@freakazoid The answer to "why it isn't happening already" is actually pretty simple, IMO, and it is the same answer as for the rest of society: because kyriarchy is the norm.

This is true in FOSS circles too; FOSS absolutely is not progressive, despite the nominally ideological roots of it. There's no understanding of intersectionality, of the broader issues with kyriarchy, how non-tech politics relate to it... the vast majority of FOSS folks see it as 'just a technical choice' or at best a very restrictive notion of 'freedom', including in copyleft circles.

As for "what do we need to jumpstart it": create explicitly inclusive environments for developing projects. Rust has done this to some degree (but had the disadvantage of being the first really high-profile attempt to do so, and got a lot of abuse for it).

It needs to be clear *from the start* that marginalized perspectives are prioritized, that development choices center around people's diverse needs, and that the price of admission to the project is to accept those principles, and they are not negotiable.

Very few projects do this (Lix comes to mind as one of the few). Most projects are scared to take such a step, believing it will 'drive away contributors' (due to those same internalized toxic beliefs that marginalized folks cannot be competent and thus the privileged and bigoted folks are needed), and so instead adopt a much more superficial or pseudo-neutral stance, which doesn't address the problem. And that's how the problem perpetuates itself.

In summary: create an environment that is safe for marginalized folks (note: this requires having solid conflict resolution mechanisms, not just banning people!), and provide people with the resources they need to make things happen. That's probably going to include funding.