28 Jan
2025
28 Jan
'25
2:23 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 21:06, Arc Riley <arcriley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 4:01 AM JC Brand <lists(a)opkode.com> wrote:
Thanks for writing this, it really does help.
I have to admit, I deliberately avoided using the term "LGBT" anywhere, for
fear of ending up ina debate of what other letters were missing.
But what do you think is missing from:
You are welcome at XSF Activities. Ensure that you are also welcoming of
others. We want everyone to feel welcome no matter what the colour of their
skin, where they live, or where their ancestors came from. We want to
welcome people from all cultures, and religions, and of all sizes and
shapes. We want people to be welcome no matter their sexual identity or
orientation. We want you to feel welcome no matter your level of experience
or ability. And we want you to help us make everyone else feel welcomed,
too.
FWIW, I don't think coming up with ever more
fine-grained categorization
of what constitutes marginalized persons and putting that in the CoC is the
right way to go.
One can always come up with more categories of marginalized people, and
trying to enumerate all of them in a CoC is IMO impractical, while
mentioning only some of them can create the impression that some categories
of people are "more equal" than others.
It isn't always about practical enforcement, it is a statement of values.
As a member who belongs to at least three of the typically listed groups,
including LGBT, and I have been assaulted for this, I rarely read the lists
but it makes me feel safer in new groups.