Aram Zucker-Scharff

“I was really tired of waiting for things to happen. I was tired of telling brands not to make memes, so I was like, I need to do something for myself and something for other people. After I got the domain—I think I didn’t sleep that night. My roommates were worried about me.”

– Amber Gordon, creator of Femsplain (via kickstarter)

If you came to this post from my Facebook you’ve been participating in a little not-so-scientific experiment on my behalf. For most of the month of January almost all of my Facebook shares have passed through a new site I set up with WordPress and PressForward. On Chronoto.pe I archive a copy of everything I’ve read […]

““We’re slipping, as [the journalism] industry and maybe as a society, back to a place where women didn’t get the same opportunities and didn’t have the same influence.””

– Where are the women?

“Scepticism of the notion that our entertainment consumption shapes our political perspectives only has traction if you think that we arrive at our political views rationally.”

– Magic effect: how Harry Potter has influenced the political values of the Millennial generation.