Podcasts by #causeascene
The Strategic Disruption of the Status Quo in Technical Organizations, Communities, and Events
Further podcasts by Kim Crayton
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Dawn Wages from 2021-02-17T09:00
Podcast Description “Decolonizing is the process of dissecting and removing colonialism. Most theories surrounding decolonization is based on decolonizing the colonized but the colonized can’t and ...
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Kurt Kemple from 2021-02-10T09:00
Podcast Description A perfect example of this is like a white woman calling the cops on Black men. It is like a fucking prime example of…and at that point maybe they do know they have privilege. Bu...
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Wesley Faulkner from 2021-02-03T09:00
Podcast Description It’s the hard conversations. Like a lot of people are still trying to find a way around not having these hard conversations, come to these real truths about how their approachin...
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Dr. Ebun Joseph from 2021-01-27T09:00
Podcast Description Black people in Ireland are like super educated. Because we just believe, okay…the only way to pull yourself, so you know, out of this is by education. So we, it’s the default w...
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Alphabet Workers Union from 2021-01-13T09:00
Podcast Description People come to the union for all sorts of reasons. You’re hearing my story here, but a union is like live body of lots of people coming for different reasons so here’s a couple ...
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Dr. Joy Cox from 2020-12-09T09:00
Podcast Description You know, it’s nothing like the doctor sitting and telling you that like you’re not sick yet, but you will be. “Oh yeah, yeah…it’s not bothering you now, but it will bother you ...
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Abeba Birhane from 2020-12-02T09:00
Podcast Description Within these social spheres, when you try, when you create algorithmic systems to predict social outcomes are you not only making a scientifically dubious claim because that’s i...
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Cathy O’Neil from 2020-11-18T14:13:22
Podcast Description My argument in my Shame book is that it’s like a sort of fortress…of denial that white people have like surrounded themselves with because they are living in cognitive dissonanc...
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Ayodele Odubela from 2020-11-11T09:00
Podcast Description It’s funny because the title of my upcoming book is called Uncovering Bias in ML and I feel like it’s…it’s not that it doesn’t go deep. I feel like that’s the first layer, right...
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Dr. Sherita Golden from 2020-11-04T09:00
Podcast Description Ya know, we all have an Esther moment. And you know, if you think about, remember the story of Esther in the Bible like she found out that there was a plot to kill…annihilate al...
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Ayani Good [Rebroadcast] from 2020-10-28T08:00
Podcast Description [I wanted to rebroadcast this episode before the 2020 U.S. Presidential election because of the racist comments from Jared Kushner “that Black Americans have to want to be succe...
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Lizz Westman from 2020-10-14T08:00
Podcast Description ‘I must have been really young cuz I remember…I have a freaky memory, like I was a creepy little white kid, umm, I was so creepy. I tried to sabotage my parents moving to the su...
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Minda Harts from 2020-10-07T08:00
Podcast Description “When I was growing up, my white friends would say: if I was around during slavery I never would have…I would have taken you and all that stuff and it’s like, okay. Well this is...
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Dr. Oni Blackstock from 2020-09-30T08:00
Podcast Description “And I really felt so emboldened by what was going on that I asked to speak to [him/former manager] again. And I said, and I spoke to him on the phone and I said: Ya know, I wan...
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Max Jordan from 2020-09-23T08:00
Podcast Description “People sometimes think that like having had like, you know having had a Black president like changes people like attitudes towards it doesn’t, so…being in med school has made i...
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Melissa Ryan from 2020-09-16T08:00
Podcast Description “I mean that’s the ultimate dream right? Like, I think if you think back to 2011-2012 when you saw these uprisings around the world that were live streamed you saw Occupy protes...
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Nicole Archambault from 2020-09-09T10:40:23
Podcast Description “I’m not actually able to visualize it in my head, so it doesn’t have an actual structure to it. A lot of this is mathematically related…ya know numbers and variables…can be ver...
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How to Survive the Robots: Professional Development 2.0: A Business Strategy from 2020-09-02T08:00
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2018 Clojure SYNC conference. Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcript...
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Hey! What About Me? How To Manage Heterogeneous Groups While Minimizing Harm from 2020-08-26T08:00
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2019 Cream City Code conference. Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcr...
