Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone:

☮ As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level.

☮ Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with the issues being discussed, is welcome to post. If you identify as cis-male, we ask that you please set your participation to “lurk” mode, unless otherwise explicitly invited to participate further (i.e. if we did an AMA kind of thread). I’m sure there’s plenty to be gleaned just by reading!

☮ Please do your best to be mindful of others’ experiences when commenting or posing questions for the group. The female identity is Legion and contains multitudes, and not everyone who has experience with being treated as female by society identifies as female. Furthermore, racial and ethnic identities, sexual orientation, and many other factors can color how one experiences their gender identity on a day-to-day basis. 

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This week’s suggested topic: Micro Aggressions

Certainly not limited to sexism, micro aggressions are the little things that by themselves are minor but over a longer period of time wear you down. One man talking over you in a meeting is a jerk, but men talking over you in every meeting is a problem. It’s an issue with no simple solutions, also. So let’s talk about micro aggressions and how we deal with them (or don’t) in our day to day lives.