Group: Empowermentors

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About us

The Empowermentors Collective is a skillshare, activism, and discussion network for intersectionally marginalized people of color (for example women and queer people of color). We are a group of community members with a strong commitment to furthering free software and free culture through an intersectionally marginalized lens and making a more welcoming space out of these communities. We therefore necessarily also work against and do not tolerate oppression in all its forms: ableism, racism, cissexism, heterosexism, sexism, classism, etc.

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.

We are called Empowermentors because we focus on education and encourage participants to host workshops and skillshares geared towards intersectionally marginalized identities.

  • We maintain a safer space for marginalized identity groups.
  • We address 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.

We operate in accordance with the LibrePlanet Mission Statement and Code of Conduct.

Join us

If you are a woman of color or queer person of color, please join the LibrePlanet Collective:

Goals

  • Educate
    • Teach and mentor learners about free software, programming, and other areas of contributing to free software
  • Advocate
    • Promote free software tools through projects, campaigns, and events
  • Supply
    • Provide materials and increase the availability of free software
  • Support
    • Offer help getting and using free software
  • Unite
    • Bridge connections between free software activists and marginalized voices

Meetings

  • No current schedule for meetings.

Activities

  • Join a local LibrePlanet team. The LibrePlanet Empowermentors group is a safe space, but we also encourage folks to participate in other communities and try to make sure they are also welcoming and non-oppressive.
  • Join other radical groups and safe spaces. The LibrePlanet Empowermentors is a free software skillshare, and the knowledge you gain here is meant to be spread far and wide.

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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

Members

Empowermentors
Note A group for free software activists
Region Global
Area Global
Mailing list http://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/empowermentors
Website http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Empowermentors
Available language(s) English
Contact Kẏra
Current status Active
Members
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