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To: Lurker
DEI at Worldcon 2024 (are they the Hugo people?):

Tanya DePass Named Special Guest at Glasgow 2024.

Tanya DePass is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming and wants to make the industry better and more inclusive for everyone.

She is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming.

She was part of the Rivals of Waterdeep actual play stream from its inception, and is the creator and Creative Director of Into the Mother Lands, a new sff afrofuturist RPG developed with a team of all POC and Black creators.

Tanya often writes and speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality and other topics online, at conventions and as a public speaker. She was special features editor of 2019 Best Semiprozine finalist Fireside Magazine.

52 posted on 12/28/2023 5:26:59 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

> are they the Hugo people?

Yep. Which is why the Hugo is a joke award now. Check out the Dragon Awards. There’s still some hope for those.


57 posted on 12/28/2023 6:21:02 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (I don't use preferred pronouns for the same reason I don't talk to schizophrenics' imaginary friends)
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To: Angelino97

“wants to make the industry better and more inclusive for everyone”

except straight white males.


73 posted on 12/29/2023 8:12:21 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Angelino97

“Tanya DePass”

Her picture reminds me of that George Orwell classic:

“Animal Farm”.

:-)


74 posted on 12/29/2023 8:16:39 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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