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#diversity has strengthened #science, #M4S does try to reflect the diversity of the #work & #scientists, we are all #volunteers across the country joined by our #passion for #science as the best way to understand the world around us
Sydney March has booked Renee Cawthorne, which is terrific. Everyone else present as White, cisgender & able bodied. How does this represent diversity of science or the people of NSW? Same issues of equity, accessibility and inclusion raised last yearhttps://othersociologist.com/sociology-of-the-march-for-science/ …
And if you see documented in the link, I specifically provided lots of advice to the Australian marches and engaged heavily with the Sydney organisers. It is inexplicable that the same problems have arisen yet again. Equity & diversity is more than good intentions - it's work
And yet none of the organisers can comment on the white male futurists with political intentions in organising Melb...
1/Even though last year, we asked for public transparency of organisers- specifically to list E&D plans & committee member bios on the SciMarch website - this has not happened in 2018 Last year, I exposed the Science Party members in Sydney, who handled this badly & were abusive
2/ Fact that no-one is listed for MELB - members nor speakers- speaks to the same shady motives of aspiring politicians, as Mel notes SciMarch made a big deal of being apolitical yet wannabe politicians use the march to put their members in prime decision-making & speaking roles
Just remember @othersociology you see the people who have agreed to speak rather than those we have approached to speak who could not for one reason or another.
Just remember @hagsie the same reasons men give for not having gender balance at events are similar to the reasons people from majority groups give for not having diverse speakers
Would you accept "we approached women but they weren't available or couldn't for some reason?"
I'd really love to meet and talk about strategies to ensure we reflect diversity of science. Perhaps you'd be willing to do that post-march?
I did this last year already with representatives from all the Oz marches as well as an extreme number of hours answering questions and providing resources publicly on Twitter. All of that is documented in the link provided. Diversity should never be an afterthought.
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I think we've taken on board a good bit of fair criticism. We'll learn, each time hopefully with lessons learnt for the new set of volunteer organisers.
Here is part of the 