Brianna Wu

I love video games dearly.

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I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

— Brianna Wu

Before I ran for office, I ran a game studio.

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Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

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Let's not glamorize abuse.

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Walking is great, I guess.

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I think there is a war on women in technology.

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Software increasingly defines the world around us.

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The cost of speaking out is so high for women, I understand why most decide not to.

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The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it.

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I love people that kind of have those life experiences that take them different places.

— Brianna Wu

My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it's a muscle that can do no more.

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There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.

— Brianna Wu

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

— Brianna Wu

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

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For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.

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To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to…

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I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I've been doxed by him multiple times.

— Brianna Wu

Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.

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It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to…

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The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women…

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I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.

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I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I…

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Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had…

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I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as…

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The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn't come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate.…

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For most of 2016 and 2017, I would say probably 90% of my Twitter feed was automated bots sending repetitive messages at…

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There's a common personality type to software developers - one I certainly fall into. We're more comfortable staring at a screen than…

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My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all…

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Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever…

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The first game I remember being ridiculously passionate about was Super Mario Bros. 2. It was the first game where you could…

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Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools.…

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Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

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Gamergate was the proto-alt right.

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Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

— Brianna Wu

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

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Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

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Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

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The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.

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If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

— Brianna Wu