Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
28-year-old Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas on Monday, and while the police are calling it a suicide, her friends, family, and pretty much everyone else who hears about this aren’t convinced that’s what happened. Bland was arrested last Friday after being pulled over for failing to signal…
Franchesca Ramsey: https://twitter.com/chescaleighBrought to you with love by: http://mtvother.comProduced by: http://www.kornhaberbrown.comIs Racism Over? Nope. But if you listen, you will hear these 10 common excuses that try to justify racist behavior or some grandiose belief that all things racial are way in the distant past. So it’s a good thing Franchesca is here to explain to everyone why…
The pay gap in Hollywood is real, and Amanda Seyfried is the latest actress to speak out about it. Seyfried recently told the Sunday Times that she recently made far less money than an equally famous male co-star on one of her movies. “A few years ago, on one of my big-budget films, I found…
Illustration by Ethan Rilly Armada is a story about how gamers are the most important people in the world. This is not a new story; it’s served as the inspiration for countless video games over the past 40 years, not to mention the recent harassment campaigns that spawned out of gaming culture and the wounded,…
Meet the women behind the New Horizons mission The Women of Pluto (with images, tweets) · notsterno · Storify.
@ThreeCare Ad campaign mocks transgender ppl. What are Three’s corporate social responsibility policies? #TakeItDownpic.twitter.com/JxgiptZrZP — socmot (@socmot) July 15, 2015 Mobile company Three Ireland recently put out an campaign to advertise their data plan. When many people pointed out that the line “It turned out he was a she” was incredibly transphobic, Three Ireland tweeted the…
Anonymous asked: Can you explain why Marvel thinks that doing hip hop variants is a good idea, when absolutely no announced writers or artists on the new Marvel titles, as of now, are black? Wouldn’t correcting the latter be a much better idea than the former? brevoortformspring: What does one have to do with the…
Kids are fed up with Kate Upton. When the ads for Game of War started showing up on my students’ phones last year—they haven’t stopped—many were annoyed. They hated that it was impossible to close the ad, forcing them instead to watch the video until the end. But what really irritated them was Ms. Upton,…
Dubious game developers and Twitter trolls will now have to look elsewhere for backup when it comes to telling us “SJWs” that there’s nothing wrong with the portrayal of women in video games. A survey found that most teenage boys—despite common wisdom to the contrary—don’t want women to be over-sexualized in their video games. I’ll…
When I left school at 16, in March 1979, my first job interview was for an admin position at a garage in Chelmsford. I was extremely nervous as I walked into a yard of men in greasy overalls, and as I was being interviewed I blushed as my eyes skipped around the office to the…