Two poems about the ways I'm tokenized and asked to respond as a technical POC in the industry.

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

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.

Bootcamps are a micro example of how the tech industry is built on the emotional labor of the same groups who are marginalized within it.

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

Crowdsourcing and microtransactions are two halves of the same coin: they both mark new stages in the continuing devaluation of labour.

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.

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.

The industries we know and love are being built on our free labor, our hunt for “experience,” and our naivety about our worth.

The job search in tech equals an unpaid full-time job.