Three people who've quit the nonprofit Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund say the group resisted efforts to make it more inclusive for LGBTQ people
In an interview, Schmader, who helped found CELDF, detailed how the leadership shakeup and split with Linzey led to a concerted effort within the clinic to “work on” issues like gender and race, in order to improve relationships with historically marginalized communities.
“When it comes to us having conversations about hiring and firing, I mean, who does that stuff when you don’t have the regular structure in place?” said Schmader, who is also head of the organization’s human resources program.A third former employee, who was granted anonymity to speak because of fears of reprisals, said that some on staff set out to “reckon with the legacy of transphobia” inside the culture at the group that allowed affiliations with Jensen and Deep Green Resistance.
Schmader said “at some point” Deep Green Resistance’s involvement in the fight against the mine was “brought up” internally, but she didn’t “make the connection” that anybody else at CELDF could perceive the partnership as testing the organization’s commitments to inclusivity. “I think I’d rather use a person’s name than call an individual ‘them,’ or ‘they.’ It’s a plural pronoun and adds more confusion than clarity,” Price wrote. “It could be argued that we should use the pronoun people prefer. Being a grammar Nazi isn’t an attractive look, and it’s clear the whole language needs to be revamped.”
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