that term, ‘diversity.’ And I always ask, ‘Well, where is justice here?’ Are you simply going to ask those who have been marginalized or subjugated to come inside of the institution and participate in the same process that led precisely to their marginalization? Diversity and inclusion without substantive change, without radical change, accomplishes nothing.”
– Angela Davis
https://jezebel.com/angela-davis-on-racial-reckoning-diversity-and-inclusi-1844853369
Cultureel diverse klassen nemen enorme schatten mee aan inzichten, talen, perspectieven en ervaringen. Toch slagen we er nog niet goed genoeg in om deze optimaal te benutten. Veel docenten voelen zich bijvoorbeeld niet goed genoeg voorbereid op het lesgeven in deze cultureel diverse klassen. In deze podcast met Dr. Kennedy Tielman: hoe kan het docenten helpen om het potentieel van cultureel diverse klassen te ontsluiten?
https://nivoz.nl/nl/dr-kennedy-tielman-s-onderzoek-naar-spanningen-bij-docenten-die-lesgeven-aan-cultureel-diverse-klassen
My Humbling Education in What Families Really Want from their Kids’ Schools
Adams: Working with parents on school admissions, it was clear: Transportation, safety, afterschool, special needs & academics were key, not diversity
Every Woke Company Diversity Meeting Ever
The most apparent thing to me, y'all don't read the things said to myself, and others on this platform.
I have rhino skin at this point, but do you SEE what is being said?
Do you read it?
Do you KNOW what happens when you fling a death threat enough times?
Do you get told someone wants to unalive you simply for existing?
Men really do hate us.
Women, LGBTQIA, Black, Brown, Indigenous, Jewish, non-binary and other marginalized groups are humans.
We are not/not objects.
We are fully formed beings who live every day knowing you want to hurt us.
Imagine living in a world where your very existence sets people off.
#OSINT infosec #techie #womenintech #makeitmakesense #womeninstem #informationsecurity #safety #privacy #harassment #abuse #activist #diversity
If you want to be an #inclusive and #diverse platform, you need to take the feedback of people when they give it to you, and make actual changes.
This platform is difficult to navigate for blind and disabled people. We need better accessibility & design to include them. (I asked.)
This platform also lacks a good way to block/report instances & individuals across the fediverse in any meaningful way, because they show up on other instances.
As discussed before the "fediblocked" feature is fedifucked. It gives a clear hashtag for the trolls, creeps, stalkers, Nazis and racists to find and harass the reporter.
I know each individual instance has public block lists, but there are entire servers full of the most disgusting filth (as with any platform).
Additionally, I'd like to point out that Black, Brown & Indigenous creators on the birdsite and here have expressed concerns about racism, harassment, and their lived experience and then tone policed for not using a CW.
So let's have these hard conversations as members of the Cauliflower Coalition who absolutely dislike feeling uncomfortable.
Sit with your discomfort and imagine a world where your ability to "ignore" or "mute" isn't possible because of how you look, how people perceive you, or because you're disabled (even the invisible ones).
