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Maybe I'm in awe
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Two of my fellow Open Org Ambassadors are making the rounds with useful projects that I'm looking forward to stealing from, so I thought I would kick off this week with some gratitude towards the open source community.
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First off, Ben Cotton, who has been a community builder and contributor in the Fedora Community since before the Internet was invented, has written a book about managing open source projects. Then the incredible Heather Leson has been leading a massive open source initiative at Red Cross Red Crescent and is sharing around a Data Playbook with hundreds(!) of activities to help people learn about data literacy.
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Maybe I'm radical
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Busy week for me as I've been running a pilot Train the Trainer programme in and around other projects we've got bubbling away. I love leading workshops, online and off, but it is absolutely exhausting to have long-tailed ones that run back-to-back or over a series of days. I have to turn up tolerance and am more liberal with what I allow people to get away with.
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This week I mentioned that dominating the learning space is often a male-coded activity as women, non-binary and LGBTQIA+ are trained by their very existence to STFU. I said it differently, of course. Did a dude say some dumb, passive aggressive shit in response to this piece of the training content? Yes, yes a dude did.
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Look, I present as an adult human woman. Technically, I'm an ethanol infused mess of progressive decline in intrinsic biological function, but that's another conversation. I've been called "aggressive" (my male colleagues are "driven"). I've been told that I don't finish things (my male colleagues are called "strategists"). I've been told that anger doesn't have a place here ("he's just passionate"). This crap is TIRED.
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It's tired for all of us empathetic and thinky thinky people, including the poor guys who are self-aware enough to know that while they're trying to be allies, their sex continues to give itself a bad name.
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Sorry to throw a spanner in the works now, but I have to say - this specific occurrence didn't have anything to do with my gender, I don't think. It may have had to do with HIS. His dealio was, perhaps, toxic masculinity with a (definite) very large side of arrogance. Poor chap 🙄.
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Maybe I need help?
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I struggled to write you at all this week. I didn't want to moan about being me, and I used my brain too much at work and didn't find some quiet creative space. Next week will be better, I hope. How have you been? Standing in line much? Or have you been clicking around Wikipedia a lot? What are you up to?
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