Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Only True Leftist in America (TM) with the possible exception of Freddie deBoer looks like he has something to say: Let’s start out with Bernie Sanders. Despite your similarity on issues, he’s running as a Democrat, rather than a third-party candidate, like you did. How do you think that’s influenced the race? I don’t…
A judge sentenced Brock Turner to 6 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman on campus. The light sentence drew harsh criticism. His victim, who has chosen to not be named, spoke directly to him in a court statement. Here’s what she said. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) Early last year, two Stanford University graduate…
Despite the well-documented (really obvious) gender gap in the tech sector, we’re not seeing a lot of improvement, and it’s time to take some serious action. Right now, women (who represent 57 percent of the U.S. labor force) fill just a quarter (26.5 percent) of tech jobs at the top U.S. tech firms, and earn,…
Header art by Fabiola Lara I Censor My Queerness Around My Straight Friends “Oh, I had no idea, you don’t seem queer.” This is the response I have received time after time when I mention my queerness. It’s never uttered with malicious intent and it’s a sentence that’s usually followed by supportive, friendly questions, but…
Over the weekend, in the midst of the outrage that followed the news of ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s very lenient sentence for multiple felonies, including attempted rape, some wondered why stories of Turner were illustrated with yearbook photos or stills from the video of his trial. The yearbook photo, in particular, was a troublesome illustration….
The ceremonies and traditions involved in most forms of witchcraft may seem exclusive and arcane, passed down for centuries through covens and other secret groups, but today, trying your hand at the occult can be as easy as downloading an app on your smartphone. For everything from spells and rituals to numerology and tarot…
X-Men: Apocalypse hasn’t amassed as much at the box office as its X-Men: Days of Future Past predecessor and the marketing department doesn’t seem to be doing it any favors. A billboard advertising the film shows Apocalypse (Oscar Issac) choking the mutant Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), with a caption that says “Only The Strong Will…
In January 2015, Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was arrested for raping an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity house. Turner, who was the subject of a very sympathetic “once-promising” Washington Post write up, was caught mid-rape by two men who happened to be riding their bikes nearby. According to testimony in Turner’s March trial,…
The father of Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford swimmer who was given a paltry six-month sentence in a county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015, is defending his son’s crime—and saying that he should not be imprisoned for only getting “20 minutes of action.” In a letter Dan Turner penned as a diametric…
In a series of text messages obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Johnny Depp’s assistant seems to confirm allegations made by Depp’s estranged wife, Amber Heard, who has testified under oath that she suffered long-term abuse at the hands of the A-list actor. “When I told him he kicked you, he cried,” the assistant writes on one…