Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When I speak about my personal experiences with subtle and covert forms of discrimination, also known as microaggressions (see previous entry), I am often challenged about my interpretations. Is it possible, they may ask, that the behavior exhibited by the person you described had nothing to do with discrimination? Aren’t there many other logical reasons…
Photo Credit Photo illustration by Andrew B. Myers. Prop stylist: Sonia Rentsch. close shareTools As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the…
By Brendan O’Connor on February 8th, 2015 There is a lot of sex on the Internet. There are teenagers making love to Hot Pockets on Vine and 27-year-old medical students auctioning off their virginity. There are hookup apps and dating apps. But there are also just… people. People talking—chatting, tweeting, and commenting. And wherever you…
How much sympathy you have for this woman probably depends on whether you feel the universe is a just place. Photograph: Alamy If you’ve been following the news recently, you know that human beings are terrible and everything is appalling. Yet the sheer range of ways we find to sabotage our efforts to make the…