Tourmaline on Transgender Storytelling, David France, and the Netflix Marsha P. Johnson Documentary
"Too often, people with resources who already have a platform become the ones to tell the stories of those at the margins."
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers & Francis Stewart’s Censored Photographs of a WWII Japanese Internment Camp
In places where atrocities or widespread human rights violations occur, we sometimes hear ordinary citizens later claim they didn’t know what was going on. In the case of the internment…
Michigan rapist gets joint custody
A Sanilac County Circuit judge has granted parenting time and joint legal custody of an 8-year-old boy to a convicted sex offender who allegedly raped the child’s mother nine years…
With fewer farmhands, Michigan farmers more willing to buy worker visas
“I know they are legal,” Leitz said of his H-2A workers. “If ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes in at least I know I still have workers.” Thus far,…
Ghostbusters is a Surprising Antidote to Lovecraft’s Dismal Worldview
Ghostbusters is a perfectly structured film. Desire lines are clear scene by scene. Act breaks are sharp and propulsive. Every payoff is set up early in the film, including Mr. Stay-Puft. The…
Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read
How to “glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”
Someone dressed as the Monopoly mascot and photobombed the Equifax senate hearing
Rich Uncle Pennybags may have stolen the show at Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Senate Finance Committee testimony. {read} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRsXN8kUX0
Why All Writers Should Play Dungeons & Dragons
Roleplaying games, once considered nerdy, are getting popular—and for writers, readers, and storytellers, they’re full of potential. {read}
They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
McGahey had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery. People called it “the Chicken Farm,” a rural retreat where defendants stayed for a year, got addiction treatment and learned…