<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">As part of the Disrupting Disruptions: Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, I have been doing a land acknowledgement that speaks to the impact of the virtual world on the physical lands-- so the servers, the materials that have been mined to create our computers, and so forth. You can hear it in the Rose Eveleth video on <a href="https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/videos.html">https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/videos.html</a>. It isn't in every video, but definitely in the Rose Eveleth one beginning around the 90 second mark: <a href="https://youtu.be/NPSPlGvFplg?t=85">https://youtu.be/NPSPlGvFplg?t=85</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 8:09 AM Camille Acey <<a href="mailto:connect@camilleacey.com">connect@camilleacey.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div> <span dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif">I'm toying with the idea of instead of doing land acknowledgements (which are all the rage amongst leftie settlers on "indigenous land") that people -- particularly academics and other such book hawkers-- doing online panels and lectures acknowledge the platform and server and laptop and chips and miners who had to extract those chip materials. The wifi and underwater cable installers and servicers. The university admins, the publishers, and the underpaid bookstore workers. The trees that were cut down and pulped to print their books. The libraries. The students squeezed broke or put into debt by the university admisssion. The purveyors of university endowments and other such wealthy benefactors, and more importantly the workers that enabled that largesse. </span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif">Has anyone seen or done a Maintainers Acknowledgement? Would it make sense?</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif">Camille</span>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:0.8em;line-height:1em"><p style="font-size:1.2em">Alexandra (Alex) Ketchum, PhD</p><p>Faculty Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University</p><p>Director of the <a href="http://www.justfeministtechandscholarshiplab.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab</a></p><p>Founder of Disrupting Disruptions: <a href="http://disruptingdisruptions.com/" style="color:rgb(29,161,242)" target="_blank">disruptingdisruptions.com</a></p><p>The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Series</p><p>Creator of The Feminist Restaurant Project: <a href="http://thefeministrestaurantproject.com/" style="color:rgb(29,161,242)" target="_blank">thefeministrestaurantproject.com</a></p><p><a href="http://www.alexketchum.ca/" style="color:rgb(29,161,242)" target="_blank">alexketchum.ca</a>| pronouns she/her</p></div></div></div>