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Tommy Wiseau’s Amazing Joker Audition Proves He’s the Only One for the Role –...
Oh hai, Batman. Last month, Variety reported that Hangover director Todd Phillips was in talks with Joaquin Phoenix to star in the stand-alone Joker origin film—a compelling choice to play the Batman...
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Men Legally Allowed to Finish Sex Even If Woman Revokes Consent, NC Law...
North Carolina is the one state where the law explicitly says you cannot revoke consent once it’s given. A bill that would remove this “unacceptable loophole” has little traction. Photo by Simone...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Bizarre Scooter War Shows How Tech Companies Ignore the Law –...
A pair of women ride a LimeBike scooter. Photo by the author The Bay Area serves as America’s sandbox. The tech world’s most far-fetched ideas are often sketched and tested here, and if they’re...
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GOP Rep. Rohrabacher Has Thoughts About Housing Discrimination
Photo: Getty California congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who said last week that people should be “open to all points of view” when it comes to the cause of global warming, thinks it’s fine if people...
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What Separating Migrant Families at the Border Actually Looks Like – VICE
Earlier this month, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to prosecute “100 percent” of migrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, it became official US policy to routinely separate...
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Imagining a Better Boyhood – The Atlantic
In hindsight, our son was gearing up to wear a dress to school for quite some time. For months, he wore dresses—or his purple-and-green mermaid costume—on weekends and after school. Then he began...
View ArticlePride Month 2018: YouTube runs ‘anti-LGBT ads’ while demonetising transgender...
‘Sometimes our systems get it wrong’, says spokesperson for video streaming giant YouTube has been accused of preventing videos that contain LGBT+ related words from making money, by popular users of...
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YouTube Is Running ‘Anti-LGBT’ Ads Alongside Videos By LGBT Creators
(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) It’s officially the beginning of Pride month; however, the celebrations at YouTube appear to be lukewarm at best. The video streaming platform, which has long...
View ArticleTrump Has Quietly Cut Legal Aid for Migrant Kids Separated from Parents – VICE
Left: Migrant children at a Kansas City detention center in 2014. Photo by AP/Eric Gay, File. Right: Donald Trump. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty When the Trump administration announced this month it...
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Who Is Jesse Singal? On The Atlantic’s Transphobic Cover Story
Graphic: Jim Cooke (The Atlantic) If you must know one thing about journalist Jesse Singal, it’s that he loves reporting on trans issues—trans kids, in particular. If you must know another thing, it’s...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson is going to play a trans man — and just responded to...
Scarlett Johansson has landed herself in hot water over her newest movie role — and didn’t exactly respond to criticism in the most thoughtful way. In early 2017, Johansson faced widespread...
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After My Ex Stalked Me Online, I Saw The Dark Side Of Romantic Obsession –...
Thanks to a childhood spent watching romantic comedies with forceful male leads, I thought love was persistent and never gave up—until my ex stalked me after our breakup. Illustration by Calum Heath...
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The Queer Art of Failing Better | Laurie Penny
‘What? You just said you have never shopped for a fucking mattress?!’ —Jonathan Van Ness, Queer Eye, Season 1 Such an effort If he only knew of my plan In just seven days I can make you a man —Dr....
View ArticleHow ‘Both Sides’ Journalism Is Failing Transgender People
Imagine a group of people who believe that manatees are destroying civilization. Even though there is abundant evidence showing that humans endanger manatees and not vice versa, this hypothetical...
View ArticleRent in Brooklyn Is Finally Kind of Sort of Going Down a Little Thanks to the...
Getty Images. Photo by Drew Angerer In early 2019 the L train in New York City will shut down for 15 months to repair damage caused during Hurricane Sandy. Leading up to the closure, VICE will be...
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Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence – The New...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide...
View ArticleAmateur: How Do I Reconcile My Masculinity With The Toxicity of Men? – them.
I spent my entire 29th year in what I can only describe as a waking fever dream. This was 2010: the year before I began injecting testosterone, the year I picked my new name, my last year in San...
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This queer horror game forces you to literally tear yourself apart – The Verge
Early on in The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories, the heroine dies. For video games, this isn’t that unusual. What is unusual is what happens afterward: she picks herself up, snaps...
View ArticleAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Already Breaking the Rules – VICE
Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the fiery Democratic Socialist from the Bronx, toppled the ten-term incumbent in her New York district, analysts have wondered whether she can be as much of a...
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All The Dating Apps, Ranked by How Badly They’ll Disappoint You – VICE
This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Every single and lonely millennial is on at least two dating apps. Without them, it would be impossible to meet someone at a Time Out-approved Bavarian...
View ArticleThis Is What It Takes for a Trump Voter to Change Their Mind – VICE
“What does it take for a Donald Trump voter to renounce their decision?” is a question worth exploring as 2020 approaches, especially considering the fervency of his followers, who often seem less...
View ArticleLate Show: Ellen Page Slams Trump, Mike Pence For Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric |...
A “fired up” Ellen Page slammed the Trump administration, and in particular Vice President Mike Pence, for its anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric during an emotional interview on The Late Show on...
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‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Attacked, Police Investigating Possible Hate...
Rachel Luna/Getty Images At some point during the attack, one of the suspects wrapped a rope around the actor’s neck. Empire star Jussie Smollett was attacked early Tuesday morning in what Chicago...
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AirPods Are a Tragedy
AirPods are a product of the past. They’re plastic, made of some combination of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, and sulfur. They’re tungsten, tin, tantalum, lithium, and cobalt. The...
View ArticleNew Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’...
A harrowing scenario analysis of how human civilization might collapse in coming decades due to climate change has been endorsed by a former Australian defense chief and senior royal navy commander....
View ArticleGoogle Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’ – VICE
In a memo he sent before leaving the company, a former Google employee criticized the internet giant and its employees, noting that he regularly encountered racism during his experience as a Black...
View ArticleThe Anti-Trans Lobby’s Real Agenda
THIS YEAR, over 100 anti-transgender bills have been introduced in more than 25 state legislatures, the vast majority of them banning trans kids, especially girls, from participating in organized...
View ArticleSchools can bar trans athletes from elite teams, Biden administration...
The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new regulations that would allow schools to bar transgender athletes from participating in competitive high school and college sports, but disallow...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man,...
Long before the Supreme Court took up one of the last remaining cases it will decide this session—the 303 Creative v. Elenis case, concerning a Colorado web designer named Lorie Smith who refuses to...
View ArticleHealth Plans Must Cover Transgender Care, Fourth Cir. Says (2)
Two states’ health plans’ blanket coverage exclusions for gender-affirming care are unconstitutional, the full Fourth Circuit said Monday. A North Carolina state employee health plan violates the 14th...
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