Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It isn’t hard to see why nothing bad has ever quite touched Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento, Calif., even as he’s authored a long series of lurid sex and corruption scandals, any one of which would have ended the career of a less fortunate man. Johnson is a youngish, attractive Democrat with a reputation as…
Well mommies, it happened. I learned what it’s like be a nursing mom and attend a conference with my baby. A tech conference (Dreamforce). In Moscone Center. In San Francisco. For two hours. Since I had been to Moscone Center and seen children present at other conferences, I figured it would not be a…
Tiffany Santiago and her mother This week, two women were attacked in a Midtown East restaurant in what police say was an anti-gay attack. And the victims, a mother and daughter, believe that the attackers mistook them for a couple: “As soon as I sat down, I heard the word ‘lesbian,’” victim Tiffany Santiago…
In a vote of 241-187, the House of Representatives has voted to halt funding to Planned Parenthood for a full year in order to investigate supposed “wrong-doing” and “harvesting” of fetal organs by the women’s healthcare provider. 239 Republicans and two democrats voted in favor of defunding, while three Republicans and 179 Democrats voted against…
Content Warning: This educational episode contains game footage of a graphic sexual nature. This episode explores the numerous ways in which the Women as Reward trope manifests in video games. The trope occurs when women or women’s bodies are employed as rewards for player actions, a pattern which frames female bodies and sexuality as collectible…
Feminist Frequency Swelling breasts, revealing costumes, wet turtle smooches: These are the rewards you may be used to seeing in your favorite video games. A new entry in Anita Sarkeesian’s “Feminist Frequency” series released Monday explores the many ways women in video games have been treated like a gold star stuck onto a filled-out worksheet….
“We’ve got another lawsuit,” my friend and client Lana* told me over the phone. “Really?” I was honestly surprised. “What about all that diversity training everyone went through?” “Well, apparently we need to do it again.” Lana was the head of Human Resources for Bedia, a company in the media industry that felt, at times,…
Hoping to impress the teachers at his new school, an Irving, Texas, high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock with him to MacArthur High Monday morning, which he’d assembled before bed the night before. When he showed it to those teachers, though, they were something other than impressed, and by Monday afternoon,…
Definitive proof that ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed is smarter than police officers who arrested him Sep 16, 2015 8:38am PDT by Shaun King 51 65 Please log in or sign up to continue. On September 14, ninth-grade engineering whiz and NASA fanboy Ahmed Mohamed was confronted, interrogated, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed after bringing a homemade clock…
What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at a tech company My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer. “I just saw a new Black person! Does anyone know who it is?” I circulated the email to the “Blackbirds,” Twitter’s internal group for Black employees. In my three…