Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On May 1st, International Workers’ Day, I will be publicly discussing my job title, my experience and my salary on #talkpay and I urge everyone to do so as well. Pay inequality is an oft-discussed topic. There are measurable pay discrepancies between groups when looking at race and gender which are further exacerbated when someone…
Did you know that Rick & Morty has no women writers on staff? Co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland mentioned that fact in a Hollywood Reporter interview today, along with their intention to hire more women next season. They’re not hiring more women because they set out to do so, or anything. By their own…
Turns out the Vatican has one final burn for Kim Davis, the anti-gay clerk who flew a little too close to the sun when she released the news that the pope had acknowledged her existence. Not only was her meeting not a “real audience” with the cool guy, the day before, the Vatican confirms, the…
Actress and women’s rights activist Emma Watson has spoken out about her experience with sexism in Hollywood, and provided some startling hard numbers in the process. In a recent interview with the Guardian, the United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador underscored what she saw as the disproportionate representation of men and women in the film industry using statistics…
If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed — not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head full of questions — ask a teacher. Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered electronics and English, once built a…
FB Newswire – BBC JOURNALIST REPORTING ON HARASSMENT IS… | Facebook BBC JOURNALIST REPORTING ON HARASSMENT IS HARASSED: BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report about harassment faced by women in public spaces when a passerby shouted sexual obscenities at her. Teale was filming the segment at a street harassment summit in Nottingham, England….
The miserable lack of diversity in Silicon Valley is so exhaustively documented by now that we’ve nearly run out of ways to point it out. It’s most conspicuous at the top echelons, where the money is invested and recouped—and longtime VC John Doerr just made the problem glaringly obvious. http://valleywag.gawker.com/marc-andreesse… Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…
Today, the hashtag #FreedomForKesha was trending on Twitter, with the public sharing support for pop singer Kesha Rose Sebert, who on Friday pushed for a preliminary injunction in her legal battle with her former producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald). Sebert alleges that Gottwald has abused her repeatedly during their ten-year working relationship. she was raped and abused by…
His name is Emilio Mayfield and we now know that moments before he was confronted, assaulted, and arrested by police on the morning of Wednesday, September 16, he was catching public transportation to his local school. In his first interview after the brutal and excessive assault, Mayfield opened up about what happened on that Stockton,…
Last year, Kesha filed a lawsuit against Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, her longtime producer, for allegedly verbally and physically assaulting her for years. Dr. Luke filed a countersuit, claiming Kesha was merely trying to extort him so she could get out of her contract, and Kesha responded earlier this summer by expanding her lawsuit to…