RE: https://blackqueer.life/@Damselfly/117445810233273440
A common story in the replies to my community thread yesterday - stories that speak to my own blind spots as well - looks a lot like this. People - often women, often black, often queer people - offering to help and getting shouted out of the boys club so noxiously they either never bothered giving it a second try, or giving up after way more second tries than the boys club ever deserved.
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117439624526559997
There exists, somewhere in time during the late 90s, email conversations on the Linux kernel listserv, where a woman (and anthropologist) discussed the difficulty of contributing, the problems with accessibility, and rather than simply complain, offered to take on the work of helping address them, since she had experience. She was shouted out of the room so violently that she never bothered coming back.
