Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Monday afternoon, video emerged of a white man approaching a small, black girl sitting in a classroom, noosing a thick arm around her neck, slamming her to the ground while she was still entangled in her desk, picking her up again, throwing her some distance across the room, and then again pinning her down. “Put…
Before we get started, let me remind everyone that I have been on board with this second season of Gotham. As I have pointed out repeatedly, I have made my peace that the show is trying for a weird mishmash of campiness and hyper-violence, and on those strange terms, I have enjoyed it. Now: All…
In the fall of 2006, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine published dueling Spore previews in the span of four weeks. John Seabrook, writing in the New Yorker, said that the game was “anticipated with something like the interest with which writers in Paris in the early twenties awaited Joyce’s Ulysses.” Steven…
Erika Escalante, 20, is apologizing after tweeting the above image and caption. Fox 10 Screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Black Twitter has claimed another victim: A 20-year-old intern has been fired for posting a photo of herself and a friend in a cotton field with the caption, “Our inner [n–ger] came out today.” Shortly after the…
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of Ben Fields, a senior deputy who forcibly removed a female student who refused to leave her high school math class at Spring Valley High School on Monday. Alex Sanz/AP hide caption itoggle caption Alex Sanz/AP Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of…
Even in ideal conditions, it is not easy making a living as a freelance writer. It is much harder when the places you write for don’t pay you promptly. That’s where we come in. In most industries, a worker is paid before—or directly after—a service is rendered. Want a massage? Pay up front. Want your…
Shakespeare said that all the world’s a stage, but the sociologist Erving Goffman added that most of the interesting stuff lies behind the scenes, in what he called the “backstage” areas of everyday life. Having spent the past eight years doing research on the international wealth-management profession, I have to agree with Goffman: The most…
In light of certain arguments currently taking place on the internet, we would like to issue a gentle reminder of a fact: Twitter is public. The things you write on Twitter are public. They are published on the world wide web. They can be read almost instantly by anyone with an internet connection on…
Buckle up for Zola, a woman on Twitter who on Tuesday night wrote a contemporary epic in 150 tweets that will, I assume, within a year be adapted into a big-budget Tyler Perry/Quentin Tarantino collaboration called Zola & Jess & Jarrett & Z, or perhaps it will become a PSA of some sort, or maybe…
I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link 1. When one woman shut down outside opinions about her body. n-a-blue-box / tumblr / Via imgur.com 2. When someone called out this dude’s hypocrisy. 3. When this person actually terrified a guy with her comeback. 4. When bra visibility wasn’t the real problem. 5. When one girl got the last…