Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This is a remarkably beautiful act of bravery. This is Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist who is an advocate and activist for religious freedom and women’s rights. Vox / Via youtube.com Since 1979, all women in Iran have been required to cover their hair in public. Vox / Via youtube.com In 2014, approximately 3.6 million women in…
As a recent Peace Corps volunteer in the DR, stationed near the border of Haiti, I have a very personal perspective on this issue. This may be hard to believe for most Americans, but racism in the DR is much worse than racism here in the United States. The idea of being black in the…
The leader of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP is being accused of pretending to be a black woman. The mother of Rachel Dolezal has come forward to assert that her daughter is actually a white woman who has pretended to be black for the last nine or so years. Rachel Dolezal’s mother spoke…
Photo Rachel Dolezal, center, president of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., before the start of a Black Lives Matter Teach-In in January. Credit Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review, via Associated Press The parents of a civil rights activist in Spokane, Wash., say their daughter has misrepresented herself as black for years, spurring a growing discussion on social…
More than a dozen editions of the book of Mein Kampf have circulated through India, translated into various languages such as Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali. The English edition distributed by publishing house Jaico sold more than a hundred thousand copies between 2003 and 2010. “ The ebook version has been topping the charts, surpassing…
Female perfection is thin and white and has long hair, big tits, blue eyes, no cellulite and perfectly proportioned features and limbs — or so we’re told. Women spend a ridiculous amount of time aspiring to a state of being that will always be denied us unless we possess exceptional genes or enough cash to…
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A US critic who claimed that “women don’t get Goodfellas” has been at the centre of a Twitter storm after his article was published yesterday. In a piece called Women are not capable of understanding GoodFellas, Kyle Smith, the New York Post’s chief film critic, refers to women as “the sensitivity police” who would disapprove…
Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images According to a new report, minorities who work in retail earn less and are less likely to be promoted than their white counterparts. The study, released yesterday by the NAACP and public-policy group Demos, found that retailers pay black and Latino full-time salespeople about 75 percent of what they pay…
The Nobel laureate Tim Hunt has apologised for comments he made about female scientists. Hunt had told a conference he had a reputation for being a chauvinist, before saying: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall…