Riley H·May 2, 2017Call-Out Culture Isn’t Toxic. You are.Every month or so, an article comes out screeching about how terrible, horrible, no good very bad “call-out culture” is. Before I get into…A response icon5A response icon5
Riley H·Feb 20, 2017Political Correctness is About A Facade of AuthenticityAlexandra Erin on twitter began a WONDERFUL thread about this idea of “political correctness” and its true meaning. You can read that here.
Riley H·Jan 30, 2017Unique Ways White Women Enact RacismBefore reading, please consult my short essay on engaging with me.A response icon15A response icon15
Riley H·Dec 17, 2016On Tech’s Love of Useless PosturingSimply put: Tech loves a performance. Diversity reports made beautiful with all kinds of graphic pretties to announce the same thing…A response icon1A response icon1
Riley H·Dec 12, 2016The Thing About Writing Fandom Essays On Medium — and Social Media in GeneralMedium paints itself as an essay and response blog, but at the end of the day, it’s another form of social media with the same abuses and…A response icon1A response icon1
Riley H·Oct 1, 2016The Problem with Diversity in Tech is Actually Just the Fucking White PeopleThe excuses are really getting so annoying. Facebook tried it so hard with the “pipeline” bullshit, after Zuckerberg had to give the entire…A response icon11A response icon11
Riley H·Aug 5, 2016All These Black Characters and 0 Done Right — How Steven Universe Fails Its Black Fanbase, Part I.If the title isn’t a clue: Your favorite queer-awesome show fails on racial lines to a horribly deep degree, and nobody cares.A response icon181A response icon181
Riley H·Jul 4, 2016It Takes Two — And Other Abusive Things People SayAnyone who has ever dealt with a lot of abusive rhetoric in their space has probably heard this before.