my Transgender Gap presentation at WikiConference North
America:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2016/The_Transgender_Gap:_Trans_and_non-binary_representation_on_Wikipedia
On 1/13/17 10:11 AM, Isarra Yos wrote:
Sadly there's a lot of confusion about this, which seems to be caused
by
Sadly there's a lot of confusion about this, which seems to be caused by
a trend of... I guess you might call it fake allies? Where people
consider it to be fashionable to be non-cis, so they idolise being
trans, instead. This seems to go as far as those involved believing it
really is a decisi
Knowing what these traits are, even if they are uncontrollable, may also
be useful for educating others about them. If someone is creeped out by
something and actually knows why it's creeping them out, it may be
possible for them to realise that, oh, it's just blah, and not actually
a threat. A
A lot of online threats, including death/rape threats, aren't really
worth taking seriously. They're just talk, rude-arse and not even
remotely productive, but still just the sort of dumbarse talk some
people try to do to bully folks. Blocking them is indeed reasonable, as
they are unlikely to
It was probably intended along the same lines as the 'meet the team
behind X' phrasing commonly used on corporate sites; it's just that
since it is women specifically it brings up the whole 'meet some women'
thing, which has gotten pretty ingrained these days.
Those are all good suggestions, t
On 10/01/15 15:28, Carol Moore dc wrote:
On 1/9/2015 7:37 PM, JJ Marr wrote:
You should try out Wikia. Make a "female friendly" Wikipedia, or
something like that.
Thanks. Have been meaning to explore it for other uses. Did see
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page which was pretty am
