• Yes, the Harassment Video Has Its Problems—but Mostly, It Shows How Indefensible Street Harassment Is

    By now you’ve seen the street-harassment video directed and produced by Rob Bliss and starring Shoshana B. Roberts for the nonprofit organization Hollaback that’s all over the Internet. The two-minute video is cut from 10 hours of footage of Roberts walking through New York City. Throughout her walk she’s harassed by more than 100 men,…

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  • If We Want Diverse Books, We Need Diverse MFA Programs

    Recently, in the New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz described his experience in his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program: His first year, he almost dropped out because it “was too white.” States Diaz: “I was a person of color in a workshop whose theory of reality did not include my most fundamental…

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