This piece was originally published as Waffen und Brüste: Kultureller Imperialismus und die Regulierung von Sprache auf kommerziellen Plattformen in the Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2014. I am republishing it today because I was looking for it as a reference and realized it wasn’t available in English. When celebrity comedienne Chelsea Handler wanted to make a statement […]
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On Buzzfeed and misogyny
It seems like only yesterday that, at least in my friend circles, mocking Buzzfeed was a spectator sport. Then came writers (several of whom I count as friends) like Hayes Brown and Tom Gara, Sara Yasin and Jina Moore and Sheera Frankel, and I could no longer ignore their news section. And many of their […]
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I am a migrant, but.
I am a migrant amongst migrants but I don’t have to beg borrow or prove myself I don’t have to stand in the cold waiting with hope for someone to let me pass I am a migrant but I walked right in blue passport in hand while they welcomed me with nothing more than […]