Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent
The blunt power of the gatekeeper is the ability to enforce not just artistic, but also financial, exile. It’s not these bad men. Or that dirty industry. It’s this inhumane…
Meet the new hotshots of American film-making
Rees nods, “It’s like my dad would say: ‘You have to work twice as hard to get half as far.’ As a woman, you are presumed incompetent until proven otherwise.…
The Amazon Bidding Game
by Brian McFadden {read}
How I Missed Out On Over $350,000 Working in Technology
It’s been a weird and windy road since my 11-year-old-self lost a chess match to an IBM 360 in 1970. Let me be upfront about this — my degree is…
Children are straitjacketed into gender roles in early adolescence, says study
Global study finds girls are considered vulnerable and protected, while boys are set free to roam and explore, with lifelong consequences patriarchy is bad for everyone …The researchers found that…
Half a Million March in Massive Uprising Against Spanish Plan to Overtake Catalonia
Catalans did not take the news that Spanish Prime Minister will move to impose direct rule on their region quietly.
The Invention of Monogamy
by Isabella Rotman and Sarah Mirk For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women. {read comic}
Opinion | Dear Men: It’s You, Too
The least you could do is speak up about the horror of sexual violence, the lies that blame women and your complicity in all of it.
Opinion | Lupita Nyong’o: Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein
I don’t feel alone anymore. Let us never shut up about this.