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Navigating Pronouns and Corporate Responsibility: The Delta Air Lines Incident Sparks a National Conversation on Transgender Rights. Content Warning.
The LaGuardia Air Terminal incident, including transsexual entertainer Tommy Dorfman and Delta Carrier, has become a focal point for progressive discussions about individuality, considerations and corporate obligations. In a 30-second TikTok video, Dorfman accused fellow Delta employees of deliberately misgendering her, sparking a viral discussion through online entertainment. As the story unfolds, it uncovers the complexities of pronouns, issues that transsexual people face, and various assumptions around help and respect.
By World News 2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Gone South" by Robert McCammon
“It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children” I had heard a lot about people enjoying Robert McCammon's books but for the life of me, I have never actually read one until now. I don't know why I chose this one it just sort of appeared on my Amazon recommendations and yes, yet again I am reading it on my Kindle. There is something deeply satisfying about getting an author you have always been meaning to read on a list of things that you probably should be reading. One thing I like about Amazon recommendations is that more than likely, they get it right when it comes to the type of books I might like.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Haunting in the Arctic" by C.J Cooke
The man was covered in seaween, gnarles fronds covering him like garlands. He was fully clothed and curled up by his bed, but his face had been gnawed to the bone, and the bloodied scratches on the wood of the door matched his missing fingernails. The two coastguard officers shared a long look. They circled the body slowly before crouching to inspect what had become of his legs. Beneath the town fabric of his trousers, they could see that the flesh had swollen and blackened. The mottled bare feet had split in two, no sign of the toenails, his toes lengthened to flaps of meat that had fused strangely together in a clean bisection. Like grotesque fish tails.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Standing Heavy" by Gauz
Translated by Frank Wynne Everyone here has a powerful motivation, although it may be very different depending on which side of the glass one finds oneself. For the dominant male in the glass cage at the far end of the open-plan office, it is maximum turnover. By any means necessary. Hiring as many people as possible is part of the means. For the Black procession in the stairwell, it is an escape from unemployment or a zero-hours contract. By any means necessary. Security guarding is one of those means. It’s relatively accessible. The training is absolutely minimal. No experience is required. Employers are all too willing to overlook official status.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Chain-Gang All-Stars" by by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“I’m saying that the death penalty has always been an abomination, even before the CAPE program. Prison as it exists is an abomination. Right now, the fact is, people are doing the exact kinds of harm you’re describing. Prisons haven’t deterred the harm they’re meant to deter. They’re a failed experiment.”
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Roads of Destiny" ed. by Alasdair Richmond
Full Title = Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms edited by Alasdair Richmond “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and provoke study, and when you follow the lame, uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions.”
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
How 'The Grinch' Became an Icon
He was the cruel, evil green-animated Ebenezer Scrooge of our childhood props to author Dr. Seuss for making the Grinch a Christmas icon. The Grinch is based on the 1957 children's illustrated book How the Grinch Stole Christmas introduces the Grinch, a green, furry, Pot-bellied, pear-shaped, snub-nosed humanoid creature with a cat-like face and cynical personality who hates Christmas and decides to rob everybody's gifts and holiday decorations down in Whoville to make them feel sad. The story would be adapted in a 1966 short television special, a television series, a 2000 live-action film, a 2018 animation film, musicals, and a song written by the author himself that would be the theme song fitted for the Grinch.
By Gladys W. Muturi2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Friday Black" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“Even the apocalypse isn't the end. That, you could only know when you're standing before a light so bright it obliterates you. And if you are alone, posed like a dancer, when it comes, you feel silly and scared. And if you are with your family, or anyone at all, when it comes, you feel silly and scared, but at least not alone.”
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Circles of Stone" ed. by Katy Soar
Full Title = Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites ed. by Katy Soar I was anxiously awaiting the newest instalment of The British Library Tales of the Weird which happened to be a folk horror anthology. As we all know, folk horror is my favourite subgenre of all time. It has an interesting history which dates back to (I believe) before the time of the film The Blood Of Satan's Claw. Instead, folk horror has been a thing for hundreds of years and we can even argue that novels like Dracula are folk horror too - playing on the myths and legends that pervaded a certain society which was based in some spurns of reality no matter how small.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Telling the Seasons" by Martin Maudsley
Full Title: Telling the Seasons: Stories, Celebrations and Folklore Around the Year by Martin Maudsley Just because folk horror is my all-time favourite subgenre does not mean I don't enjoy reading the plain stories of the old folk traditions that don't happen to be as horrific. Folk stories are fascinating to me - passed down through oral traditions of hundreds of years and nobody really knows exactly where they came from.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
