'women in tech' - by nancy - general zuo's chicken

on milking the diversity label

queen there's something off to me about putting all the 'women in tech' in a room and making them feel special, sectioning them into too comfortable spaces, breeding too special treatment so they then milk the identity by 'being a hot girl in tech.' i admit, i milk those identities for the perks. i identify as a 'woman in tech' to get in diversity programs and beat the odds of being a normal applicant in the pool of potentials. but do i really deeply associate my identity and values around the fact that i'm a woman? do i really intentionally 'other' myself so that i could convince myself i…

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