Tag Archive for "Tech"

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By Jess Fournier • 6 years ago

Torn Apart: Mapping the Geography of U.S. Immigration Policy

“You think it’s new but it isn’t.” – Dr. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández for Torn Apart

By Jess Fournier • 6 years ago

Abolitionist Tech is Helping Get People Home for the Holidays

Cash bail is immoral, racist, and classist. Two new computer apps are helping fight it.

By caroline.catlin • 7 years ago

The Rampant Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley

This past week, Uber’s Senior Vice President of engineering Amit Singhal was asked to resign after allegations of sexual harassment at his previous job at Google surfaced. His resignation comes on the heels of multiple viral accounts by women this past month detailing the rampant sexual harassment in the tech industry.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

These new vagina emojis are the best

The emoji revolution continues. We finally got racially diverse emojis. An official taco one is coming down the pike. (Thank god.) And last week, sexting start-up Flirtmoji released a set of diverse, colorful, realistically asymmetrical vagina emojis that I adore.

By Ava Kofman • 9 years ago

Feministing Reads: Elissa Shevinsky’s Lean Out

What difference would it make to our tech industry if its underrepresented members leaned in or leaned out? After reading the recent collection of essays on the topic from OR Books, I wasn’t so sure.

By Suzanna Bobadilla • 9 years ago

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Secures Billboard Funding

Last week, Isis Wenger wrote about her experience with sexism as a woman tech engineer, particularly the backlash she encountered as the literal face of her company. Thousands of engineers from underrepresented backgrounds were inspired to share their stories with #ILookLikeAnEngineer, and soon, they’ll be on a billboard near you.

By Katherine Cross • 9 years ago

“Things Have Happened in the Past Week”: On Doxing, Swatting, and 8chan

The breathless excitement with which we’ve so often been told “the internet changes everything!” has rather dulled us to truly appreciating the ways in which it actually has.

By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Experiencing online harassment? There’s a form for that.

ICYMI, women face terrible harassment online, and Twitter is no exception. GamerGate is just the most recent and most visible chapter of long-unchecked online abuse against women — particularly trans women, women of color, and women from other marginalized communities — but social media companies have been slow to step in.