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Saturday Feb 8th Tabletop
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December 14th
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Our support of Black Lives Matter |
Posted by: Shawn South - 06-06-2020, 11:19 PM - Forum: Official Announcements
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Katrina and I started Friendly Tahoma Geeks with the mission to provide a safe and welcoming space for marginalized people who, all too frequently, encounter hate and prejudice in the larger geek/nerd community. As we all watch the horrific footage of aggressive and violent police responses to those protesting the death of numerous innocent people of color at the hands of law enforcement, we would like to take a moment to clearly communicate our position:
Friendly Tahoma Geeks, and both of us personally, stand with the #BlackLivesMatter movement. We recognize that
- our society is infested with systemic racism throughout, and
- police forces as a whole have a long history connected to racism, and
- people of color are disproportionately affected by the racism inherent in our institutions.
It is often difficult for those not directly impacted by oppressive environments to even notice that it is happening. In order to dismantle racism we must listen those suffering from it. We must believe them and recognize that our Privilege allows us to be ignorant of its effects. We further acknowledge that
- people of color have very different life experiences than white Americans, and
- it is not our place to dictate to marginalized people how they should feel or protest, and
- those suffering should not have to expend emotional labor explaining their pain to each person, therefore
- it is incumbent on those of us with Privilege to educate ourselves and to do better.
Equality means nothing until ALL of us are equal.
Our white Privilege means we have a louder voice that affords us greater power to combat racism throughout our daily lives. Friendly Tahoma Geeks is not a legal entity, so it has no cash flow with which to make donations, but this is what we are doing to support the Black Live Matter movement:
- Our mission statement has been updated to clearly communicate our support for marginalized people.
- I'm reviewing our Code of Conduct to see if there are any clarifications we can make there.
- Personally, we have donated to legal defense and bail out funds as well as Geeking Out Kids of Color (https://www.gokic.org/ )
We encourage others to support in whatever way they are able.
I am no expert, but I am open and willing to having good-faith discussions on what I have learned and now understand about Privilege, systemic oppression, institutionalized racism and the battle that is still being fought by our fellow people of color. I can also share other resources.
Thank you,
- Shawn
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Friendly Tahoma Geeks on Boardgame Arena |
Posted by: Shawn South - 03-25-2020, 05:54 PM - Forum: Official Announcements
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Gaming from home, Part 2
After doing some research, I've identified a couple of sites we can use to play tabletop games online. I've just set up a premium account, and group, on Boardgame Arena:
https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=3319238
It's free to create an account, and we'll be able to host the Premium games, which include:
- 7Wonders,
- Carcassonne,
- Kingdomino,
- etc.
I'm also looking into creating an account on Tabletopia (https://tabletopia.com) and will let you know if and when that happens. I looked at Tabletop Simulator, but it would require every player to purchase their software, and we want to ensure that we don't create barriers to playing.
Stay safe everyone :-)
- Shawn
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Saturday Feb 8th Tabletop |
Posted by: KatrinaWA - 02-06-2020, 09:50 PM - Forum: Official Announcements
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Shawn and I are once again healthy!! YAY!!!
We'll have our regular tabletop game day this Saturday, the 8th of Feb, at The Game Shelf in Kent, WA.
There is no theme this time, but please limit the number of games brought. We only have 3 hours! One or two please.
We will be bringing:
Elder Sign, 1-8 players
Mysterium, 2-7 players
Hope to see you this Saturday!
Katrina
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December 14th |
Posted by: KatrinaWA - 12-09-2019, 10:48 PM - Forum: Official Announcements
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Greetings gamers!
Our next tabletop meet-up is this Saturday, December 14th. We'll meet at The Game Shelf in Kent from 1pm to 4pm.
We will be bringing Terraforming Mars and Mysterium. Please feel free to bring a game or 2 to play also.
Hope to see you this weekend!
Katrina
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