New York

01 Feb 2019

We DID Start the Fyre: How We All Contribute to Toxic Influencer Culture

What if you could live like one of those famous Instagram celebrities for a couple weekends in the Bahamas. For a few thousand dollars — would you? What’s a few thousand dollars in the eyes of all those envious followers and potential fans online?

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31 Jan 2019

Representation Matters. The Black Women In Comedy Festival Is Coming To NYC

In 2017 Amy Schumer became the first ever female comedian to make it onto Forbes list of highest paid comics. In 2018, she failed to make the list a second time. Women in comedy have had a notoriously difficult time breaking into the upper tiers. They make less than their

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29 Jan 2019

NYC Drag Queen Of The Week- FiFi DuBois

There is no shortage of drag queens in NYC. You can’t throw a rock without hitting some twink in a dress who thinks he’s got what it takes to shantay down the runway just because he’s seen every season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race while practicing YouTube makeup tutorials. There’s a difference,

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29 Jan 2019

Opioid Epidemic at the Start of 2019: Where’s the Progress We Were Promised?

By Kate Harveston When tens of thousands of your fellow citizens die in one year from the same preventable cause, you rightly call it a ‘crisis’.  The National Safety Council found in 2017 that for the first time ever, Americans were more likely to die from opioid overdose than from a car accident. You

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27 Jan 2019

Ted Cruz Talks to MAGA Teen About Living with ‘Punchable Face Syndrome’

“I’m a survivor, you’re a survivor, God knows it wasn’t easy”.  Ted Cruz on living with PFS (Punchable Face Syndrome). Senator Ted Cruz of Texas reached out to the embattled MAGA hat wearing teenager Nick Sandmann Sunday to speak with him about the dangers of living with PFS, commonly known as ‘Punchable Face

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25 Jan 2019

8 Things Straight People Can Do to Support LGBTQ Folks Right Now

No one can deny that LGBTQ individuals have had a tough go of things under the current presidential administration. With the Supreme Court voting to allow a ban on transgender soldiers who have served their country bravely, the situation appears grim for those in the LGBTQ community and their allies.

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24 Jan 2019

Trump to Hire Fyre Festival Staff to Promote/Build Border Wall

“We’re going to get the models, and the sand, and build a beautiful wall in the desert…and Kanye is coming” – President Trump on his new border wall campaign A month into the government shutdown President Trump announced that the border wall between Mexico and USA was going to be built without the help

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22 Jan 2019

Living in a Liberal Area, is a Privilege in Itself

These days there is a lot said and written about White Privilege and White Male Privilege which many times turns on the lighted sign that says “Ugly Conservative”. On the other hand how much is said about well educated, urban Liberals who live in large cities such as San Francisco,

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