Companies have made it crystal clear that they don’t actually care about the diversity they’re supposed to be working on.

In the current discussion on diversity and STEM, as with so many diversity initiatives, disability is usually excluded or thought of purely in terms of accessibility or accommodations.

College campuses can, and should, do a better job of advocating for their students, staff and faculty with disabilities.

I look around and I see my friends building technologies that make life easier for abusers. I am overwhelmingly sad thinking of all the people whose lives have been made orders of magnitude more hellish carrying ever-connected computers on their bodies.

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

How did we become so invisible, irrecoverable stats in dreary headline after dreary headline? And what would be possible if we weren’t?

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

The open-mindedness that permits very young people to succeed in tech goes out the window when it comes to the other end of the age spectrum.

What message are we sending about the tech industry to people who don’t want to be developers, after all?

We love to talk about diversity and bringing marginalized women into tech. But our biases against sex work are biases against the very marginalized women we wish to include.