A Very Serious Problem With Very Serious Journalism, has some quotes from Glenn Greenwald.

This quote from the piece's author maps 1:1 to free software authorship, especially in areas of privacy, federation, etc:

Women might have already reached parity in covering style, food and gender issues. People of color might gain prominence writing about race or immigration. Those topics are important, but we need their perspectives on foreign policy, national security and other very serious, very white male topics as well. After all, the brunt of surveillance, war and economic injustice is borne not by the most privileged, but by communities of color, migrants, women, the working class and the poor. A journalism more aware of the intersections of race, class and power will be much better equipped to ask the questions that might not even occur to reporters who have never interacted with the state from a position of weakness—whether that's as a person of color subject to intense police repression or a woman whose access to reproductive health care is increasingly under attack.

Definitely true. One of the things I was really happy to hear said over and over at LibrePlanet this year was "infiltration of activist organizations is not unique to free software privacy advocates... this has been happening to activists in all sorts of other areas, especially in the areas of lgbtq, civil rights activism, labor rights, etc". Very true.

We try hard at MediaGoblin to be inclusive. I still often think we could do better. Even so, not long ago, there was a 4chan thread that called the MediaGoblin community "feminazis of the worst caliber" or something. I was happy to read that; maybe we're on the right track.

Lots to do, and lots to do better. We need to keep at it.