Published: Daily Dot (December 9, 2014)
If you’ve logged onto the Internet recently, chances are you’re used to seeing progressives in the role of victim. In addition to its sexist undertones, Gamergate has largely been a right-wing movement, an explosion of cultural reactionary sentiment against feminist criticisms of female representation in video game content and culture.... Read Original Article
Published: Daily Dot (October 23, 2014), Huffington Post (October 24, 2014)
It’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to trade places with Monica Lewinsky. Not only is she destined to be remembered in textbooks as the “other woman” in one of America’s most infamous sex scandals (culminating in the first presidential impeachment since Reconstruction), but she continues to be a cheap and popular punchline in the contemporary zeitgeist.... Read Original Article
Published: Mic (July 3, 2014)
Liskula Cohen and Matt Rozsaco-author: Liskula Cohen
On Tuesday, New York’s highest court struck down an Albany County law that would have made it a crime to “cyber-bully.” As a trailblazer in fighting for the rights of cyberbullying victims, you might think that I’d oppose the court’s decision.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (November 11, 2013)
While I’m no stranger to covering stories involving discrimination, this one was especially personal to me.
In the aftermath of a New York Times story on a rash of anti-Semitic incidents in New York’s Pine Bush Central School District, Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced that he was directing the state police and Division of Human Rights to investigate any harassment, vandalism, or bullying that may have taken place.... Read Original Article