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Unintended Consequences: How to Reduce Exclusionary Practices from 2020-08-19T08:00
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2018 JSConf EU conference. Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcription...
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Whiteness In Marginalized Spaces When Coalition Building Harms from 2020-08-12T08:00
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2019 Write/Speak/Code Conference Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcr...
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Jonathan Martinez from 2020-08-05T08:00
Podcast Description “Really it’s a cult. They prey on the people who don’t know, who are the weakestWho are going through the hardest time and I met a lot of people going through really, really har...
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Ahlaya Reed from 2020-07-29T08:00
Podcast Description “My mom said, ‘Be happy you have a job, if they just tell you to clean up just do it. And I was like Mom you’re missing the point: nobody else is cleaning up after someone else’...
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Shannon Byrne from 2020-07-22T08:00
Podcast Description “And it’s also one of these put up or shut up moments where you like ‘care so much about this’ but here we are in this situation where the company you’re at right now isn’t doin...
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Stop Hiring As If We’re In The Industrial Age from 2020-07-15T11:40:22
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2018 View Source Conference Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcripti...
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Not Asking Permission! Giving Notice! Redefining Capitalism Without White Supremacy from 2020-07-08T13:17:21
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this keynote presentation from the 2018 Black’s In Technology Conference. Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentatio...
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What is Community Engineering? from 2020-07-01T08:00
Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this keynote presentation from the 2017 Nodevember conference. Since technology now literately touches almost everyone and it i...
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Jonathan Metzl from 2020-06-24T08:00
Podcast Description “I think if we don’t fix the institutions people can apologize all they want, but the problem will remain. And so that’s why antiracism is important, but so is thinking about ho...
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David Golumbia from 2020-06-17T10:37:46
Podcast Description “I get to teach some students who are closer to the engineering side of things and over the years I’ve certainly taught quite a few of them. And when they talk about that they w...
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Hannah Howard from 2020-06-03T08:00
Podcast Description “It’s so obvious in the US that the big thing that has shaped the entire history of this nation is fuckin’ racism. Specifically…I don’t feel like I’m making a moral statement he...
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Nancy Hawa from 2020-05-27T08:00
Podcast Description “I feel like it enabled him to lure people who really do care about the things that he preaches on Twitter into a really toxic work environment.” Nancy is a full-stack software ...
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Adrian C. Jackson from 2020-05-20T08:00
Podcast Description Does that mean that there are certain people will be weeded out? Yes. Is that the objective? Abso-fuckin’-lutely. That’s the idea. There are certain people who honestly do not d...
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Dr. Ainissa Ramirez from 2020-05-13T13:13:35
Podcast Description “You will feel more comfortable to make decisions about Siri and Alexa and driverless cars…I wonder how AI is changing us and also feel empowered to ask questions, because right...
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Dr. Fay Cobb Payton from 2020-05-06T08:00
Podcast Description “This is really about relationships and failure to be attuned to relationships means that we’re…not using all of the levers and all of the assets we have in community to make th...
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Dr. Eleanor Seaton from 2020-04-29T08:00
Podcast Description “If you step into my classroom, that’s gonna be the help you get. You can come into my classroom it’s my space, I determine the rules, I determine what we’re gonna talk about an...
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Saber Khan from 2020-04-22T11:25
Podcast Description “I got a stat that will blow you away. At CUNY which is the City University of New York and their CS program, the majority of CS undergrads at CUNY don’t have their own computer...
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Maria Farrell from 2020-04-15T11:34:44
Podcast Description “‘And now I will tell you how to make Google slightly less bad without ever actually dismantling surveillance capitalism.’ This kind of sensible centrist nice kind of middle age...
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Andre Brock from 2020-04-08T08:00
Podcast Description “Black people are constantly lookin’ back at who they were, while constantly trying to look forward while navigating this fuckery that is white supremacy” André Brock is an asso...
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Capitalism Is NOT A Failed System from 2020-04-01T08:00
Podcast Description Capitalism has not failed, it’s only been implemented globally, rooted in white supremacy. Adam Smith, “the father” of Economics, in the 1700s, envisioned a moral economic syste...
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Dr. Chris Gilliard from 2020-03-25T08:00
Podcast Description “When your rights are being dismantled and destroyed, and your personhood isn’t respected, you shouldn’t be civil. You should cause a scene.” Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, pro...
