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“Pretty sure the lead singer of Protomartyr may be my loan officer on my condo.”

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Human Resources Policy at Startups

As we’ve shared in the past, we get many questions from our founders related to talent, including everything from diversity to compensation to performance management. Given the many reports of inappropriate and unacceptable behavior in the tech industry (and more broadly) in the past year, we decided to be proactive about an important set of topics – HR policies and creating a safe, inclusive and engaging work environment. While we’ve historically provided our portfolio companies with guidance in these areas on an ad hoc basis, we wanted to both formalize our advice and share it more broadly. All startups should be establishing these policies early in the company’s life to ensure a safe, enjoyable and productive workplace.

In Human Resources Policy at Startups we present our suggested guidelines for both basic HR policies and HR handbooks. In the guide we’ve included a legally-vetted (U.S. law), standard Policy Against Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation and Bullying that can serve as a template for startups. As always, we welcome your feedback and questions – this is a living document that we’ll update as we learn. Please contact Beth Scheer, Homebrew’s Head of Talent, with your thoughts.

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Sometimes I look at a biography’s table of contents and just can’t wait to start reading it.

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For those of you asking, it’s The Political Life of Bella Abzug, by Alan H Levy.

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Activism

“I saw courage in both the Vietnam war and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.” — John F. Kerry

Undocumented How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward

Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto by Bill Ayers

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in by Bernie Sanders

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Do It Anyway The New Generation of Activists by Courtney E. Martin

Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe

The Gay Revolution The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman

The End of Protest A New Playbook for Revolution by Micah White

Browse more books on activism here.

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Kids‘ Protagonists of Color

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, and Brendan Kiely

Watched by Marina Budhos

The Reader by Traci Chee

The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks

Little Robot by Ben Hatke

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

The Adventures of Sophie Mouse by Poppy Green, and Jennifer A. Bell

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods

Zapato Power by Jacqueline Jules

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Ling & Ting Not Exactly the Same by Grace Lin

Sasquatch in the Paint by Kareem Abdul Jabbar

The Green Bicycle by Haifaa Al Mansour

Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar

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(via We Will Not Be Silent Postcards (set of 10) - Silent Book Club)

Make your voice heard! This set of postcards comes with instructions on how to reach your representatives in Washington. It also includes messaging templates for issues including civil liberties, freedom of information, healthcare reform, and women's rights.

Contributing artists include: Lisa Congdon, Jane Mount, Marc Johns, Micah Player, Leah Rosenberg, Lisa Solomon, and more.

All proceeds will benefit non-profit organizations fighting for our first amendment rights, including the ACLU, ProPublica, the Southern Poverty Law Center, The Project on Government Oversight, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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seeing a lot of posts condemning “pussy grabs back” as cissexist and although i would agree that it is not the perfect “women’s march” slogan by any means i would urge you all to keep in mind that it is a direct response to trump’s violent statement and therefore makes sense as a phrase of political retaliation …..like obviously there should be many other myriad phrases and slogans for protesting that aren’t as exclusionary but i don’t think we should be shaming those who wielded “pussy grabs back” signs today since those signs are in active & necessary conversation with sexually violent remarks made by our president and the people wielding those signs are absolutely at liberty to respond directly in that way. anyways perhaps try to have some nuance in your thought today folks

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yes yes yes. we need to remember: not all women have vaginas, and not all people who have vaginas are women, but all vaginas are a probable site of violence, and as such they have a place in the conversation. 

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This. Also keep in mind that reproductive rights was also a big issue, which might have caused people to carry signs with uteruses/vaginas, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

There’s nothing inherently transphobic about women talking about their own genitalia and reproductive rights, and it’s possible to talk about and fight transphobia without condemning people for fighting for their own rights.

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Crowds in hundreds of cities around the world gathered Saturday in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington.

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