Historian and gender scholar turned software engineer. Autodidact. Dancer. Lifter of heavy things. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate. she/her
Joined June 2017
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InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
This week, I received an email from a client asking me to ensure my talk is in compliance with the recent Executive Order banning anti-racism workshops, which included not using the term "white privilege" during the session.
I said no and offered to cancel the agreement.
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InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
Hi White People! I want to tell you something. It's the second week since the explosion of this round of protests. The second week since George Floyd's snuff film started being broadcast all over.
I want to tell you something about my experience with white progressive backlash.
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
While some companies think it’s enough to tweet support for social justice while marketing a tool for oppression, IBM gets out of the facial recognition business & states opposition to mass surveillance & racial profiling. theverge.com/2020/6/8/212846…
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
Some phrases I use to remind myself that almost everything we say is based on our perspectives, which is defined by our lived experiences:
🔹 From my experience
🔹 ... for me
🔹 I wonder if
🔹 I’m curious about
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
Are you a white woman who is feeling sad about everything that's going on but unsure what you should be doing?
I wrote you a guide on how to save your tears and to take meaningful action moving forward.
👉🏽 tatianamac.com/posts/save-th…
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
“...if we don't open, the shop down the street will, and then we lose that business.”
Premature reopening is creating now-or-never market pressures. When people feel forced to take existential risks, they’re experiencing coercion, not expressing liberty.
cnn.com/2020/04/27/us/corona…
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
very glad gmail's automatic suggestions have sorted the response to this for me
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
If 1024 fair coins are each tossed 10 times, chances are good (> 63%) that at least one will come up heads 10 times in a row; and that coin will be proud to explain how its skill, faith, guts & determination made its achievement possible, and how that combo can work for you too.
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
to anyone who insists on the "decades start on the 1 year" pedantry, I give you ISO 8601 4.11:
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Plato’s dog. nitter.cf/_TheBestDogs/status/12…
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
James Mickens recently got tenure at Harvard and his announcement page is 100% James Mickens
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
gooooob morning. i would like a lot of support today. just in general
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
Czarkowski's Law - Any sufficiently advanced technical diagram will be indistinguishable from a map of the London Underground.
Back in the day, as a kid in @boyscouts we pledged to leave campsites better than we found 'em. Can we do something similar for the #Agile ecosystem? We're leaving a mess. @AgileAlliance
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
The desire to fix another's problems comes from your own discomfort with their painful emotions. It is a bid to relieve yourself, not them.
Sometimes the most important thing you can do is to set your feelings aside and just let them express themselves.
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
@agrevlis @tedneward @BattleAxAmy @alexthissen @marcelv @quorralyne @gillcleeren @hboelman @ooobject @ZeroKoll @dylanbeattie @richcampbell Best night ever.
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
On 16 June, 75 years ago, the gestapo dragged twenty-six members of the French Resistance into a darkened field between villages. As they were organized into small groups for the firing squad, a 16 year old boy wept, asking if it would hurt. This man was beside him. 1/x
InconvenientIdeaFactory retweeted
Me: Stop arguing with your sisters.
9-year-old: I'm not arguing.
Me: Then what are you doing?
9: Being right.
