#Gatekeeping

Hello, I'm bisexual!Though I think a lot of people sort of... assumed that about me (was it the times when I gushed over Gillian Anderson? My love of women in
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LadBible. LadBible have a question in the briefing. And the LadBible lad’s question has a distinctly fash undertone. The sort of semi-serious counter to the “LadBible had a question at
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TREAD: Ooookay then. Seeing as #AutismAwarenessMonth seems to be going exactly the way many #ActuallyAutistic thought it would, with people being told they "can't be autistic", "aren't autistic enough" etc
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Thinking about online communities I’m a part of.What is it that makes one feel like they belong to a community rather than an observer to a bunch of strangers talking?
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Consider the reason that so many people do not like "aesthetic witchcraft" has nothing to do with hype, trends, or appearances and everything to do with the fact that materialism
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Sooooo the first time I listened to that new Babymetal track, it was okay. Little overproduced, but fun and different. Found the live version and o h m y g
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Let's be real. You see something you say something. It's the way it works, faith in a system is all well and good. But BLIND FAITH is dangerous. The fact
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Ron is asking this question in good faith and I hear it very often in Jewish spaces. A simple answer to this: Practically all parts of the left, broadly defined,
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Just so folks know why I get so cranky about gatekeeping in the , here's some history for those of you who were fortunate enough not to have lived it:when
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People are ranting that there “requirements” to watch a TV show re: Money Heist, The Platform. Why not watch the show for entertainment daw. What’s the purpose of watching such
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A note on declined work1. You are already enough 2. Remember that we - like all journals - have VERY limited bandwidth; it's not personal if you aren't published with
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can we dead the myth that women are attacked and criticised for this basic white ‘soft girl’ aesthetic that lana sees herself as the champion of, when those characteristics are
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When we get nit-picky during technical interviews and reject viable candidates, we perpetuate the gatekeeping culture in tech.I hope we're bringing that same nit-picky energy to our day-to-day work. Slightly
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At the risk of drawing ire.HTML and CSS are not programming.And neither does that have anything to do with elitism nor with gatekeeping, stop saying that and hear me out.
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I'm a trans woman.In 1988 I wrote a novel TINY PIECES OF SKULL about trans life in 70s Chicago. It took me three decades to sell it whereupon it won
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Does this sound democratic to you;An Advisory group recommend a system of checks & balances known as the Medical Model. The Gender Recognition Bill reflects this but...as it makes its
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