In the past 48 hours, @ScienceMarchDC has: 1) been forced to issue a revision statement on an ethics issue in a media interview; #marginsci
I was working on finishing my Storify of #WOC who have left @ScienceMarchDC & I get pinged about this: https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC/status/853269241121972224 … #marginsci
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2) had one of the White women from
@ScienceMarchDC call me & junior@WOC "critical" &#marginsci "divisive" & then double down for hours;Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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3) been forced to issue YET ANOTHER apology for appropriation of AAVE language despite its history ignoring Black scientists.
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So to recap:
@ScienceMarchDC tweeted exactly TWICE during#BlackHistoryMonth but tweeted 12X about owls in one day;#marginsciThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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and refused to work with
#BlackLivesMatter & other#POC groups despite Black scientists' suggestions (https://twitter.com/HeyDrWilson/status/824480926654726145 …)#marginsci -
FYI this "refusal" isn't accurate. I was in a room with organizers a week ago along with several
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You're making valid critiques. I guess I also value the openness with which organizers are admitting challenges and working to fix
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There has been three months of
@ScienceMarchDC organisers *not* listening until they hit one crisis after another http://latinorebels.com/2017/03/14/the-march-for-science-cant-figure-out-how-to-handle-diversity/ … -
March has a major prob of anti-diversity sentiment among members: http://www.minoritypostdoc.org/view/2017-8-1-zevallos-MfSDiversityDiscourse.html … That's a result of mismanagement by organisers
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Moreover, a number of
#POC and White women have left the@ScienceMarchDC committee & satellites due to anti-diversity within organisation.
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Not only incredibly disrespectful to Black members in
@ScienceMarchDC committee, but entire#BLACKandSTEM community.#marginsci -
Incidentally also the ones they won't let have access to the Twitter account.
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Absolutely atrocious. Black members of the
@ScienceMarchDC have so much experience on#scicomm; what a waste of talent.#marginsci -
It really is… a waste and an implicit denial of talent.
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It was a constant frustration for me. It's hard not to see it as being about control at this point.
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It's difficult to refute now;
@ScienceMarchDC organisers are wilfully ignorant of diversity & their bias is damaging to URM.#marginsciThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Apology after apology just doesn't cut it. Shameful pattern
@ScienceMarchDC & only heightens marginalisation in science.#marginsciThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Please keep reading. I wasn't ignoring and I'm learning more. But I literally saw womens march leaders in same room with science march
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Entering the convo w/little info, yet many uninformed declarations designed to CYA when *you* are brought in is something WOC see plenty of
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Actually I was pulled in. Asked for links and further info. Did more digging. Am sad about the state of things and I've shut no one down
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I agree and think that goes both ways. I could have asked more than I did. So could others. One fact remains is I physically saw...
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Women's march organizers advising MsF organizers so idea that they were ignored directly contradicts what I witnessed.
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I'm not saying in other moments WOC weren't listened to or ignored. Seems there's lots of Comms challenges inside. But that statement is...
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What drew me in and because I was a firsthand witness I spoke to that real moment. Leading with curiosity before judgement is great advice
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Why do you think you were "pulled in," as you say, to "witness" this one-off event with the Women's March ppl & so close to the march day?
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