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Ariane

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Ariane has been a software developer for one-and-a-half decade and has a tendency to write too much code in her spare time, with a proven track record of not finishing.
She's also an ex-OpenBSD developer and an ex-googler. These days, her day job is writing REST applications and maintaining them, although she thinks it's monitoring everything that she can put a number on. Ariane enjoys trying to fix broken applications, because no-one will notice if you break them further.

Dublin, Ireland August 6, 2016
A name that disempowers
Deadnaming, mentions of suicide

I'm a transgender woman and thus I have two names. My deadname (legal name) I use for official documents, like my contract with my employer. My real name is what I use in daily life. I was the first person to pose this problem to my employer and they acted quick to stitch everything up to display the right name.

This talk discusses when the stitches broke and my deadname leaked out and the anxiety this caused. The fallout of that incident, I notice to this day.