Who Do I Write For?
I recently came across a Write Here post by the Creators Hub publication with the question: who do you write for?
This got me thinking about my audience and who my blogs are written for. After thinking for a bit, I realized there's no single answer. When I wrote my first Medium article, I wrote it as mainly a question into the void to see if other women software engineers felt like I did in the workplace. The success of this post prompted me to keep writing about my experiences as a black woman software engineer and allowed me to share those stories.
But I realized I had other stories to tell as well. One of my first non-tech-related posts was about how I felt isolated being the only person in a serious relationship in many of my friend groups (a situation that has long since changed). I also continued writing about lessons I was learning as I started my journey into adulthood and I even felt compelled to write about my experiences as a black person during the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 when I felt like some of my friends weren't being supportive.
So the answer to the question "who I write for" isn't a single answer. But here are who I believe are the main ones.
Women In Tech
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