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Sara Wachter-Boettcher

18 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read

you can take the side part and cry-laugh emoji from my cold dead elder millennial hands

I just read an article that referred to side parts as "the relics of an unhealthy youthful diet of cringey emo swoops and side bangs" and I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW I was into early aughts indie rock not emo thank u.

I have no allegiance to skinny jeans but I will say that I spent every single year from ages 12 to 35 trying to find jeans that fit my curvy thighs AND were proportioned for my 5'11, long-waisted body. I only found jeans that fit correctly TWO years ago. They are skinny jeans.

Please understand, I already lived through the low-rise era, where literally every pair of jeans you could buy looked like this. I cannot go through it again.

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19 Feb

@justkelly_ok

Hi who wants to talk about pay equity?

So @justkelly_ok's story this week has me thinking about a pattern I have seen over and over since I started coaching newer leaders in tech and design 1:1—most of them women—at a wide range of organizations. I call it...

ROOM TO GROW 🌱

What happens: a woman gets hired into the bottom of the salary band for a level. She’s told it's for her own good:

“We want to give you lots of room to grow.”
“This way, your comp ceiling is really high!”
“You’ll start at the bottom of the band so you can really prove yourself!”

Whenever I hear about a company positioning a lower salary as being *in your benefit*—that it is somehow better for you to make less at first—my ears perk way the fuck up.

Like, y’all think we can’t do math?

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher

@sara_ann_marie

2 Dec 20

My mom talked to me recently about how uncomfortable she was with "defund the police." The wording made her anxious. What would that mean for her safety?

Let me tell you what happened in that conversation, and why I think using uncomfortable language matters here.

I told her that I did in fact mean it literally, and then explained what it means to me: divesting from the concept of policing as we know it, and asking instead, what does the community need? What skills are required to deliver that? What structure is needed to deliver that?

I told her that if we remain tied to the concept of police as the solution to a HUGE range of community needs, it's very very hard to imagine other ways of solving problems. We must be able to first imagine not asking or paying police to solve those problems.

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher

@sara_ann_marie

19 Mar 20

@collectivestrng

Hosted our first remote @collectivestrng event last night! It's a monthly event series that we usually host for about 50-100 womxn and nb people on a weekday evening with snacks and drinks.

Here's a thread about how it went over Zoom.

@Meetup

We use Meetup for event listings/RSVPs. So we used Meetup to email guests the Zoom link day-of. This was an issue; not everyone got the email. Meetup wasn't designed to handle this, so there's no way to easily just give people joining info after they RSVP. (@Meetup pls fix this!)

Event format: we usually do either fireside chats with an expert (plus a group activity), or a fully interactive workshop. This month was a workshop I was facilitating with lots of group and 1:1 peer coaching work. We used Zoom breakout rooms for both.

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