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Signs showing the name of an Asian candidate next to a caricature of Ho Chi Minh have rocked the mayoral race in Lewiston, Maine, and the man responsible for them says he can’t understand why. Ben Chin, who is running as a Democrat, said he received a text from a friend on Sunday night expressing concern about a sign hanging on Main Street…
Note: This story includes some graphic descriptions. Every woman who has ventured online is well aware of the perils. Sheltered by anonymity, sexual predators thrive on the Internet, where sending vulgar missives rarely has consequences. Most women cope by promptly deleting these inappropriate messages and trying to forget about them. Mia Matsumiya, a professional violinist based…
article start The gender pay gap is widening again because men’s earnings are growing this year at twice the rate of women’s. The median weekly earnings for full-time male workers was $889 in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That’s a 2.2% increase from a year earlier. Meanwhile, full-time female workers’ earnings were $721, up…
I’m so freaking bored of geek culture feeling the need to knee-jerk defend enormous corporate entities. Large organizations hire professionals for the sole purpose of defending themselves against bad press. We don’t need to jump in. Tesla isn’t the five issue comic you loved as a teenager – it is a enormous money-rich company; no…
Who wants to break it to dads that their teenage daughters are not their property? Who wants to tell them that joking about them like they are is just weird? But more than that, who wants to tell the members of the media who perpetuate that old joke just how tired it really is? Bangor,…
Today in Stuff That Will Make You Hang Your Head In Despair, a bunch of white supremacists are tweeting under the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII. Why? Apparently J.J. Abrams’ new “Star Wars” installment is a little too multicultural for their liking (black actor John Boyega plays Finn, a stormtrooper, one of the presumed leads). Enjoy your daily dose of hate…
2015 Everett C Parker Lecture: October 20, 2015 This talk was written for the 2015 Everett C Parker Lecture, in honor of his amazing work. Being able to give this lecture is an honor, but it is also deeply humbling in light of his amazing work. Citation: boyd, danah. 2015. “What World Are We Building?”…
Can women really have it all? Wait, please don’t click away! Totally kidding. As soon as I left college, I noticed my friends being shoved into different categories: Are you going to be a career gal or a family woman? More commonly, that means are you going to be totally defined by a place that…
There is a plethora of research on the causes of hostile environments for women in academia, and on why we have an underrepresentation of women in many fields. There are support groups for women, societies entirely devoted to women academics (broadly and field-specific), workshops for women in academia, and countless articles and blogs devoted to…
In an essay written for Lena Dunham’s “Lenny Letter” newsletter, Jennifer Lawrence shared her thoughts and reactions on finding out she made drastically less than her male co-stars on American Hustle. She highlights the ridiculous double standard that women face in all industries when it comes to negotiating salary and voicing their opinions to male coworkers. When it…