"Opportunities for queer representation are improving, but there are certainly still gaps that need to be filled."

I still can’t see myself in role models or dream jobs.

Why is it that so many of us in underrepresented groups fail to create connections with one another, when we are just a few feet away from each other?

As our initial community survey shows, burnout in the diversity in tech movement represents a state of crisis.

The kids are screaming, and I show it in my videos while I’m recording. Who has time to reshoot? This is life.

Why in the fuck would you stand with billionaires, corrupt power centers, and technology dynasties... over the very people that you work alongside?

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.

Organizations run by primarily white, cis, straight founders train the majority of their focus on alleviating alienation for white cis women in cis male-centric spaces, but do little to dig deeper into other marginalized identities and access needs.

One must consider if this pressure is put on creators specifically to see them fail.

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.