Re: #ActivisionBlizzard Lawsuit
If you are a cisgender white man in the game industry do not let yourself end your participation with a tweet of "Gosh industry needs to change."
⚔️ You. Change it today. ⚔️
An inexhaustive list of ACTIONABLE ways to tip this power imbalance:
If you are a cisgender white man in the game industry do not let yourself end your participation with a tweet of "Gosh industry needs to change."
⚔️ You. Change it today. ⚔️
An inexhaustive list of ACTIONABLE ways to tip this power imbalance:
- share your salary / stock options with marginalized people of color, gender and women who you already know
If sharing directly feels too vulnerable, share anonymously here:
NA docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
UK
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
If sharing directly feels too vulnerable, share anonymously here:
NA docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
UK
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
- Carve out an hour out of each month for mentorship in your field for marginalized people of color, gender and women who you already know or through platforms like these:
gameheadsoakland.org/mentors/
pushfar.com/home/
gameheadsoakland.org/mentors/
pushfar.com/home/
- Use the safety of your privilege as cisgender white man to approach leadership at your company TODAY and push for pronouns to be added at all levels of internal communications.
This is such a basic form of respect.
I should not have to repeat this.
This is such a basic form of respect.
I should not have to repeat this.
- Decline invitations to panels where there are 3+ men. Refer any of your colleagues who happen to not be cis white men.
I know this sounds challenging.
I know this sounds challenging.
- Pay ATTENTION to any person that you manage who are marginalized people of color, gender and women.
Ask for their ideas.
Vouch for their ideas.
Ask for their ideas.
Vouch for their ideas.
I'll add to this later but I have to get back to work.
At the very least RT this thread. It costs you nothing.
At the very least RT this thread. It costs you nothing.
- Put Salary Ranges on all your job descriptions you're hiring for. Today.
If headcount was opened, the studio knows full well what it's prepared to pay + the lowest they will start at.
Don't take advantage of marginalized people of color, gender, women by making them guess.
If headcount was opened, the studio knows full well what it's prepared to pay + the lowest they will start at.
Don't take advantage of marginalized people of color, gender, women by making them guess.
If you manage teams of people with marginalized identities on your teams, give them clear, actionable goals they can hit w/ a defined path to promotion.
Hold yourself accountable as their steward in the development and of their career, not the gatekeeper
Hold yourself accountable as their steward in the development and of their career, not the gatekeeper
https://twitter.com/s3rioussam/status/1418288418648432644
Thank you @jtoresson for retweeting and in general for being really consistent in holding people on here accountable to treating others especially women with respect 💖
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