I am not diversity
git reset
Over the years, I’ve recognized that my appearance is perhaps the only outlier in this tech community that overwhelmingly represents individuals like me.
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Berkeley City Council adopts gender-neutral language policy for municipal code
After the revisions, words such as “craftsmen” and “manhole” will be replaced with nongendered terms such as “craftspeople” and “maintenance hole,” respectively.
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Public policy must be informed by academic research on gender, sex
UC Berkeley’s research on gender and sexuality has contributed to our understanding of how gender and sex are entwined notions and how the production of genders engages layers of personal experience, institutions, relations of power, and shifting hierarchies and opportunities.
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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues to provide platform for trans storytellers
Since 1997, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, or SFTFF, has shined as a beacon of light from within the various locations that have hosted it. Its more than two decades of history are a source of pride for its organizers, filmmakers and patrons.
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Christine and the Queens display performativity of gender on Fox Theater stage
When Letissier performed Friday at Oakland Fox Theater to a packed crowd — one that was by majority white and by majority queer-presenting — fans received the show before them in a magnetic reverie as they danced to the electric beat.
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Haas School of Business full-time MBA class statistics reveal decline in ethnic minority representation
Over the past two years, Haas School of Business has experienced a downturn in minority student enrollment for its Full-time MBA program, and has recently released a report intended to address this decline.
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The politics of sex and image in ASUC elections
Sex on Tuesday
“Hello, my name is Rizza Estacio, and I am running to be your next academic affairs vice president.” Recitation is key, I reminded myself, as I applied a thick coat of red lipstick. I wriggled slightly, exhaling into an outfit that in the past couple of months had become my
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Gender’s heavy lifting
On the mark
What kind of strength and power are we cultivating when we train our bodies and minds, and in service to what values? Are we simply putting on armor, or are we taking enough time to stretch, to be pliant and flexible? What kind of men are we trying to become?
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Contract terms regarding UC’s patient care technical workers released
According to John de los Angeles, AFSCME Local 3299 spokesperson, the university has been taking “directly employed jobs” from service and patient care workers by outsourcing them to independent contractors.
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UC Regents must address discrimination on campus
How many sex discrimination and harassment complaints against the University of California does it take for the UC Board of Regents to understand that it has a very serious problem on its hands and take action? I am a longtime plaintiffs civil rights and employment attorney in Oakland and a
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