Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Cover Photo What do we know about her? Tonya Harding, shown at Mountain View Ice Arena in Vancouver, Wash., is back in the spotlight and has a few things she would like to clear up. Credit Kyle Johnson for The New York Times In the movie, “I, Tonya,” the disgraced figure skater looks back on…
THIS BLOCK CONTROLS THE APPEARANCE OF THE BIG TOPPER IMAGE ELEMENTS HERE DISPLAY ON TOP OF THE LEAD ART Five women accuse actor James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior By Daniel Miller and Amy Kaufman Jan 11, 2018 THIS FIGCAPTION DISAPPEARS ON MOBILE James Franco. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) ELEMENTS…
The “Sh–ty Media Men” list is back in the news. And the second chapter of its story has been as fraught as the first. Three months ago, a crowd-sourced spreadsheet of men in media who preyed on their female colleagues took over the Internet — until all the shouting about what had been designed as a whisper…
A demonstrator takes part in a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It was a classic social media firestorm. On the afternoon of Jan. 9, Dayna Tortorici, the editor of n+1 magazine, tweeted: “It’s come to my attention that a legacy print…
In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document was a first attempt at solving what has seemed like an intractable problem: how women can protect ourselves from sexual…
We live in a pretty polarized era. The internet has turned the world into a gigantic family Thanksgiving table, and everyone’s fighting about pretty much everything, always, forever. I know this. And yet I still have to admit I’m surprised by the level of anger and vitriol I’ve seen regarding something that you’d think would…
Screengrab via Disney. Disney reportedly struggled to fill its male lead for Aladdin last summer. Perhaps it was all a clever marketing ploy to get the public invested, perhaps they wanted kudos for not immediately casting a white guy instead, but eventually, the role went to Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud. Now, what to do about…
GIF Image via ABC. During an interview with ABC’s Laura Spencer on the Golden Globes red carpet early Sunday evening, actor David Harbour (best known as the sheriff on Stranger Things) was asked what “Time’s Up” meant to him. Though he may not have known it at the time, his response was a perfect distillation…
On the morning of March 31, 2016, I put on a pair of Gap jeans (the ones without holes); a beige silky top I’d bought at the Gap outlet in Sedona, Ariz., where I had briefly lived; and a short-waisted gray zip-up jacket. I parted my hair on the right, as I always do, and…
This article is a recap of Black Mirror’s season four episode “USS Callister.” It contains spoilers and discussion regarding the episode’s plot. “USS Callister” is maybe the most hopeful Black Mirror episode this side of “San Junipero.” The premise: Everybody will be happier after white men die. The white men who are good will bravely sacrifice ourselves so that the people of color and…