Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Marvel Comics wants to steer clear of politics. Even in the introduction to an anthology spanning the period of time during and immediately after World War II.
Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949 was originally supposed to include an intro penned by Art... ...
Instagram is usually built around blurring the line between fantasy and reality in all the wrong ways.
Scrolling through your feed now is like an endless barrage of monotonous everyday ******** framed and filtered to look like perfect, impossible ide... ...
Ibram X. Kendi is a black man and an award-winning scholar who's studied the history of racist ideas. Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Kendi, by virtue of his identity and life experiences, couldn't be racist himself.
In his late... ...
Like everyone else who's not a monster, Lady Gaga is deeply distraught following the recent spate of mass shootings. On Friday, she pledged to do something about it.
In a Facebook post, Gaga announced her intent to "fully fund the classroom project n... ...
Hanna Seidel was 13 years old when she was upskirted by a teacher from another school during a school trip. When she was 16, she was upskirted a second time at a festival.
"I still remember the incident at 16 very well," says Seidel, who's now ... ...
We're more than a year away from the 2020 presidential election, and some U.S. social media users already want to hit the snooze button on politics.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that 46 percent of U.S. social media users feel "worn... ...
An internal Google memo in which an employee alleges discrimination and retaliation for pregnancy has gone viral within company message boards, according to a report from Motherboard.
Entitled "I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave,... ...
Freelance journalist Alessandra Bocchi posted this video of protesters in Hong Kong using some kind of laser to target security forces' cameras: it's part of the #612strike movement's stunning repertoire of improvised anti-police countermeasures, in a near-civil-war where faces have become a battleground.
Hong Kong protestors are on another level. ...
Two artists installed seesaws that cross the border wall between the United States and Mexico, enabling children from both countries to play together. The brilliant creative intervention was created by Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, a design professor at San Jose State University. From
Evan Greer from Fight for the Future writes, "****** recognition might be the most invasive and dangerous form of surveillance tech ever invented. While it's been in the headlines lately, most of us still don't know whether it's happening in our area. My organization Fight for the Future has compiled an interactive map that shows ...