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12 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
just to spell it out btw
- i am a woc
- i experience harassment
- i have built moderation and anti-harassment tools in the past
- including w/ machine learning, and i have a master’s in ai
- i am a senior staff level engineer who has had to tech lead and build my own product
and somehow non-technical white men who don’t experience harassment and haven’t worked in the space are going to build machine learning tools to solve harassment. right. got it.
there are multiple copycats of what we are working on with @blockpartyapp_ btw. it’s bewildering to watch. the shamelessness, the gall, not just of the founders but the white men who back them too
oh more thing i’m still in charge of @blockpartyapp_ backend eng and i’m on call so really sorry if our service goes down i’m stretched a little thin right now juggling everything (hey guess what turns out when you don’t have a lot of funding you gotta wear a lot of hats)

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13 Feb
a founder friend reminded me that there’s nothing unreasonable in startup world about someone copying an idea. kinda yes BUT imo what is significant and abhorrent here is that i’m building something to solve an intensely personal pain that the copycats don’t get or empathize with
the amount of hate, abuse, harassment, stalking i’ve had to deal with, and still live with to this day, is horrible, angering, traumatic, despicable, and life-changing in a terrible way. @blockpartyapp_ is built with the insights i’ve acquired from suffering through this pain
in dealing with harassment/stalking, i’ve consulted private security folks; one piece of advice i got was to reframe and take back agency. although i’m being attacked, i don’t have to feel like a helpless victim. i am fortunate to be an engineer who can build a technical solution
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12 Feb
happy chinese new year! in case you missed it and want a little twitter drama🍿to inspire you to support and uplift women, poc, and marginalized folks this year, may i refer you to these threads! 🧵of🧵s
here is @karlitaliliana talking about segregated funding and coverage impacts equity and inclusion, calling out @sentropy's launch compared to @blockpartyapp_'s
here is @chaedria naming this situation for what it is: violence. it is violent that people like @alexisohanian use their deep pockets and platforms to back a white man blatantly stealing the work of a woc, against a backdrop of horrific anti-asian abuse
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10 Feb
hi investors, FUND THE WOMEN AND BIPOC WORKING ON THESE PROBLEM instead of throwing the money at white men who don't get it and either keep hitting us up for free advice which they ignore, or just try to copy what we're building with 10x the resources fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-…
PROBLEMS* lol so angry i'm typo'ing
also, journalists, you don't have to write 3x longer pieces covering the copycats i'm just saying.
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1 Jan
i’m mentally preparing for another year in lockdown and wondering how i will want to feel a year from now looking back on 2021 if it’s another year of minimal social contact, mostly in my flat, alone. can i find ways to thrive instead of just survive?
i’m feeling a little anxious about setting goals, knowing how fragile mental health can be in circumstances like we are now living through. but i also don’t want to give up before starting...
in 2020, i tried to find coping mechanisms that would at least be “productive” or surface-level healthy, while fully acknowledging them as coping mechanisms. i read a lot (85 books; probably equivalent time on articles). i worked out a lot (30,910 min on peloton; ran ~600 miles)
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1 Dec 20
I wrote an op-ed for @theinformation on being a solo female founder & why investor dogma around co-founders is yet another reason the industry is so awful at funding women. Can you believe only 2.1% of VC dollars this year have gone to women?! thein.fo/1a7650c8647efd… Image
People told me repeatedly I needed a co-founder so I kept trying and trying. (I literally even moved to London to try Entrepreneur First, a co-founder matching program!) In the end, all of it was a huge waste of time, energy, and money. And mental health, honestly.
It was super demoralizing to keep being told I somehow wasn't good enough, that I needed to keep searching. That I was doing something wrong. And then to be put down and condescended to and so disrespected by some of the men I tried working with.
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29 Nov 20
still mad sometimes when i think about asian american cliques who tell me i’m “not that asian” or “not asian enough”. when did you get to decide who’s “asian” enough? what does that even mean?
some have cited the fact that i don’t exclusively date asian. and SO WHAT? how is that a criteria? if it’s about culture, half of y’all don’t even speak an asian language, definitely can’t read, don’t know the history or culture. how are you judging?
i think y’all saying i’m “not that asian” is your registering offense that i’m not a meek asian woman who conforms to your ideas of who i should be - a traditional wife who will be subservient & fawn over your male superiority. well, sorry not sorry.
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