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#representationmatters

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Peter J Fullagar 🌈

How are you incorporating LGBTQIA+ identities into your ELT materials or classroom?

Remember that LGBTQIA+ identities exist further and longer than Pride month or LGBTQIA+ History month.

Unsure of how to incorporate LGBTQIA+ identities into your ELT materials or classroom?

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And now I'm offering it to you too.
Just head to the shop and put in the code: Existence9 for £9 off – valid until August 1st.

Or, you can download the LGBTQIA+ identities in English Language Teaching: A Practical Guide for free (and always free) from the shop.

#LGBTQIA
#ELT #EnglishLanguageTeaching #TEFL #RepresentationMatters #Diversity #Inclusion #Education
peterjfullagar.co.uk/eltshop/e

Peter J Fullagar - LGBTQIA+ champion | EDI in ELT consultant | ELT editor/writer · Existence [digital product] - Peter J FullagarEight of my LGBTQIA+ inclusive resources in one handy pdf package - what more could you want?
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Elena Rossini

https://elenarossini.com/2024/03/the-power-of-visibility-redux/

Two years ago, around the time my daughter turned one, I released a short film made in collaboration with Mimi Anagli: The Power of Visibility. In the 4 minute film, we argued that women working in film (directors, screenwriters, producers and cinematographers) are largely underrepresented and underestimated. Popular media outlets in 2022 still mostly celebrated male filmmakers. Why was this a problem? Women working in film – or aspiring to – have a hard time being taken seriously and getting funding for their projects.

We released the film at the end of January 2022, along with an op-ed in Women & Hollywood: “How the World’s Largest Search Engine Can Help Fix Hollywood’s Representation Problem”.

Mimi and I wrote:

Imagine this: you are a 14-year-old with a passion for movies and photography. Maybe one day you could make a career out of it, becoming a cinematographer. You are curious to see examples of notable people working in the industry. So you go on Google and search for “cinematographer.” At the top of the page you see a carousel of 51 Google cards with photos and names of famous directors of photography. Most of them are white. All of them are male, except for a few cards. As an African American girl, you implicitly get the message that maybe this field is not for you — nobody who looks like you appears in the results. If only you could have seen or read about Kira Kelly — the first Black woman invited to join the ASC in 2020, best known for her work on Ava DuVernay’s “13th” and HBO’s “Insecure.”

Watch our short film The Power of Visibility (running time: 4 minutes):

Rewind: my incredible visibility in Google search results (2019-2022)

Searching for “film director” and seeing which results pop up in Google Images is something I have been doing routinely for years.

Click here to read the full story

#collaboration#genderGap#Google
Martine Mussies :verified:

So happy that my article "Mad mermaids vs. beauty standards: Examining the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and dis/ability in online mermaid fan art (2010-2020)" was published in First Monday - one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. ^_^

Direct link: doi.org/10.5210/fm.v30i7.14230

#MermaidFanart #Academia
#academicmastodon #FanStudies
#DisabilityStudies #CulturalStudies
#GenderStudies #QueerMermaids
#RepresentationMatters

Sexabled

🧵 Ihr wollt unsere Geschichten – aber nicht unsere Sichtbarkeit? Ernsthaft?!

Ich bin so müde davon.
Wirklich.
Immer wieder kommen Journalist*innen mit der Bitte: „Erzähl uns deine Geschichte. Erzähl uns, wie es ist, mehrfach diskriminiert zu werden. Wir wollen deine Perspektive. Die ist so wichtig.“⬇️

#Trans#OwnVoices#TransIsBeautiful
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Church of Jeff

variety.com/2025/film/news/joh

John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So White That a Black Person Existing in It’ Is a Big Deal: Toxic Fans Are ‘Okay With Us Playing the Friend’ but We ‘Cant Touch Their Heroes’

By Zack Sharf
Mar 31, 2025 8:35am PT

Variety · John Boyega: 'Star Wars' Is So White and Fans Reject Black HeroesBy Zack Sharf
#BLM#RepresentationMatters#StarWars
Nonilex

U.S. Dept of #Defense restores #JackieRobinson story on website, admits it was taken down in #DEIpurge

The #DOD has restored an article on its website honoring Jackie Robinson after having removed it in an effort to #purge "#DEI" (#diversity, #equity & #inclusion) content [at the direction of #Trump & #Hegseth].

#USpol #WhiteSupremacy #racism #military #ServiceMembers #history #BlackHistory #RepresentationMatters #whitewashing
cbssports.com/mlb/news/u-s-dep

CBSSports.comU.S. Department of Defense restores Jackie Robinson story on website, admits it was taken down in DEI purgeThere was online backlash this week after a story highlighting Robinson's time in the military was taken down
Nonilex

#Trans people, #women, people of color [#POC] are being erased

Across #Trump’s federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color & members of the #LGBTQ+ community from their websites.

#law #USpol #RepresentationMatters #discrimation #bigotry #hate #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #misogyny
npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-53175

CH e. V. Kinderwohnheim
..."der Verbesserung gar sehr bedürftig" ist weltweit leider noch sehr vieles. Seien es Bildungschancen, Berufschancen, Lohngefälle, politische Teilhabe, Eigentumsrechte, Zugang zu Gesundheitsversorgung, Schutz der sexuellen und reproduktiven Rechte, Schutz vor häuslicher und sexualisierter Gewalt, Menschenhandel, Zwangsheirat, Ehrenmorde, Genitalverstümmelungen, diskriminierende Rechtsprechung, soziale Normen, Zugang zu Finanzdienstleistungen, Vertretung in Medien, Zugang zu Technologie, Rechte und Schutz von Transfrauen und weitere.

Gerade in einer Zeit, in welcher weltweit Gruppierungen mit einem patriachalen Frauenbild wieder auf dem Vormarsch sind und reaktionär antifeministische Politiker und Parteien auch in Deutschland an Zulauf gewinnen.

Bezüglich des Zitates könnte die anthroposophische Bewegung und die Träger ihrer Einrichtungen sich anlässlich des #weltfrauentag fragen, woran es liegen könnte, dass der Initiator der Anthroposophie, welcher in teilweise engem Austausch zu bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten der ersten Frauenbewegung wie Rosa Meyreder, Gabriele Reuter, Bertha von Suttner und Hedwig Dohm stand, schon Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts progressivere Ansichten vertrat, als der Durchschnitt der anthroposophische Bewegung in den Jahrzehnten hiernach.
Auch hier, in den heutigen gelebten anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen und Einrichtungen, sind diesbezüglich Verbesserungen noch "gar sehr bedürftig" und die Anthroposophie bezüglich ihrer wahrnehmenbaren feministischen Position und Lautstärke nicht da, wo sie ausgehend von ihrem Begründer seien könnte.

#weltfrauentag #internationalwomensday #anthroposophie #rudolfsteiner #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024 #Gleichberechtigung #Frauenrechte #EmpowerWomen #EqualityForAll #EachForEqual #BreakTheBias #EndGenderGap #TransWomenAreWomen #ProtectTransWomen #TransRightsAreHumanRights #GirlsJustWannaHaveFundamentalRights #StopViolenceAgainstWomen #EndFemicide #NoMeansNo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPolitics #RepresentationMatters
#representationmatters
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