So I wrote this piece for Alternet last week about Bradley1 Manning potentially being trans (most likely a trans woman, though not necessarily), and right on cue, Wired has made public the full chat logs between Manning and Adrian Lamo, the hacker who turned Manning in. The conversations are fascinating, occasionally incoherent, strewn with technobabble, […]
Among the myriad fabulous topics we cover here at Tiger Beatdown is pop culture, the many ways in which it manifests, and the fascinating things it says (or doesn’t) about groups of people such as ladies, and queer folks. A pretty critical pop culture event is unfolding across the US tonight and in the small […]
Chances are that you have heard there is a corruption scandal currently unfolding in the UK. This scandal involves the tabloid News of the World, one of the most popular and far reaching in Britain. Leave it to Wikipedia to provide a handy short summary of the events timeline: The controversy began in 2006, when […]
So, occasionally your beloved Tiger Beatdown writers (and I) write pieces at other places. And they are all incredible and worth your time. Imagine, if you will, the following as roughly a sitcom intro: s.e wrote about Georgia’s using prison labour to fill the gaps left by its appalling anti-immigrant laws, a piece about rape […]
The newly created organization within the UN, UN Women, led by former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, (Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director) dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women which was established to accelerate progress on meeting the rights of girls and women worldwide, has released their first report yesterday, Progress of the World’s […]
Almost every time I crack open the Los Angeles Times, I’m reminded of Public Enemy Number One in the United States: Public employees. Public employees are to blame for everything that is wrong with society, with their greedy demands for pensions, unreasonable requests for vacation time, and persistent and annoying habits like putting out fires, […]
I’ve written extensively about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. I’ve said almost everything I had to say on the subject. That was until Friday when the case fell apart and I resorted mostly to third party quotes and small sound bite commentary because I was too angry to properly articulate my thoughts. See, my views about […]
The streets of Athens exploded yesterday with Greek protesters lamenting severe austerities adopted by the Greek parliament. The nation faces a fire sale of national assets in an attempt to balance out its flailing budget and, of course, to rescue creditors who refuse to accept a Greek default, and are reluctant to even consider write-downs. […]
Catchy title, eh? Only that no, Halliburton is not the only reason why I have little interest in a feminism that only seeks to advance women in corporate life. As journalist Laurie Penny tweeted yesterday, when news that Christine Lagarde was appointed head of the IMF: Some people still think feminism is about getting a […]
[The video clip to Sound of Arrow’s new single “Magic,” a very cheerful indiepop song. It features two children (a presumed boy and a girl) who wake up into a world where all the adults have disappeared from their suburb. They move from their suburb to a petrol station, gather junk food, then move to […]