There
is a one day delay in getting to the incident I referred to Wednesday, because
something came up that is time-sensitive.
Of
course Wednesday was talking about efforts to silence women. I don't have time
to work with all the aspects of the dehumanization that comes into play in its
many aspects. There is a trend in society now to not value people or there
work.
That
can be something as simple as people not paying for music because they don't
have to, even though they like the music and the people that make it. It can
take the form of not paying interns, or offering to give freelancers exposure
instead of money, because you can get away with it.
Sometimes,
it can go like this:
I
felt sick when I read this. I contributed to that Kickstarter. I felt like it
was an important story, which is still true, but the tellers are falling into
some of the same historical patterns that have created the story. I don't think
there are bad intentions, but there is a lack of realization of where there
should be credit, and permission, and boundaries.
The
filmmakers do seem to be learning from this, and trying to adapt:
In
the college's own response they refer to plagiarism, and then put it aside. There
are horrible messages here for the students, and again, over and over there is
this erasure, and discounting. Sometimes it is accidental and sometimes it is
malevolent, but when you erase people in the process of doing projects about
the erasure of people, there is a special level of amazement.
Tomorrow
one topic that will come up is enacting labor, and so today's post is probably
helpful for providing examples of what the costs can be, and why it is not
always worth it. However, the real reason that I am posting this today is for
this:
They
are trying to turn a negative into a positive, to raise the same level of
funding that someone thought their work was worth if done by someone else, and
then to expand the educational efforts, because they will not be silenced.
Please
help them out.
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