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Erynn Brook from 2020-03-18T08:00
Podcast Description “There’s still quite a few people who think that ADHD is itself a parenting problem. And that stigma most definitely is also applied to Black people at a far greater rate than i...
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied from 2020-03-11T08:00
Podcast Description “Up until this point I had been like the model minority….And then all of a sudden THIS model minority turns around and she thinks Islam is feminist? That she’s proud of this? Th...
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Charlton D McIlwain from 2020-03-04T09:00
Podcast Description “I’ll say it again: it is the same thing and it is that thing that we simply refuse to talk about. Whether we’re talking about elections or we’re talking about technology. And t...
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Sasha Costanza-Chock from 2020-02-26T09:00
Podcast Description “We can’t talk about what’s broken with education and coding education in the bootcamp system without zooming out to look at the larger context of our educational system. Why is...
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Dr. Tiffany Jana from 2020-02-19T09:00
Podcast Description “Na-na-na-na-no Boo Boo. If you’re a good person then you need to understand exactly what your white ness means. And you need to understand what kind of harm that it has caused ...
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Keziyah Lewis from 2020-02-12T09:00
Podcast Description “People of color, people from a low-income background get into this much debt going to a school thinking, this is my way into the tech industry, this is my way out of poverty, t...
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Courtney D. Cogburn from 2020-02-05T09:00
Podcast Description “There’s a disconnect between beliefs and behavior. And there’s an investment in the symbolism of one’s beliefs and translating that as if it represents behavior when it doesn’t...
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Jordan Thompson from 2020-01-29T09:00
Podcast Description “I think many folks on the Left…don’t really understand what is a system of oppression. I think they view racism that is some sort of personal indictment on an individual’s char...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 18 from 2020-01-26T09:00
Podcast Description Survival Homework Ask yourself, what are you willing to do in the service of antiracism? Transcription 00:10 OK everyone, welcome to today’s episode of the #CauseAScene Podcast...
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Dr. Brandeis Marshall from 2020-01-22T09:00
Podcast Description “I want every US presidential candidate…to give me a list of what they are going to in order to address institutionalized racism. I want to know what regulations, I want to know...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 17 from 2020-01-19T12:32:29
Podcast Description Success Homework Page 222: “Toure and Hamilton could not have foreseen how their concepts of overt and covert racism would be used by people across the ideological board to turn...
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Nicole Sanchez from 2020-01-15T09:00
Podcast Description “When I go in and I’m working with companies, I tell them you have got to design your systems, your culture, your norms, your communication for the most marginalized person. If ...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 16 from 2020-01-12T09:00
Podcast Description Failure Activist: One who has a record of power or policy change. Homework Page 204: Identify and evaluate current policies that hold Blacks responsible for the racist ideas and...
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Ruha Benjamin from 2020-01-08T09:00
Podcast Description “When I think about the role of technical systems…the inequity becomes even more encoded, subtle and it may seem like it’s operating where race is not explicit…The designers are...
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Nandini Jammi from 2020-01-01T09:00
Podcast Description “What I’ve realized is that after three years we have made absolutely no dent on this issue at all. What’s happened instead is that these companies are relying on our free labor...
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How To Be An Antiracist – A Strategy [Rebroadcast] from 2019-12-29T09:00
Podcast Description Things to remember about engaging as a #causeascene community member: There’s no “I’m not racist.” There’s ONLY racist and antiracist. An antiracist strategy isn’t about equalit...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 15 from 2019-12-22T09:00
Podcast Description Sexuality Queer Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between race-sexualities and are substantiated by racist ideas about race-sexualities. Q...
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Aniyia L. Williams from 2019-12-18T09:00
Podcast Description “I honestly think that fairness just in terms of everybody having the same or some equal thing. I don’t think that’s realistic and I don’t think we’ll ever get there. I don’t th...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 14 from 2019-12-15T09:00
Podcast Description Gender Gender Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between race-gender and are substantiated by racist ideas about race-gender. Gender Antiraci...
