LGBTQ+ people are not going back

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-12-03

I am fundamentally done with defending my right to exist and thrive to people who speak and argue in bad faith. No, what I want to ask is the following: Dear fascists, how exactly do you think you're going to win this fight?

Practical tools for defending trans people

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-11-24

To that end, I've written this article, which contains things you can do to protect trans people in a hostile environment. I've not written a great deal about basic allyship stuff about pronouns and stuff: this has been talked to death and honestly, it's of questionable value. What I've discussed here is largely practical interventions that you can make to keep trans people surviving and thriving as much as possible when the regime is dead-set on preventing this from happening...

The Scrumlord regime

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-11-18

As much as this regime is a fascist one, it's *also* an extension of modern corporate management to the state: all fascist regimes are. 1930s Germany was, in many ways, a reflection of 1930s corporate culture, and an awful lot has been written about how corporatist ideologies are one of the major drivers of fascism...

What this election means for trans people outside the USA

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-11-12

An article discussing how the US election has impacted trans people internationally

The mirror of fascism in big tech

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-11-11

My first set of post-election reflections

Commentaries on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-11-04

My notes from reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Carelessness

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-10-30

A meditation of the extent of carelessness in our world and our lives

Matt Mullenweg and entrepreneurial hubris

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-10-20

About the tendency to hubris in every start-up founder

The cult of infallibility

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-10-14

On the inevitability of humans screwing up, and what we can do about that

Technical women and women-in-tech

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-10-07

About women-in-tech, and how that category differs from women who do technical things

Matt Mullenweg and the Wordpress debacle - we told you so, you fucking fools!

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-09-30

Iris intervenes in the Matt Mullenweg WordPress discussion using very polite language

Addicted to bullshit

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-09-28

A somewhat long and rambling post about our consistent compulsion to say and believe bullshit

Talking shit

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-09-11

A brief dive into the vulnerabilities of thought that bullshit exploits

Who has permission to know things?

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-09-03

Wherein I delve a bit more into the details of epistemic injustice

Your workplace is fascist

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-08-27

Wherein Iris elucidates the similarities between fascist regimes and the modern workplace

The climate cost of Snowflake

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-08-25

Wherein Iris does some Fermi calculations about just how much carbon Snowflake is pumping into the atmosphere

The violence of isolation

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-08-16

Wherein Iris writes about how isolated competent professionals end up in their roles

What it's like

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-08-13

Wherein Iris has a breakdown and republishes a blog post she wrote last year

Anatomy of a trans-friendly interview process

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-08-06

Wherein Iris documents an interview process that actually does things pretty well

DEI is about original sin

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-08-01

Wherein we discuss the remarkable similarities between modern DEI practice and the doctrine of original sin

Change your culture

Author: Iris Meredith

Published: 2024-07-29

On why workplace cultures that exclude trans people are shitty ones