This sucks. I think this sort of experience might be way too common and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this kind of thing the last little while.
I’m shamelessly linking to some thoughts I have recently posted that is related to questions like “how can we be more welcoming” (in fact, conversations around this are the whole reason I wrote the post).
You might also be interested in the discussion that inspired the post on welcomingness at “shop-fronts” like community groups. It’s linked at the top of the post I linked above but for good measure, I’ll also link the top level post here (I strongly recommend reading both the post and the comments that push back on it).
This sucks. I think this sort of experience might be way too common and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this kind of thing the last little while.
I’m shamelessly linking to some thoughts I have recently posted that is related to questions like “how can we be more welcoming” (in fact, conversations around this are the whole reason I wrote the post).
You might also be interested in the discussion that inspired the post on welcomingness at “shop-fronts” like community groups. It’s linked at the top of the post I linked above but for good measure, I’ll also link the top level post here (I strongly recommend reading both the post and the comments that push back on it).