Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photos: Lionsgate/Disney Here’s a tale that’s actually as old as time: Sometimes boys kiss boys and sometimes girls kiss girls. The mainstream cultural regard of same-sex love and attraction has experienced the steepest of narrative arcs in the past 100 years, from an almost total lack of acknowledgement to villainization to pity to begrudging acceptance…
Image via AP. A survey from the University of Texas at Austin found that fifteen percent of all undergraduate female students said they’ve been raped, the Dallas Morning News reports. To wit, the survey found that one in seven students said they were “raped, either through force, threat of force, incapacitation or other forms of…
Image via Albert Whitman & Company A North Carolina school district was going to use a book about a boy who wears dresses as part of its first grade curriculum on bullying. Wouldn’t that have been nice! Instead, school administrators pulled the book, called Jacob’s New Dress, following complaints from teachers and eventually, lawmakers. The…
Outdoor advertising in 2011. Photo via Getty Images. Paris will not have “sexist and discriminatory” ads cluttering up its outdoor space, thank you very much. Business Insider reports that the Council of Paris just signed off on a new contract to handle outdoor advertising throughout the city. But first the winner, JCDecaux, had to agree…
Photo: AP Two anti-abortion activists who secretly filmed themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood were charged Tuesday with 15 felonies by California prosecutors who say that their videos invaded the privacy of medical professionals by filming without their consent. The Associated Press reports that the allegations against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt,…
At the startup where software developer Jen used to work, the presence of human resources was, to use her words, “a joke.” (“Jen,” it should be noted, is a pseudonym.) “One of my coworkers would say, ‘If you have an HR issue, go to [the lead developer] and sit on his lap,’” she told Motherboard….
Sean Spicer said he didn’t “know all the details.” James Harris Jackson is arraigned in criminal court, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in New York. Jackson, accused of randomly killing Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man on the streets of New York by stabbing him with a sword, was charged Thursday with murder as a hate…
Cover Photo A Broadway opening-night picket of “Miss Saigon” in 1991. Credit Corky Lee The Battle of ‘Miss Saigon’: Yellowface, Art and Opportunity The musical — a love story set during the Vietnam War — ignited a fierce debate over the casting of a white actor in a Eurasian role. Now, it’s back on Broadway….
A handy list of things that you’re going to need to catch up on. Buck up, because it won’t be easy. Are you still reeling in shock at the presidential election results? Are you pulling at your hair wondering, “How did this country get so racist??” Are you posting statuses about how it is now time…
Amidst a consistent outpouring of protest from those who have had it up to HERE with movies that whitewash characters of color—and also with crappy anime adaptations—the marketing campaign for Ghost in the Shell is going full steam ahead. With fewer than three weeks to go until the film hits theaters, a new attempt to…