Lesbians Who Tech & Allies

Lesbians Who Tech & Allies ⚡️Our All Things Tech, Business & Culture Summit in New York, Oct 7th-9th🗽 Register now!

Our mission is to reach pay equity and representation at every level, for women, women of color, and nonbinary leaders. We work to ensure these leaders have the skills and support they need to achieve success.

Read the room. Then read the receipts. Since January 2025, employers have been making quiet calls about DEI. Some held t...
05/27/2026

Read the room. Then read the receipts.

Since January 2025, employers have been making quiet calls about DEI. Some held the line. Some trimmed. Most said nothing and hoped you’d stop checking.

So check.

The careers page. The annual report. The ERG budget. The diversity dashboard that used to be there.

Missing data is data. Public memory is shorter than ours.

LWT Summit 2026 is where we build with the companies that showed up and compare notes on the ones that didn’t.

🎟️ Tickets are live. Link in bio.
Oct 5–7 · Pier 17, NYC

California just became the first state to formally treat AI-driven layoffs as a labor policy issue.On May 21, Governor N...
05/27/2026

California just became the first state to formally treat AI-driven layoffs as a labor policy issue.

On May 21, Governor Newsom signed Executive Order N-6-26, one day after Meta announced 8,000 layoffs citing AI.

The order directs state agencies to study and propose updates to the WARN Act, new severance standards, expanded employment insurance, worker ownership models, and stock compensation policies.

Here’s the honest part: it’s a roadmap, not a rule. Reports are due in 180 days. No employer is obligated to do anything yet.

But the signal matters.

138,000+ tech workers laid off in the first five months of 2026. Cisco, Block, and Meta have all named AI in their announcements. When California moves on labor policy, other states follow and the companies most exposed are headquartered here.

For the people in this industry: the window to negotiate severance, document your AI exposure, and build interpretation skills (not just generation skills) is now. Before policy catches up. Before the leverage shifts.

This is exactly the conversation happening at LWT Summit 2026, policy, power, and what q***r leaders in tech do with these aspects.

Save this for the next time someone tells you AI policy is too abstract to act on.

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123 years.That’s how long until the global gender gap closes at current rates. WEF 2025 dropped the number from 134 to 1...
05/26/2026

123 years.

That’s how long until the global gender gap closes at current rates. WEF 2025 dropped the number from 134 to 123 in twelve months, proof it can move when we push.

But “current rates” still means your great-great-granddaughter might be the first to see parity. ✋

We don’t have that kind of time.

LWT Summit 2026 → October 5–7 → Pier 17, NYC
Let’s get it down to zero. 🔗 in bio

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If you’ve been quietly making yourself smaller at work, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone 🩵Half of women say...
05/26/2026

If you’ve been quietly making yourself smaller at work, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone 🩵

Half of women say DEI rollbacks have changed their career plans. They’re staying put instead of leveling up. Going in more. Working longer. Taking less PTO. Networking quietly, just in case.

That’s not weakness. That’s data.

The room is the problem. Not your read of it.

You get to move when you’re ready and you get to move somewhere that earned you. Ask the harder questions in your next interview. Look past the values page. Trust what their reaction tells you.

And when you’re ready to find your people and your next move, come find us.

✨ LWT Summit 2026
📍 Pier 17, NYC
🗓️ October 5–7
Register → link in bio

Save this. Send it to the woman in your life who needs to hear it today 💌

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The app built by a woman, for women, to make the first move, is letting AI make it instead. 🐝Let’s be honest: the swipe ...
05/25/2026

The app built by a woman, for women, to make the first move, is letting AI make it instead. 🐝

Let’s be honest: the swipe was never really the point. The point was the *rule*. Women messaging first in hetero matches was Bumble’s whole feminist thesis, a small piece of code designed to interrupt a centuries-old script. Now, with paid users down 21% and the stock cratered 90% since IPO, that rule is the first thing on the chopping block.

And here’s where it gets spicy for our community: the women-first rule never applied to q***r matches anyway. So this entire “revolution” is essentially Bumble admitting that the way *we’ve* always done it, mutual interest, no gendered scripts, just two people deciding, was the more functional model all along. 🏳️‍🌈

The question isn’t really “is AI the future of dating?” The question is: when a women-founded, women-first company pivots away from its founding feminist mechanic to chase a Wall Street rebound — is that growth, or is that the thing we warn baby founders about in every LWTSQUAD mentorship session?

Would you trust an AI named Bee to set you up? Or is the whole premise of outsourcing chemistry to an algorithm exactly the kind of techno-optimism that got us swipe fatigue in the first place?

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Hollywood spent two years fighting AI in court, on picket lines, in op-eds.At Cannes this week, the resistance officiall...
05/18/2026

Hollywood spent two years fighting AI in court, on picket lines, in op-eds.

At Cannes this week, the resistance officially cracked. 🎬

Demi Moore said the quiet part loud at the jury press conference: “AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight a battle that we will lose.”

The internet called her a sellout. But across the festival, the evidence kept stacking up:

→ Films at the Cannes market are now pitching AI use as a FEATURE. “Critterz” (animated, “human-led but AI-assisted”). Doug Liman’s “Bitcoin” with Gal Gadot and Casey Affleck. A Milton adaptation from the “Pulp Fiction” co-writer.

→ Bleecker Street’s CEO: “You probably will be able to make something that looks like a Marvel movie in your basement in a couple of years.”

→ A veteran sales agent to Variety: “A year ago, some people were using AI but they were embarrassed to admit it. This year, they aren’t even hiding it.”

The pattern isn’t just Hollywood. It’s every creative industry watching the floor shift under them in real time.

What’s interesting for those of us in tech and business: the smart play isn’t acceptance OR resistance. It’s positioning. 💡

Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademarks on his voice and likeness. The USPTO granted them in 2025. Cannes director Thierry Frémaux is calling for legislation.

The people protecting their upside are the ones who treated “AI is inevitable” as the START of the strategy, not the end of the conversation.

The fight isn’t whether AI shows up. It’s who gets to shape it. And that’s a fight worth being in — especially for the women, q***r folks, and underrepresented founders who got locked out of the last platform shift.

Save this one. The Cannes 2026 moment is going to keep getting cited.

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Keep the recommendations coming squad! Tag your favourite le***an owned brand. ***anpride
05/16/2026

Keep the recommendations coming squad!

Tag your favourite le***an owned brand.

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Look at your phone. Q***r women built it. 💙The chip. The email attachment. The hardware. The apps. The feed.Sophie Wilso...
05/13/2026

Look at your phone. Q***r women built it. 💙

The chip. The email attachment. The hardware. The apps. The feed.

Sophie Wilson. Lynn Conway. Mary Ann Horton. Caitlin Kalinowski. Ann Mei Chang. Jen Wong.

Tag someone who needs this on their feed today.

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Look at your phone. Q***r & trans women built it. 💙The chip. The email attachment. The hardware. The apps. The feed.Soph...
05/13/2026

Look at your phone. Q***r & trans women built it. 💙

The chip. The email attachment. The hardware. The apps. The feed.

Sophie Wilson. Lynn Conway. Mary Ann Horton. Caitlin Kalinowski. Ann Mei Chang. Jen Wong.

Tag someone who needs this on their feed today.

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You asked, we listened. 5 le***an-owned businesses doing the damn thing 💙Run one or love one? Tag them below, we’re keep...
05/12/2026

You asked, we listened. 5 le***an-owned businesses doing the damn thing 💙

Run one or love one? Tag them below, we’re keeping this list growing.



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