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Dr. Kate Miltner from 2019-12-11T09:00
Podcast Description “A lot of these schools don’t even have instructors, right. A lot them are project-based…it’s just like, ya know, figure it out by yourself.” Dr. Kate M. Miltner is a TRAIN@Ed P...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 13 from 2019-12-08T09:00
Podcast Description Space Space Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to resource inequity between racialized spaces or the elimination of certain racialized spaces, which are ...
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Jessie Daniels from 2019-12-04T09:00
Podcast Description “I’m actually working on a book right now…I’m calling it ‘From Barbecue Beckys to Pink Pussy Hats’ – calling out white women and white feminists, because we white women have got...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 12 from 2019-12-01T09:00:07
Podcast Description Class Class Racist: One who is racializing the classes, supporting policies of racial capitalism against those race-classes, and justifying them by racist ideas about those race...
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Anonymous Bootcamp Guest 4 from 2019-11-27T09:00:45
Podcast Description “There are people who have dropped out and gotten multiple jobs, got part time jobs and gotten up to that $40K threshold just barely and the ISA kicks in. And they’re up shit’s ...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 11 from 2019-11-24T09:00:43
Podcast Description Black Powerless Defense: The illusory, concealing, disempowering, and racist idea that Black people can’t be racist because Black people don’t have power. Homework Page 142: Ho...
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Marco Rogers from 2019-11-20T09:00:03
Podcast Description “[Venture capitalists] are people who by definition have said: my only goal is to make money for myself. But what we’ve done is allowed those people and that mentality to become...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 10 from 2019-11-17T09:00:44
Podcast Description White Anti-White Racist: One who is classifying people of European descent as biologically, culturally, or behaviorally inferior or conflating the entire race or White people wi...
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Dr. Crystal Fleming from 2019-11-13T12:00:02
Podcast Description “I don’t just want that people to realize that white people are complicit in white supremacy – I want you to question what whiteness means. I want you to learn about the history...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 9 from 2019-11-10T09:00:41
Podcast Description Color Colorism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequities between Light people and Dark people, supported by racist ideas about Light and Dark people. Col...
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Amélie Lamont from 2019-11-06T09:00:23
Podcast Description “Some of them require you to talk through and to like talk about that pain and suffering and then they still don’t learn anything from it. It’s almost as if Black people having ...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 8 from 2019-11-03T09:00:59
Podcast Description Behavior Behavioral Racist: One who is making individuals responsible for the perceived behavior of racial groups and making racial groups responsible for the behavior on indivi...
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How to Be An Antiracist – A Strategy from 2019-10-27T17:20:28
Podcast Description Episode Overview Operating Perspective: There’s no “I’m not racist.” There’s ONLY racist and antiracist. An antiracist strategy isn’t about equality. It is about actually discri...
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Kate Klonick from 2019-10-23T08:00:44
Podcast Description “Everyone wanted diversity for the board, but it was really unclear as to how on Earth you have diversity over an entire globe with only 40 people on the entire board.” Kate Klo...
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Pete Holiday from 2019-10-16T08:00:17
Podcast Description “White people specifically can take rules and policies designed to protect people of color – specifically black people – and use them as weapons. I don’t remember ever being tau...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 7 from 2019-10-13T08:00:02
Podcast Description Culture Cultural Racist: One who is creating a cultural standard and imposing a cultural hierarchy among racial groups. Cultural Antiracist: One who is rejecting cultural standa...
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Gabor Javorszky from 2019-10-09T08:00:32
Podcast Description “I have this enormous privilege. It would be a shame to not use it. Then again I get the thinking around it because I was brought up with that pretty much instilled in me since ...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 6 from 2019-10-06T08:00:07
Podcast Description Body Bodily Racist: One who is perceiving certain racialized bodies as more animal-like and violent than others. Bodily Antiracist: One who is humanizing, deracializing, and ind...
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Anonymous Bootcamp Guest 3 from 2019-10-02T08:00:41
Podcast Description “In part I felt this was a safe decision because I had discovered Pursuit from my local library…I went to my own library’s coding classes and at the library’s graduation ceremon...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 5 from 2019-09-29T10:00:35
Podcast Description Ethnicity Ethnic Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between racialized groups and are substantiated by racist ideas about racialized ethnic g...
