State Media: 'Rivera said "diversity" has become a token word, and queer folks of colour are often insulted and harassed even within supposedly safe spaces.
'As the seniors' co-ordinator at the University of Regina's Pride Centre, she thinks queer people of colour are needed at the decision-making table to shift conversations from those "sitting in their white power, almost blinded."
'Rivera said the UR Pride Centre has few team or board members who are BIPOC. She said though the centre is discussing the need for better representation, the conversation must be amplified across the Prairies.'
As predicted, intersectionality has failed; the alphabet people can't stand one another; and those who purportedly support inclusion, by virtue of their whole-hearted embrace of identity politics, are the first to exclude those who aren't uniform in their looks, values, or beliefs.