The thing about companies like Facebook and Google is that data gathering is a feature, not a bug. It’s how they make their living – by offering highly targeted advertising options based on the...
Filipino-Americans have often been called the “invisible minority”. Despite being the second largest Asian-American community in America – and the first Asians to come to America in 1587 –...
Surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s image has been emblazoned on many things: t-shirts, tote bags, jewelry, magnets — even makeup and tequila. The product description for one dress even calls...
Often, when people discuss “unconventional beauty”, they're discussing unpopular features like, say, close set eyes or big noses. The problem usually goes a bit deeper than that, though. I don't...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Louise Hung's exploration of the ghostly women who haunt folklore in places like Japan and China. It...
Sajid Javid, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has revealed that census data suggests that 770,000 people living in England...
Once upon a time, mukashi mukashi, there lived a beautiful woman in Yotsuya named Oiwa. A ronin (a masterless samurai) named Iemon wanted to marry Oiwa, but her father knew of Iemon’s misdeeds and...
Heavy metal has long been a shelter for outsiders, yet in Europe foremost, the genre has had serious problems with the marginalisation of women and cultural isolationism. But to paraphrase The...
During the Chinese Exclusion era, Chinese men were often called “John” and women called “Mary”. In the time when America outlawed the immigration of Chinese laborers, between 1882 and 1943,...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Natalia Antonova's dispatch from deep inside Fox News HQ. What she discovered will shock you! And...
