While you’re exploring virtual reality, Facebook is exploring you.

What if we were able to harness technology independent of military and carceral dictation of the movement? How can we think about technologies in ways that would be helpful to women, not used as violence against us?

Online and off, the community continues to struggle with implementing tools that protect its newest members.

We still see male-dominated lineup after male-dominated lineup, at clubs and festivals predominantly run by male bookers and promoters.

I spoke to the founders and editors of Femsplain, CirclePlus.co, Black Girl Nerds, Thurst and Autostraddle to find out what it takes to create safe spaces online.

Simply telling people to use the ignore function is not going to curtail decades-long problems in video games communities.