{"id":6176,"date":"2017-06-01T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsincerity.wpengine.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:42:52","slug":"silicon-valley-is-genderfluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/silicon-valley-is-genderfluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Is Genderfluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyan is an entrepreneur who sees her career as a way to pave new opportunities for the formerly invisible. She\u2019s a freakin\u2019 legend in the tech world, known for her prescient investments in a lotta today\u2019s hot shots, like Uber and SpaceX. Now she\u2019s an investor for <a href=\"http:\/\/foundersfund.com\/\">Founders Fund<\/a>, a big SF-based investing company. She&#8217;s a smart cookie, and a hot-shot to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Cyan is also <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_fluidity\">sexually fluid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen I look in the mirror, I don\u2019t see a woman. I don\u2019t see a man. I see myself. I see a genderless being,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 610px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BL-NPuphD2v\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I&#8217;m on a boat!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Cyan Banister (@cyantist) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-25T04:10:14+00:00\">Oct 24, 2016 at 9:10pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We say &#8216;she&#8217;, but we could also say &#8216;he&#8217;, or &#8216;they&#8217;, or anything really. That\u2019s because Cyan feels that gender is something we should be allowed to experiment with.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cPeople should feel free to play around with things with me. It\u2019s delightful. I absolutely thoroughly enjoy being called just about anything when it comes to pronouns.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She kept her sexual ambiguity under wraps for a long time, but now she is transparent about it, even in the workplace. Especially in the workplace, in fact. Because, being an entrepreneur, the future has so much potential, and Cyan believes it\u2019s the perfect breeding ground to promote ideas of inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that entrepreneurs out there start thinking about this and I want to see a whole new wave of stores and opportunities and experiences that celebrate diversity in that way. I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If this piece made you feel good, we think you might like our article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/a-judge-that-had-qualms-with-the-law-phillis-frye\/\">first transgender judge in Texas<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyan is an entrepreneur who sees her career as a way to pave new opportunities for the formerly invisible. She\u2019s a freakin\u2019 legend in the tech world, known for her prescient investments in a lotta today\u2019s hot shots, like Uber and SpaceX. Now she\u2019s an investor for Founders Fund, a big SF-based investing company. 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