Thread by @ThatBKGurl, I feel like I should start sharing what I’m reading again I’ll [...]

I feel like I should start sharing what I’m reading again

I’ll make this the beginning of a thread of everything I read this year, articles and books.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/sharon-stone-on-how-basic-instinct-nearly-broke-her

“You Can’t Shame Me”: Sharon Stone on How Basic Instinct Nearly Broke Her, Before Making Her a Star

In an exclusive excerpt from her memoir, Stone writes about predatory directors, being a “difficult” woman in Hollywood, and her most iconic role: “It’s about more than just a peek up my skirt,...

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/sharon-stone-on-how-basic-instinct-nearly-broke-her

This is actually a nice, joyful read, especially after that Alexi McCammond mess https://www.thecut.com/amp/2021/03/abby-phillip-cover-march-2021.html

Abby Phillip Asks the Right Questions

Media’s voice of sanity and clarity, in conversation with Gayle King.

https://www.thecut.com/amp/2021/03/abby-phillip-cover-march-2021.html

https://zora.medium.com/the-black-mother-of-grunge-who-inspired-nirvana-95886f21eccc

The Black ‘Godmother of Grunge’ Who Inspired Your Fav Bands

Seattle’s Tina Bell is forgotten no more

https://zora.medium.com/the-black-mother-of-grunge-who-inspired-nirvana-95886f21eccc

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/world/americas/brazil-amazon.html?referringSource=articleShare

His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part.

A Brazilian pilot working for wildcat miners escaped death when his plane went down in a remote area. He walked through the jungle for 36 days before being rescued.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/world/americas/brazil-amazon.html?referringSource=articleShare

A tale of two reckonings: How should Manhattan Beach atone for its racist past? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-28/how-should-manhattan-beach-atone-racist-past

A tale of two reckonings: How should Manhattan Beach atone for its racist past?

Manhattan Beach won't apologize for running Black property owners out of town 100 years ago, but a county official seeks to make restitution.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-28/how-should-manhattan-beach-atone-racist-past

https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-royal-love-affair-that-created-a-serial-killer-d1c93cc7a8da

The Royal Love Affair That Created a Serial Killer

A story that has been kept uncommon knowledge for more than a century.

https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-royal-love-affair-that-created-a-serial-killer-d1c93cc7a8da

https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/thandiwe-newton-interview

“I’m Taking Back What’s Mine”: The Many Lives Of Thandiwe Newton

“I’m not for hire anymore. I’m not going to speak your story or say your words if I don’t feel they could’ve come from me,” Thandiwe Newton tells Diana Evans in the May 2021 issue of British Vogue

https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/thandiwe-newton-interview

Jordan’s royal rift entangles an American-born queen https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-04-06/jordan-queen-noor

Jordan's royal rift entangles an American-born queen

Who is Queen Noor? Royal drama emerges, nearly 43 years after an American's marriage to Jordan's King Hussein.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-04-06/jordan-queen-noor

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior

"Everyone Just Knows He's an Absolute Monster": Scott Rudin's Ex-Staffers Speak Out on Abusive...

Even as other Hollywood bullies are being sidelined, the uber-producer behind 'The Social Network' and Broadway’s 'To  Kill a Mockingbird' has been given a pass for his volcanic temper. Now, former...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior

‘The backbone of trans rights policy:’ Meet Harper Jean Tobin https://19thnews.org/2021/04/backbone-trans-rights-policy-harper-jean-tobin/?&utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

‘The backbone of trans rights policy:’ Meet Harper Jean Tobin | The 19th

“From a federal perspective, she's the backbone of trans rights policy.”

https://19thnews.org/2021/04/backbone-trans-rights-policy-harper-jean-tobin/?&utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

https://www.gq.com/story/dmx-the-resurrection

DMX: The Resurrection

In his first interview since going to prison in 2018, DMX talks about new music, rejoining Def Jam, Kanye’s Sunday Service, surviving solitary confinement, and more.

https://www.gq.com/story/dmx-the-resurrection

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html#commentsContainer

Opinion | After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again

I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html#commentsContainer

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/catherine-zeta-jones-is-enjoying-herself?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny

Catherine Zeta-Jones Is Enjoying Herself

The Oscar-winning Welsh actor on working hard and hoarding vintage clothes.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/catherine-zeta-jones-is-enjoying-herself?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny

Black capitalism is something, boy https://www.forbes.com/sites/elisabethbrier/2021/04/03/reginald-f-lewis-jackie-robinson-of-wall-street-beatrice-lbo/?sh=7851e868631d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter

Meet The Jackie Robinson Of Wall Street

In 1987, a little-known New York lawyer became a master of the universe when he led a takeover of Beatrice, creating the first Black-owned billion-dollar company.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elisabethbrier/2021/04/03/reginald-f-lewis-jackie-robinson-of-wall-street-beatrice-lbo/?sh=7851e868631d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter

This was a fun read https://hunterharris.substack.com/p/whitney-houston-disrespecting-alec

Whitney Houston Disrespecting Alec Baldwin

Also: Ushbucks, a developing story.

