Maybe this is something that we need to make a separate post about--not that I don't want to continue THIS conversation, but this thread has collapsed so a lot of people aren't seeing it. Also I'd be really interested to hear you expand on the idea of challenging that default!

For me, having grown up in Maine and adopted by a white family, almost all the spaces I'm in all the time are default majority white unless they purposely are not, so much so that I don't really think about it. But when I say default majority white, I don't mean that in an "I assume that everyone I'm talking to is white" but more, "majority white is not particularly remarkable." And while I understand the concern from both Katie and Flourish and the other PoC who've joined to have the comm be less white, I so far in other spaces have found the conversations around that to be, as trinker said above, somewhat othering.

I don't know if you'd like to start that post, or I can with what I was saying and how you and trinker brought different ideas to it, and open it up. But I'd really just be repeating this convo, so if you have other things (particularly, challenging the default) it would be awesome if you started the post.