Category: Identity
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THE TRUTH ABOUT OTHERING IN DIVERSITY
One of the perhaps most problematic parts of any work on diversity issues, be it in form of DEI efforts for businesses and NGOs or indeed any work on national and international minority rights is that it is subject to many kinds of Othering. Without Othering, without bias, we would not even need to have…
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Intersectional Identities – the Ukrainian LGBT+ newsletter
Today, we are sharing an email by a member of the LGBT+ group in Ukraine. It is the most recent piece of communication we have received directly; we are sharing it to offer insight not only into the reality of intersectional identities, but into a day in a life of a member of a minority…
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Discord : when someone is spreading rumours at the office
Humans live on rumours. That is why celebrity magazines make so much money. Why there is room for all manner of fake information in our societies. Why we spend at least some time discussing what ifs and maybes of not only our own but others’ lives.Evolutionarily, passing on information can be considered a matter of…
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Getting back to things… after taking a time off
Learning to stop working and give oneself a break and then going back to it (hopefully relatively fresh and rested) are possibly two greatest steps in our professional existence. I covered the first before the holidays. It only makes sense to cover the second now, when we are all blearily (just me?) emerging into a…