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Ashers Bakery lost a court case after refusing to make a cake with the words “support gay marriage” above a picture of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street. The McArthur family who own the bakery were found guilty of unlawful discrimination and fined £500. The bakery’s general manager Daniel McArthur said: “We don’t want to…
After breaking the news about her first post-grad, post-mattress artwork, a video that shows two people—one of whom is Sulkowicz—engaged in sexual activity, some of which alludes to rape (see Emma Sulkowicz Dives Into Art After Mattress Performance with Rape-Referencing Video), artnet News caught up with Emma Sulkowicz to discuss the video. The recent Columbia graduate, who…
Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who has taken the Internet by storm thanks to her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight, released a video, which shows two people, one of whom appears to be Sulkowicz, engaged in sexual activity, some of which alludes to rape and can be difficult to watch at…
A junior at Fort Myers High School in Florida has learned an important lesson about academic achievement, striving for success, and standing up for yourself. And that lesson is that if a bunch of adults decide your bare shoulders are in violation of a dress code, then all that stuff doesn’t matter because you broke…
America has responded mostly positively to Caitlyn Jenner’s transition into womanhood and her wishes to use female pronouns when referring to herself. On last night’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart lauded her bravery and as an official welcome to American womanhood listed off the media outlets immediately commenting on – and reducing her to –…
Witcher 3 is a fun game. It is also a game almost exclusively about white people. There are white humans, white elves, and white dwarfs with Scottish accents, and about a hundred different types of monsters that come in all shapes, sizes and colors of the rainbow. While playing the game you will encounter many…
Ellie Evangelista loves dressing up as her favorite superhero, Spider-Man. View Full Caption Courtesy of Margaret Ryan HUDSON HEIGHTS — She’s just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Like many 4-year-olds, Hudson Heights resident Ellie Evangelista loves to dress up like her favorite superhero and act out scenes of Spider-Man’s death-defying bravery. Then some boys…
by Jessica Goldstein Posted on June 3, 2015 at 10:03 am “Cameron Crowe Responds To Accusations Of Whitewashing In ‘Aloha’” CREDIT: Columbia Pictures/Allstar Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, has not been received well by the filmgoing public. Is this because Crowe made a really lousy movie? Well, he did, but the real outcry here is about a…
I bet that, for most of you, nothing would feel weirder than having your dad or brother tell you he’s now a woman. And for a certain percentage of people, the reaction to that news would be violent. The reality is that the entire concept of transgender people makes folks very uncomfortable, which means we’re…
Survival indie MMO Rust recently changed how players were assigned characteristics for their avatar. Everyone used to start as a bald white man, then the developers decided to alter avatars’ race and face. Here’s the catch: You don’t get to choose. As lead developer and studio owner Garry Newman wrote: “Everyone now has a pseudo…