WorldPride month: Cripping Eros

Plein Theater, Friday, July 10 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Friday 10 July

WorldPride month: Cripping Eros

Genre: MultidisciplinairLineup: Hann & friendsTime: 20:00 - 22:00 hrsTickets: € 12,50 (vanaf) Regulier: €17,50 | Student/CJP/<26: €12,50 | Stadspas Groene Stip: €2,50Tickets

Cripping Eros

Cripping Eros is een multidisciplaire avond in het Plein Theater in Amsterdam-Oost, waarin kunstenaars en denkers nieuwe perspectieven bieden op de beeldvorming van handicap, gender en (queer) seksualiteit. De avond biedt een divers en verdiepend programma met een performance van Hann van Schendel, een lezing van cripqueer kunstenaar Menko Dijksterhuis en video‐essays van Mira Thompson. Tot slot zal er een interview worden gehouden met Jacqueline Kool, die zich als onderzoeker en auteur bezighoudt met onder meer handicap en seksualiteit. De avond wordt gehost door Eline Pollaert, die de makers en het publiek met elkaar in gesprek brengt en ruimte creëert voor verdieping en nieuwe manieren van kijken.

Cripping Eros is een ode aan lichamen, verlangens en verhalen die te vaak onzichtbaar blijven. Hiermee sluit de avond goed aan bij World Pride Amsterdam.

Makers: Hann van Schendel, Menko Dijksterhuis, Jacqueline Kool en Mira Thompson | Host: Eline Pollaert

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/worldpride-month-cripping-eros

Microaggression in Digital World

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Monday, June 29 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Exploring inclusive/exclusionary design choices in digital interfaces.

Microaggression in design refers to subtle issues occurring everyday while intarcting with physical or digital interfaces, creating extra barriers especially for minorities and marginalised groups. Depending on factors such as gender, language, or race, people might have to spend more effort and face more challenges on digital spaces. For instance, while filling out an online form, women or people of other gender identities may have to scroll down the list where ‘male’ is set as the default, if their gender is included at all. The design choices behind these exclusionary interfaces are not necessarily intentional, but they often come from the default system (of thinking), unconsciously influencing designers. This design flaw can create, maintain or intensify harm, exclusion and social inequality. In this programme we aim to explore how more thoughtful digital experience design choices can not only support current users, but also create a path for future designers to design more inclusive and accessible systems. We will also examine how policy has (or has not) prevented severe consequences of the current design practices in the digital world, and how it should be improved to address these challenges more effectively.

In conversation with Lisanne Buik Founder Gracious AI,PhD Researcher Ethical AI Design & Alignment Peter van Waart Coordinator Smart & Social City, Human Experience Design Researcher

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/microaggression-in-digital-world

Happy Pride Month. Here's a little song I wrote to celebrate. This song will also be on my forthcoming album "Any One" hopefully dropping by the end of this month. Enjoy~!
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The federal government, through the CDU-led Ministry of Family Affairs and the SPD parliamentary group, has reacted cautiously to the push by three CDU-led stat... https://news.osna.fm/?p=48945 | #news #calls #cautiously #gender #law
SPD Cautiously Responds to Calls for Tighter Gender Self-Determination Law - Osna.FM

SPD expresses caution over proposals to tighten the German Self-Determination Act, pushing back against pressure from CDU states.

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Understandably, it took time to accept the world is round; accepting the difference between biological sex and gender will also take time. The answer is to progress forward in our understanding rather than regress back to the way things were.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-is-your-gender-sport-handicap-gsh-03c668497475?sk=cc4718c7dba0be8cb8c4de7a59cf3dac

#LGBTQ #Gender #Sports

What Is Your Gender Sport Handicap (GSH)?

A solution to letting transgender women compete…in fact all women and everybody else.

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Please don't invent eight-limbed spider genderules, I have arachnophobia 🥺
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