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   Ludic 🧛 (ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:47:23 JST Ludic 🧛

   Iris Meredith is a reader that reached out months ago about how job negotiations mysteriously break down the moment employers realize she is trans.

   She's now choosing violence, has started a consultancy that does software/DEI work, and just dropped this bomb that will probably get her banned from LinkedIn.

   https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/dei_original_sin

   I suspect many here will appreciate it or find it thought-provoking. I've never had a trans colleague despite all my employers paying lip service 24/7.

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     Ludic 🧛 (ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:47:17 JST Ludic 🧛

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     • Dan

     @Dan It's very hard, but we do our best to support her! I think prior to getting onto Mastodon + meeting Iris, I really didn't appreciate these things as much as I could have. Being brown in Australia comes with minor issues, but it's still easy to be well-paid (in a cog-in-the-machine don't-let-them-give-white-people-orders sort of way). Whereas trans people get hate all the time when I stumble into conversations amongst the general population.

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     Dan (dan@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:47:22 JST Dan

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     @ludicity I note she is from NZ where I know they have their own issues with racism, and possibly currently going backward, but reading this I can't help also thinking of First Nations people here.

     The proliferation of cultural awareness training and acknowledgement of country, RAPs... and ongoing unfettered racism. I can't begin to imagine how fucked that would be to have to deal with daily.

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     Ludic 🧛 (ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:47:29 JST Ludic 🧛

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     • cchelberg

     @cchelberg It may have been provoked by a conversation we had, around the idea that corporate culture venerates the trans community to incredible heights, but frequently have no friends with that identity and they rarely, if ever, hire them.

     My consultancy is 1/6th trans by a selection algorithm of "who do I like playing board games with that can sell SaaS", which means that corporations are less inclusive than me literally not even trying.

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     cchelberg (cchelberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:47:30 JST cchelberg

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     @ludicity thanks for sharing. I’ll take a closer read through this as it looks like some useful framing for sure.