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· Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa — Tiamat for short — prefers to be identified as “it” and wants to become a “mythical beast” through a series of intense surgical procedures. Tiamat claims to be the first person to ever have both ears surgically removed for purely cosmetic reasons, and says it’s…
Why don’t “booth babes” get considered to be Women In Games? I am not the first person to ask this question. Model View Culture’s “Feminists in Tech: Please Stop Treating Sex Work as a Contagion” serves as a concise introduction to the topic. That article is a year old. This topic, and variations upon it,…
Happy Equal Pay Day! Facebook and Microsoft just announced that their companies have closed the wage gap; both have announced that they pay all employees the same wages for the same work. Let’s give them a firm pat on the back for catching up to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, shall we? Only 53 years and the tech industry finally…
This article contains spoilers for comics in the Civil War arc of Captain America, so if you haven’t read that arc and you want to remain potentially unspoiled for the upcoming film, maybe don’t read this one! We talk a lot about what’s expected of girls, right from the time they’re born. We give them…
First Look: Scarlett Johansson In ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Is A Stone Cold Killer https://t.co/qqGnB5ClyK — Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) April 14, 2016 This morning, Deadline shared a first peek at Scarlett Johansson as the lead in the upcoming live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. As we’ve said many, many, many times before, this is a casting decision that…
Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, a day to protest the profound gender and racial gaps in working wages: compared to what white men make, white women make 78%, Black women make 64% and Latina women just 54%. Predictably, tech companies took what should be a moment of reflection and resistance to go on a press…
“Throughout Lin’s six years in the N.B.A., we have continuously witnessed Lin as the recipient of numerous hard fouls with unnecessary and excessive force by other players,” the letter reads. “In these cases, the referees either didn’t make the calls or made incorrect calls.” The N.B.A. responded with a statement. It was a notable victory…
Buzzfeed’s video division put a video into the world on Tuesday titled “Questions Black People Have for Black People” More than half a day later, Twitter is still ablaze with people tearing it apart. First, watch it: Or, if you’d rather not, here’s a taste of the kind of stereotypes it dabbled in. Tried that…
Illustrations: Jim Cooke/Gawker One afternoon in early January, just outside the small, north Texas town of Pottsboro, Vincent Smith shot and killed his friend, Charles Carter, who was drunk. The two were members of the American patriot movement, and they had been organizing, through Facebook, a march of gun rights evangelists on Washington. According to…
Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., last month. (AP Photo/Steven ) Inside the hallowed halls of Harvard University, one of the most exclusive colleges in the world, there are ever more hallow, exclusive halls: those of the university’s “final clubs,” or undergraduate social clubs known for their selectivity and secrecy. But now, in the age of…