Well this is how I found out she died. RIP.
It never matters how skilled or brilliant you are when they don’t want you to even exist.
What are you saying? She was assassinated?
I think what the previous person was referring to was stuff like how IBM fired her in 1968 once she told her bosses she wanted to transition. That’s despite the fact that she did major industry shaping work there
Got it, thanks for clarifying!
I was also thinking about how Turing was treated. Queer people were foundational to computer science, yet it’s still rife with bigots that think people like us don’t belong.
I’m sad to say I hadn’t heard of her before now, what an amazing woman (and also fuck IBM).
Reading through her wiki I found her blog (journal?) and while I’m only halfway through part 1, I’d definitely say it’s worth reading (browser tried to stop me going through saying site was unsafe, but I clicked through anyway and it seems perfectly fine to me).
