Interesting Links for 29-11-2019

[andrewducker]

Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your "Hello My Name Is" Name Tags

(tags:gender lgbt )

Why we should all be playing games

(tags:games )

Can't face a social engagement? Why not send your dad? Like the British prime minister. FFS

(tags:WTF Father BorisJohnson politics UK )

UK police explain decision on Prince Andrew case

(tags:royalty rape uk police OhForFucksSake )

Really Cool Fluid Simulation (touch sensitive on your phone too)

(tags:simulation fluid )

12 EU states reject move to expose companies' tax avoidance

(tags:Europe tax transparency OhForFucksSake )

Lib Dems and Labour are mostly not in direct competition.

(tags:Labour libdem politics UK )

Labour to change strategy with two weeks to go

(tags:Labour UK Europe politics )

There is widespread Islamophobia among Conservative Party members

(tags:conservatives Islam bigotry racism )

18,000-year old puppy found perfectly intact in Siberian permafrost

(tags:dogs wolves prehistory )

Lying liar Boris Johnson lies over his record of lying

(tags:lying BorisJohnson )

Comments

Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your "Hello My Name Is" Name Tags

[jducoeur]

Yeah, I've been hearing this from my trans friends for some years now, and Arisia (our local SF/F con) now routinely stocks enormous numbers of pronoun ribbons of many different permutations, and encourages everyone to join in. It does a lot to normalize the fact that folks' pronouns are *not* always obvious, and that it's polite to check.

I've picked that up and am doing it for a small tech conference I help run, which has taught me that several people there are non-binary but don't usually have a way to express it. I was pleasantly surprised that something like 75% of the attendees participated -- one of the many reasons I love that conference...