Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(Reuters) – Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Tuesday signed into law a measure affording wide protections for actions considered discriminatory by gay rights activists. The far-reaching law allows people with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples. It also clears the way for employers to cite religion in determining workplace policies on dress…
Making new homes Just when you’re starting to feel that there’s no hope, something good seems to fall out of nowhere and hit you, reminding you of how important you are. The day we announced we needed to stop publishing was an extremely low point for me. Everything sort of imploded. One minute I was…
TRANSCRIPT GWEN IFILL: In the eight years since Apple unveiled its first smartphone, an entire generation of young users has spring up who never knew a world without a device in hand. That’s the starting point for the latest addition to the “NewsHour” Bookshelf, “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers,” by…
When news of Peeple, the so-called “Yelp for people” that lets you rate anyone you know like a restaurant, swept the web last year, I was horrified. A tool that lets my abusive ex-boyfriend write whatever he wants about me and post it for the Internet to see? A tool that lets anyone with my…
I am a gamer. I followed the call of Cthulhu and ran in the shadows with hackers and shamans. I traversed the ancient lands of Greyhawk, Faerun, and Eberron with companions new and old. I swung from an airship and buckled swash over London for the Kerberos Club. I threw dice and flipped cards and…
So when whites choose a traditionally black hairstyle such as dreadlocks, it adds another layer of complexity to the issue. Take the latest case in point: a viral video showing a black woman calling out a white male student at San Francisco State University for his dreadlocks. The video touched off debate over whether dreadlocks…
On Wednesday, 16 conservative female members of the media joined together to put out a well-intentioned if demented letter urging Donald Trump, their party’s leading presidential candidate, to admit that a woman’s experience might be worth considering. The letter, which you can read here in full, was written in response to Trump campaign manager Corey…
I tried explaining Soylent, the protein shake meal replacement popular in Silicon Valley, to my mom and she tilted her head: “Oh, you mean SlimFast?” she said. I balked. No, Soylent is definitely tech, I explained, and it’s on my beat. It has a minimalist label and comes in iterative versions like software (we’re at…
Here I go. I’m really so sick of the reality that talking about race should be restricted to audiences of color or spaces which cater to the socially conscious. If there’s one thing I’ve learned by working in online media these past few years, it’s that a disheartening majority of media consumers are unwilling…
I’ve fallen victim to it, and if you’ve had a conversation with someone’s jilted ex, you probably have too. The entirety of 2014 made me all too aware of the phenomenon and how deeply damaging it can be. Admittedly, my case is extreme, but that just means it requires a less powerful microscope. For a…