Tag: fairness
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DEI-AB and Their Adversaries
What are diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? What are their narrative adversaries? We provide a glossary of terms below. Follow the links for deeply sourced reference materials.
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For a “Fair” Selection Everybody Has to Take the Same Exam: Please Climb That Tree
Sameness-based equity is a major obstacle to DEIB work. It’s one of our “10 Obstacles to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice”. Instead, we advocate for needs-based equity and collaborative niche construction. Fairness and Equity What’s fair depends on what people need. Explaining Fairness (LEANS resource 5.3) Niche Construction Niche Construction In Nature: Helping to ensure the thriving of an organism…
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14 Obstacles to DEI-AB and Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Getting human-centered, neurodiversity affirming, progressive practices into education, healthcare, and other systems is a battle, a grueling and grinding battle through bad narratives and bad framing. framing = mental structures that shape the way we see the world Our community of neurodivergent and disabled people encounters the following narratives over-and-over with dreadful regularity. They are…
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Vendetta Music Fest (and everyone else) vs. Our Loved People: They’re Promoting and Funding Ableism in Our Name
You can’t have our neurodivergent art while advocating to eliminate neurodivergent people.We can’t keep Austin weird by eliminating weird from society and the gene pool.We must combat ableism throughout the SxSW and Austin communities. It’s hard to enjoy the party when people keep fundraising for your abuse and thanking themselves for abusing you. We, Stimpunks…
