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Sad Puppies & Donald Trump

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 No Comments

Amanda Marcotte makes an link between GOP nominee hopeful Donald Trump and the ‘Sad/Rabid Puppies’ over on the Slate: As Jeet Heer at the New Republic notes in a piece about Donald Trump, this kind of reactionary rhetoric is often framed as populist, but it is in fact “the voice of aggrieved privilege—of those who already are doing […]

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Big Business Government Popcorn Time Privacy Privilege

In the Public Interest

June 2, 2015 No Comments

Fintan O’Toole in the Times: ‘I don’t know what the definition of public interest is.” Thus said Alan Dukes, former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank/IBRC on Morning Ireland yesterday. Dukes was appointed as “public interest director” at Anglo in December 2009. Says it all really. The definition of excessive private power is that it ceases […]

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Arts Life People Privilege

Brave

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 No Comments

Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new […]

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Arts Equality Photography Privilege Society

Boundaries

March 3, 2015March 6, 2015 No Comments

“Boundaries” is a project by photographer Allaire Bartel that aims to capture what it feels like to be a woman in an atmosphere of male entitlement. The Pittsburgh-based photographer tells us that the project started last year during a mentoring program that had “boundaries” as the theme. At the time, there was a lot of […]

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Sad Puppies & Donald Trump

In the Public Interest

Brave

Boundaries

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Sad Puppies & Donald Trump

In the Public Interest

Brave

Boundaries