Dee in Osaka 🇯🇵⛩️

Are you trans / gender-fun, an Engineering Manager (or Director, etc), in or around London, UK, and would like to attend LeadDev.com this year in early June?

If so, I have 1 free ticket to allocate to someone and I would really like to support other trans people managers in tech to be there.

It's a good conference, and will help you in your role, and yes I'm going too but I would like to help other trans eng leaders to be there.

Feel free to boost if this is not you, DM if it is you. 

Jan 23 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadDee in Osaka 🇯🇵⛩️Jan 23
damn, lack of responses is really highlighting how few trans people are in eng leadership roles 😢
Show threadSophieJan 23

@dee sometimes I wonder if I would have ended up following the software engineering management path had I not had a supervisor who weaponised my poor self-image and lowkey depression to bully me out of that career path at an early stage. How many trans folks get derailed well before they even come out as trans because they are dealing with shit cishet men don’t have to?

Anyway, it’s all correlation with no proof of causation for me, but that’s kind of what happened to my career.

Show threadChris NorthwoodJan 23
@dee I'm a tech lead but don't have any line management responsibilities so not sure if I count!
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jan 23
@dee Non-binary director in an HPC org. Sadly, I do not live in the UK but in the Upside Down of America. :/
Show threadRhoJan 23
@dee can't find a job :/
Show threadYour Cool Uncle ItzyJan 23
@dee I am, but I'm not in London  I do get to attend a regional managers meeting for my field twice a year, and I am the only trans manager there. There is one other trans person, but he is not a manager.
Show threadcoldclimateJan 23
@dee it's a great conference and that's a lovely offer, happy to boost
Show threadAlex HyettJan 23
@dee not trans myself but happy to boost. Hopefully it will help someone.
Show threadLizzie Rose 🏳️‍⚧️ 🥀Jan 23
@dee Ugh, if only I wasn't in backwater US of A.
Show threadJason WJan 23

@dee Folks seeing this from my timeline - this is a great conference, with a decent proportion of People Who Give A [Your Favorite Term Here] about the human aspects of team leadership and management.

Also, in terms of Gender Rep, they had a photo of me talking as the conference header for a while. I am Very Obviously Nonbinary on stage, and nobody blinked about that being the first thing folks saw. I noticed.

Show threadSasha Jan 23
@dee Nice! I plan to go there 
Show threadJen FizzbuzzJan 23
@dee while I am, I'm outside of London and who knows what my june may bring.
Show threadCoral (bleached era)Jan 23
@dee @jen @aemylt ?