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

“If this place is so good for women,” I thought, “then why are there only 4 of us on a team of 12 people?”

While side projects can be a great indicator of personality, ability, and work-ethic, they should not have as much ability to make or break someone’s career.

Two ideas conspire to drive underrepresented groups from the field: the belief that innate ability and brilliance are required to succeed; and the belief that certain groups of people do not have that innate brilliance.

Even though consequences are necessary to address the racism in technology, we have built a culture that refuses accountability.

Marginalized developers suffer from an industry-wide epidemic that withholds basic income from hard-working artists for the dubious privilege of exposure. But despite popular belief, we are not in dire need of exposure, petty consolations, or a tent on the outskirts of a major industry event.

I’m advocating for you to incorporate reproductive justice as a lens through which to view your work in the tech industry.

Diversity in tech is not only about ending technology empires that employ almost all white men, but about ending the ecosystems around tech companies that benefit primarily white males through a constellation of seemingly “secondary” effects in a far vaster net.

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

While today Twitter is one of the biggest platforms for social justice organization online, it’s important that these movements can spread on emerging platforms as well.