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Photo Gay Talese, whose comments on female writers at a conference in Boston put him in an unfamiliar forum — on Twitter. Credit Robin Marchant/Getty Images On Friday, April 1, the 84-year-old writer Gay Talese made his way from New York to Boston, where he was scheduled to speak at Boston University’s “Power of Narrative”…
NYT executive editor Dean Baquet responds to “Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer“: “We published a story yesterday about controversial remarks made by the writer Gay Talese concerning female journalists at a conference at Boston University. The story also recounted an exchange between Talese and Nikole Hannah-Jones, a keynote speaker at the conference and…
Bill Clinton was supposed to be stumping for Hillary Clinton in Philly today. Instead, he spent a considerable amount of time explaining to Black Lives Matter protestors why they need to stop being so loud. The clip above was perhaps the most egregious of Clinton’s condescending, tone deaf remarks, as he clashed with protestors in…
To the non-legal mind, Kesha’s court case is eminently reasonable. She would like to be unshackled from a decade-old contract tying her to producer and collaborator Lukasz Gottwald (aka “Dr Luke”), a man she says has drugged, raped and psychologically abused her from the time she was 18. Specifically, she would like to be freed…
Say that everything that Kesha alleges about the producer Dr. Luke raping and abusing her is true. She still loses her lawsuit against him. This is not a hypothetical scenario. In the ruling where the New York judge Shirley Werner Kornreich dismissed all of Kesha’s claims against the man born Lukasz Gottwald, his affiliated companies,…
Kesha, the singer known for hits such as “Tik Tok” and “Die Young,” had appealed a decision in February that said she could not be released from her contract with producer Dr. Luke. Kesha has alleged that Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, had sexually, emotionally and physically abused her. Dr. Luke’s record…
(Shutterstock) I was invited to speak on a panel last week in New York. It was unwieldy, seven people, each of us with more than enough to say. Nonetheless, the event went smoothly and played out as expected: introductions, moderated discussion, self-deprecating jokes, a few thought-provoking facts, a couple heart-warming anecdotes and, of course, the…
Why do state legislators insist on proposing and passing anti-transgender legislation? On Wednesday, The Daily Show aired a segment on the anti-trans panic that has swept many state legislatures as visibility of trans issues has increased. And Jessica Williams tried to get to the bottom of just what was going on. Williams talked to several…
Baldur’s Gate expansion developer Beamdog today faced a barrage of heated online criticism about Siege of Dragonspear‘s inclusion of a variety of characters in a fantasy world, including a powerful woman and a trans woman. Since the expansion came out last week, it has become the latest focus for reactionary outrage about video game narratives that…
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…