Happy #InternationalWomensDay.
My social media life has improved greatly since moving here from the other place. Still worth thinking about how social media, as a whole, treats women and femme-identifying people though.
I'm reposting here a thread I tweeted 2 years ago. It was illuminating to me then and now.
Link: https://twitter.com/DrTCombs/status/1501302408881836033
Copied/pasted tweets below ⤵️
[Date: Mar 8, 2022] A few weeks ago I quietly changed my profile pic to show a nondescript white male, riding away on a bicycle. I also removed my she/her pronouns from my bio. Today on #InternationalWomensDay I changed it back. 🧵
[the next day...]
I'm not surprised how many women this thread resonated with, but I'm pleased w/ how broadly it's spread & how many important convos it's sparked. If you want to do more, chheck out @JulieSLalonde's bystander intervention training https://twitter.com/JulieSLalonde/status/1500966252298317826… (h/t
@JonahGrahamKC
) 8/
...and follow, support, and cite the women doing amazing work in typically male-dominanted fields.
@UrbanDemog has started a great list for urban mobility, many of whom were new to me: https://twitter.com/UrbanDemog/status/1501371415337082883… 9/
Thanks to all y'all for listening to me, supporting me, and amplifying me. And thanks to my parents for giving me a nickname that could go either way. 😉 12/12
1:50 PM · Mar 9, 2022
OK, back to today.
I know the fediverse hasn't felt like home for a lot of people, but to me, it's indescribably more welcoming than that other place. I miss my friends in the old neighborhood, and the amazing connections I was able to make around the world, but those of you who are here, keeping this place safe and tolerant and affirming, more than make up for it.
thank you.