The harm of bias is easy to abstract and apply to populations unemotionally. For some of us, it is visceral and real.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
It targets us by name. It drives us from our homes. It follows us place to place, trying to put us on our knees.
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This is not abstract. This is personal. **EVERY** transgender woman in tech lives on the edge of this cliff.
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Talking academically about harm is great until you have 700 people call you a mentally ill man in a weekend. Then it's not academic.
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It's not academic when people say you should be electrocuted or gassed or shot in the face.
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I have no problem naming companies by name who like to obfuscate this. Shopify tried recruiting me after my JSConf EU talk. Here's my replypic.twitter.com/yYZRthlZOV
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I don't give a fuck if I talk my way out of tech. When I shut down
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I don't get to leave that with my 9-5. Trying to do good 9-5 doesn't do shit to make me safer. As an industry, we need more.
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