Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Coercion is not consent. It is sexual abuse. It is sexual assault. It is rape. And “no” is a complete motherfucking sentence. [TW/CW: Descriptions of sexual assault, violence and rape culture.] With each 24-hour breaking news cycle I wait for the inevitable fall of another admired hero. I’ve almost gotten used to the gut-punch…
She approached him because she recognized his camera flash — Aziz Ansari was taking pictures at the 2017 Emmy Awards after-party with a film camera, not a digital one. “I stood up, and I’m like tipsy at this point and feeling really confident. I’m in a gown, and I walked up to Aziz and said,…
Cover Photo What do we know about her? Tonya Harding, shown at Mountain View Ice Arena in Vancouver, Wash., is back in the spotlight and has a few things she would like to clear up. Credit Kyle Johnson for The New York Times In the movie, “I, Tonya,” the disgraced figure skater looks back on…
THIS BLOCK CONTROLS THE APPEARANCE OF THE BIG TOPPER IMAGE ELEMENTS HERE DISPLAY ON TOP OF THE LEAD ART Five women accuse actor James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior By Daniel Miller and Amy Kaufman Jan 11, 2018 THIS FIGCAPTION DISAPPEARS ON MOBILE James Franco. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) ELEMENTS…
The “Sh–ty Media Men” list is back in the news. And the second chapter of its story has been as fraught as the first. Three months ago, a crowd-sourced spreadsheet of men in media who preyed on their female colleagues took over the Internet — until all the shouting about what had been designed as a whisper…
A demonstrator takes part in a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It was a classic social media firestorm. On the afternoon of Jan. 9, Dayna Tortorici, the editor of n+1 magazine, tweeted: “It’s come to my attention that a legacy print…
In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document was a first attempt at solving what has seemed like an intractable problem: how women can protect ourselves from sexual…
GIF Image via ABC. During an interview with ABC’s Laura Spencer on the Golden Globes red carpet early Sunday evening, actor David Harbour (best known as the sheriff on Stranger Things) was asked what “Time’s Up” meant to him. Though he may not have known it at the time, his response was a perfect distillation…
On the morning of March 31, 2016, I put on a pair of Gap jeans (the ones without holes); a beige silky top I’d bought at the Gap outlet in Sedona, Ariz., where I had briefly lived; and a short-waisted gray zip-up jacket. I parted my hair on the right, as I always do, and…
In 2016 I noticed something odd on Twitter — without context or explanation, Andrea Shepard, a Tor developer, had posted a string of random letters and numbers. Some days later, news broke that the Tor Project had cut ties with Jake Appelbaum, a lauded activist and the most high-profile of their developers, in response to allegations of…