Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Outdoor advertising in 2011. Photo via Getty Images. Paris will not have “sexist and discriminatory” ads cluttering up its outdoor space, thank you very much. Business Insider reports that the Council of Paris just signed off on a new contract to handle outdoor advertising throughout the city. But first the winner, JCDecaux, had to agree…
Photo: AP Two anti-abortion activists who secretly filmed themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood were charged Tuesday with 15 felonies by California prosecutors who say that their videos invaded the privacy of medical professionals by filming without their consent. The Associated Press reports that the allegations against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt,…
At the startup where software developer Jen used to work, the presence of human resources was, to use her words, “a joke.” (“Jen,” it should be noted, is a pseudonym.) “One of my coworkers would say, ‘If you have an HR issue, go to [the lead developer] and sit on his lap,’” she told Motherboard….
Last February, long before she stepped down as CEO of Thinx, the period underwear company she co-founded, Miki Agrawal published an open letter on Medium asking women in media “to Respectfully Quit Telling Me How to ‘Do Feminism’ (and just support one another, please!)” Without naming names, the post alluded to the online backlash that…
Michelle Wolf is skeptical that Ivanka Trump will bring female empowerment to White House policy. Source: Ivanka Trump’s Fake Feminism-The Daily Show with Trevor Noah – Video Clip | Comedy Central
A Twitter thread has gotten some attention recently, where my former-coworker / current-best friend, Marty, recounted the day he realized just how bad, and insidious, workplace sexism could be. After noticing that a client was treating him like crap while his email signature was accidentally set to my name, we came up with an experiment….
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container End Google Tag Manager Container Amazon has never ordered a show straight to series from a woman. Why? On paper, it seems pretty reasonable that Amazon Studios asked Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino to produce a pilot episode of her new…
After a fucking creep won the Oscar, he received a standing ovation from the audience. Brie Larson was also standing, behind him, with her hands firmly at her sides. The Internet was littered with gifs and pics of Larson imitating a tin soldier back there, and many suggested she was silently protesting the Academy Award…
Win McNamee/Getty Images On International Women’s Day, President “Grab ’Em by the Pussy” took to Twitter to express his support for women. “I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy,” he tweeted Wednesday morning. “On International Women’s Day, join…
Illustration: Jim Cooke There are bad tweets every day of the year, but this is the day that we celebrate the bad tweets that were tweeted today: International Women’s Day. Thank you to everyone for their tweets. core-decorated Reporter, Special Projects Desk PGP Fingerprint: E6A2 8CF9 9829 649D A52E 3D40 F960 DDD5 7026|PGP Key …