The list of reasons for women to be angry right now is long. Really long.
When women, especially black women, protest and express their anger, they are written off as hysterical or emotional. Meanwhile, white, privileged men like Brett Kavanaugh can …
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Women Warriors: A global movement against online misogyny
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Editor’s Note: This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.
Women around the world are harnessing the power of the internet to build a new set of digital ethics based on consent.
They include Katelyn Bowden in the U.S., who found out a year ago that intimate photos of her were posted online by a man who had allegedly stolen her boyfriend’s phone. And Emma Holten in Europe, whose intimate photos were leaked online after her identity was hijacked seven years ago. There’s also Saba Eitizaz, who was doxxed, threatened, and eventually forced to flee her home country of Pakistan Read more…
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Editor’s Note: This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.
Women around the world are harnessing the power of the internet to build a new set of digital ethics based on consent.
They include Katelyn Bowden in the U.S., who found out a year ago that intimate photos of her were posted online by a man who had allegedly stolen her boyfriend’s phone. And Emma Holten in Europe, whose intimate photos were leaked online after her identity was hijacked seven years ago. There’s also Saba Eitizaz, who was doxxed, threatened, and eventually forced to flee her home country of Pakistan Read more…
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View More How women across the globe are fighting back against revenge pornJouelzy is here to talk — and whether you’re a #SmartBrownGirl or not, you should listen
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This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.
In early May, Kanye West said something that made the nation groan — again.
“When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice,” he bellowed, voice echoing across the walls of the TMZ offices and broadcast on social media timelines. Fans were in an uproar, loyalists stood by the erratic remarks from their hero, while hip hop analysts argued the implications of a pioneer’s words.
Two months later, a vlogger who goes by the name Jouelzy uploaded a video to YouTube that shared a little over 10 minutes of discussion about West’s charged comments. That is a long time to wait before producing content that’s riffing off of a viral moment. Just think of how quickly we all cycle through challenges or memes online, and the insane speed at which we move on to the next big thing. Read more…
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View More Jouelzy is here to talk — and whether you’re a #SmartBrownGirl or not, you should listenDeepfakes are about to make revenge porn so much worse
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This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.
When the world realized late last year that you could convincingly superimpose one person’s face onto another person’s face in a video, it was because men used the “deepfake” technology to force their favorite actresses to appear in their pornography of choice. Of course, they boasted about it on Reddit and 4chan, which prompted a frantic debate about the ethics of using artificial intelligence to swap people’s faces — and identities.
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Editor’s Note: This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. The internet can be dark and full of terrors for women, but it also provides a platform to be heard and connect.
When the internet metamorphoses into a hate-filled wasteland where strangers hurl the most vicious comments imaginable, the words “hope” or “love” can feel entirely alien to the experience of women online
For many women, simply existing in an online space and voicing an opinion can render them a target for abuse. Those targets include: Women of colour, women in the LGBTQ community, liberal women, conservative women, women fighting for reproductive rights, women speaking up about sexual assault, women taking a stand against misogyny and sexism, women with opinions, women who are just doing their job. Women are not the only people subjected to online harassment and abuse — and whose experience of the internet is warped by efforts to silence and shout them down — but for women who speak up, the internet can exacerbate the sexism, both overt and subtle, that they face in real life. Read more…
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I will never forget the first time I became Nancy Drew.
As a little girl, I wasn’t allowed to play video games — which meant I played video games, but only through well-executed schemes. At the crux of my early, forbidden play experiences was the Nancy Drew computer game series. I’d sneak them into the Scholastic book order forms we’d get at school, right under my parents’ noses.
While the rest of the house slept, I sleuthed until night turned into dawn. By the light of the blue screen, I squinted at hastily written notes scrawled down in a notebook about potential leads. I questioned suspects with a balance of skepticism and open mindedness, because that’s how you got to the bottom of things. Read more…
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View More Nancy Drew is the most important game series no one talks aboutAva DuVernay invites male directors ‘feeling discriminated against’ to go ahead and sue her
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Ava DuVernay is going to hire women, whether male directors like it or not. And if they don’t? Well, they can go ahead and sue her.
While accepting the Woman of Vision award during Thursday’s Gloria Awards, the Wrinkle in Time director told the audience that she’d once received a call from a male director during which he told her “there [had] been some complaints” about her favoring female directors for her show, Queen Sugar. Her own damn show!
But that classic male audacity didn’t phase DuVernay. “Thank you, friend, thank you for that call,” she said, per Vanity Fair. “I invite you to tell whoever is feeling discriminated against to sue me so that I can sue every studio that has left women out. Because we can do this, if that’s what you want to do.” Read more…
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