Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Content notice: Discussion of domestic abuse, intimate partner violence and abuse dynamics Contains Jessica Jones spoilers Jessica Jones was a passing Netflix click that quickly turned into an obsession. I had no prior knowledge of the series. I didn’t even attempt a wiki. I imagined another anxious white girl with a heart of gold who…
It’s strange to edit a feminist website when almost nothing offends you, because the feminist website is traditionally imagined to run on offense. This is not how we imagine it ourselves while we’re working. I’ve learned it slowly, watching strangers react. The model, I gather, is that of a factory, which ideally functions like this:…
The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom By QUOCTRUNG BUI and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER ====================================================== THIS IS A GENERATED TEMPLATE FILE. DO NOT EDIT. ====================================================== this is generated from src/style.css Median Distance From Mother Pipeline: 2015-12-21-mom-distance | December 23, 2015, 12:09AM | ac7c3a166344d65a18411af46e246ea418d2a9d2 Families traveling from far-flung places, returning home for the holidays….
When the faceless, unaccountable (and nearly exclusively male) editors of Wikipedia decide that an article is not fit for public consumption, it’s gone—disappeared into the site’s recesses, and only accessible to the most elite editors. These deleted articles have been a dark spot in Wikipedia’s otherwise laudable transparency. That is, until now. Wikipedia’s deletion rules…
Ellen Pao was at the heart of two of 2015’s biggest feminist news stories: her discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins; and her resignation from content-sharing site Reddit, after weathering what she later called “one of the largest trolling attacks in history” – death and rape threats, racist abuse, libel, her home address publicised…
Christmas is the busiest time of year for both Santa and the United States Postal Service. But while Santa has magic on his side, the USPS must rely on technology to make its deliveries. The service expects to distribute about 15.5 billion pieces of mail during the 2015 holiday season, which is more than 2 times the number of people on Earth. What…
by Jamal Igle Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a juggernaut. Critically acclaimed and the current holder of the title of “biggest film opening of all time.” It’s an engaging film that engrosses the viewer and harkens back to the early days of franchise. As it is with all things pop culture, particularly in the…
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A mock-up of the view $100 million could buy you (Extell). We mentioned this in passing yesterday (because we immediately passed out from the numbers involved), but it’s worth diving into the nitty-gritty: a mystery buyer has shelled out over $100 million to buy a duplex in One57, one of the luxury skyscrapers on…
Midtown Manhattan will soon be teeming with luxury skyscrapers, thanks to all the development underway on 57th Street’s so-called Billionaires’ Row. But it appears that the rich people shopping for homes in these monsters might not know about all the other needle buildings that’ll be their neighbors, since developers have been conveniently erasing fellow skyscrapers…