As Lesbians Who Tech & Allies’ exclusive hiring partner, SquadJobs is the best way to get your jobs in front of their community of 100,000 LGBTQ women, trans and non-binary Techies as well as SquadJobs’s own pool of diverse technical talent.
At times, Lesbians Who Tech & Allies may utilize public chat for our attendees when holding virtual events. It is expected that all individuals continue to interact in a manner in which promotes a safe, respectful, and collaborative environment for all attendees. Public and private chat participants must refrain from any behavior that may compromise the safe and welcoming environment Lesbians Who Tech & Allies works diligently to create. If any attendee reports being made feel unsafe because of another attendees’ actions, we will mute the later attendee involved. This means they will not be able to participate in this feature or networking.
Lesbians Who Tech & Allies may occasionally hold virtual networking events during summit. We expect all participants in our networking events to continue behaving in a respectful, welcoming, and considerate manner. Participants who display unacceptable behavior will not be tolerated and will be muted or blocked from participating in any future virtual events.
*We also reserve the right to mute or remove any attendee at any time for behavior that makes any other attendee feel unsafe*
Lesbians Who Tech & Allies will not tolerate any form of unacceptable behavior in our virtual summits. Users who display inappropriate or unacceptable behavior will be promptly removed from the event and blocked from participating in future virtual summits. We reserve the right to take the necessary actions to ensure the safety and security of all participants at any time.
Lesbians Who Tech & Allies has partnered with the Hopin platform to provide a venue for our virtual summits. Hopin is designed for making meaningful connections, so we encourage attendees to use the built-in chat and networking feature whenever possible. We ask that attendees do not share external groups (e.g. Slack, Facebook) for connecting during Summit, and instead utilize the Hopin features already provided. If you have ideas on connecting post-Summit, please email us at squad@lesbianswhotech.org.
The SQUAD Leadership Program is designed to connect each participant with highly curated peer matches, in addition to hosting an in-person forum during the San Francisco Summit in October. We ask that members do not share or join external groups (e.g. Slack, Facebook) for connecting during the SQUAD Leadership Program. Communication, especially regarding peer matching and professional growth, should be funneled through the official channels provided by Lesbians Who Tech & Allies. This is in place to preserve the integrity of the individualized journey this is curated for each participant and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of all our members.
If you have ideas on ways to communicate after the program, please email us at levelup@lesbianswhotech.org.
There are many opportunities for recruiting during the Lesbians Who Tech & Allies’ virtual summits. It’s important to us that companies looking to hire attendees at Summit are also investing in our community. Because of this, only our sponsor companies at certain partnership levels will be permitted to openly recruit talent in our group chat during Summit. We want to be respectful of the companies that are investing heavily in our community to hire great talent as we would not exist without this support. If this is violated the chat will be deleted by our team and we will alert the posting party of the violation. If a second offense occurs, the attendee will be muted and unable to engage in any chat feature during Summit.
The experiences of LGBTQ women and gender nonconforming technologists are at the center of Lesbians Who Tech activities and events. Our goal is to elevate the visibility and leadership of our community in an industry where historically we have been underrepresented or invisible. Our community is multi-generational, multi-geographic, multi-racial, gender-diverse, politically dynamic, explicitly outward-directed, and global. The language we use (including the words “lesbian” and “queer”) reflect our strategic choice to be accessible to many different groups. We deliberately avoid acronyms and jargon.
This community welcomes and challenges allies. We believe our work is more effective when we collaborate with allies. You do not have to identify as LGBTQ, a woman, or gender non-conforming to belong in this community. Recognizing privilege is important to creating a safe and welcoming environment. We ask that all attendees reflect on their social positions re: class, language, body, legal status, etc., and be an ally to people more marginalized than yourself.
Allyship is about actively reframing knowledge and actively changing power dynamics. Please engage these practices:
Lesbians Who Tech exists to promote the visibility and leadership of technologists in our community. Our work is out, proud, and public. We instigate leadership and visibility. Our closet door is open.
Internally, we use demographic data about our community to optimize the diversity of our programming and community and to tag people as experts in certain identities. Externally, we share demographic data from career fairs and other recruiting events with talent partners. Publicly, we share demographic information from speaker bios, already-public profiles and blogs, recorded talks, and information shared for the purpose of public communication.
If you prefer not to disclose any of your identities, check the “Other” box and type the word “Undisclosed”.
It is our mission to promote the visibility and leadership of queer women and gender-nonconforming people (and our allies) in tech. We record photography and video and share these images online to achieve our purpose as an organization.
If you do not want to be photographed, please excuse yourself from posed group photos and avoid the situations our photographers are recording: stages, microphones, tech demos, and audience Q&A. If you do not want to be photographed at networking events, approach photographers directly to communicate that you do not want to be photographed or recorded. We aim to respect your privacy while also representing our community, promoting our people, and showcasing the work that we do.
Lesbians Who Tech is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, skill set, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, citizenship status, colonial experience, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of staff, presenters, and participants. We set a high bar for cross-cultural understanding and welcome everyone to learn from interpersonal accidents as we cultivate an understanding of one another’s experiences.
Harassment includes but is not limited to: dismissive or demeaning verbal, written, or pictorial communication; exhibition of graphic sexual images; deliberate intimidation; stalking; following; “outing” someone (disclosing personal information) without their consent; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact; persistent misgendering after a pronoun preference is communicated; gender binarism; biological essentialism; unwelcome sexual exhibition or attention; unwarranted exclusion; and patronizing language or action.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from Lesbians Who Tech events and network activities.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a Lesbians Who Tech organizer immediately: squad@lesbianswhotech.org. Organizers will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event.
If you cannot reach an organizer and/or it is an emergency, please call 911 and/or remove yourself from the situation.
You can also contact Lesbians Who Tech about harassment at squad@lesbianswhotech.org and feel free to use the communication template below. Lesbians Who Tech staff acknowledge that we are not always in a position to evaluate a given situation due to the number of events and the fact that our team is not always present. However, we are hopeful that by providing these guidelines we are establishing a community that jointly adheres to these values and can provide an environment that is welcoming to all.
### Communication Template for Anti-Harassment Reporting ###
SUBJECT: Harassment alert at {{EVENT NAME}}
I am writing because of harassment at a Lesbians Who Tech event, {{NAME, PLACE, DATE OF EVENT}}.
You can reach me at {{CONTACT INFO}}. Thank you.Email us at squad@lesbianswhotech.org to help us make our community stronger and this Code of Conduct even better.
As Lesbians Who Tech & Allies’ exclusive hiring partner, SquadJobs is the best way to get your jobs in front of their community of 100,000 LGBTQ women, trans and non-binary Techies as well as SquadJobs’s own pool of diverse technical talent.