The pointers given in this article can be used for wearing any sort of clothing in public that stands out.
#femboys #gender #meninskirts #fashion #meninheels #menindresses
The pointers given in this article can be used for wearing any sort of clothing in public that stands out.
#femboys #gender #meninskirts #fashion #meninheels #menindresses
Edited 2025 to update gender and a few other things.
I'm a software engineer with a degree in Anthropology. I highly recommend the combo.
Most recently I was tech lead for Scaled Human Review at Meta. I worked in the Integrity Foundation (what other companies call "Trust and Safety") on Better Engineering initiatives and #Metaverse integration, with the teams that build human review software for the 30-40K external reviewers. I'd sworn I’d never work at Facebook, but I decided to see if I could make a difference. I couldn’t. And it wasn't a good fit for either of us. But I learned a lot about how the sausages are made and why they have such a hard time with #contentmoderation.
I've been on #socialmedia for four decades (seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978—this stuff isn't new), and virtually everyone I know I met online somewhere—many I've still never met in person. Needless to say, that's made me pretty passionate about making online communities safe for everyone, and especially marginalized groups.
I'm now a freelance #consultant and semi-retired, working on my own projects (I'll write more on that later), and with my wife's #consulting company (see below). I'm planning to do a lot more writing about #society and #technology (as well some #SFF), and to travel more.
I tend to write long posts (like this one). They may get shorter once my blog is back up. I don't stick to one topic, but I'll try to tag them so you can filter. I post about tech stuff (recent, as well as old geeky #Unix stuff), #social issues, #LGBTQ issues (especially the T), pretty #photos, and random personal anecdotes. When I boost, it's because I think it's something that might be interesting to someone, or some group, that follows me. Those tend to include all the above topics, plus SF&F-related things, and cool science stuff.
I'm #pan, #poly, and #trans. I prefer "they" or "she" for pronouns, but "he" is fine. I spent most of my life thinking I really was a straight cis man who just happened to be a bit quirky and a passionate and tearful ally, so I'm not too picky about how you refer to me. I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about all that, public or private.
I grew up mostly in #Maine and then lived in Massachusetts for a long time, but I now live on sovereign #Swinomish land in #WashingtonState (US), on the edge of the San Juan islands. Despite my first name (that's a story) and current location, I'm not Native American, although I focus a lot on Native American rights. My parents were both active in that area, and that was my introduction to civil rights in general.
I've been a #software engineer at various levels (from programmer to CTO to company founder) for 40+ years. I learned BASIC in high school, taught myself Pascal, FORTRAN and PL/1 in college, learned C as an intern at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, one floor up from the Unix crew), and went on from there. In college, I majored in #Anthropology with a concentration in #Psychology, and that's influenced the way I look at software ever since. Software is designed for people. Software systems build communities (whether intended or not). Anyone who does that damn well better understand how people and #communities work.
I've worked for Bell Labs (psych stats), Sperry Research (window systems, UX design), Apollo/HP (programmable shell, windowing systems, Unix porting, UX design), Bright Ideas (cookbook, educational games), OSF (windowing standards), Alfalfa (multimedia email - SMTP *and* X.400 :)), Wildfire (phone-based voice assistant), Utopia/USWeb (web and security consulting), Saroca (small boats), Messagefire (anti- #spam software), MessageGate (corporate compliance software), Somewhere (software consulting), ZeeVee (web video aggregation, metadata scraping), TiVo (video content correlation, #metadata pipelines), and Meta. Plus a few others.
I've been with my wife, Dr. Mollie Pepper, for over a decade. She's a #sociologist with a focus on #refugee migration, #gender, and violence; the kind of work that gives you PTSD. She did her dissertation on women's roles in the (now extremely defunct) peace process in #Myanmar (aka #Burma). A few years ago she was at a military base frantically processing thousands of Afghan refugees and managing translators (whom Trump is now deporting). She has a consulting company that specializes in evaluating and designing social service projects. You can find her at https://carlsonpepper.com/. Everything I know about #feminism, #intersectionality, #queer theory, #CRT, and #racism I either learned from her, or she gave me the theoretical underpinnings to understand them properly.
