A few things here and, yes, another thread https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">. First, yes cishet white men shouldn’t be writing about the struggles and experience of marginalized groups as if they experienced them, but that’s not what is being asked here at all. 1/ https://twitter.com/nhl94/status/1311272133398589442">https://twitter.com/nhl94/sta...

What is being asked here is that cishet white men in ultimate write about things that are not just on field ultimate, which is like, so many things!! Sara and I listed a bunch of suggestions already, so maybe start there. I promise these requests are not as hard as they seem. 2/

The fundamental problem here is that Ultiworld and most other news media is predominately white and male and so if they don’t cover the interesting stories, those stories often don’t get covered. You cannot expect marginalized writers to carry all of the burden here. 3/

And the point that cishet white men shouldn’t (rightly) thoughtlessly cover the struggles of marginalized folks is most often used as a cop out to not cover marginalized folks at all. Telling stories about the work we’re doing, the change we’re making, is not the problem. 4/

So that’s what we’re asking. We’re asking you to think outside the box, think off the field, about how the ultimate community still exists in amazing vibrant ways that are not centered on the white male experience. And that recognize that we are indeed still in a pandemic. 5/

It’s not that hard, I promise. It is possible to balance covering the issues in thoughtful ways without needlessly pontificating about experiences you yourself do not have. That should not be a difficult thing for Ultiworld, or any cishet white male media person, to recognize. 6/

And by the way, if you do have contributors with marginalized identities, maybe don’t have them be the ones to take on all these pieces. Maybe find ways to thoughtfully cover them yourselves, and then come to us to edit them to make sure you didn’t fuck it up. Just a thought. 7/7