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Two years after Gamergate began and multiple restraining orders later, Zoe Quinn is walking away from a criminal harassment case in favor of talking openly about her story. (Erin Patrick O’Connor/The Washington Post) By all accounts, Zoe Quinn — the 28-year-old video game developer whose personal life sparked the Internet conflagration known as Gamergate — had a…
leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 8 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox true The New Hampshire presidential primaries mark the beginning of a long campaign, with candidates now onto states where voters look a lot more like our country. The next states will be different, but one thing…
Women confident enough in their abilities to overcome the gender bias may well be, on the whole, more qualified and thus more likely to produce clean code.Jacob Ammentorp Lund/Thinkstock A recent study that is both heartening and maddening has found that women’s contributions to open-source software are more likely to be accepted than those…
School integration at the Barnard School in Washington, D.C. in 1955. O’Halloran, Thomas J., photographer, the Library of Congress The schools around Charlotte were once admired nationwide. They offered a model for successful racial integration — proof that a diverse community could raise its children with shared values and shared opportunity. That dream crumbled in the early 2000s,…
America Is Obsessed With Identity. Thanks, Obama? Annette Elizabeth Allen/NPR Annette Elizabeth Allen/NPR When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, there was a lot of talk about “The Obama Effect”: how the nation’s first black president signaled a new era of racial harmony and understanding. That didn’t happen. But what…
Photo Mary Lou Marzian, a Kentucky representative. Credit Ed Reinke/Associated Press A Kentucky state representative believed that a new law requiring women to have a medical consultation 24 hours before having an abortion smacked of sexism. So the lawmaker, Mary Lou Marzian, proposed a bill in the male-dominated House to drive home the point. Under…
The primary driver of racism in America? Black people like Beyonce, who celebrate thugs who want to divide us. White America does not have a racism problem—just ask these incensed internet commenters. As you all know, mentally disturbed typical hollywood hoe* Beyonce gave a despicable and racist performance at the Super Bowl halftime show in…
[if lt IE 9]> < ![endif] This site is powered by Shareaholic – https://shareaholic.com Shareaholic Content Tags Shareaholic Content Tags End Shareaholic Open Graph Tags Shareaholic Open Graph Tags End [if lt IE 9]> Today, the South Dakota Senate voted 20-15 to pass HB 1008, a dangerous bill that singles out transgender students and prohibits…
As studios and networks have finally begun to grapple with the shocking reality that audiences enjoy watching women go on adventures, we’ve seen an influx of female protagonists on superhero television in the last year. And while Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, and Supergirl have all been emphatically pushing the conversation forward, another hero took a quiet and revolutionary step earlier…
When Beyoncé released her latest single, “Formation,” ahead of her Super Bowl performance this weekend, her fans overwhelmingly rejoiced, praising the song as “unapologetically black” and an activist triumph. But, perhaps predictably, the artist soon faced backlash for those very reasons. Many have come to the superstar’s defense, but few have been as on point as…