Wednesday, November 29, 2017

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



Harper’s
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Ghost Stories: Idi Amin’s torture chambers
New York Times
Fairy Tale Romances, Real and Staged

Vice
Inside the Ugandan Mall at the Center of China's East African Investments
Tour Buses to Sri Lanka's Battlefields

Foreign Policy
When China’s Feminists Came to Washington

The Atlantic
A Tourist in North Korea
Sex and the Law in China: 'The People Will Pull, and the Government Will Follow'

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?
Hunting the Hunters

Süddeutsche Zeitung
Wo die Welt gerade untergeht (Kapitel 1)
Amerikas vergessenes Atommülllager (Kapitel 2)

Libération
Retour à Haiti (4 episodes)

La Stampa
L’altra Haiti (4 episodes)

South China Morning Post (many links)

The Independent (three stories)

Interview on WNYC
The Crumbling, Leaking Radioactive Dome in the Pacific

Website


Thursday, November 09, 2017

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