diversity advocates

📖 Definitions

"'How do we kick people out?' must be understood as a reaction against norms of openness or structurelessness that have set terms for association with which diversity advocates disagree. Many of diversity advocates’ undertakings seek to challenge and recalibrate the norms of the wider culture of voluntaristic technical production. Others provide alternative spaces for hacking and making outside the mainstream. Both strategies are important within diversity advocacy. And both contrast with modes of self-organization that would allow extant terms of association to proceed organically" (Dunbar-Hester 2019, 52).

💡 Examples

• Activists who found and participate in feminist and queer hackerspaces.

🔗 Relations

• part of: epistemic diversity

📚 References

• Dunbar-Hester, Christina. 2020. Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhrd181.

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