Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The year 2000 was a good time to be an Arab-American Republican. For the first time in the community’s history, a presidential candidate had come courting. Then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was determined to woo Michigan’s Arab-American voters in the run-up to that November’s election, which meant targeting Dearborn, the vote-rich Detroit suburb where one-third…
Four years ago, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Gabby Douglas became the first black American woman to win gymnastics’ most prestigious title: Olympic individual all-around champion. She was 16 at the time, a bundle of flash and grace in a metallic leotard. Looking back at her best event, the uneven bars, is like…
The trailer for new film Hidden Figures debuted this weekend and, I kid you not, watching it gives me chills. The film, which is landing in theaters in January 2017, is based on the true story of African American women who worked as mathematicians and engineers for NASA in the 1960s. They were the original…
Friends of Juanita Broaddrick protest on the sidewalk in front of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate campaign headquarters in New York, Aug. 19, 2000. Photo via AP BuzzFeed’s Katie J.M. Baker just published an excellent, nuanced and confounding profile of Juanita Broaddrick, the 73-year-old Arkansas woman who has said for years that Bill Clinton raped her….
Don’t stop thinkin’ about the ’90s Buzzfeed has a long, interesting interview with Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says Bill Clinton raped her in an Arkansas hotel room almost 40 years ago. Maybe this case has always bugged you too, because we are supposed to believe women when it comes to rape. (For the record,…
Normani Kordei, a member of the girl group on the rise Fifth Harmony, sat for a lighthearted Facebook Live interview earlier this month. Within a week, she had been chased off Twitter by a mob spewing racist insults. “I’ve not just been cyber bullied, I’ve been racially cyber bullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially…
These stories do not reflect my life, nor the lives of most of the queer women I know. But life has a frightening tendency to imitate art. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that 2015 had the highest levels of violence against the L.G.B.T. community since 2011, the most frequent victims being transgender women…
In the first week of August, just as Hillary Clinton began to pull ahead significantly in the polls, Donald Trump prophylactically claimed that the only way he will lose in November is if Clinton cheats her way to victory. “I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Gabby Douglas had just completed the last routine and last post-competition interview of her Olympic career, and her eyes were puddling up with tears after someone asked her about the latest wave of criticism she had caught back in the U.S. “I tried to stay off the internet because there’s just…
Robles, who is Mexican-American, said before the games that she wanted to inspire other Latinos. “As an Olympic athlete, I represent all Americans, but representing Latinos and Latinas is a great honor.” Robles’ medal is even more monumental considering that no American man has medaled since 1984, Deadspin noted. Only two American women ― Tara…