Last Thursday, Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law a “religious freedom” bill, which has been defended by its supporters as a necessary protection for people with strong religious beliefs, but is, in practice, a license for people to legally discriminate against anyone they don’t like. Despite supporters’ contention that the bill is meant Read More

Ok, actually no bears, but: Are you a subscriber to our 2015 Quarterly editions? Some bad news: The independent, Oakland-based print shop we work with, 1984 Printing, suffered severe fire damages, loss of property and equipment in a recent fire. We are working with 1984 to help raise recovery funds now, but the first Quarterly Read More

News of three major discrimination lawsuits in the tech sector has brought international attention to gender and race inequality in Silicon Valley: the ongoing Ellen Pao vs Kleiner Perkins trial, the recently announced lawsuit against Facebook filed by former employee Chia Hong, and a new lawsuit against Twitter, focused specifically on discrimination in its technical Read More

On March 8 2015, Linux instituted a “Code of Conflict,” outlining its expectations for community conduct around the code review process. The Code was presumably developed in response to years of criticism that the open source project’s culture is exclusionary and abusive. While on the surface the “Code of Conflict” looks like a positive step Read More

There are lots of things wrong with the gaming industry right now. Many of them are clear cut, such as: do not send death threats to women in your industry for pointing out misogyny, even in jest. Some issues of misogyny are not so clear-cut, especially when they involve other women. Specifically, when you get Read More

Photo CC-BY Fortune Live Media. We haven’t met, but our firm is asked about you in almost every interview we do about diversity in tech. When asked how you have risen through the ranks of tech and the rest of us haven’t, our answer is usually “Yes, a few women have succeeded, but holding them up Read More

Editor’s note: Save Wiyabi is raising funds so they can present at SXSW. Please donate and support here.  This year at South by Southwest Interactive there will be a panel on Monday, March 16th titled “Technicians of the Sacred” which will feature Indigenous people from around the world, presenting on the ways we’ve fused modern Read More

We sat down with Morgen Bromell, founder of Thurst, to discuss the app, the exciting crowdfunding campaign for it, and the state of hookup apps in general.   MVC: Tell us a bit about yourself and how Thurst came to be. I’m a 22-year-old queer black woman maker of things, and I’m the CEO and Read More