PRIDE MONTH
This page is a collection of my blogs and talks dedicated to Pride Month and being an LGBTQIA+ engineer.
Talk: Pride Month
In which I share some queer technologists who are role models for us in computer science. I also cover why pride matters to me as a queer tester, and how my LGBTQIA+ status was used to marginalise a contribution that I’d made to an engineering team.
Talk: Monoculture is Problematic for Quality
Talk: being LGBTQ+ in Tech
Blog Posts
Here are some of the blog posts that I’ve written about being a LGBTQIA+ engineer and for previous pride months.
I am proud
Happy Pride month everyone! In this post I call out some LGBTQIA+ computer engineers that make me proud to be a gay tester.
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I Get So Emotional – The time I got dismissed for being myself in engineering
In this blog post I share a story of how I’ve been dismissed in the past for being “too emotional”. My queerness was used as a weapon against me to discredit my quality messaging and…
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How Diversity and Inclusion can Improve Testing
As the testing pendulum has swing towards more engineering in recent years we’re facing a new issue, the prevalence of an engineering mono-culture. There’s a view that there’s one “correct” way to do things, which…
Keep readingInfographics: Queer Role Models in STEM
A selection of infographics that I’d created to share on social media for pride month that show role models across computer science and STEM.
Infographics: Generic pride
A selection of some of the generic pride inspired infographics that I’ve created and shared on social media.
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