#diverisity

Like. Come on.

Give me an asexual who knew she were ace since middle school, when she had a crush on a girl and started researching sexualities. Who gets and makes sex jokes and who, when asked if she fucked someon last night, laughs and jokes that “oh yeah best fuck of my life.”

Give me an asexual who teases his friends about being attracted to That Trashcan. Sexually.

Give me an asexual who regularly fucks their datemate!! Being ace doesn’t mean you never fuck!

Give me an asexual who goes into relationships like “okay, heads up, I’m ace, these are the things I’m comfortable with, sexually, these are the things im not sure about or that depend, and these are things that I am never under any circumstances okay with you doing so if you do do them and I haven’t explicitly told you to then we’re over.”

Vernance adds new SLED Director

Sandra Alvarado – Director of Strategic Partnerships – SLED

Vernance welcomes Sandra Alvarado, its new Director of Strategic Partnerships for State & Local Government and Education Services

The partnerships and the SLED market are key components of Vernance’s  go-to-market strategies. In order to help us forge stronger industry partnerships and to better address the specific needs of the State,…

I was startled by Joel Coen's response to questions regarding Hail Caesar's snow-white cast of main characters: "“You don’t sit down and write a story and say, ‘I’m going to write a story that involves four black people, three Jews, and a dog’ — right?” It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke ~ maybe it is, with the punchline being what Manohla Dagris said of Mannix, the studio's fixer in Hail Caesar, which seems true of the brothers: "He’s an embodiment of the industry’s self-delusion and self-mythology, the kind of executive who invokes vision and bullies the help." It's true that in several instances, in some of their films ~ notably Miller's Crossing ~ the characters are distinctly of a particular ethnicity & the actors cast are of the same ethnic background. However, not all their characters are written as ethnic specific &/or played by actors who ethnicity matches that of their character, notably Oscar Isaac & Carey Mulligan in Inside Llewyn Davis. I am disappointed that the Coen brothers think "diversity is important" but don't feel that they should make an imaginative & pragmatic effort to diversify their creative ventures.

“Coen brothers: diversity is important, the Oscars are not” Nigel M Smith, @nigelmfs,  The Guardian

Why Blacks are not part of the vision of a Pittsburgh “comeback”

C. Matthew Hawkins

Time Magazine’s “Pittsburgh’s Comeback” video is a striking piece of work that romanticizes Pittsburgh’s potential niche in the so-called “New Economy” — even the commercials for the video promote financial derivatives, or as Warren Buffett famously called them “financial weapons of mass destruction,” which is the hallmark of the new economy — but the video is roundly being…

If you are any race other than white

If you are ethnically or culturally non-white

(it's really just supposed to be ethnically or culturally different than myself and I'm white as hell and from Canada so really just anything bother than the typical white, English speaking countries)

If you are religious 

If you don’t identify as cishet

(as in heterosexual/ your gender identity and sex match)

If you have a disability

or

If you happen to be over 65

What are your beliefs, customs and traditions (as they pertain to your identifier above) and how are you treated in your country of origin?