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“I’m going to go to China,” I say, with firmness. “I found cheap tickets already, and I’ve had my visa ready for a while.”

“When are you going?”

“In a couple weeks,” I say.

“That’s really soon. You’re coming back, right?”

He looks confused and hurt. The question surprises me. I hadn’t t…

[...] Then there is live music played by an energetic group of men in their midtwenties to late thirties, including Rob on bass. But it turns out I hate the music, which is mostly screaming and loud drums. It reminds me of high school. For a moment, I feel sad for them, these grown men holding on t…

“Where are the numbers?” Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest, asks in a blog post directed at tech companies withholding employee diversity data (including the one for which I am freelancing). How many women are working in tech, in engineering roles in particular? “The actual numbers I’ve …