This Is What An Engineer Looks Like: Selfies gegen Stereotype

Von Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
Als Isis Wenger Teil einer Werbekampagne der IT-Firma OneLogin wurde, hätte sie niemals mit einem Backlash wie diesem gerechnet. Die Firma, für die sie arbeitet, bat diverse Mitarbeiter_innen für neue Stellenangebote mit einem Statement und einem Portrait zu manifestieren, was sie an ihrem Job schätzen.

Eine Frau of Color in dieser Position war für viele engstirnige Hater im Netz anscheinend zu verrückt. So zog das Werbeplakat, auf dem Wenger posiert, einen rassistischen und sexistischen Shitstorm an. Daraufhin initierte sie auf Twitter den Hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer, um entgegen des weiß-männlichen Geek-Stereotyps Frauen und Personen of Color in der Branche sichtbar zu machen.

Die feministische Twitteria nahm diese Aktion enthusiastisch entgegen: Innerhalb weniger Stunden trendete #ILookLikeAnEngineer in San Franscisco, wo Wenger lebt. Auch auf deutsche Timelines spülte der Hashtag heute zahlreiche Selfies und Tweets. Eine Auswahl der besten Tweets gibt es hier.

Just updated my Medium post! #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/szMTCuRVu0

— Isis Anchalee (@isisAnchalee) 3. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer, the type that likes art, looking fly, and breaking stupid programmer stereotypes. pic.twitter.com/UWs9oysqjS — Kieu Dung Tran (@kieudungtran) 3. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Embeded software for medical systems. 15 years an engineer and loving every minute of life pic.twitter.com/g6Savgrtjm

— Roxanne July (@RoxanneJuly) 4. August 2015

#iLookLikeAnEngineer and like I’ve been one for 20 years pic.twitter.com/QEIOWQrLK7 — Aria Stewart (@aredridel) 3. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer who likes mesh routing, IoT stuff, standardization, and handbags that look like other things pic.twitter.com/DFA79jOhRk

— lotterleben (@Lotterleben) 4. August 2015

I’m an iOS Engineer, creator of @WeReadTooApp. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/CRF3rM2R4M — kaya (@kthomas901) 4. August 2015

I have a degree in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/YvhW8oG2lg

— Amelia Greenhall (@ameliagreenhall) 3. August 2015

#ilooklikeanengineer I’ve done Lisp, Erlang, Python, and JS and I make the npm CLI work. Never wear jeans + t-shirt. pic.twitter.com/hRIr6Lm1UC — Kat Marchán (@maybekatz) 3. August 2015

I work on International Growth at Pinterest and my hair game is ON POINT. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/GRtKbTofcM

— Tilde Ann Thurium (@annthurium) 3. August 2015

I run the npm registry. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/hfpdDRfYRp — Ceej engine (@ceejbot) 3. August 2015

I’m female, wear pink and I’m pregnant. I’m also a full stack software engineer. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/3PV9BepNYy

— Jolene Hayes (@JCHayes) 3. August 2015

i have undergrad & grad degrees in eecs from mit & have done machine learning research on asimo #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/c5OxS5wB2F — sailor mercury (@sailorhg) 3. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer The female flight controllers of STS-120. pic.twitter.com/5fqVKggn1p

— Holly (@absolutspacegrl) 4. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer on the side I co-founded @CoderDojoNYC which brings together youth + mentors for free STEM edu pic.twitter.com/AiTzWXS3pI — Rebecca Garcia (@geekgirlweb) 4. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer big data software engineer, writing code 14 years and counting pic.twitter.com/RC0R4mDYSi

— Helena Edelson (@helenaedelson) 4. August 2015

I love Android development, deleting pointless code and I love working at Twitter! #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/YW7zVvMhYE — Jan Chong (@lessachu) 4. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer or shall we say #WeLookLikeEngineers pic.twitter.com/MInXuDH9b3

— codebar (@codebar) 4. August 2015

#iLookLikeAnEngineer. 40 yr old part-time sw eng, nb trans woman, awake late for filling in aut eval questionnaires pic.twitter.com/6ausAvuYkn — projectenigma (@project1enigma) 4. August 2015

Self-taught iOS dev, got a dev degree (1st in class), spoke @ WWDC & more, co-founded @tutulab #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/qSeAuo90Lh

— Natalia Berdys (@batalia) 4. August 2015

My mom, Perl hacker, 20+ years sys analyst. Nuclear physicist. Started coding on punch cards! #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/0VhMB56ps6 — Marcos Caceres (@marcosc) 4. August 2015

We make holograms! Love this hashtag. #ILookLikeAnEngineer #HoloLens @JoanChao pic.twitter.com/QAe3oTEoKg

— Lauren Bissett (@laurenjbissett) 3. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer the kind that’s about to raise hell on some ansible scripts. And enjoys lattes ☕️ pic.twitter.com/h2lFYsiMGG — Shivani Negi (@imshivs) 3. August 2015

promoted FOSS, wrote >25 tech articles, was admin, taught girls to code & do #postgres today. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/LCDfRYVdxd

— Su-Shee (@sheeshee) 3. August 2015

I was one of the earliest engs @Pinterest; I’ve worked on infra, api, web, ads, homefeed & more #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/vn0aS58JIv — Tracy Chou (@triketora) 4. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer My name is Fiona, I’m a 1x front-end engineer at @AirbnbNerds & I like pink, sewing and bikes pic.twitter.com/XDvd7U8A9o

— Fiona Tay (@MsFionaTay) 3. August 2015

Admiral Grace Hopper will forever be an engineering superstar to all of us engineers. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/mute8G3tcC — Werner Vogels (@Werner) 4. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Kann zwar nicht coden, aber Häuser entwerfen & dafür sorgen, dass sie richtig gebaut werden. pic.twitter.com/Seqf730uTO

— DamnedSnob (@DamnedSnob) 4. August 2015

#ILookLikeAnEngineer because I am one. (In support of @isisAnchalee and diversity in tech: https://t.co/WkWlMd4fcL) pic.twitter.com/L3CgsVdWwE — Michelle Glauser (@MichelleGlauser) 3. August 2015