Group: Empowermentors

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== About us ==
 
 
 
The '''Empowermentors Collective''' is a skillshare, activism, and discussion network for intersectionally marginalized people of color in the free culture and free software movement. We see radical potential in free culture and free software (often marketed as "open source software") to work against ableism, racism, cissexism, heterosexism, sexism, and classism.
 
 
 
We say "intersectionally marginalized" to refer to people of color who experience intersectionality, that is, the interactions of multiple systems of oppression. This means we are open to all people of color with disabilities, trans* people of color, queer people of color, women of color, class oppressed people of color, etc.
 
 
 
We are called Empowermentors because we focus on sharing knowledge and technical skills, producing free software and free media, and learning about and from each other. In this way we are being mentors for one another to empower ourselves.
 
 
 
We provide a space to:
 
 
 
* Meet and talk to people with a common interest and shared experiences in free culture and free software.
 
* Develop and share our skills and knowledge around free software and free culture.
 
* Identify, expose, and organize to confront issues of oppression within the free software and free culture communities.
 
* Expand our own philosophy at the cutting-edge of feminist, queer, critical race, and cyborg theory.
 
 
 
This opens up greater potential to:
 
 
 
* Form coalitions with other causes of importance to us.
 
* Create a free culture and free software movement that fights for us.
 
* Produce media and technology that destabilize dominant powers which oppress queer POC, POC with disabilities, WOC, etc.
 
* Bridge the free culture and free software movement with our contemporaries in the critical intersectional analysis of oppression, hierarchy, and domination.
 
 
 
== Join us ==
 
 
 
This is not a space for white allies. We do not (yet) have plans for such a space, but appreciate any support and help spreading the word!
 
 
 
* Join our discussion list: http://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/empowermentors
 
* Join our chat room: [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=empowermentors  #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 LGBTIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex, and asexual) people.
 
 
 
== Motivation ==
 
 
 
Why was the Empowermentors Collective started? In short, because there was no group like it for us in the free culture and free software movement. Many groups exist to address gender issues, but these were consistently white feminist groups that mostly just paid lip service to issues of race.
 
 
 
=== On liberalism, assimilation, and multiculturalism ===
 
 
 
We are not just another diversifySTEM™ organization aiming to integrate "minority" groups into the so-called "open source" community. We are creating our own space. We combine a critical passion for technology and digital media arts with our work towards POC empowerment, disability justice, decolonization, queer liberation, prison abolition, the destabilization of patriarchy, and other struggles we share.
 
 
 
=== Driving Questions ===
 
 
 
* What dangers lie in private ownership over media and software as it concentrates power over technology & telecommunications?
 
* How are race, gender, sexuality, class, and other cultural meanings coded into technology?
 
* Does free culture necessarily topple or reproduce those in power?
 
* Can we reconcile opposing both permission culture & cultural appropriation?
 
* Why do movements aiming to represent everyone often leave out already marginalized groups?
 
* Why does openness and meritocracy frequently lead to exclusion?
 
* When does equal treatment ignore preexisting differences in power, privilege, & access?
 
* Where do wefit into the free sotware & free culture community as queer people of color, women of color, POC with disabilities, etc. ?
 
* Who does the free software & free culture movement fight for...and who is leading it?
 
 
 
== Activities ==
 
 
 
=== Transcription ===
 
 
 
* Help [[/Transcriptions|Transcribe]] important material for accessiblility.
 
 
 
=== File and Fix Bugs ===
 
 
 
Help us file, catalog, and help resolve bugs related to race, gender, and accessibility in free software projects.
 
 
 
* Add to the [[/Bug List|Bug List]] revealing that free software is not immune to
 
 
 
=== 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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