Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo: mskyrakennedy/Instagram Have you heard of the “Snap Pack”? So christened yesterday by the New York Times, the Pack is a group of privileged 22-year-olds living, loving, and Snapchatting in New York City. They are the sons and daughters of Matisses, Kennedys, and Trumps, and now some of them are…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter Kyra Kennedy, 20, used Instagram to pick on a New York magazine blogger — and now she’s being forced off social media by her dad, his reps told Page Six. The bullying brouhaha began when Allie Jones of New York magazine fashion blog the Cut wrote a short post about…
This post was originally published on Wait But Why. I woke up this morning to a text. It was a link: “optimistic-people-have-one-thing-common-always-late.” Intriguing. Nothing’s better than the headline: “The reason people are [bad quality that describes you] is actually because they’re [good quality].” I got to reading. And as it turns out, according to the…
Why Do You Think They Call It a Blow “Job”? There has been a lot of anxiety over the past couple of decades about teens and oral sex. Much of it can be traced back to the late 1990s, to a New York Times report that among middle-class teens, oral sex—and by “oral sex,” it…
Until very recently, the 27-year-old New Yorker who goes by the online alias Ricca was not a Star Wars fan. She’d seen the prequels at some point long ago; she didn’t sit down and watch the original trilogy until last year, when, she said, “it was no longer appropriate not to have seen them as…
“After I dropped you off,” Babiker said, “I got three kids who said they really like him, and two who said they were going for fun.” “Right. They wanted to see.” Earlier, in the car, I had struggled to explain how America has always been willing to dare, and double-dog dare, and triple-dog dare…
The weirdest programme of 2013 was Sex Box, a Channel 4 show where people literally had sex in a box in front of a studio audience for some reason. channel4.com The show got terrible reviews and we all thought we would never see it again. Until now. Sex Box is back because according to their survey we are…
So when whites choose a traditionally black hairstyle such as dreadlocks, it adds another layer of complexity to the issue. Take the latest case in point: a viral video showing a black woman calling out a white male student at San Francisco State University for his dreadlocks. The video touched off debate over whether dreadlocks…
I’m 26, single, and four years removed from anything resembling a serious relationship. So I did what any solo twenty-something guy would do: I installed Tinder on my mom’s phone and asked her to find me a date. As me. It’s a warm late-summer night in New York’s West Village, and I’m on my way…
I’ve fallen victim to it, and if you’ve had a conversation with someone’s jilted ex, you probably have too. The entirety of 2014 made me all too aware of the phenomenon and how deeply damaging it can be. Admittedly, my case is extreme, but that just means it requires a less powerful microscope. For a…