Let’s break the blockchain of male-dominated tech and finance industries — I’m out to dinner with friends, and two male friends are talking excitedly about the boom of cryptocurrency. I keep trying to chime in but I keep getting interrupted. The topic is the value and prospect of Dogecoin. …

Stop the prejudice against our feline friends — If you say you hate dogs, you will lose all your friends and family, and possibly be jailed for a hate crime. If you say you hate cats, someone will enthusiastically agree with you. Before I get started, I would like to say that I love dogs. Please don’t arrest…

An ode to the year I fell in love with reading again — I’ve been a bookworm my entire life. I read with a ravenous appetite through college, but I no longer had the time when I graduated and began working full-time. …

I’m a top writer on Medium who wishes she could have dinner with Bad Bunny and Dolly Parton — Hi! My name is Liv Pasquarelli. I was born and raised in New Jersey by an Italian immigrant father and Irish mother. I moved to Brooklyn in 2012 to study Communication Design at Pratt Institute, graduated in 2016, and continued to live and work in Brooklyn until 2020. …

A poetry collection about love, identity, transition, and tenderness by Hazem Fahmy — What does Frank Ocean have to do with diaspora, arrivals and departures, queer identity, and poetry? Everything and nothing, all at once. Hazem Fahmy does an impeccable job of melding two worlds that normally would never meet. …

Including Web3, Blockchain, and Crypto education, community, and job boards — I was recently reminded of the gender disparity of the Crypto industry once again while listening to an interview with Olayinka Odeniran, the Blockchain and Cybersecurity leader who founded the Black Women’s Blockchain Council in 2018 after attending the North American Bitcoin Conference. The conference took place in Miami with…

Instead of removing the content, they push it on at-risk users — Content Warning: This article contains discussion of eating disorders, including screenshots of posts from pro-ED communities. For the past 6 months, I’ve been using a Tumblr account to monitor the Pro-Eating Disorder communities on the platform. I was inspired by the Wall Street Journal’s TikTok experiment, where they used 50…

That is no small feat — If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the past few years, Noom has advertised to you. The first thing they tell you in their aggressive and persistent advertising is that diets don’t work. The script goes as follows: Have you tried every diet in the book? Do you lose…