"...you see it within the first two years in the tech world that you’re just being consumed as a pillar of knowledge instead of a pillar of greatness."

Handling of online abuse often leads to *further* oppression of marginalized voices.

Attempts to get -- and keep -- more women in tech put the onus solely on women themselves… at tremendous time and cost.

The high visibility of indie success stories creates the illusion that commercial success is accessible and achievable by all, disregarding the challenges most indie developers face.

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

Protecting yourself online takes time, money and privilege.

Despite our mythologies of open source as a flat, accessible, democratic model for software development, the way we lead our open source groups consistently proves otherwise.

For every SF utopia, there is an equal and opposite dystopia.