Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Black Lives Matter dropped its original claim that Tania was unarmed when she was shot Black Lives Matter backed off its claim that cops were lying about 18-year-old Tania Harris having a knife when she was shot last Thursday night, but her family and their supporters are still outraged. They argue even though she did…
Baltimore, MD — Just minutes after the police state curfew went into effect in Baltimore Saturday night, the brutality began. However, the actual coverage of that brutality varies depending on who is telling this story. The first video of the arrest is put out by CNN. It begins with a semi-conscious man laying on the ground…
Yesterday, flagpole-climbing hero Bree Newsome posted a series of frustrated tweets about education in the United States, and specifically how people can have such extremely varying opinions on the U.S. Civil War. Breh. Stop everything. What the world kind of education are folks getting in America? This is terrifying. — Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) July 10,…
It was the video that showed Islamic State soldiers burning a Jordanian pilot alive inside a cage that propelled former beauty queen Lara Abdallat to get involved in the fight against the militant group. “It was a wake-up call for many of us, and a call to action,” the former Miss Jordan and hactivist for GhostSec…
Names have been changed to protect myself from these very silly and possibly litigious white people. I received a racist email in 2011, when I had just started the English PhD program at Rutgers University. This email has come to define so much of who I am, in ways both good and bad. I think…
‘How can anyone be allowed to paint a swastika on the statue of Marianne, the goddess of French liberty, in the very center of the Place de la République?”That was what the chairman of one of France’s most celebrated luxury brands was thinking last July, when a tall man in a black shirt and a…
Women will have insurance coverage for birth control regardless of whether their employer claims a religious exemption, the federal government announced today. In a new rule published this morning by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor, the government specified which employers can claim the religious exemptions granted to companies…
Photo: photo illustration. Photo: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images Like, have you ever noticed that women apologize too much? Sorry, but just humor me for a second here. What if, um, how we’re speaking is actually part of what’s undermining us in the workplace, in politics, and anywhere in the public sphere where we want to be…
True or false? When seeking the perfect job, focus on those things that you enjoy doing for free. I answered “true” to that statement during my last semester at Princeton when I began hunting for the perfect career. It informed my choices distinctively. Everyone around me was planning to move to Hollywood to try their…
Kelly Sue DeConnick and her peers are changing the face of an industry that won’t leave women out any longer. Kelly Sue DeConnick is talking to a class of aspiring comic-book writers assembled in a ballroom, located in the back of a former gentlemen’s club on Powell Street in San Francisco. “I hate when I…