Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“Write about the search,” he said. “That’s what’s fucking killing everyone.” “The search?” Did he mean finding a new rent-controlled apartment that wasn’t possessed by fruit flies? Or perhaps a new startup job that boasted an extra one-zillionth percent of equity? In San Francisco we were all searching for so many things at once. “No,…
GIFs are sparking deeper, longer conversations on Tinder, subtly reshaping communication across the platform in a way that may preview a more fun, expressive new era in online dating. When someone sends a GIF on Tinder as opposed to text or an emoji, they are 30% more likely to receive a response from their match,…
Social media gives women the power to decide what sexy looks like. Delany*, a 22-year-old college student, tells all of her female friends to get on Tumblr, not for the body-positive memes or feminist art projects, but for the porn. “I tell all my female friends, start with Tumblr,” Delany told The Huffington Post. “It’s…
The only way you can describe how you feel is that you feel minimized. You feel crushed and smothered. You’re constantly second-guessing yourself; your feelings, your perceptions, your memories, and a small, suffocated part inside of you wonders whether you are actually going crazy. You feel neurotic, you feel hyper-sensitive and you feel an overwhelming…
Dear New York Times, My name is Lorelei Lee and I’m an adult film performer who has worked in the industry for fifteen years. I read your article, “Actors in Pornographic Films Fight Proposal to Enforce Safety Regulations,” and I am writing to say: how dare you. Nearly 100 of my fellow performers and I…
104.4K Shares post-social-count Share Tweet Share Share Email social-sharing-top President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal has removed a $10 million annual grant that goes towards funding “abstinence-only” sexual education classes in public schools. By eliminating the grant, Obama would end the financial incentive for states to continue teaching the debunked sex-ed program. “Abstinence Only” is a…
(iStock) Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about singlehood in America. Need a primer? Catch up here. Sarah Wright is the board chair of Unmarried Equality, which advocates for fairness and equality for unmarried people. Find her on Twitter:…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata After Willem de Kooning Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition ANNE Fausto-Sterling is professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University. In books like Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body, Fausto-Sterling pioneered the application of a feminist critique to biological studies of gender, adding…
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. If you find yourself alone this Valentine’s Day, we have a gift for you: knowledge that it could always be worse. Like way, way worse. A 17-year-old man presented to the emergency room with abdominal pain and a foreign body in…
I feel sorry for men on Valentine’s Day. It’s sexist of me, I know. The day isn’t gender-specific but my feelings are. They’re the result of observations I’ve made over the years since I was first made aware of the red envelopes, unlikely handwriting and whispering. The talk seemed to be a female thing. The…