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Indie.vc’s v3: Did someone mention diversity?

  When Indie.vc started three years ago, it saw two or three applications a week, mostly from venture capital rejects. Now it gets as many as 10 applications a week, mostly from companies that could raise venture capital but don’t want to, said Bryce Roberts, the firm’s founder. -- Erin Griffith in More Start-Ups Have…
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7 Organizations to Support on #GivingTuesday

Center for Media Justice, Gender Justice League, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and more

Mobilizing to help fight voter suppression

Here's how you can help
To Save Tech, #ListentoBlackWomen

To Save Tech, #ListentoBlackWomen

Please vote for our SXSW panel!
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Torn Apart / Separados: immigrant detention after “zero tolerance”

Please consider getting involved.
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Algorithmic Glass Ceilings and Gendered Echo Chambers: “Bias Amplification” in Social Networks

Today's social networks magnify societal biases.
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Sex, pleasure, and diversity-friendly software: the article the ACM wouldn’t publish

Oh well, maybe next time.
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Listen to Black Women!

It's really not that hard.
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Happy New Year!

2017 was a challenging year - although some good things did happen. Here's to a more positive 2018!
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Intersectionality: definitions, videos, and links

From Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, and more
Resistance Manual - A Project by Stay Woke

Intersectional Inclusion: Perspectives from the Resistance Manual

Principles embedded in structure and processes
What action will you take to build an incusive tech ecosystem?

TechInclusion Seattle and Open Source Bridge: a diversity-in-tech twofer!

Two of my favorite conferences, in back-to-back weeks!

Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks

There's a lot to learn here.

Mastodon: 14 perspectives on a breakthrough month

A big month for the decentralized open source social network!
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Grassroots activism and open source – coming soon, at Open Source Bridge!

Tentatively scheduled for June 22.
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Transforming Tech with Diversity-Friendly Software

Slides and notes from my presentation at TRANSform Tech

That’s not the headline I would have chosen …

Sometimes all you can say is WTF.
Let's create a virtuous cycle!

Diversity-friendly software at SXSW 2017

Video, slides, and references from the talk Shireen Mitchell and I did at SXSW 2017.

Five software projects worth supporting

Dreamwidth, Trans*H4CK, Hollaback, Thurst, and Tor
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Learning from Hacker News’ “Detox” Experiment

What could possibly go wrong?
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Gender HCI, Feminist HCI, and Post-Colonial Computing

Research everybody should know about.

It’s time to double down on diversity and inclusion

What kind of a future do we want to create?
What action will you take to build an incusive tech ecosystem?

Observations from TechInclusion 16

A few themes that struck me as particularly important.

How does it look through their eyes?

Women in tech on Peter Thiel, YCombinator, and Facebook

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