Mary Gaulke: Content strategist, feminist, theater enthusiast, nerd
As alumnae of a women’s college, my friends and I share a fascination for gender, particularly the absurdities of traditional masculinity that you come to appreciate when you spend a lot of time away from it.
My quest began with a simple mandate: do a little recon on TikTok, the social network that’s a hybrid of lip syncing videos and Vine. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance and hugely popular among kids and teens, many of whom joined when it was a separate lip syncing…
Seeing “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway is more than simply entertaining. For anyone disappointed by the way the Harry Potter movies adapted the books, it can feel like a healing experience. Seeing these characters, Hogwarts, and the entire Wizarding world onstage is like reuniting as an adult…
Reposted from the defunct PNConnect blog. Late last night, the Wikimedia Foundation published a blog post announcing that a massive ring of “black hat” Wikipedia editors has been banned from the site. It appears that these editors created and edited Wikipedia articles in exchange for pay, without disclosing this conflict…
