A Change Is Coming

Software, culture, social computing, diversity, and more

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Culture

Social Computing

Diversity

Diversity-friendly software

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!
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Grassroots organizers: What are your needs? What works well for you?

Questions for the OSBridge session

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.
Dreamwidth, Thurst, Heartmob, Quirell, Aeriespaces, Prounoun Island, TapestryMaker

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.

Diversity at SXSW 2017

Lots of interesting sessions!

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?
Emma Willard's Temple of Time

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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If you enjoyed Tech Inclusion, you might also like …

A short list of other conferences

“Diversity-friendly Software” at SXSW!

Shireen Mitchell and I will be presenting at SXSW!
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Welcome!

Change is performative.

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  • Intersectionality: definitions, videos, and links
  • Intersectional Inclusion: Perspectives from the Resistance Manual

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