This is a feminist issue considering hackathon practices prevent the growth of a diverse, critical tech sphere.

Why is it that so many of us in underrepresented groups fail to create connections with one another, when we are just a few feet away from each other?

Attempts to get -- and keep -- more women in tech put the onus solely on women themselves… at tremendous time and cost.

We need more education about what OCD is, and what it is not: a punchline.

As the majority of marginalized developers risk financial stability to attend industry events, our primary goal, too, goes ignored: building the resources and capital to finance our work.

There is not one single thing that makes it a good place for people with eating disorders to exist or recover.

"There’s always a lot of things when it comes to Black people in America, where it can make a young person feel like, why even try? It can create so many mental barriers for a young person. So if I can do my part in trying to break those down before they even build up, I’m gonna do that."

Although we can rightly celebrate the progress that we have made thus far, we must also recognize just how far we still have to go in making this phase in our cultural evolution a success.

In the current discussion on diversity and STEM, as with so many diversity initiatives, disability is usually excluded or thought of purely in terms of accessibility or accommodations.

The system won’t work if there are no developers. It also won’t work if we fire the sales team or get rid of the marketing staff or can the designers. Tech is an ecosystem, and it’s much healthier when we are working cohesively within that system.