International Women's Day is next week and we want to celebrate the heck out of it.

One of my favorite moments with The DEV Community was our 2017 International Women's Day celebration. "Nevertheless, She Coded" brought women and non-binary folks who wished to participate together to share their coding journey. This year, we'd like to continue building on #shecoded and tell more amazing stories.

Since Press For Progress is the official 2018 theme for IWD, we're excited to celebrate women and non-binary people's bragging rights in software development and gather advice for allies to take action. For those of you who participated last year, we encourage you to submit another post. And if you're new to the celebration, we welcome you to contribute to the collective.

On Thursday March 8th, we'll be boosting your stories all over dev.to and across our social channels.

Here's how you can get started RIGHT NOW:

For Allies:

• Forward this to all the women and non-binary devs in your life. Encourage them to share their story. The more women who share, the more powerful this will be.
• Read the stories!
• Leave some love (comments and hearts and unicorns and retweets!) ❤️🦄

For Women and Non-binary folks:

• Visit dev.to/new/shecoded
• You'll see a template with some suggestions. This is only meant to get your ideas going, so please feel free to write your own narrative!
• Your post can be of any length or format. I've also left some additional ideas below for inspiration.
• PUBLISH THE POST 😊

✨Additional topics for inspiration✨

• I'm an expert at...

• I'm currently hacking on...

• I'm excited about...

• I recently overcame...

• I want to brag about...

• I want to show off...

• I began/continue to code because...

• I look up to...

• I deserve credit for...

• My advice for allies to support women and non-binary folks who code is..

• My advice for other women and non-binary folks who code is...

Thank you all for being part of the community. We can't wait to read your stories.