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Shaving my head made me a better programmer @alexqin #ndcoslo

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you had me at Hello, world! @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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you had me at Hello, world! @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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it felt like I was hyper visible and invisible at the same time @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Prove it. Do you even know what the command line is? @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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So… When are you going to fuck Alex? @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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You are a programmer? @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Well not really… I am trying to become one… @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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the act of programming makes you a programmer @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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BE BETTER THAN ALL THE BOYS! @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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You are a programmer? @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“He’s a really nice guy” 1 @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Do you have a boyfriend?
 
 Do you like to dress sexy for him? @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“You have a lot of promise” 3 @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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MagmaConf @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“Women like the attention” 5 @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Women exist to serve men. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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You look like a 
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Women like the attention. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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I would have to 
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nowhere felt safe @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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why do I love code if code doesn’t love me back? @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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MEET ALL THE WOMEN! @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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When I cut my hair short, I stopped getting sexually harassed at tech events. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Become a BAD ASS programmer! @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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I was no longer hyper sexualized and under skilled @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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the tech industry is not a meritocracy @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Cut your hair. Become a BAD ASS. Be more of a bitch. Learn to ignore it. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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Started quest to change tech @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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With great power comes great responsibility @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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you shouldn’t have to 
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excellence in code can come from anyone 2. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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we need technologists from all backgrounds 3. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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liberation @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“I am not free while any woman 
 is unfree, even when her shackles 
 are very different from my own.” 
 - Audre Lorde “No one is free until we are all free” 
 - Martin Luther King, Jr. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“I drove him, drove them all, 
 to be first, be bold, be perfect—be the greatest. 
 What I did not do was drive them 
 to be whole, to be free. ” 
 Casey Gerald @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr. @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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tech is not a meritocracy
 
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“We heal ourselves, 
 and we heal in relationship, 
 and from that place, simultaneously, 
 we create more space for healed communities, healed movements, 
 healed worlds.” 
 adrienne maree brown @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“At this point, we have all of the information we need to create a change; it isn’t a matter of facts. It’s a matter of longing, having the will to imagine and implement something else.” 
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“Transform yourself to transform the world”
 
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my liberation cannot come at the cost of harming others @alexqin . #ndcoslo .

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“Wage Love” 
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