https://hunterharris.substack.com/p/whitney-houston-disrespecting-alec

https://journalism-history.org/2021/03/31/wagner-essay-the-right-to-lapawol/

Wagner Essay: The Right to Lapawòl

Community Radio Stations in the Archive of Radio Haïti-Inter In July and October 1999, Joseph “Ti Jò” Georges and Sony Estéus, the directors of the Sosyete Animasyon ak Kominikasyon Sosyal (SAKS), …

https://journalism-history.org/2021/03/31/wagner-essay-the-right-to-lapawol/

https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/environmental-justice-award-winner-we-have-right-live-territory-us-sacred

Environmental justice award winner: 'We have the right to live in a territory that for us is sacred'

Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, a K'iche Maya teacher and community leader in Guatemala, was returning home on a bus with other women when armed men boarded the vehicle and demanded to know "Who is...

https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/environmental-justice-award-winner-we-have-right-live-territory-us-sacred

https://www.vulture.com/article/bravo-real-housewives-reckoning.html#_ga=2.61858540.1722829634.1618178021-562706951.1526335119

The Soul of Bravo

A year of national reckonings on race and inequality has tested how real the Housewives should be.

https://www.vulture.com/article/bravo-real-housewives-reckoning.html#_ga=2.61858540.1722829634.1618178021-562706951.1526335119

https://www.vogue.com/article/high-risk-pregnancy-black-maternal-health-week

Black, High-Risk, and Expecting. How I Advocated for Myself, and My Pandemic Pregnancy

As we celebrate Black Maternal Health Week, political analyst Natasha S. Alford shares her complicated road to motherhood.

https://www.vogue.com/article/high-risk-pregnancy-black-maternal-health-week

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/ancient-greeces-army-of-lovers

Ancient Greece’s Army of Lovers

Comprising a hundred and fifty male couples, Thebes’s Sacred Band was undefeated until it was wiped out in 338 B.C. In the nineteenth century, the mass grave of the men was found.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/ancient-greeces-army-of-lovers

Vintage proof the police are and have always been truly horrific ppl https://www.nydailynews.com/true-crime-justice-story/ny-true-crime-justice-story-helen-coberg-20210418-jxjqjmy6wfa3lh5rlz763sjxm4-story.html

JUSTICE STORY: The horrific murder of a NYC patrolman’s wife was nearly buried by a likely police...

Mrs. Helen Coberg, 34, was the victim of a “Jack-the-Ripper sadist,” blared the Daily News. The fiend had somehow lured the victim, mother of a 15-year-old daughter and loyal spouse of one of New...

https://www.nydailynews.com/true-crime-justice-story/ny-true-crime-justice-story-helen-coberg-20210418-jxjqjmy6wfa3lh5rlz763sjxm4-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/opinion/sunday/yang-nyc-mayor.html

Opinion | Wait, Could Andrew Yang Really Be New York’s Next Mayor?

The eccentric-entrepreneur-turned-failed-presidential-candidate is campaigning on a promise to make the city fun again. It might work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/opinion/sunday/yang-nyc-mayor.html

Such a good story https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/world/asia/china-roadtrip-feminist.html

A Chinese ‘Auntie’ Went on a Solo Road Trip. Now, She’s a Feminist Icon.

Tired of housework and an unhappy marriage, a 56-year-old woman has been on a six-month jaunt across China that has challenged deep-rooted gender norms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/world/asia/china-roadtrip-feminist.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-16/new-yorkers-need-mutual-aid-groups-more-than-ever?srnd=citylab

Can Mutual Aid Withstand Pandemic Fatigue?

Free goods and services distributed by mutual aid groups helped vulnerable New Yorkers survive 2020. As the pandemic eases, those organizations are more needed than ever.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-16/new-yorkers-need-mutual-aid-groups-more-than-ever?srnd=citylab

I think many of us, including myself, are languishing https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/india-covid-cases-surge/

India’s devastating outbreak is driving the global coronavirus surge

The world is facing a stark reality. More than a year after the pandemic began, it is getting worse. In India this surge is not a wave, but a wall. Coronavirus cases are rising so rapidly that the...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/india-covid-cases-surge/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bj9w/anti-porn-extremism-pornhub-traffickinghub-exodus-cry-ncose?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=210413

The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed

For years, anti-trafficking organizations have pushed agendas that toe the line of vigilantism. They shouldn't be surprised when someone takes their version of "justice" into their own hands.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bj9w/anti-porn-extremism-pornhub-traffickinghub-exodus-cry-ncose?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=210413

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/whoopi-goldberg-egot-ghost-oscar-1234955841/

Reflections of an EGOT Winner: Whoopi Goldberg on ‘Ghost’ and the 30th Anniversary of Her Oscar...

Thirty years after taking home an Oscar for her role in 'Ghost,' Whoopi Goldberg looks back on her history-making career as an EGOT winner.

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/whoopi-goldberg-egot-ghost-oscar-1234955841/

https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

People are spending millions on NFTs. What? Why?

NFT WTF FAQ.

https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

Change of pace. This remains my fave podcast episode of all time. Glad I revisited it last night

https://loveandradio.org/2015/03/the-living-room/

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