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

I exist for men’s own sexual self-exploration, a freak without my own right to privacy or freedom from public shame, a resource for their own self-discovery -- that like all things in an on-demand world, they feel entitled to access at any time.

In an online survey I conducted, two-thirds of respondents thought depictions of female tech experts were “not particularly accurate” or even “very inaccurate”.

No one heard us, no one stood up for us, no one tried to help us. Instead they tried to silence us.

"Thought leadership" involves a far vaster and more complex labor system than first appears.

"We’re hoping it can change lives as well as movement and organizing work."

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

The overwhelming focus on imposter syndrome doesn’t provide a space to process the power dynamics affecting you; you get gaslighted into thinking it’s *you* causing all the problems.

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

We never interrogate exactly what we have become aware of, or what it’s all been for.