Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo by Sarah Mirk, Creative Commons This Friday, people at memorials across the country will repeat a chorus of names: Keyshia Blige, Tamara Dominguez, Kandis Capri… the list goes on. November 20 is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day recognizing the memory of lives lost to acts of anti-transgender violence. Transgender Day of…
By Susannah Hutcheson, Regular ContributorNovember 21, 2015 image via epykliving.co.uz Dear you, Yes, I’m talking to you. You with the crazy-curly hair, you with the bump on your nose, you with the legs scattered with marks from running around outside like crazy when you were a kid. I’m talking to you with the 4.0 GPA,…
Last month, at long last, we enjoyed Back to the Future Day — the day to which Marty McFly travels in 1989’s Back to the Future Part II. It’s a kind of death sentence for our era: we’re all living in the future now; the time in which things might have changed has passed, and all…
I say “I’m sorry” when I’m scared and I’m scared 50% of the time. The other 50% is spent in blissful ignorance as my brain catches up on all the things I should be scared of. I say “I’m sorry” when I point out to a stranger that they’ve dropped their MetroCard on the sidewalk….
Colin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The bespectacled, bearded director, then 35, came to Park City, Utah, with an endearingly quirky time-travel romantic comedy executive-produced by the endearingly quirky Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, and starring Mark. The $750,000 indie film, ‘‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’’ went on to make…
There’s a predictable social media formula for what women’s pictures online should look like. Breasts in barely-there bikinis are good (thumbs-up emoji, even), but breasts with babies attached them are questionable. Women wearing next to nothing is commonplace, but if you’re over a size 10 your account may be banned. Close-up shots of women’s asses…
It’s time for a little good news, the kind of good news that you can pass down to and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren. According to new estimates from the World Economic Forum (WEF), it will be 118 years before women across the globe will achieve pay equality. A legacy, indeed. The report indicates that…
This evening, Dayna Evans, a former Gawker writer, published an essay at Matter arguing that Gawker Media has “failed its female employees.” This piece was intended—by Evans, by former Gawker editor Leah Beckmann, and by me—to run on Gawker.com. Late last week, Gawker Media executive editor John Cook decided to kill it, over my objection….
Last November, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” a feature article detailing the alleged gang rape of a woman named Jackie at the University of Virginia. The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, has since been discredited, and its implications have been far-reaching for journalists, sexual assault prevention advocates, survivors and U.Va. students. But…
With all the controversy surrounding the #BlackLivesMatter movement, it’s rare for a company as massive as Chick-fil-A to take a stand – but they have. A counter movement has come out of the media wreckage called #PoliceLivesMatter that urges citizens to respect police and understand that they are here to serve and protect, and…