Results for: meet up
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Cee and Eli Do Lesbians Who Tech (for the First Time in Four Years!)
In which Autostraddle tech duo Cee and Eli revisit Lesbians Who Tech and have loads of thoughts about how it’s grown and where it might grow next.
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5 Platforms For Paying Indie Creators (And Getting Paid Yourself)
Are you an independent creator of some kind? Do you love independent creators of various stripes? Well here’s how we can fund the creators that make the internet our happy place.
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Will Uber’s Very Public Sexual Harassment Debacle Actually Change Things For Women in Tech?
Are we finally moving past the storytelling phase and into doing real things to combat sexism in the technology industry, or is this Uber fiasco more of the same?
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Here’s What’s On Fire: A Tech News Roundup
Trump’s tech summit is cause for alarm in a dozen ways. Tom Wheeler steps down to give the GOP control over the FCC. And California’s governor is ready to fight the Republican party to save the earth.
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What Data Dumps Are Doing to Journalism
Got information that’s significant to the public? Here’s why you should leak to a journalist and not a faceless mob.
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Should You Share This News On Social Media?
While I do agree that our social media platforms and our technology sector need to combat the problem with every algorithm it can muster, I also believe that we as individuals can work faster (and more morally) than companies.
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Lesbians Who Tech’s San Francisco Summit Showed Me I’m Not Alone
I felt wave after wave of “I’m not the ONLY ONE. I’m not alone in this industry. There are others like me who go through the same struggles to be accepted in the workplace.”
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10 STEAMy Instagram Accounts To Tantalize Your Brain
Refresh your feed with these science and technology inspired Instagram accounts and make your brain grow three sizes!
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4 Types of Tech Toys That Are Analog, Too
I think the analog-digital tension is pretty common in our generation. I found a couple of things to ease that tension — tools and toys that satisfy the need for both physical and cyberspace.
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Here’s What Lesbians Who Tech In Berlin Was Like (It Was Awesome)
As a Software Engineer who relocated from the bay area to Zürich, Switzerland, I was super excited to see Lesbians Who Tech coming to Europe and immediately grabbed a ticket.
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This Matters: ProtonMail Offers Top-Notch Email Security
This email service, created by CERN and MIT scientists and based entirely in Switzerland, uses a combination of end-to-end encryption and Swiss law to protect its users’ information.
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Lesbians Who Tech Makes History In So Many Ways, Every Time
All the ways the Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York was history-making. And it was—it is every time.
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Interviewing Badass UX Designer Caroline Sinders On Digital Harassment
UX Designer and User Researcher Caroline Sinders talks SXSW, women in games and harassment in online spaces. Oh yeah, and Gamergate.
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Beyond Storytelling: Actionable Ways to Help with Tech’s “Woman Problem”
How many times do we have to tell these stories before they become real — before we all agree that this is a problem, and more than that, agree to do something about it?
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Tech Your Queer: Gaying Up Tinder And Other Things About Online Dating
But whhyyyy, you ask from your perch on your couch with your tofutti in hand and Netflix on your screen. I’m glad you asked.
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Lesbians Who Tech’s Second Summit Features Kara Swisher and Marc Benioff in a Dialogue About Diversity
Can one lesbian journalist and one straight, white cis man form the right kind of odd couple to keynote the queer women in technology conference’s second annual installment?
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So You Want To Choose a Website Builder
Platform is the same thing as saying “website builder” or “tool to help us put some shit on the internet.” Some of the platforms I’m going to include on here are on the cusp between social media and website builder—the line is so much blurrier now, what with Tumblr.
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Smartphone App “The Walk” and Feelings About Fitness Technology
Some fitness apps suck a potato. Here’s one that doesn’t.
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Perfect As a Pair: Apps for Work That Work Together
Some of them I’ve mentioned before, some of them I haven’t — but this installment of Queer Your Tech is about the way they work as a set. In glorious concert. These apps piggyback off each other to make mountains of work easier.
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Without a Safety Net: Talking Women-Owned Tech Startups with Section II’s Allie Esslinger
“Start-up culture is odd. There’s a lot that I struggle with — it’s not something particularly designed for anyone who isn’t already privileged. It’s hard to go into it without a safety net. There’s a certain element of romanticizing struggle that is hard to internalize as a woman, a queer woman, and/or a woman of color. “