Thread of suggestions to use for calling out and halting racist coversations:
https://twitter.com/DarkLiterata/status/1279599843909029888
Thread re: buying Black
https://twitter.com/GeeDee215/status/1276536802711687170
Thread from Marco Rogers (RT'ing one tweet from a thread very worth reading) on the complexity of abolitionism.
https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1275915193537576962
Twitter thread from Osayi Endolyn (a food-writer) about a producer from Bravo's Top Chef essentially asking to pick her brain w/o compensation: https://twitter.com/osayiendolyn/status/1270296691569197057
Dismantling White Supremacy and The 5 Stages of Grief, from Kim Crayton.
i've been reading a lot of theory laying out the framework connecting capitalism, poverty, racism, and the police state, and this explanation is honestly better than any of it
if you read anything on twitter today, read this thread
https://twitter.com/jackiehluo/status/1266862129396830213
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don’t Survive to Become Seniors, via Kottke
Tweet & retweet re: inclusion and the framing thereof. https://twitter.com/GeeDee215/status/1223285471259787265
Nearly 6 Decades After the Civil Rights Act, Why Do Black Workers Still Have to Hustle to Get Ahead? By Tressie McMillan Cottom
Think of this as a list of fiercely and loving calling your asses in.…
☝🏽https://twitter.com/JessLivMo/status/1235656372584435712 (via Jason G. on Twitter)
I've been thinking for a while that one of the problems with disability rep in media is that abled people are a) used to traditional disability narratives and b) unfamiliar with the way those can feel to disabled people. So: a thread on problematic disability tropes to watch for!
— ☂️ Cindy Baldwin ☂️ (@beingcindy) January 28, 2020
Tropes around the existence of disabled people in stories / media. (via RT by Anil Dash)
“Diversity of Thought” without Diverse Representation is Status Quo, by Michelle Kim (via Bianca over Slack)
Twitter thread with excellent responses and linkes: https://twitter.com/jonnysun/status/1258882058127945730
who is writing about how most of the food writing industry is a colonialist project which celebrates white food writers for "discovering" and "mastering" food from other cultures and which props them up as experts on food that they actively divorce from its cultural traditions??
Thread touching on the history of Benin from writer Suyi Davies Okungbowa
https://twitter.com/IAmSuyiDavies/status/1276928013163098112
Thread (RT'd by Jason) by Jared Yates Sexton (author, professor) about the Civil War.
https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1271098397483847680
Thread (found in my Interesting Women list, I think) about why NCAA athletes aren't protesting right now (June 2020):
https://twitter.com/LeverFever/status/1275523373498589184
Thread about common English names for birds (the way they deny the birds already had common names, frequently from indigenous people:
https://twitter.com/oreothlypis/status/1278548401936711680
Thread by Mekka Okereke (via B from fc Slack) on The Difficulty Anchor and its usefulness for underrepresented folks in technology & performance review season:
https://twitter.com/mekkaokereke/status/1027552459873378304
How to gain a magical superpower - 8 tips for better negotiation
Shared by Alice in Slack: the author is a friend of hers whose company paid for them to get their MBA, so perspective-wise this isn't someone who decided to get an MBA on a whim.
Expanding Our Diversity & Inclusion Efforts from Etsy.
A Complete Guide to Equity Compensation at Tech Companies
Workflows! https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/1227326107185270785
Date-formatting JS from Wes Bos:
https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1185263826029174784
Ha! Yes. Database schemas (jargon, general) always leak into interfaces. Just like org charts always get exposed in marketing site navigation. The way we talk about things internally is the way we talk about them externally.
— Laura Klein (@lauraklein) January 28, 2020
Specific tweet: how the names of things internally can (and will) leak externally; thread in general: the small but important parts (aspects) of digital design. (via one of my Twitter lists)
Thread from Aundre on twitter, re: photographing & lighting dark skin tones: https://twitter.com/aundrelarrow/status/977255014338002946