Group: Empowermentors

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== About us ==
 
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The Empowermentors Collective is a skillshare, activism, and discussion network for intersectionally marginalized people of color (for example people of color with disabilities, trans* people of color, queer people of color, and women of color) within the free culture and free software movement.
 
 
 
We are called Empowermentors because we focus on education and encourage participants to host workshops and skillshares geared towards intersectionally marginalized identity groups. We are a group of community members with a strong commitment to furthering free software and free culture centering on the experinces of intersectionally marginalized people of color. We therefore necessarily also work against and do not tolerate oppression in all its forms: ableism, racism, cissexism, heterosexism, sexism, classism, etc.
 
 
 
=== Motivation ===
 
 
 
This type of intentional space also opens up the potential for much needed coalition building and advances our own understanding of how technology and media are inseparable from our experiences and ourselves, our bodies. We help to bridge the free culture and free software movement with our contemporaries in the critical intersectional analysis of oppression, hierarchy, and domination; and to develop our own philosophy at the cutting-edge of feminist, queer, critical race, and cyborg theory.
 
 
 
= Join us =
 
 
 
If you are a woman of color or queer person of color, please join the LibrePlanet Collective:
 
 
 
* Join our discussion list: http://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/empowermentors
 
* Join our IRC channel: #empowermentors on FreeNode
 
* Join our [[/Team List|team list]] by adding <nowiki>{{user Empowermentor}}</nowiki> anywhere on your profile
 
* Participate!
 
 
 
The Empowermentors Collective strives to be an affirming and safer space for people with disabilities, people of color, women, and people self-identified as queer or LGBT.
 
 
 
 
 
== Activities ==
 
 
 
* We maintain a safer space for intersectionally marginalized people of color.
 
* We identify, expose, and confront crucial issues of oppression within the free software and free culture communities.
 
* We equip each other with skills and knowledge of free software and free culture.
 
* We file, catalog, and help solve bugs related to race, gender, and accessibility in free software projects.
 
* We take on mentorship positions and run targeted workshops, classes, and skillshares.
 
 
 
=== Transcription ===
 
 
 
* [[/Transcriptions|Transcribe]] important material for accessiblility
 
 
 
=== File and Fix Bugs ===
 
 
 
* Add to the [[/Bug List|Bug List]]
 
 
 
=== Report Incidents ===
 
 
 
Contribute to the [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki Geek Feminism Wiki]
 
 
 
== Other Communities We Love ==
 
 
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism Wikipedia Project Feminism]
 
* [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki Geek Feminism Wiki]
 
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/feminisms Feminisms Reddit]
 
 
 
== Meetings ==
 
 
 
* No current schedule for meetings.
 
 
 
== Contact ==
 
 
 
You may reach the team via IRC (see above) or by emailing the discussion list:
 
* empowermentors@libreplanet.org
 
 
 
You may also contact the team leaders via email:
 
* empowermentors-owner@libreplanet.org
 
 
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 15:25, 15 November 2013

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