When I happened upon their bubbly energy, after listening to them gush and ooze on @anotherround, I didn't expect to fall into their trap. But, IM TRAPPED.
I'm out and proud in saying I'm a Thirster.
These women dive into EVERYTHING *smirk*.
Not just what their crushes wear, how they perform, but who they've grown into and even how they're problematic.
The interviews; the Drabbles, the *beep*s, they're all worth your time.
In a lot of different environments, designers are realizing there's useful and powerful theories, insights, and communities from disciplines they never considered; and there happens to be a reactionary clash from the communities who live in that space.
We have an opportunity here.
Sometimes that clash is valuable, because it offers space for people to acknowledge, voice, and catalyze a community to make their knowledge known.
But sometimes, we can connect without friction, and towards a collective goal.
Clearly, the point of the discussion offers an opportunity to widen the tech pipeline; to ensure accomplished black CS HBCU students get their foot in the door. Critical. Essential.
However, it also offers a question that @peterme brought up: so, is Stanford then just an expensive trade school?
You know about those stories that pop up in the news? The ones about how some disadvantaged soul goes through inordinate struggles to do every day activities, and receives the golden ticket to make their lives better?
Like this one, who gets a car from their boss for walking twenty miles to work,
