Seven principles that past movements have taught me on sustaining change today, drawing especially from the civil rights movement.

We have reduced the notion of health to a set of standards that tend to be binary, arbitrary, or both.

Though adults are free to opt in and out of advertising services and control the collection and use of their personal data, children have no such power.

For every SF utopia, there is an equal and opposite dystopia.

If you’re someone who identifies strongly with the techie stereotype, then all of these myths about the tech industry and its predictable culture make it sound like a promised land that was built just for you.

New programming language communities are “graded” on how cutting-edge they are: our pattern-matching capabilities associate white men with the cutting edge, especially if they’re talking about monads.

Legitimacy as a programmer universally requires a stamp of approval from institutions with power and privilege over marginalized groups.

Punishing and irrelevant interview processes seek to produce disciplined high-tech employees, jumping through arbitrary hoops at the whims of employers.

We are conditioned to reason about economic vulnerability in terms of individual merit, instead of as systemic failure.

As women of colour, online spaces and social networks have enabled us to produce and control our own stories, build networks and communities and find our scattered tribes.