The voices that are heard are the ones that shape narrative, and narrative shapes reality.

I thus take the pledge:

I will decline invitations to sit on all-White panels (“wanels”).

I will decline invitations to sit on all-man panels (“manels”).

I will decline invitations to serve as the single, token marginalized voice in any opportunity that would be homogeneous along any dimension without my participation.

I will further demand proportionate if not priority representation of voices that continue to be excluded through White supremacy, cis-hetero-patriarchy, ableism, capitalism, caste, and other systems of oppression.

And, acknowledging that representation—while necessary—is insufficient, I will demand that all panels, presentations, and publications that I am part of or that I engage with embrace multiple ways of knowing, talking, and being in both style and substance, form and content.