(DEI) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are organizational frameworks that seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination based on identity
- When we challenge mismanagement and harm, we are gaslit, sidelined, or cut off. Accountability is framed as hostility to protect those in power.
- On Bluesky, the reported suspension of roughly 20 Black and brown trans women has raised serious questions about who is protected on “ethical” social media and who is silenced when accountability becomes uncomfortable.
- On Bluesky, the reported suspension of roughly 20 Black and brown trans women has raised serious questions about who is protected on “ethical” social media and who is silenced when accountability becomes uncomfortable.
- These institutions thrive on optics, not outcomes. Panels, PR, and hashtags replace accountability to Black and brown trans communities.
- Accountability is optional for those in power. Critique from trans communities is labeled disloyalty or “divisive.”
- Black and brown trans women are punished for clarity. Their language is called “hostile” because it refuses to center comfort.
- And you will be erased.
- Many civil rights organizations no longer serve the people they claim to represent. They fundraise off pain, then retreat into comfort, prestige, and proximity to power instead of confronting it.
- Civil rights institutions benefit from proximity to power, not from challenging it. Black and brown trans people pay the cost of that cowardice.
- Speak too loudly. Ask the wrong questions. Name the wrong names.