Why I won’t be attending Systems We Love
Systems We Love is a one day event in San Francisco to talk excitedly about systems computing. When I first heard about it, I was thrilled! I love systems so much that I moved from New Mexico to the...
View ArticleThe Al Capone theory of sexual harassment
This post was co-authored by Valerie Aurora and Leigh Honeywell and cross-posted on both of our blogs. It was also republished on Quartz. We're thrilled with the recent trend towards sexual harassment...
View ArticleWhat white supremacists don’t want you to know: the Paradox of Tolerance
White supremacists are really, really hoping that you don't keep reading this article. They don't want you to learn about the Paradox of Tolerance, because then they'd lose a powerful weapon in their...
View ArticleGetting free of toxic tech culture
This post was co-authored by Valerie Aurora and Susan Wu, and cross-posted on both our blogs. Marginalized people leave tech jobs in droves, yet we rarely write or talk publicly about the emotional and...
View ArticleAdvice for women in tech who are tired of talking about women in tech
To be a woman in tech is to be asked to talk about being a woman in tech, regardless of the desires or knowledge of the individual, unique woman in tech in question (see The Unicorn Law). This is a...
View ArticleCross-post: Alcohol and Inclusivity: Planning Tech Events with Non-Alcoholic...
This article is by Kara Sowles, republished with permission. It originally appeared on Model View Culture in 2014. In the tech industry, alcohol is currency. It’s used to grow event attendance, to...
View ArticleYesterday’s joke protest sign just became today’s reality
Tomorrow I'm going to a protest against the forcible separation of immigrant children from their families. When I started thinking about what sign to make, I remembered my sign for the first Women's...
View ArticleDouble Union is dead, long live Double Union!
Updated on April 17, 2019. After several helpful conversations, I have decided to that I am no longer willing to host the original content of this post (but you can still read an archive of it here). I...
View ArticleClarification of Double Union post
Last week, several people interpreted my blog post explaining why I left Double Union as supporting some specific transphobic ideas. I strongly oppose those transphobic ideas, and I am particularly...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn’t trust people who support sexual predators
[CW: mention of child sexual abuse] Should you trust people who support sexual predators? My answer is no. Here's why: Anyone who is ethically flexible enough to justify knowingly supporting a sexual...
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