Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
To be Muslim in 2016 America is to feel like eyes are always on you; like a task as simple as driving a car could end in murder; like any given day you might need to plead for your life with a racist neighbor. Imagine that people who look like you, speak like you,…
I had no idea how truly dangerous the Alt-Right was, or that it even existed, until it discovered me. I expected a backlash when I began writing a blog about what it’s like to live with genital herpes. Speaking from personal experience about a taboo topic like sexually transmitted infections was never going to be easy,…
Photo Gretchen Carlson, a former anchor at Fox News, filed suit on July 6, leading to Roger Ailes’s ouster two weeks later. Credit Bryan Anselm for The New York Times The parent company of Fox News said on Tuesday that it had settled a lawsuit with its former anchor Gretchen Carlson, who said that Roger…
By now we’ve all heard Lena Dunham’s comments from an interview she participated in with Amy Schumer where the two discussed NFL star New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who Dunham was seated next to at the Met Gala last week. What the comments boil down to is yet another example of entitlement and…
It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history. Ailes built not just a conservative cable news channel but something like a fourth branch of government; a propaganda arm for the GOP; an organization that determined Republican…
The 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street” received harsh criticism for its depiction of women as two-dimensional trophy wives, money-grubbing secretaries who sleep with their bosses, and prostitutes and strippers who served as a backdrop to a group of drug-fueled man-child stock brokers. But Martin Scorsese’s depiction of Reagan-era excess in America’s financial capital,…
Despite progress in recent decades, women remain underrepresented (or not represented at all) in many aspects of political and civic life. In the United States, the current Congress is about 20 percent female; there has not (yet) been a female president (out of 44 in total); and the first female Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day…
Matt, a father in his early 40s with soulful eyes, thinning hair and a ready smile, is doing his best to explain why he has a more intense relationship with his son than he does with his daughter. Over a mojito at a bar in Brooklyn, near the flat he shares with his wife and…
Michelle Tan, the editor in chief of Seventeen, has been let go after about two years in the job, WWD has learned. A spokeswoman from Hearst declined to comment but did confirm the departure. Tan, who joined Hearst in November 2014, came from Time Inc.’s People where she served as special projects editor. At Hearst,…
Chance the Rapper is awesome. Not only does he have the kind of music that makes hip-hop exciting again, with his horns, his elastic lyricism and his constant praise of the most high, but he’s also got the kind of personality that can’t be ignored. He’s lovable, humble and hilarious. All of the goodness of…