How The Tech Industry Made Me A Social Justice Writer
summary
A tech career, Trayvon Martin’s death, and use of internet publishing tools produce a concrete shift: leaving corporate work to reuse technical skills for race and gender writing and organizing. Built an anonymous Tumblr-founded site called I believe you it's not your fault that collects about a dozen a day survivor letters, lands TV spots on CNN and CBS, and develops tactics for online abuse by being absurd with trolls and choosing when to engage rather than automatically ignore.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:30Getting a job
- 3:22Going back to college
- 4:50My son graduating from kindergarten
- 5:10Going back into tech
- 7:00Trayvon Martin
- 8:47Social Circle
- 9:01Loudmouth
- 10:18TV
- 14:06Twitter
- 14:26I Believe You Its Not Your Fault
- 15:26Youre Not Alone
- 17:20Dealing With Trolls
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