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Sun, Aug. 2nd, 2009 03:38 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] wealhtheow
As I wrote earlier, it's the group's information and it's the group's decision whether or not to share that information. Humanity as a whole *has no right* to demand that information. But any other group--whether minority or majority--should *hope* to get knowledge from and about people whose experiences or mind-set do not match their own. If they do have that hope, then, as [personal profile] oyceter wrote, changing the structure to put the most vulnerable at the center must come before figuring out what knowledge to disseminate and how to do it, otherwise, we just end up with people in power talking about disempowered people to other people in power.

"You keep saying "we", but I can't figure out who you're referencing by it."
Sorry. I don't mean a majority group needs the back-ups. When I wrote that I was specifically thinking of fandoms (for which there is thankfully much less societal prejudice than, say, being homeless or a refugee or part of an oppressed ethnicity). When a fandom starts dissolving, or when an author/artist leaves fandom and takes all their content off the internet (for fear of it being found and linked to their off-line identity), they often load their work into a pdf and give it to a few of their friends. That way, all of their work and effort--all the things they were thinking about and working through, often for years--*can* be found...but only at the discretion of the people it actually concerns.
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