Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Early Saturday morning 65 women — aged 25 to 70 — arrived at a 5,000-square-foot former garage space in Brooklyn to compete in a female-only weightlifting competition. The Iron Maidens Raw Open was founded five years ago at Crossfit South Brooklyn to give women a place to compete in three powerlifts: the deadlift, squat and bench…
It’sa well-documented fact that women tend to make less than their male colleagues in virtually every sector of the economy, as well as get passed over for promotions and leadership roles. For International Women’s Day, ad agency TBWA Worldwide had male staffers read quotes from female colleagues, which were about the challenges they face in everyday…
Well, at least they’re trying Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post. I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s…
This is an ad that appeared in the august pages of Christianity Today: It is no longer there, because Christianity Today has taken the bold stand that it’s really gross for daddies to sell their unfucked daughters in the want ads. OR, to be more specific, it’s really gross for daddies to put ads in the…
digitalundivided is a groundbreaking organization focused on Black and Latina women founders. Their latest effort, #ProjectDiane, is a major study of venture funding, Black women founders, and startups, and the findings are out now. In our last issue, Kara Melton highlighted how Black women lead entrepreneurship — indeed, creating the very business models the startup…
A Female Journalist Dared to Ask Peyton Manning a Serious Question and She Was Called a “Cunt” and “Bitch” For It On Monday, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning held a PRESS conference to tell everyone what everyone already knew – that he was retiring after 18 years in the NFL. At the PRESS event was…
What was meant to be a profile of a band—of British duo The Last Shadow Puppets, for Spin—instead became a thinkpiece: this happened because one member of that duo, Miles Kane, decided to sexually harass the writer, Rachel Brodsky, during their interview. The piece starts out relatively routinely, with the writer, the duo (which also…
The Last Shadow Puppets are exhausted. Splayed on a couch in the lobby of Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel, Alex Turner and Miles Kane resemble a couple of loopy 2-year-olds being rounded up for bedtime. But you wouldn’t know how wrecked they are at first glance — both are styled to the nines in various patterns, textures, and…
Photo Credit Irene Rinaldi Honolulu — OVER the past two decades as a professor, I’ve grown thousands of plants, studying how their biology shifts in response to our changing environment. Soon I’ll begin to design and build my fourth laboratory; I’ll teach classes and take on more staff members, as I do every year. Like…
The New Haven Register reports that Yale senior and men’s basketball captain Jack Montague was in fact expelled, although it has thus far been impossible to verify the official reason behind his expulsion. The Yale Daily News has reported that Montague withdrew from Yale on February 10, and his permanent departure was announced last week….