Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Dear friends, a horrid assault was perpetrated against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, who had published caricatures of Mohamed, by men who screamed that they had “avenged the prophet”. A wave of compassion followed but apparently died shortly afterward and all sorts of criticism started pouring down the web against Charlie Hebdo, who was described…
You may know, after the attack on the kosher supermarket during the Charlie Hebdo assault, that French Jews have faced discrimination and attacks for years. What you may not know is the scale of France’s anti-Semitism problem. This statistics, in Natasha Lehrer’s big Guardianfeature on anti-Semitism in France, puts it in context: Half of all…
In U.S. academia, fields that cherish sheer genius shun women By Will Dunham WASHINGTON Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:50pm EST Tweet Share this Email Print Graduates from Columbia University’s School of Journalism cheer during the university’s commencement ceremony in New York in this May 16, 2012 file photo. Credit: Reuters/Keith Bedford/Files WASHINGTON (Reuters) –…
Photo Terry Richardson’s photograph of Miranda Kerr, on the cover of the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar.Credit It’s been a big week for forgiveness in fashion: John Galliano made his reappearance on the runway under the aegis of Maison Margiela, and the American Harper’s Bazaar and Rolling Stone unveiled their latest covers, courtesy of the…
Terry Richardson’s eight-month exile from the covers of mainstream American magazines has come to an end, with his work fronting the February issues of both Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar. The controversial photographer shot at least 10 mainstream U.S. covers in 2013, but work dried up in the spring of 2014, after the latest and…
REALLY?! 01.15.15 InTouch Puts Transphobia on Its Cover with Bruce Jenner Photoshop On the heels of a Golden Globe win for ‘Transparent,’ praise for the Jolie-Pitts’ support of their child going by ‘John,’ and the year Laverne Cox ruled, InTouch proved it’s nothing but out of touch. Bruce Jenner’s gender is the papal white smoke…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community?Would the technology industry be different? Would we? And what can the technology industry do now to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? I met Bob Hoover one sunny Friday afternoon when…
It’s a little confusing. The cover of the next Charlie Hebdo features a cartoon of Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign under the headline “Tout est Pardonné” (“All Is Forgiven”), which is a little confusing. Who, exactly, is forgiving whom? According to Charlie Hebdo columnist Zineb El Rhazoui, the drawing is a call to forgive gunmen Chérif and Saïd…
DeRay McKesson, a Minneapolis school administrator, has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Reuters, and The Atlantic, and gained more than 61,000 Twitter followers over the past five months. It’s all thanks to his frequent bursts of 140-character insight about the #blacklivesmatter movement, which sprung up after police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, a black 18 year old,…
Fewer than 1 in 5 members of corporate boards at major companies are women, according to a new census of board members by Catalyst, a non-profit organization that promotes women in business leadership. The further up the corporate ladder, you look, the scarcer and scarcer women become — while women make up 45 percent of the…