Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
An FBI crackdown and skyrocketing rents in San Francisco are forcing them to take side jobs—like driving for Uber—or leave. It’s a story built for headlines: Monied men in Silicon Valley create a demand for highly compensated sex work that can easily be coordinated using the same apps and services they create at their desk…
Last week, I wrote a piece called “Quiet Ladies. @Wadhwa is speaking now.” It was about this guy, Vivek Wadhwa, who has appointed himself the spokesMAN for women in tech. The Wadhwa piece was massively popular! I got a lot of fanmail – people told me I was “their new hero”, that “I was “brilliant”…
Courtesy of the press assets on Wadhwa’s bio page. Many tech feminists (such as myself) like to mock Vivek Wadhwa as “The Guy Who Gets Paid to Talk About Women in Tech,” but what he does is a serious problem that hurts women in tech in tangible ways. By appointing himself the unwanted spokesman for…
A year ago, I wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer about female runner harassment. I didn’t offer safety tips. Instead, I called for us to take the blame off women who were harassed and hoisting it on to the people doing the harassing. To prove that point, I wrote about what had happened to me…
Just, no. 10 Times Reporters Asked Female Celebrities The Wrong Damn Question.
This weekend, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video on YouTube outlining his plans to murder me. I know his real name. I documented it and sent it to law enforcement, praying something is finally done. I have received these death threats and 43 others in the last five months. This experience is the basis of a Law & Order episode…
Women using Uber just can’t catch a break—even if they’re behind the wheel. An unsettling new BuzzFeed report discovered that some predatory Uber riders are abusing the company’s lost-and-found system to track down and harass female drivers after their rides have ended. As BuzzFeed reports, the Twilio contact numbers generated by Uber’s lost-and-found system are supposed to expire shortly after a ride,…
Penny Proud, who was fatally shot early Tuesday in New Orleans, is the fifth transgender woman of color in the United States to be killed within the past month, according to anti-violence and LGBT organizations mourning her death. A vigil for Proud on Tuesday was promoted on Twitter, where many mourned the accelerating succession of…
Written by Luna of Cairo, illustrated by Leela Corman The Bellydancer’s President: Struggle and sexism on the streets of Sisi’s Egypt — The Nib — Medium.
For the past eight years, TechCrunch has hosted a bizarro tech world version of the Oscars called the Crunchies. The industry gets all dolled up, walks the “green carpet,” and watches Silicon Valley insiders present trophies for categories like “Best On-Demand Service” and “Best Overall Startup.” At the eighth annual Crunchies last Thursday, the best startup…