Good morning everyone,

A super short Fem Fri today, and it's about work!

I found this to be a resonant article, maybe because its title – stop telling women they have imposter syndrome – is something I've said several times. My perspective on imposter syndrome really shifted the day I heard someone say, well, if they've hired me to do something I can't do that's much more their problem than it is mine. So you can have that for inspiration too.

The answer to overcoming imposter syndrome is not to fix individuals but to create an environment that fosters a variety of leadership styles and in which diverse racial, ethnic, and gender identities are seen as just as professional as the current model.

https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome

OH AND ALSO Autostraddle are doing a fundraiser, and there is a great series of posts on what it is to work on their site. This one about publishing and algorithms is particularly good:

We pull all of that information together and then ask ourselves what the value is of what we published. Was something read by 100,000 people? Heck yes that’s valuable! Was something read by 500 people, three of whom said they’d never seen themselves represented that way before? That is exponentially valuable beyond any measurement! That is why we do what we do!

https://www.autostraddle.com/glorious-messy-bright-and-breathing-human-beings/

Also Autostraddle is a good website so if you want to support independent queer media today I am fairly sure that you'll get that opportunity at the link above.

NOT THAT SHORT OF A FEM FRI, HEY. I have to get a train now! Hope you have a great day.

A xx.