Lean Out
the Week of February 24, 2014
This is our third issue, Lean Out. We look at evictions and gentrification in the Bay Area and open source projects to combat them. Learn about the politics of how we define “tech workers,” meet a startup focused on community-based sign language interpreting, and explore the contradictions of Lean In ideology in a sexist society. Later, we hear about quitting STEM, discuss starting companies without venture capital, cover care-giving in the age of quantified self, analyze what’s behind the gendered language debate and consider archetypes of women CEOs. Header photo CC-BY-SA by Andrei Niemimäki, cropped.
An Open Letter on Feminism In Tech
We are tired of pretending this stuff doesn’t happen.
Emancipation of Deaf Voice
Deaf people can’t learn to hear, can you learn to provide access?
Quantify Everything: A Dream of a Feminist Data Future
Women’s lives have been subjected to quantification for decades.
CEO Archetypes: #7 Joan of Arc
If you are a woman CEO, no matter how good or bad you are, at some point they are going to burn you at the stake.
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.
I Didn’t Want To Lean Out
Why I Left, How I Left, and What It Would Have Taken to Keep Me in STEM
Finding Success Outside of Venture Capital
My Startup, Advice for Bootstrapping Your Company, And Why VC Isn’t Always The Right Choice
Gendered Language: Feature or Bug in Software Documentation?
How open source enforces male domination through shaming and hostility.
Tech Workers and the Eviction Crisis
A look at new technology projects combating Bay Area speculation, plus the role and responsibilities of tech workers within local communities.
Your Marriage Will Fail
The Hidden Realities of Leaning In