I have two grown daughters from my first marriage with Nassim Fotouhi; a kick-ass software engineer/engineering manager who came to the States just before the Iranian revolution.
Shadi Fotouhi is an artist (see my profile background photo, go look up the drug codes and compare them to the mermaids' behavior) turned software engineer; building dynamic room installations will do that to you. She worked in QA at a gaming company, and then at Jibo; a robotics startup. Now she's a senior software engineer at Wayfair--Kubernetes, release configuration, and all that fun stuff.
Shireen Hinckley is a documentarian, digital image technician, video editor, and co-founder of Somewhere Films (https://www.somewherefilms.com/shireen-hinckley); a womxn's filmmaking collective. She works for #Beyoncé at Parkwood Entertainment, where she's an editor and post-production supervisor for all of their video releases. She worked on "Black is King" and just about every video since then, whether it's for Instagram, Times Square, Tiffany's, the Oscars, or Chloe x Halle.
I'm incredibly honored to have those wonderful women in my life. I wouldn't be who I am without them.
A couple other things that may come up, especially in my photos. My mother is an artist who lives in Maine in a round house she designed, and the family built, when I was in high school. And I'm part owner of a #lighthouse on Cape Cod.
--kee
"We are simply women who do not fit into a narrow, outdated box of what femininity is supposed to look like."
"The same rhetoric that claims to protect women is now being used to harass mothers in hospital beds, disabled women in their homes, and strangers in public toilets."
"It has created a world where any woman can be challenged, interrogated, or humiliated simply for existing in the “wrong” body."
https://medium.com/@karlacross0/we-can-always-tell-4a9d36732351
"We are simply women who do not fit into a narrow, outdated box of what femininity is supposed to look like."
"The same rhetoric that claims to protect women is now being used to harass mothers in hospital beds, disabled women in their homes, and strangers in public toilets."
"It has created a world where any woman can be challenged, interrogated, or humiliated simply for existing in the “wrong” body."
https://medium.com/@karlacross0/we-can-always-tell-4a9d36732351
>>> A new edition of the #CommunityNetworks Newsletter is out! You’ll find news and resources from a growing movement that puts communities at the forefront of efforts to bridge the digital divide.
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>>> A new edition of the #CommunityNetworks Newsletter is out! You’ll find news and resources from a growing movement that puts communities at the forefront of efforts to bridge the digital divide.
---> ➡️ Discover actions where #gender, #advocacy, #sustainability, and #environmentaljustice are also key focuses for those committed to community-grounded connectivity.
👉 Join in here: https://www.apc.org/en/news/community-networks-newsletter-lessons-and-challenges-communities-balancing-power
And follow along by subscribing to receive it monthly: 👉 https://crm.apc.org/form/community-networks-and-local-acc
Judith Butler: “We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/judith-butler-patriarchy-non-binary/
Judith Butler: “We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/judith-butler-patriarchy-non-binary/
"The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report shows some striking disparities: 91,000 women left the labor force last month, compared to 10,000 men who joined the labor force last month. If we zoom out to look at all of 2025, men’s labor force size grew by 572,000, while women’s grew by only 184,000. That means men joined the labor market at a rate three times greater than women."
#PublicHealth #workers #labor #employment #gender #diversity #equity #inclusion
"The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report shows some striking disparities: 91,000 women left the labor force last month, compared to 10,000 men who joined the labor force last month. If we zoom out to look at all of 2025, men’s labor force size grew by 572,000, while women’s grew by only 184,000. That means men joined the labor market at a rate three times greater than women."
