feat(web): flatten frontmatter — drop slug, flat tags/cats, auto-bump updatedDate [skip ci]
diff --git a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md index b8efda6..e223d02 100644 --- a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ --- title: Anti-gatekeeping -slug: anti-gatekeeping pubDate: 2021-07-20T16:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:39:54.000Z draft: false excerpt: "If we want everyone to be treated equally on the dance floor, we must first treat everyone equally at the door. That sentence is the entire policy. Everything else is … Read more" categories: - - { name: Values, slug: values } + - Values tags: - - { name: community, slug: community } - - { name: competition, slug: competition } - - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } - - { name: identity, slug: identity } - - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } - - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } + - community + - competition + - format-opinion + - identity + - nyc + - tone-confrontational featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/anti-gatekeeping/cover.pngDiff truncated (32 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
diff --git a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md index b1853df..b8efda6 100644 --- a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2686ede9719.43215459.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/anti-gatekeeping/cover.png alt: "Heavy industrial door standing wide open representing anti-gatekeeping philosophy" legacy_wp_id: 15896 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md index 56de2ca..b1853df 100644 --- a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2686ede9719.43215459.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2686ede9719.43215459.png alt: "Heavy industrial door standing wide open representing anti-gatekeeping philosophy" legacy_wp_id: 15896 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md index 9a99f5a..56de2ca 100644 --- a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ slug: anti-gatekeeping pubDate: 2021-07-20T16:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:39:54.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "If we want everyone to be treated equally on the dance floor, we must first treat everyone equally at the door. That sentence is the entire policy. Everything else is … Read more" +categories: + - { name: Values, slug: values } +tags: + - { name: community, slug: community } + - { name: competition, slug: competition } + - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } + - { name: identity, slug: identity } + - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } + - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2686ede9719.43215459.png + alt: "Heavy industrial door standing wide open representing anti-gatekeeping philosophy" legacy_wp_id: 15896 --- If we want everyone to be treated equally on the dance floor, we must first treat everyone equally at the door.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a99f5a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2021/anti-gatekeeping/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +title: Anti-gatekeeping +slug: anti-gatekeeping +pubDate: 2021-07-20T16:00:00.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:39:54.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 15896 +--- +If we want everyone to be treated equally on the dance floor, we must first treat everyone equally at the door. + +That sentence is the entire policy. Everything else is implementation. + +* * * + +SLIST exists because of gatekeeping. Not in spite of it — because of it. The founding story is a rejection story. Specifically, a rejection at the door of a Brooklyn venue that had positioned itself as the epicenter of the underground. The rejection was not based on capacity or safety. It was the kind of door policy that sorts humans by vibes — which, in practice, means sorting them by who you know, what you look like, and whether the person with the clipboard has seen you before. + +That rejection landed on a night that was already loaded. Personal loss, accumulated frustration, and the particular sting of being told you do not belong in a space that claims to welcome everyone. The response was a shitpost. The shitpost became a cancel war. The cancel war became a brand. The brand became events. And the events were built on a single operational principle: nobody experiences at our door what we experienced at theirs. + +The NYC underground scene adopted some bizarre tendencies around access over the past few years. Pseudo-aristocratic door policies. Preferential treatment based on cliques and group identity. Venues that market themselves as inclusive while running door lists that would embarrass a country club. The irony is thick enough to dance on: exclusion practiced in the name of inclusion, hierarchies enforced in the name of equity. + +* * * + +The SLIST model is different and it is deliberate. The guest list is democratized. It is not a favor dispensed to friends of the promoter. It is an open system where people apply, get vetted on their energy and aesthetic alignment with dark culture, and receive access based on what they contribute to the dancefloor — not who they know. +Diff truncated (46 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
