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12:53 PM, Wed., May 11, 2016 Hi everyone. Thanks for coming out and listening. My name is Kathryn Borel. In December of 2014, I pressed sexual assault charges against Jian Ghomeshi. As you know, Mr. Ghomeshi initially denied all the charges that were brought against him. But today, as you just heard, Jian Ghomeshi admitted…
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You probably saw the news about the Chinese guy who created his own robotic Scarlett Johansson in his flat, right? Ricky Ma has caught the attention of many during the past weeks not just because he managed to build a robot that looks just like the American actress, but also because he did this all…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun quietly expanding its investigation into gender discrimination in Hollywood. A year after the American Civil Liberties Union first urged government agencies to investigate a pattern of gender bias in the hiring of film and TV directors, and seven months after the EEOC began interviewing women directors, the…
Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists for a pre-graduation picture that sparked debates on race and proper behavior in uniform won’t be punished for the gesture, the U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday. The decision, less than two weeks before the 16 female seniors are poised to graduate, found they didn’t violate…
I wasted years with x!” I have never heard a straight man say this. But when a woman does, after a breakup, everyone immediately understands what she means. We are raised to believe that female bodies are time bombs. Any relationship that does not “work out” – which is to say, does not get a…
On Saturday night, Beyoncé performed at NRG Stadium in her hometown of Houston, Texas. The concert was protested by a group of local police, who set up about a mile from NRG Stadium, Houston TV station KHOU reports. “Some of her performances we believe to be anti-police,” Pasadena, Texas Coalition for Police and Sheriffs president Tony…
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in March 2016.Alex Wong/Getty Images On paper, the current conflict between the U.S. Department of Justice and North Carolina can seem dry, academic even. North Carolina passed a law forbidding trans people from using certain bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The Department of Justice notified the state…
“[The Amazon Echo] is opening up a vast new realm in personal computing, and gently expanding the role that computers will play in our future,” writes Farhad Manjoo in the Times. Manjoo, like others, goes on to address what makes the Echo remarkable: first, dramatically improved voice recognition and fast response times make talking with…
What if victims of domestic violence didn’t have to worry that their abusers will come after them, guns a-blazin’, PEW PEW PEW, you’re dead? Sure, it would mean putting the lives of women — who die at the hands of their intimate partners every day, most often by being shot to death — above the absolute God-given unalienable right…