#PublicHealth #workers #labor #employment #gender #diversity #equity #inclusion
#LLM proponents are disproportionately male, while critics or people who take a more sceptical stance do tend to be, in aggregate, more female and less binary in #gender on the whole. Sometimes this is innocuous, but other times it leads to things like Kat Marchin being driven off the internet thanks to relentless death threats over the Openslopware project. The point is that there's a noticeable asymmetry in the people who are for the use of coding agents as opposed to those who have a warier attitude to the tech, and that this asymmetry isn't exactly innocuous.
- Iris Meredith, The problem is culture https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture
The problem is culture | deadSimpleTech
...& as always, if you appreciate that I make essays & videos like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
#trans #transgender #queer #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #feminism #gender
#AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. Rather, artificial intelligence is both embodied and material, made from natural resources, fuel, human labor, infrastructures, logistics, histories, and classifications.
- Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
#LLM proponents are disproportionately male, while critics or people who take a more sceptical stance do tend to be, in aggregate, more female and less binary in #gender on the whole. Sometimes this is innocuous, but other times it leads to things like Kat Marchin being driven off the internet thanks to relentless death threats over the Openslopware project. The point is that there's a noticeable asymmetry in the people who are for the use of coding agents as opposed to those who have a warier attitude to the tech, and that this asymmetry isn't exactly innocuous.
- Iris Meredith, The problem is culture https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture
The problem is culture | deadSimpleTech
#Texas A&M #University cancels programs in women's and #gender studies
https://www.tpr.org/education/2026-01-30/texas-a-m-university-cancels-programs-in-womens-and-gender-studies
> Texas A&M University on Friday announced it is ending its programs in women's and gender studies as part of a broader effort to eliminate teaching related to #diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI).
From Jan 7
Faculty at #TexasAM #University were told this week that roughly 200 courses in the #College of Arts & Sciences could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of #race & #gender, the implementation of which has already led administrators to direct a #philosophy professor to remove #Plato readings from a core course.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #BrainDrain #education #FarRight #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/texas-am-race-gender-courses/
#TexasAM Ends #WomensStudies & Overhauls Classes Over #Race & #Gender
[this on top of the bizarre ban on the #philosophy department from teaching #Plato — seriously]
New policies limiting the teaching of race & gender issues led administrators & professors to change hundreds of courses. #School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. [ya think?]
#BrainDrain #college #university #education #FarRight #extremism #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The #TexasAM system’s regents — all of them appointed by Gov #GregAbbott, a #Republican — approved the restrictive policies late last year, & officials have been scrambling since then to interpret & enforce them. Supporters contend that the rules are appropriate measures to prevent political ideologies, especially those often associated with the left, from entering classrooms. Opponents say the approach encourages self- #censorship & is itself ideological.
From Jan 7
Faculty at #TexasAM #University were told this week that roughly 200 courses in the #College of Arts & Sciences could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of #race & #gender, the implementation of which has already led administrators to direct a #philosophy professor to remove #Plato readings from a core course.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #BrainDrain #education #FarRight #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/texas-am-race-gender-courses/
#TexasAM Ends #WomensStudies & Overhauls Classes Over #Race & #Gender
[this on top of the bizarre ban on the #philosophy department from teaching #Plato — seriously]
New policies limiting the teaching of race & gender issues led administrators & professors to change hundreds of courses. #School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. [ya think?]
#BrainDrain #college #university #education #FarRight #extremism #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#TexasAM #University said Friday that it would end its #women’s & #gender studies program, & that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how #race & gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms.
The university said that 6 courses had been canceled entirely because of the new rules, out of the ~5,400 that were planned for this semester at one of the nation’s largest #public #universities.
#TexasAM Ends #WomensStudies & Overhauls Classes Over #Race & #Gender
[this on top of the bizarre ban on the #philosophy department from teaching #Plato — seriously]
New policies limiting the teaching of race & gender issues led administrators & professors to change hundreds of courses. #School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. [ya think?]
#BrainDrain #college #university #education #FarRight #extremism #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
