#Gatekeeping

Dr. Myhre🏳️‍🌈

SarahEMyhre

On this #EarthDay2021 , I am going to say the uncomfortable things. Climate change is not an opportunity for you to build your brand. Your feelings about climate change may

Ottavia Paluch

OttaviaPaluch

There's this internal consensus that teen writers are only awesome if they have work published in really selective and hard-to-get-into litmags as a teen. And as someone who does...not have

the law is racist

2020LawGrad

Passed the bar and joined the 2% of Latina attorneys today The bar exam process was the most stressful, anxiety-provoking, lonely time of my life. I studied for two

Dr. Nicole Bedera

NBedera

It happened. I got an R&R back with the comment that the main issue with my paper is a "weak scientific writing style." It includes a list of sentences the

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

Autistic women face a huge amount of misogyny and misogynistic gatekeeping from autistic men, and we as a community should be talking about it more. There's a scarily large contingent

🌱ⓓvva

comomula

as a non asian non white woman writing for/about Asian media, before i set out to write anything i spent many many hours studying the source material and most importantly,

Tolvo No Het No Damage (She/Her)

MxTolvo

Whenever I hear cishet white abled neurotypical dudes saying "Oh yeah [marginalized group] don't even really play games" I look at all the marginalized people are marginalized in some way

visa is almost done ✍🏾📖

visakanv

a thing about being “real” or “authentic” on social media: you can’t properly analyze this without accounting for the way in which the the medium itself distorts and shapes the

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

I look back at things I did when younger, not knowing I was autistic, wondering how on earth I managed.Truth is, I assumed everybody felt extreme anxiety and physical discomfort

Lucas Brown Eyes

LucasBrownEyes

I dropped a lot here. But I assure you. It’s the PG logline version designed not to overwhelm/scare you. There is so much more to all this. And it’s worse.Ways

Sean Page ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

SeanWebflow

How can tech help?Hire more black people! Hire more brown people!A tech job has changed my financial mobility in the last 8 months. I paid off $10K in student loan

Verbastardy

verbastardy

1/ Yeah-I've-a-fucking-position-thread warning:I know I've plenty of followers who won't be voting, and definitely not voting Trump. That's fine, but I will be, and today's NYT article on the Reade

Chelsea

anoutlawlife

I feel. Ugh. Like every year that we manage to end a #HugoAwards saying "yes! Progress!" we follow it up with three more 'what the fuck' years. And I *get

olive ⚢✿⁷ BLM!

oliveyoongs

saying that bi/pan people cannot label themselves as lesbians is not "policing" or "gatekeeping", we have completely different experiences and identities, and this language is really harmful to actual lesbians!

Kyle Siler

KyleSiler

This is an embarrassing justification by QSS editor-in-chief @LudoWaltman. Yes, as a general principle, diversity in perspectives is a virtue. That does not mean it's a good idea to publish

JACINDA

brokebackboys

the way yall continue to gate keep black queer people's identities *coughs* @ white queer folks — people who choose not to fully transition doesn't mean you disrespect their identities