Shanley Kane
@shanleyShanley Kane is founder and CEO of Model View Culture. She is a cultural critic, organizer, writer and feminist.
Pieces
When Movements Backfire: Violence Against Women and Online Harassment
The anti-online harassment movement is already replicating many of the shortcomings, failures, erroneous assumptions and faulty strategies of the larger violence against women movement.
Tech Workers: Please Stop Defending Tech Companies
Why in the fuck would you stand with billionaires, corrupt power centers, and technology dynasties... over the very people that you work alongside?
Women in Tech and The Awareness Problem
We never interrogate exactly what we have become aware of, or what it’s all been for.
Diversity and Companies-As-Systems
Diversity in tech is not only about ending technology empires that employ almost all white men, but about ending the ecosystems around tech companies that benefit primarily white males through a constellation of seemingly “secondary” effects in a far vaster net.
“Here’s To The Crazy Ones”: Stigma Against Mental Illness in Tech
It seems to have occurred to no one that if we could stop punishing people for being mentally ill, and for speaking up about it, we could actually get the "conversation" we claim to want.
What Your Open Source Culture Really Says, Part One
Just send a pull request!!
A New, Open Source Funding Platform With Diversity At The Core
Building a welcoming and sustainable funding community.
“Internet Famous”: Visibility As Violence On Social Media
How the fuck does your “meritocracy” explain this?
HR Antipatterns at Startups
The toxic devaluation of HR at tech companies.
Shit Men Say to Women Founders
(Based on a true story.)
Five Good Things Happening in Venture Capital
VC is paying attention, successful organizations, new tech centers, woman-led VC and more.
The Startup Mythologies Trifecta
They work together in concert, and in practice, function to exclude and marginalize minorities in tech.
Lean Against: Building an Alternative to Lean In Within Tech
The ultimate message of Lean In ideology is transparent in the name itself: Stay in the machine. Work for the machine. Appease the machine.
