discrimination

22 Mar 2021

NCAA Basketball Still Giving Women Less Reliable COVID Tests Than Men Get

The NCAA “March Madness” basketball tournament had a huge scandal last week when viral social media posts showed that the women’s team facilities were of far lower quality than the men’s facilities. In response, they made a big show of giving the women athletes a far nicer weight room overnight

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06 Mar 2018

Unpaid Internships Are Another Way Society Discriminates Against the Poor

BY KATE HAVERSTON  Capitalism is nothing if not consistent. After literal slavery was outlawed, the industrialized world turned to child labor. When that was rooted out, it pivoted to sweatshop workers and then to undocumented “illegal” workers. After that, it was prison labor for pennies per hour. And the cheap-labor bargains

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16 May 2016

Ace’s Bartender Back at Work After Taking Sensitivity Classes

You may recall last month when we broke a story about Bubbles being kicked out of Ace’s for looking queer. It was based on audio in which Bubbles asks the bartender if he was being kicked out for the way he looks and the bartender saying yes. As you can imagine

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15 Apr 2016

San Franciscan Refused Service For Looking Queer

Read the update at the bottom of the article This just floated across my Facebook feed. Anthony Torres, known as Bubbles, shared this audio of himself being refused service at Ace’s for how he looks. As you can hear, its quite alarming. The bartender literally says he won’t serve Bubbles

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