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Great article Jen, your points are spot on and do a good job of defining practical steps that friends and allies can adopt.
To your 5th point, I always felt empowered when, after asking my dev mentors for help, they replied: "Summarize for me what you're clear on and where you need help".
Later on, one of them explained that they do that to avoid mansplaining by accident, and to focus their response specifically on where I needed help.
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Great article Jen, your points are spot on and do a good job of defining practical steps that friends and allies can adopt.
To your 5th point, I always felt empowered when, after asking my dev mentors for help, they replied: "Summarize for me what you're clear on and where you need help".
Later on, one of them explained that they do that to avoid mansplaining by accident, and to focus their response specifically on where I needed help.