At the end of the day, there’s no way to sugarcoat this: you will encounter difficulty, you will experience discrimination and harassment both in the workplace and in the larger community. Leaning in doesn’t solve everything, and leaving isn’t always the right choice for you.

The tradition of privileging only technical skills triggers imbalance and inequality.

The rules never really change, but the potential for harm keeps escalating.

We need to question our “objective” and “technical” opinions about programming languages.

Here are some methods I've learned over the past two years to create well-attended, diverse events.

Go out into the twitters. Become more gay. More powerful!

Grappling with social media’s dual nature as both an outlet and a trigger for depression.

Despite obvious commonalities between digital game makers and critics and the tech feminist community, there doesn’t seem to be much cross-communication.

Building a welcoming and sustainable funding community.

Hero worship, “meritocracy” and the Eich crisis.