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Mental Illness and Disability

Mental Illness In The Workplace: Are You Being Served?

by Davida Small on August 11th, 2014
Support staff are often expected to respect the states of our more privileged and powerful co-workers, yet our own frailties, states of depression, or anxiety are seen as not deserving of care and accommodation.
'Primary' and 'Replica' aren't especially bad choices, but they're also wrong. The correct terms are `master` and `slave`. They've been used in databases, hardware setups, server setups and god knows what else for god knows how long.
Social Media

The Brogrammer’s Guide to Derailing

by nina de jesus on June 30th, 2014
Soon enough, you'll have defeated all those misguided Social Justice Warriors, for the good of mankind (where mankind = brogrammers)!
Prints of multiple hashtag symbols on a concrete street.
Social Media

#TwitterPanic

by Dorothy Kim on June 30th, 2014
Feminist Killjoys, #TwitterPanic, And AAPI Feminist Digital Disruption
A 4chan comment: 'Good. If you have been following the Twitter, you'll see that a witch hunt is now underway. They recognized that most /pol/ accounts were black bitches. So now any Twitter accounts that aren't college educated white girls are outed as being fake. It's the perfect response to #solidarityisforwhitewomen.'
Social Media

“Raving Amazons”: Antiblackness and Misogynoir in Social Media

by I’Nasah Crockett on June 30th, 2014
I can’t help but see historical parallels in the multiple forms of antiblack backlash Black women have received on social media over the past few years.
Screenshot of The Save Wįyąbi Mapping Project webpage. The map shows most of Canada and the United States. The map illustrates the number of unsolved missing and solved and unsolved murders of Indigenous women with glowing, numbered red circles transposed on the map. The numbers shown in this view total nearly 1000, with high concentrations in the southwest corner of Canada (317), and the upper Midwest US and bordering area of Canada (191).
Social Media

No IVAWA

by Lauren Chief Elk-Young Bear on June 30th, 2014
Often absent from the mainstream discussion of global and domestic violence against women is the recognition of the state as a perpetrator.
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Management

The Newest Frontier

by Lesli-Ann Lewis on June 9th, 2014
Tech, the latest bastion of structural and economic White supremacy.
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Management

It’s Not You, It’s The System

by Janani Balasubramanian on June 9th, 2014
Design and Technology for Social Good
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Queer

It is Bigger Than Microaggressions

by Kortney Ziegler on May 19th, 2014
Moving through tech as a black trans man.
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Abuse

Making it Past the Lobby of the Meritocracy

by Anonymous Author on April 28th, 2014
What does it mean to have success socializing at hot-ticket events if you can't get past the front door of them?
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Abuse

Why I Quit My Job at a Prestigious Public Media Company

by Anonymous Author on April 28th, 2014
“Go to HR, deal with that asshole head on, but whatever you do, do not lose your shit. You can’t become ‘angry black woman.’”

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