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Anonymous Bootcamp Guest 2 from 2019-09-25T08:00:47
Podcast Description “I understand that in the tech industry, there are a lot of people that do not have a computer science background and a lot of companies are promoting this, but we’re still at a...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ep. 4 from 2019-09-22T08:00:04
Podcast Description Biology Biological Racist: One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully different in their biology and that these differences create a hierarchy of value. Biol...
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Ben Halpern from 2019-09-19T02:04:14
Podcast Description “Democratizing and meritocracy and those things are not just not a step forward. They are the right idea in the most ignorant way. They are coming from the perspective of trying...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ch. 3 from 2019-09-15T08:00:29
Podcast Description Power Race: A power construct of collected or merged differences that lives socially. I want to begin this episode with a warning: Reading this book, are any other, does not mak...
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Coding Bootcamp Warning Signs from 2019-09-11T08:00:34
Podcast Description There’ve been many raising questions recently about the real value of bootcamps, their impact on students and the community at large, and this new crop of businesses using Incom...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ch. 2 from 2019-09-08T08:00:41
Podcast Description Dueling Consciousness Assimilationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral ...
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Damien Williams from 2019-09-04T08:00:02
Podcast Description “No matter what we build as human beings, we’re building it from human perspective.” Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD researcher at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, T...
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How to Be An Antiracist Ch. 1 from 2019-09-01T08:00:58
Podcast Description Welcome to the first episode of the #causeascene Podcast Book Club. The very first book we will be tackling is “How To Be An Antiracist” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. I will cover a ch...
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C J Silverio from 2019-08-28T09:00:44
Podcast Description “Twitter is an absolutely fascinating example of the political choice to say free speech is an absolute…The problem with that is, of course, they’re white men. Their default exp...
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Kojo Idrissa from 2019-08-21T09:00:18
Podcast Description “There’s a term in computer science that I’ve become fond of, the idea of a naive solution. It’s a solution that appears to be correct at first glance. But if you dig in a littl...
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DarkSkyLady from 2019-08-14T09:00:20
Podcast Description “That’s what a lot of people miss, unless you’re specifically going up to people and saying ‘I am not white, I am indigenous’ – no one is going to recognize that.” All I can thi...
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Jared Arms from 2019-07-31T08:00:40
Podcast Description “If you give ‘em your best slice of pizza and you know that’s your best slice in the box and they act like it ain’t nuthin, and they try to give it back, spit it out, whatever –...
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Tatiana Mac from 2019-07-24T08:00:18
“What if we were both carpenters instead of developers or designers and we were having these types of conversations about React versus Angular versus Vue, and it was about screw driver? Is it a fla...
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Simone Haas from 2019-07-17T08:00:53
“Where are our biases? What do we have to do to get more people of color into our team and feel safe in our team. And then maybe feeling safe enough to tell us: we are feeling harm, please help us ...
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Tech Is Not Neutral Ep. 7 from 2019-07-13T08:00:45
Today’s topic is life as an Facebook content moderators Content warning: This story contains discussion of serious mental health issues, racism, descriptions of violent acts against people and anim...
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Pariss Athena from 2019-07-10T08:00:50
“Let me tell you something, the day I started Black Tech Twitter, I had plenty of [white people] going: ‘What if there was a white tech twitter?” – I’m like THERE IS that’s literally the industry.”...
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Sara Chipps from 2019-07-03T08:00:29
“The thing that I keep coming back to is to not speak for or to make decisions or to pretend that I represent anyone that has a different experience or different affinity than I do.” Sara Chipps, i...
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Emily Gorcenski from 2019-06-26T08:00:56
“We need to be able to talk about violence against the trans community because there is an immense amount of violence against the trans people, even white trans people. We need to be able to talk a...
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Danielle Smith from 2019-06-19T08:00:45
“What we did to help get stuff done is to change the conversation from it being a legal compliance to being an equality conversation. We want to make sure that you consider the spectrum of humanity...
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Julia Silge from 2019-06-12T08:00:28
“We’re starting to address some of the underlying functionality of our community and products, like how does our site work. Were there decisions made in the early days, and so many small made decis...
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Vincent J Intondi from 2019-06-05T08:00:27
“In Detroit actually at the Women’s Strike for Peace they were having a big rally and the black women wanted to have signs that said desegregation or disintegration to combine these two issues and ...
