[hs-equality] 28c3 Queer Geeks Panel

[Rubin Abdi]

I find Equally Different a stronger message than Queer Geeks, but again
my push for Hacker Equality is to be equally accepting of everyone for
whatever they're into (be it for being queer or a fan of Shakespeare).
We're going to draw more people into discussing this than specifically
targeting the queer topic.

Maybe that's something we should discuss here. Whatever efforts I put
into this would be more of a push towards the general message of...

"It's ok to be different, we're all different, you shouldn't be ashamed
of it and here's how to bring awareness to others (such as your friendly
local hackerspace) so they can be accepting of who you are and the
things you're into. Let's explaining how one can be different and
possibly not accepted by a greater community, [insert list here]."

...and not exclusively...

"It's ok to be queer, you shouldn't be ashamed of it and here's how to
bring awareness to others (such as your friendly local hackerspace) so
they can be accepting of you being queer."

But I'm really not sure how much spare time I'll have at 28C3, planning
to volunteer if I can, preparing Journey to the End of the Night, put in
some working hours for the office, etc. So I really don't feel like
tooting my horn too much if my availability to help with this effort is
going to possibly be minimal.

Mitch if you feel like taking this opportunity and only running with
queer subject matter, I'm all for helping you with that, but I feel that
fleshing out this generalized hacker equality thing might be a better
direction to go on (plus it'll actually force me to get a new VPS
running so I can setup a god damn site/wiki for hackerequality.org).

We're all weird in our own different ways, and that's awesome.

-- 
Rubin
rubin at starset.net

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