I've been thinking about this all day. I gave advice on a con program recently and a lot of the panels were BIPOC such and such and that the panel would only run if they got enough BIPOC. And I said, why don't you just fill a non identity panel with BIPOC. Another issue is and I will be blunt +

Planning committees don't have very many BIPOC on them and Cons are defaulting to the few BIPOC people they've had before in the past when they plan out their programs. They don't have people on their team who know the community and know how to staff programs with BIPOC because tbh +

this thread encapsulates so so much.