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Tech Is Not Neutral Ep. 6 from 2019-06-02T08:00:33
Episode Resources: Tech workers organize protest against Palantir on the GitHub coding platform Silicon Valley Nationalism: Technology is distorting reality and reshaping narratives Early Libertari...
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Jayne Groll from 2019-05-29T08:00:42
“I can’t even imagine why people have resistance to a code of conduct. It’s kind of like when you’re on the airplane and the flight attendant is telling you the safety things and you travel a lot s...
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Bari A. Williams from 2019-05-22T08:00:27
“Twitter can be a cesspool sometimes. And you have people who are constantly invoking their first amendment rights. This is not the government. You do not have first amendment rights on a private p...
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Tech Is Not Neutral Ep. 4 from 2019-05-18T08:00:20
Conversation about software engineers and their ability/qualifications to building businesses Here’s the link that started it all
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John Biewen from 2019-05-15T08:00:20
“If you’re gonna enslave folks and make sure that they can’t learn to read and write…and keep them in this undignified situation, then it’s easier to look at them and think that they are inferior. ...
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Tech Is Not Neutral Ep. 3 from 2019-05-11T13:00:25
Topics Covered: Mueller Report, the Russians, Bitcoin, and Black Activists Tech and Conscientious Objectors Tech Continues to Question the Value of Diversity Google Organizers, Retaliation, and Sol...
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Troy Connor from 2019-05-08T08:00:39
“Let’s get a set a values that we all believe in and we can go from there. Because if we can’t make people feel safe I don’t want to start bringing in people who we believe are “culture fits” and e...
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Rebecca Conley from 2019-05-01T08:00:54
“Everything in tech is incremental, whether you’re building an app, you’re doing agile, you’re starting with something. You’re starting with an MVP and you’re incrementing on that. If you take that...
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Tech Is Not Neutral Ep. 2 from 2019-04-27T08:00:18
Topics Covered: Twitter Bias Facial Recognition Software Facebook Leveraging Data for Friends TSA Body Scanners What Philly tech should learn from a hate speech incident at a local meetup
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Hannah L. Drake from 2019-04-24T08:00:16
“And now some of you sit looking at me and now you feel uncomfortable. But today you have heard me. You can not unsee me. In this space I belong we belong here, in this space.” Hannah L Drake is ...
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Tech Is Not Neutral Ep. 1 from 2019-04-20T08:00:33
Topics Covered: Nancy Pelosi warns tech companies that Section 230 is ‘in jeopardy’ Section 230 Saving Capitalism Powell Memo Requiem for the American Dream Adam Smith “The Wealth of Nations”
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Kate O’Neill from 2019-04-17T08:00:03
“The larger point is that experience at-scale does change culture, because experience at-scale IS culture.” Kate O’Neill is founder and Chief Tech Humanist of KO Insights, a thought leadership and ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein from 2019-04-10T08:00:13
“The problem isn’t Jewishness or Jews. The problem is when Jews start to act like and live as and be a part of the power of whiteness. And therefore get the power to move the levers of white suprem...
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David Lo Pun from 2019-04-03T10:50:50
“Whiteness positions itself as the the light of reason. That’s the colonial idea…it see’s itself as bringing technology, bringing enlightened thought, ya know The Enlightenment to all of us. And wh...
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Alice Isabelle from 2019-03-27T08:00:08
“It’s scary. It’s terrifying. Because it’s not just in the abstract we know that cis people that seem like allies could turn on us at any moment. It’s that it actually happens on a pretty regular b...
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Tori Williams Douglass from 2019-03-20T12:24:31
“Right now we need to focus on the people who are experiencing the most harm, people who are in the most danger. And because of the social racial hierarchy of white supremacy, [white people] are us...
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Sacha Judd from 2019-03-13T08:00:11
“I feel that tech is capable of change. It’s still a relatively young sector. The young men who built this industry…tended to be people who themselves were not treated that well at high school. Ya ...
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Liz Fong-Jones from 2019-03-06T09:00:28
“We have to stand up for what’s right and we have to do that in an intersectional way. We can’t just stand up for our selves, we have to build that solidarity. We don’t have the numbers alone. If w...
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Cindy Gallop from 2019-02-27T09:00:21
“I always emphasize to people that Make Love Not Porn is not anti-porn because the issue isn’t porn. The issue is: we don’t talk about sex in the real world.” Cindy Gallop, founder & CEO, MakeLoveN...
