Lightning talk from Paul Verbeek-Mast
summary
A personal career-and-identity arc that ties front-end work to community building and self-discovery: becomes a front-end developer, helps organise conferences and meetups, leaves a job — explicitly quit over a code of conduct breach — and discovers queer culture, fashion and gender fluidity, eventually identifying as non-binary / gender fluid. Onstage experiments (a skirt and heels) provoke unexpectedly strong emotional responses, and the concrete outcome is greater confidence, new networks, and a changed professional path.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Personal journey
- 3:00Finding support
- 5:04Tech conferences discovery
- 7:36Inspiration from allies
- 10:08Questioning identity
- 12:16Coming out
- 12:57Empowerment message
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