Hi all, Just a trigger warning here -- I was in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia last week, giving a course in which Apache NetBeans was used. There were 8 people on the course, three of which were women completely covered in black hijabs with only their eyes showing. I do think safe spaces, microaggressions, and trigger warnings are very important -- but in an ecosystem where there are literally women in the back of the classroom with only their eyes showing, it seems complicated to address this diversity topic at all, unless we're not concerned about the diversity issues connected to superiority, colonialism, and ethnocentrism, etc.
And... a year ago those three women would not have been in a computer class at all, so the fact that they were even in the room was a sign of massive progress. Just want to raise this because what some might see as diversity could be pretty problematic in a global context -- unless we're comfortable, or at least very prepared, to deal with the fall out. Gj
