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30 Incredible Black Women+ Artists to Follow on Instagram
If there’s anything we love at Inclusion Geeks, it’s a good Instagram account. Bonus points for feeds featuring visual art by awesome women and other marginalized genders. We’ve rounded up 30 of our favorite accounts of Black women and other marginalized genders for you to follow. We’ve committed to sharing more of their work on our own accounts, but we encourage you to go directly to the source and show some love. Hint hint: many of these folks have prints available for purchase or commissions open. View this post on Instagram You guys!
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What it Means When You Don’t Show Up
We’re at a critical inflection point in our history, and what many of us have come to realize is that it’s more important than ever to show up. The good news is that there are a lot of ways to do this. First here are some ways it can look like when you don’t show up: Someone says something offensive to or about an underrepresented group or group member and you walk away You ask your Black colleagues if they can help teach you and/or help you understand how to be anti-racist, be less offensive, etc.
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Our Feminism is Intersectional. Black Lives Matter.
Inclusion Geeks was founded around feminist principles, and to be clear, our feminism is intersectional. We won’t ignore what is going on around us, because we are part of the problem and (hopefully) the solution. Many of you may be hurting, grieving, raging, exhausted, feeling trapped, and helpless. We see you and we are with you. The protests and resulting violence that have escalated in the past few weeks and through the weekend to today is the result of deep-seated systemic racism in action, and people rising up against it to say: No. We’ve had enough. This is not right.
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An Open Letter to Black People Wanting to Find Peace in the Midst of Grieving
You know the feeling you get when there’s a scream or cry stuck in the back of your throat? That’s probably how many of us have felt as we collectively grieve over Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Muhlaysia Booker, and most recently George Floyd and Tony McDade. The thing about being Black is that you can’t wholeheartedly ignore what’s happening to people who are being affected in your community. There is a shared pain going around because we know that deep down these atrocities have either happened or could happen to someone close to us. Someone we love.
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2019 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Survey Results
Inclusion Geeks has provided programming in the diversity, equity, and inclusion (‘DEI’) space since 2017. In 2018, we conducted our first ever survey to assess how and what the Boston-area tech community thought about diversity and inclusion. Specifically, we wanted to hear from tech companies about what they were doing to respond to the increase in interest in diversity and inclusion, and from individuals working at these aforementioned tech companies to gauge how their experiences were at these organizations. A lot has happened since the 2018 survey was originally conducted, and we released an updated survey in 2019.
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We cannot go back to the way things used to be
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is not and will never be the great equalizer. At this point in time, many of us are aware that any crisis, particularly the one we are facing now, will not be the cause of inequities that already exist, but instead a magnifier that highlights our inequitable structures. Of course people all over the world are being impacted by COVID-19, but it’s unfair to say that we’re all going through the same thing. This isn’t to play the “who’s got it worse” game, but instead to offer a perspective that challenges us to do better.
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Unsung Women+’s Project 2020
Back in 2018, we started a blog series titled the Unsung Women’s Project. The purpose of this series was to give voice to amazing women who were doing brilliant, perhaps under-recognized work in STEM fields. Our original inspiration was the book and movie Hidden Figures, and our goal was to create a platform for women and other marginalized genders doing interesting, important work who hadn’t necessarily received the corresponding accolades. We featured eight amazing people, before pausing this project. Now, two years later, we’ve decided to bring it back!
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Recap: Our First Virtual Geek Out
We like to say that because we’re a small team, it’s easier for us to be nimble; boy are we glad we can be nimble during times like this! As many of you know, one of our core ways to create community has been our in-person events. So, needless to say, when those weren’t possible anymore, we were nervous. We knew we didn’t want to have a series of Zoom meetings where conversations were one:many, nor did we want to only have 1:1 networking conversations.
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How We’re Responding to COVID-19: Corporate Training Updates
Within the last month, things have changed for many people due to COVID-19. At Inclusion Geeks we are taking every precaution to ensure that the critical work around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) doesn’t fall by the wayside at a time when it can be easy to lean into fear and Othering. We also know that times of crises can offer us a chance to come together and have deeper connections with ourselves and the people around us.
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7 tips for engaging remote, isolated teams
Hi everybody! This is Felicia, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Inclusion Geeks, reporting for duty from my home office here in Medford, Massachusetts. A lot of us are working remotely or working from home these days, and one of the things I’d love to chat about with all of you are ways that we can think about keeping our teams engaged and motivated in these- let’s just say, interesting, times. Some of you may be leading teams not used to working from home at all, where this is a really new experience for them.
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How we’re responding to COVID-19 – Community
We hope you’re safe and doing all the self-care things that you’re able to do during this uncertain time. In case you’re looking for it, we’ve got more resources below to help with the stresses that this time is causing. We’d like to give you an update on how we’re responding to COVID-19 for our in-person community events. Ensuring that we continue to support the Inclusion Geeks community is of critical importance to us and, well, thankfully we’re pretty dang tech-savvy, so we’re doing everything in our power to keep our community going!
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Benefits of Online Training for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Some might take pause when the idea of online training for such complex and sensitive topics as diversity, equity, and inclusion is presented at their company. We believe that nothing can truly take the place of an expertly facilitated in-person workshop where people can gather together to have the space and time to talk and learn about these issues. However, we’ve found that if implemented correctly, a high-quality online course can be hugely beneficial, particularly for large and growing organizations.