TaraElla

TaraElla is a singer-songwriter and an author. She identifies as a liberal and a liberal feminist.

TaraElla strongly agrees with the Wikispooks view that Wikipedia perpetuates establishment ideas and keeps other ideas out, and therefore is not really neutral. While she addresses the issue mainly from a feminist perspective, her argument that Wikipedia cannot be neutral when it excludes non-establishment viewpoints and voices can equally apply to many other areas, and her suggested reforms can potentially help reduce Wikipedia's pro-establishment bias in many different fields.

Proposal for Wikipedia Reform

TaraElla is the founder of the WikiEqualize project, which aims to improve female and minority representation on Wikipedia by abolishing the Notability Criteria. She has written extensively that the Notability Criteria perpetuates structural sexism and inequality, because women and minorities are less likely to be able to fulfill that criteria and hence be included in Wikipedia. She has also suggested a replacement called the Cultural Contribution Criteria, and has written extensively on how she believes this can work.

While several other feminists have instead suggested reforming the Notability Criteria, TaraElla believes that any Notability Criteria would necessarily result in structural inequality, and has linked this view to her belief that the presence of gatekeeping is incompatible with true intersectional feminism.

TaraElla's Other Views

TaraElla's writing on Wikipedia's Notability policy is heavily informed by her other views.

Liberal Revival Now

TaraElla strongly identifies as a liberal, and a liberal feminist. (Note that her definition of 'liberal' is closer to classical liberalism than the modern American usage, and her liberalism isn't necessarily similar to modern American progressivism.) She believes that liberalism is the only ideology that is moral, because it respects the equal moral agency of every individual. She has called for the revival of a liberal culture, where freedom of speech and conscience are strongly upheld.

Intersectional Feminism and GLIF

TaraElla identifies as an intersectional feminist. She also believes that a truly intersectional feminism must be without gatekeeping, and has coined the term GLIF, standing for Gatekeeper Limited Intersectional Feminism, to describe what she sees as self-identified intersectional feminists attempting to exclude people with certain views from the feminist movement.

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