Kim Wall: Woman Journalist and Hero, A Reading List

Recently shared with me...

"Let’s remember Kim Wall by the great journalism she did and the impact she made.

The Guardian

• Asian, queer and dancing defiance: 'Everything we do now is resistance'
• It's not about sex, it's about identity: why furries are unique among fan cultures
• Biohackers push life to the limits with DIY biology
• Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people
• Bearded Villains: 'A beard is not a fad. It’s not fashion. It’s a lifestyle.'
• Too fat for fitness? Not when you're Roz the Diva, a pole dancing queen
• A day with Saira, one of the original topless painted ladies of New York City
• Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood
• This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it's leaking
• VIDEO: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/jul/03/dome-pacific-radioactive-waste-leaking-video
• Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators
• Welcome to Gibtown, the last 'freakshow' town in America
• Fetish lovers begging for freedom: 'Fifty Shades of Grey is our Stonewall moment'

Harper’s

How Cubans deliver culture without internet

https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/the-weekly-package/

Ghost Stories: Idi Amin’s torture chambers

https://harpers.org/blog/2016/12/ghost-stories/

New York Times

Fairy Tale Romances, Real and Staged

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/nyregion/fairy-tale-romances-real-and-staged.html?_r=0

Vice

Inside the Ugandan Mall at the Center of China's East African Investments

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gqzgd/chinatown-syndrome-v23n3

Tour Buses to Sri Lanka's Battlefields

https://www.vice.com/sv/article/kwp39n/tour-buses-to-sri-lankas-battlefields

Foreign Policy

When China’s Feminists Came to Washington

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/25/when-chinas-feminists-came-to-washington-womens-march-feminist-five-activism

The Atlantic

A Tourist in North Korea

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/north-korea-travel-tourism/382101/

Sex and the Law in China: 'The People Will Pull, and the Government Will Follow'

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/06/sex-and-the-law-in-china-the-people-will-pull-and-the-government-will-follow/276610/

TIME

http://time.com/author/kim-wall/

• Iceland Wins Hearts at Euro 2016 as Soccer's Global Underdog
• The Magic Kingdom Meets the Middle Kingdom in Shanghai Disneyland
• Haiti Sees Tourism Promises Fade Amidst Electoral Tensions

Slate - Roads and Kingdoms

Can this Tiny Island Restore Haitian Tourism?

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/haitian-tourism/

Hunting the Hunters

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2014/06/pardhis_help_hunt_india_s_tiger_poachers_these_poor_indian_outcasts_may.html

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Wo die Welt gerade untergeht (Kapitel 1)

http://gfx.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/2015-11-27_Marshallinseln/chapter01.html

Amerikas vergessenes Atommülllager (Kapitel 2)

http://gfx.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/2015-11-27_Marshallinseln/chapter02.html

Libération

Retour à Haiti (4 episodes)

http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/12/retour-a-haiti_1425835

La Stampa

L’altra Haiti (4 episodes)

http://www.lastampa.it/2016/01/11/esteri/speciali/l-altra-haiti/laltra-haiti-1suv9JFYlhhQIJVU1OmzwO/pagina.html

South China Morning Post (many links)

http://www.scmp.com/author/kim-wall

The Independent (three stories)

http://www.independent.co.uk/author/kim-wall

Interview on WNYC

The Crumbling, Leaking Radioactive Dome in the Pacific

http://www.wnyc.org/story/crumbling-leaking-radioactive-dome-pacific"

Website

https://kim-wall.com/

Twitter Banned Bisexual, But We've Won This Before (receipts within)

Thank you to The Daily Beast for covering the continuing saga that is the blocking of the word bisexual on the internet. For those without memories like mine, a look back on previous bans of the word bisexual online.


GOOGLE BANS BISEXUAL (2009 - 2014)

We aimed for #badbisexualface here, me and Tara Avery, longtime bi trans advocate, cartoonist and publisher. This image was used by Pasadena Star News in 2014 as part of their story.

"Google’s Bisexual Problem", HuffingtonPost.com (by me, Faith Cheltenham)

"Google restricts ‘bisexual’ from autocomplete because of correlation to pornography", Pasadena Star News

"Google Autocomplete Still Blocking ‘Bisexual’: LGBT Advocates Fight For Fair Treatment Of Search Terms", International Business Times (with a helpful quote from Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University).

"Google still blocking the word ‘bisexual’ from autocomplete", PinkNews


APPLE BRIEFLY BANS BISEXUAL (2013)
(see Sarah Prager, Quist co-founder's petition)
"App maker petitions Apple to remove 'bisexual' from flagged list", Baltimore Sun

"Apple Discourages Educational App From Using The Term "Bisexual", BuzzFeed


TWITTER BANS BISEXUAL (2017)
"Twitter Is Still Making ‘Bisexual’ Invisible, and Won’t Say Why", The Daily Beast

"Twitter apologises for 'technical issue' that blocked searches for 'bisexual'", The Guardian

"Twitter is fixing an error that removed ‘bisexual’ from news and photo search results", The Verge

"Search for 'Bisexual' on Twitter Right Now, and No News, Photos, or Videos Show Up [Updated]",


WHAT I CONSIDER THE GOOD NEWS FOR THE MOMENT
Huge massive response led by @stillbisexual, @binetusa, and many others! News articles aplenty! AND, THE BEST NEWS? Prior images from bisexuals are still on the Twitter media server as evidenced by the media links from #biweek still serving beautiful bi, pan, fluid and queerness.

Like 2016's most popular image, our home page for bisexualweek.com, which takes on new meaning today:

I've embedded the spreadsheet below and you can download this sheet here in case you delight in bisexual images of proud bi people and their cats, owls, and kids as much as I do.

 

Don't Forget...the Bisexuals
Millions of bisexuals await the opportunity to be seen using their name, so please sign the petition to Twitter as created by bi trans non binary rock star Jen Yockney, MBE, the longtime bi organizer who runs bivisibilityday.com.

Here's hoping this is the last time we'll have to scream and plan protests to reclaim the very use of our name!

#EndBiBans