Venting and expressing some frustrations from a flawed freelance assignment gone wrong. Looking for feedback, comments, next steps? Summary below:

Essentially, I was requested to provide ASL services for a social justice/transformative majority QT/BIPOC conference with multiple panels (total of eight). The hiring group are actual ASL/ITP colleagues; who are all white. We've never met, but were recommended to one another. They hired me onto a big project, then suddenly canceled on me. No biggie. A day goes by, and they reach out to contact me. The ball gets rolling, we're figuring out prep time, we're signing up for specific consumers, this is a huge conference filled with 8 different panels. Questions are asked. Documents and information is scanned, sent, and shared. W2's and DD are shared and deposited. No contract is signed yet (how foolish of me). Recently just got an email at 4am saying that my services weren't needed.

For context, I am not certified, but was recommended to them by multiple certified folks. The hiring agency said they hire quality interpreters and are glad to bring someone on who is familiar with the conference. The hiring clientele said that they are fine with uncertified folks if they are referenced, have documentation and proof of continuing education, and where they graduated. Everything passed and they invited me in, twice...

There is steam blowing out of my ears. How you gonna hire and cancel on me twice over, and waste my time with correspondence both times? I do not think this boils down to simply a matter of inconvenient and erroneous planning, as much as something deeper and supremacist in behavior. I cannot help but think that this goes beyond certification as they specified that's not what matters... The treatment towards freelancers as a whole, but especially towards Queer, and non-white interpreters? This level of disrespect... I'm not sure if I am in my own head, or if this is actually something indicative of the continued suppression by white colleagues in our field? Not sure how to address this or proceed...

Was thinking of drafting an email after I calm down, and explain how their unintentional racism and exploitation is indicative of their own supremacy and continuation of upholding the field. Not sure how to proceed... thoughts?

Kind of frustrated right now and drafted a concerned and snippy email, which I will of course, will return to look at when I'm level-headed.