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SKheadofenglish.bsky.social

I’ve started talking about this on another thread but we worked with librarians and teachers to come up with key areas to consider and criteria for each. They were: Curriculum sequencing; English substantive & disciplinary knowledge; Accessibility / RA: diversity & representation (ref RS Bishop);

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bolshevikmilf.bsky.social

she's going to operate the camps at the border but with more women of color as guards. she's going to fund ICE as a fascist paramilitary but with better diversity hiring!

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Tthenineofclubs.bsky.social

Reading Cibola Burn of the expanse series and felt relevant. Helene is just a manifestation not a root cause. Dems and Repubs both prop up the root cause of this. One either cares about bio diversity and stabilizing the climate or one is a party voter. One cant be both.

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tom4okstate.bsky.social

The next time someone drones on about diversity, equity and inclusion hurting U.S. business, cite this stat on the right (from the Book "Getting More" by Stuart Diamond).

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MJmossmatters.bsky.social

That’s a keeper! We had so much fun collecting in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park for a research project comparing genetic diversity and ecophysiology to herbarium specimens from 50 years ago!

Six women posing with a plant like a man might pose with a fish on a dating app
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BKbenniekara.bsky.social

So I had a go a while back at a framework for choosing texts in English - still many questions but helps to balance the lack of diversity.

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PGzigzackly.bsky.social

(Posting the image twice to fit in all the Alt Text.)

Stolen screenshot of a post, probably on Facebook, by aspiringwarriorlibrarian in Aug 22, 2019 I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it's time to make a standard "thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah" speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says "Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship."
She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something "more profitable". She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly "Your empire will fall. And I will help it along."
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FWimmafoxnotyou.bsky.social

It looks like they are purposely pushing 'diversity casting's as PR to try to cover their ass but lol lol sure SURE JKR will allow Harry Potter to be played by a trans male teen actor. 😂

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