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Rachel Barnhart from 2019-02-20T09:00:54
“At one point he said he was going to start a movement to fight real racism, because there are so many people like him who have been victims. I mean really? You’re a white man appointing yourself a...
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Ayani Good from 2019-02-13T04:00:12
“People just need to stop being afraid of repercussions when they speak up. You’re gonna get repercussions when you don’t speak up.” Ayani Good, is a retired IL attorney, high school administrator,...
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Elisabeth Epps from 2019-02-06T05:00:31
“It’s hard to change hearts and minds, but sometimes it has to happen in the reverse order. Sometimes you have to bring your people home and let the hearts and minds catch up.” Elisabeth Epps, JD, ...
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Virginia Eubanks from 2019-01-30T04:00:21
“The Poor People’s Human Economic Rights Campaign…the way they define poverty is: if at any point you have lacked access to one of your basic economic human rights.” Virginia Eubanks is an Associat...
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Kit Stubbs, Ph.D. from 2019-01-23T04:00
“what is porn anyway, which is a whole other question. They were trying to find a way to run their website and the ask: we want to make queer, ethically-produced porn. How do we do that?” Dr. Kit S...
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Valerie Phoenix & Kristen Seversky from 2019-01-16T09:00:40
Podcast Description Valerie’s Bio: “I overheard someone in [GDI] leadership say something to the effect of ‘this is what they need – they need our space’ kind of like to say like ‘to find each othe...
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Valerie Sharp & Kristen Seversky from 2019-01-16T04:00:40
“I overheard someone in [GDI] leadership say something to the effect of ‘this is what they need – they need our space’ kind of like to say like ‘to find each other’ – this is ‘what they need, black...
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Marisa Catalina Casey from 2019-01-09T04:00:18
“If we’re not going to make progress in our matriarchal organizations, then we’re just as oppressive as our patriarchal organizations.” Marisa Catalina Casey is an artist, educator and social ent...
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Tamara Temple from 2019-01-02T04:00:29
“There is this global expectation that I can walk through the world and just demand things because of who I am and the color of my skin. And that is fucking wrong.” Tamara Temple is a self-describe...
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Leah & José from 2018-12-26T04:00:31
“The way that I describe it, and this is the god’s honest truth, I’m white enough to get the job, white enough to get hired, but I’m not quite white enough to get paid.” Leah La Salla is a self-tau...
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Sharyn Holmes from 2018-12-19T04:00:07
“One of the challenges that happens in the online space, we say how we want to identify and people want to question that. As though that’s so hard to wrap someone’s head around that someone can cho...
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If you’re silent about your pain, they will kill you and say that you enjoyed it from 2018-12-12T04:00:16
“So you have these intentions, but without strategy it’s chaos. It doesn’t do anything and in many cases it harms the very people you’re trying to include.” @KimCrayton1 If you’re silent about your...
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Shanise Barona from 2018-12-05T04:00:52
“I’m thinking of all the other people that think that my presence in this community and this space in this organization is a stamp on this is also safe for you.” Shanise is a web developer and comm...
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Mel Stanfill from 2018-11-28T04:00:59
“When you are used to being dominant, equality looks like a loss.” Mel Stanfill is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Texts and Technology and Games and Interactive Media at the Uni...
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Sage Sharp from 2018-11-21T04:00:51
“I took an electronics class and there was a particular class of problems where they said: this is not the right formula to use, but we use it because it’s easy to understand. It’s like searching w...
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Juliana Gomez from 2018-11-14T04:00:13
“It happens In a lot of 3rd world developing countries that we’re doing the same work as an American engineer or a Canadian engineer and we get paid way less…For example, a lot of my friends work f...
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Amanda Johnson from 2018-11-07T04:00:19
“You need to emphasize [for white people] to listen to people of color and black women and brown women. You are not the expert, you are amplifying the expert.” Amanda Johnson is a fairly average su...
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Karen Fleshman, Esq from 2018-10-31T04:00:58
“And that’s why black women are like ‘Peace. Out. I’m Done!’ The fastest growing entrepreneurial group in America they’re like ’Y’all are crazy, like who want’s to deal with this?!?” Karen Fleshm...
