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“I didn't want to be the kind of privileged person who tells oppressed people what their version of diversity should look like.” RaceDiversity Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“Without acknowledging the variety of the human experience, all you get is the perspective of majority representation, which is mostly white and male and straight and able-bodied and cisgender and "traditionally" attractive. None of those things are inherently negative... but neither are their alternatives. So, all deserve some spotlight.” RacismRepresentationIntersectionalityAbleismCommunity Dynamics Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“Don't let discomfort silence you when your voice can lead to a better situation for all of us.” RacismPolyamorySocial AwarenessGroup Dynamics Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“Inclusivity has to be seen as a benefit to the community. The lack of diversity has to be seen as a detriment to that community.” IntersectionalityCommunity DevelopmentGroup Dynamics Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“No group wants to be known locally or widely as "the group that is thoughtlessly, carelessly or intentionally unwelcoming to people of color.” RacismIntersectionalityPolyamoryGroup Dynamics Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“There is nothing welcoming about the notion that a positive reception, from a group or an individual, is based more on what you are than who you are.” RacismFetishization Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“Include and project the voices of underrepresented people in the spaces where their access is limited. Go love, and build, and restore, and speak, and engage, and create. Go be better and do better.” IntersectionalityPolyamoryCommunity DynamicsAlternative Communities Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“If a group isn't being actively inclusive, it's being passively exclusive. This passive attitude results in lifestyle communities that do not reflect the local population.” IntersectionalityPolyamoryCommunity Dynamics Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“Alternative lifestyle communities can easily become victim to cults of personality. Calling out problems in a community or running afoul of the wrong popular organizer, even for the right reasons, can lead to a social backlash.” PolyamoryCommunity DynamicsAlternative Lifestyles Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities