Dreamfish Diversity Statement

Welcome to dreamfishing. Dreamfish was born to create a new open world of work for everyone, everywhere. Dreamfish is for us, all of us – the world’s women to work, get capital, move out of poverty or reenter a workforce or work in open source, for a person in recovery from anything to make a living, for a young genius to stretch wide, for elders to contribute experience, for the homeless to gain confidence, for a professional to learn creative out of the box skills, for the investor to contribute to what matters, for a young worker to gain meaningful work experience, free of silos. This is sustainability at work. This is our world of work.

We welcome every person as an agent of change for the world. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, color of skin, ethnicity,  nationality, ability, class, income level, religion, culture, subculture, and political opinion.  We welcome youth and elders, mothers, activists, professionals, artists, engineers, bloggers, crafters, academics, musicians, photographers, readers, writers, gardeners, ordinary people, extraordinary people, and everyone in between. We welcome people who want to change the world, people who want to do business, people who want to keep in touch, people who want to make great art. We welcome Internet beginners.

we welcome you. You may speak Urdu, Spanish or Chinese. You may wear a baby sling, hijab, a kippah, a suit, leather, piercings, a pentacle, a political badge, a rainbow, a rosary, tattoos, or something we can only dream of. You may carry a backpack, a guitar or knitting needles or a cane. Conservative or liberal, libertarian or socialist — we believe it’s possible for people of all viewpoints and persuasions to come together and learn from each other.

We believe that as we jam with our differences, we innovate and transform. Wondrous results can come when people from different worlds and world-views move as an organizational jam.  A jam is a practice of presence. A jam is not a debate about rightness. It is not fight or flight. It is not positional arguments. Jamming is listening, really listening. It is saying, “Yes, And”. Staying with the conversation teaches us about what we did not know, and humbles us in the awareness that there is much more that we don’t know that we don’t know. We learn to live in the gap between what we thought we knew and what is possible. Jamming is not superflous to our work. Jamming is the work. As we practice to jam with one another, so, we emerge with what is possible in our work, in ourselves, and in the world.

We believe that physicality is core to what is sustainable work. we thrive with biodiversity here as we are part of the biodiversity of our planet. We believe accessibility for people with disabilities is a priority, not an afterthought. We think neurodiversity is a feature, not a bug. As we share the air with each other, our own breath reminds us that the self is common to both humanity and to the earth. Listening to our body, we learn that work is a practice, not a production. We learn that we are collaborative systems, not silos. We learn that our gut can make a critical decision, when the frontal cortex may not. We learn that our community is a dance, nota data set.
We believe that we value differently.  I may value food and shelter for my kids. You may value the deep satisfaction of puting money to work.  As we work, we each listen to what we truly value and then can create this blended value through projects. As schools of fish, we create fishfood for all. Our revenue model is designed for diversity.

we love creativity, especially collaborative forms that arise as people work together — from dance to video, from a code snippet to a page on the wiki, from the person who’s been doing this for decades to the person who just picked up a video camera last week. We support maximum freedom of creative expression, while respect to the member guidelines, so that we together create the Dreamfish network as a thriving place for all members. We will never put a limit on creativity just because it makes someone uncomfortable. With servers in the U.S, we follow US laws, but we’re serious about knowing and protecting your rights when it comes to free expression and privacy. Wherever you are located, we ask that you abide by your country’s laws, as you work in Dreamfish, to take care for the work community here.

We are learning as we go. We may not be able to satisfy everyone. We may not be able to provide for multiple languages or better accessibility as quickly as we would like. We each can certainly work to avoid offending anyone, and learn. And we can listen carefully and respectfully to each other. We can work together.
We are building Dreamfish because we want a workplace where everyone can thrive. We want Dreamfish for everyone, everywhere. In Dreamfish, we are not bosses and minions. We are not in or out of the workforce. We are not demographic groups. We are not producers and consumers. We’re people working with people.

Attribution

As a practice of diversity, this text is a remix, with much thanks to [n] for allowing us to repurpose text in their Diversity Statement. This text is usable under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA license.