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John Edward Lawson from 2018-10-24T04:00:40
“At it’s core [supremacy] means that men and whites are basically incapable. They have to have all these blacks and women propping them up. They have to have us beneath them. And they are so cynica...
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Tech’s Attack On Black Women Part 2 from 2018-10-17T04:00:47
Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with @ashermaj & @digitalsista and our discussion about the ways technology is being used to target, harass & silence Black Women on and offline. “When [we] st...
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Tech’s Attack On Black Women Part 1 from 2018-10-10T04:00:24
Some of you may be aware of the calls to #ListenToBlackWomen, #AffirmBlackWomen, #VoteLikeBlackWomen, #SupportBlackWomen, etc because we are, as I so often put it, “The moral compass of this countr...
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Greg Greenlee from 2018-10-03T04:00:44
“You’re not gonna solve diversity on your own internally, you need organizations that are on the ground floor of this. Like, I’m personally invested in what we do as an organization.” Greg Greenlee...
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Dan Hassan from 2018-09-26T04:00:47
“I’m kind of now always uncomfortable, but I’m okay…I’m not comfortable with being uncomfortable, but it’s more like I don’t resist it” Dan Hassan (he/him), ethical solarpunk hacker, white-passing ...
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Coraline Ada Ehmke from 2018-09-19T04:00:43
“You can’t tell someone who is constantly under political attack that they can’t lash out at political opponents. When that’s your life, you cannot censor someone from seeking justice.” Coraline ...
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Lindsey Dragun from 2018-09-12T04:00:50
Lindsey Dragun (drag-uh n) is a tech evangelist and former full-stack developer, who transitioned into tech after earning an MA in International Peace & Conflict Resolution. They have a passion for...
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Garrett Dimon from 2018-09-05T11:54:43
Garrett Dimon makes software, and launched his first web site in 1998. Since then, he’s worked in a variety of roles on sites and applications of all sizes. He is currently helping with Marketing a...
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Emily Kaminsky from 2018-08-29T04:00:52
Emily Kaminsky is a white-bread, mid-life, mid-career, cishet, married mom of three living in Massachusetts. She grew up in Maryland and spent time working in international development in the forme...
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Tanya DePass from 2018-08-22T04:00:46
Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. She is a lifelon...
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#causeascene Conference San Francisco from 2018-08-06T13:17:33
Bonus #causeascene Podcast @causeascenepod episode with the career coaching from @causeasceneconf San Francisco with @deadmoon, @nebrius, @dshaw, @seldo, and @TobiahZarlez
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Ruby Hamad from 2018-08-01T04:00:41
Ruby Hamad is a Lebanese- born writer and PhD candidate who was raised in Sydney, Australia. She has been writing about feminism and race- related issues for close to a decade, exploring commonalit...
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Marcus Merrell from 2018-07-25T05:00:26
Marcus is a Staff QA Engineer at RetailMeNot, inc. He has been in QA-related jobs since 2001, having used WebDriver since its debut in 2008. Marcus is also the co-chair of the Selenium Conference P...
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Shireen Mitchell from 2018-07-18T04:00:21
Shireen is an Internet pioneer and serial founder who was born and raised in the projects of New York City, playing video games before they could be played on televisions and designing BBS boards a...
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Sara Wachter-Boettcher from 2018-07-11T04:00:22
Sara Wachter-Boettcher is the principal of Rare Union, a digital product and content strategy consultancy based in Philadelphia, and the co-host No, You Go, a podcast about living your best femin...
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Chelsea Higgs Wise from 2018-07-04T04:00:58
Chelsea Higgs Wise is a clinical social worker and intercultural communicator who specializes in connecting underserved and misrepresented communities with policymakers to advocate against racism a...
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Leonardo Graterol from 2018-06-27T04:00:45
Leonardo Graterol is a Latin American software engineer, born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, now living in Chile. He’s worked in web and software development jobs in several industries like digi...
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Nina Baliga from 2018-06-20T04:26:44
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Melanie Crutchfield from 2018-06-06T06:00:06
DOER OF THINGS, DREAMER OF DREAMS Melanie is an obsessive learner. She drinks far too much coffee. She thinks being creative is about the best thing you can do with your time, which is why she does...
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