Results for: representation
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Failbetter Wants You To Succeed with Fundbetter
Failbetter’s Fundbetter is looking for narrative games from LGBTQIA creators, and they’re looking to help pay for their production.
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FlirtyQWERTY is the Inclusive, Sexy Emoji App You’ve Been Waiting For
I did a quick interview with the founder of FlirtyQWERTY, a free and feminist emoji app, about desegregating tech, bringing people together, and flipping people off.
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A Few Things You Should Know About Coding Boot Camps
If you’re thinking about making a career shift or adding new skill sets to your resume, then here are some factors to consider during your search for a boot camp and upcoming application prep.
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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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Emojli Is Here, Probably We Should All Download It
I received a text from my fiancée with just the word “EMOJLI.” The caps were hers, not mine. But they do reflect how I felt. Maybe the caps are also mine, then. Maybe they are also everyone’s.
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Where Are the Superheroines of STEM on the Silver Screen? A Wishlist of Amazing Women
Despite Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking getting top billing and the prominent role and smarts of Joan Clarke (played by Kiera Knightly), these STEM movies are dude heavy. As are STEM fields.
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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. “
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Bout of Nostalgia: Chrono Trigger Makes Us All Heroes
“Male, female, what’s the difference? Power is beautiful and I have the power.”
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Literally Queer Your Tech With The Lesbians Who Tech Summit
This is the first ever summit for queer women in tech. It’s from February 27th-March 2nd in San Francisco. And! There’s a discount code for Autostraddle readers.
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Queer Your Tech: Why I’m Addicted to Fallen London!
Fallen London! is a text based game that centers around a protagonist (you) who winds up in Neath, which is basically London except one mile under the earth’s surface, in a world where death is semi-permanent, devils are accessible and corpses sometimes have tea with you.
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Queer Your Maps: Google Map Maker Launches In the UK, Maps Bletchley Park
I like the idea of user-generated cartography because it’s giving us, the people on the ground, a greater hand in the accurate representation of our environment.