Schlagwort: Macht

Fellow or Follow.

  • 2023-03-13

All things considered, should we get rid of equal opportunity programs? Certainly not. But I think we should forsake the collective delusion that having an equal opportunity program is equivalent to being an equal opportunity employer. The discrepancy between public commitment and actual progress seems to stem largely from the conviction that, if put on paper, diversity will magically result in inclusiveness.

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Ambiguous evaluation criteria and the sole dependency on one person for decision making about promotions should be banned.

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We do not allow academics to give lectures without having acquired the necessary knowledge and skills – why do we allow academics to manage a diverse workforce without having acquired the necessary knowledge and skills?

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Given the potential backlash, I did not take the decision to expose myself through this essay lightly.

Susanne Täuber: Undoing Gender in Academia: Personal Reflections on Equal Opportunity Schemes. In: Journal of Management Studies 2020.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12516

I can't say it, therefore it does not exist.

  • 2022-11-08

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionalized gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

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Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism. It functions as a disclaimer, discounting the significance of what is being named. It suggests that the words themselves are problematic and not the system they describe. I interpret this laughter as the audience’s way of showing discomfort with being asked to ally themselves with an antipatriarchal disobedient critique. This laughter reminds me that if I dare to challenge patriarchy openly, I risk not being taken seriously.

bell hooks: The Will to Change

De digitale wurggreep.

  • 2022-10-21

We

  • a coalition of parents, IT professionals, teachers, privacy advocates, recognise ourselves in this manifesto

observe

  • that the current digital educational system are dominated by tech giants
  • that fundamental rights - like the privacy of children, parents and educators - are insufficiently secured

and request

  • an alternative design for digital educational systems in which public values and the autonomy of the individual can be secured.

petities.nl: Free children from the digital stranglehold

Six powers of ten should be enough for everyone.

  • 2022-10-18

Die Welt braucht keine Milliardäre
Stellt euch vor, wie schön es ohne euch wäre
Empathie und Vernunft, statt Raffgier und Beschiss
Frische Luft, grüne Wälder, saub’re Meere

Knorkator: Milliardäre

Stuperiority.

  • 2022-06-17

[...] throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth but to the one that kills.

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex