Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yesterday, Vox published a first-person essay detailing the anachronistic existence of two insufferably twee hipsters who live as if they were insufferably twee 19th-century urban gentry. Fuck these people. Please read the article first, but in summary: Two assholes decided to live like extras in The Knick, and defend themselves against their haters by espousing…
Hupso Share Buttons – http://www.hupso.com/share/ Hupso Share Buttons You’ve seen them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook — memes that divide black women up by respectable vs ratchet, heaping praise on the former and disgust on the latter. They dictate how black women should act and mercilessly shame those who don’t fit the mold, concluding…
Plumbing Trump’s psyche is as productive as asking American Pharoah why he runs. The point is what happens when he does. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann Barrier Status: ‘none’ On July 23rd, Donald Trump’s red-white-and-navy-blue Boeing 757 touched down in Laredo, Texas, where the temperature was climbing to a hundred and four degrees. In…
Steve Harvey Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Neighborhood Awards /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr What could possibly go wrong when you gather 2,000 men to air their grievances about women? Well, apparently Steve Harvey has become the official president of the “He-Man Woman-Haters Club,” based on details that have emerged about a recent taping for an upcoming Steve…
At its heart, white supremacy is not about white hoods and burning crosses. EVEN AS SOUTHERN states—and GOP candidates—jumped through hoops to distance themselves from the Confederate flag, a backlash erupted among those claiming the flag was merely a symbol of “heritage.” Battle-flag waving Southerners (and Confederacy sympathizers) seemed to leap at the opportunity to…
Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race…
“Video games are a boy thing,” my sister explains to me. “I feel like it’s a known fact. GameStop is a boy store. The commercials are for boys. It’s just something everyone knows.” My sister is 17. She runs a One Direction fan Twitter with 10,000 followers. She plans to major in fashion marketing. She’s…
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of young Mike Brown and the uprisings it sparked in Ferguson, much-needed conversations about race that have occurred as a result are increasingly on our lips and our smartphone screens. As an actress and writer who is black, and whose work often addresses race, I aim…
Courtesy of Marvel (Evans, Pratt); Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (Cooper); From Moviestore/Rex/Rex USA (Taylor-Johnson). The lack of equality in talent behind the cameras in Hollywood has been at the center of conversation many times this year. And while we know that kind of inequality bleeds into the stories we see in front of the…
Twitter campaign #TakeUsDown fights back against idea that men are oppressive A new Twitter campaign takes aim at the idea that white men are oppressive and privileged. Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who left the company in 2007, launched the campaign last week which uses the hashtag #TakeUsDown and features dozens of pictures of white men—and even babies and boys—lying face…