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2015 Year in Review by Stephanie Morillo on December 16th, 2015
Protecting yourself online takes time, money and privilege.
A door with a handle reading "Push."
2015 Year in Review by Coraline Ada Ehmke on December 16th, 2015
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.
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2015 Year in Review by Cameron G. on December 15th, 2015
Even though consequences are necessary to address the racism in technology, we have built a culture that refuses accountability.
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2015 Year in Review by Izzy I. on December 15th, 2015
The most marginalized groups deserve as much access, resources and social capital in aid against harassment as white victims.
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2015 Year in Review by Amy Nguyen on December 14th, 2015
If we reach our numerical goals only to look in the mirror and see all the corruption that already existed, we will have failed.
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2015 Year in Review by Riley H on December 14th, 2015
Companies have made it crystal clear that they don’t actually care about the diversity they’re supposed to be working on.
Promo poster for Jessica Jones - there is an artist's rendering of Jessica with the villain peering over her shoulder.
Issue 30 by Shaadi Devereaux on November 25th, 2015
On the heels of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Jessica Jones confronts many themes of intimate partner violence.
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Issue 30 by Alice Wong on November 25th, 2015
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.
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Issue 30 by Eira A. Ekre on November 24th, 2015
Game studios are now purposefully designing bad systems and mechanics, hoping that people will be willing to pay to get past the poorly-made parts of the service: when microtransactions are the sole source of income, we start to build our entire product around that model.
Two women collaborating on a computer.
Issue 30 by Sharon Steed on November 24th, 2015
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.