Helen Harris was featured in Issue 3 and spoke to some of her experiences in the workplace. Shes cen
Helen Harris was featured in Issue 3 and spoke to some of her experiences in the workplace. Shes centered in this heartbreaking NPR article below about queer folks being discriminated as employees of tech industry conglomerate Dell. Intro article below, link follows. “Helen Harris doesn’t wear makeup or feminine jewelry. She mostly dresses in men’s tailored suits and men’s shoes. She’s gender nonconforming and identifies as a woman. And, she says, that’s nobody’s business. Which is why in late 2015, when she started taking hormones to become more masculine looking, she did it quietly. Harris, 37, is a systems engineer who worked at Dell, selling technology to major companies and helping them set it up. But she says she had a tough time moving up at the computer company and was assigned to a lengthy training period, while colleagues were promoted. She says she got heckled by co-workers when she gave presentations. And, Harris says, one of her instructors kept telling her “people have to like you for you to be able to do this job. He kept saying stuff like that to me.” . . https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/740726966/it-s-a-career-ender-2-lgbtq-former-dell-workers-share-their-stories . . @hnharris #fuckdell #qwoc #qpoc #butch #butchisnotadirtyword https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ElSsWBT9b/?igshid=ob0rkco0tvic -- source link
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