Pakistani feminists lost an icon today. Rest in Power, Rubina Saigol - activist, academic, writer and a brave spirit whose incisive words gave power and guidance to a whole generation of Pakistani women. I was re-reading a wonderful piece she wrote in 2019 . . .

When Audre Lorde (who I've been reading more of lately) talks about the power of language, she talks about the reclaiming of that language. Language that has been made to work against women. And it made me think about how much there is to reclaim, as women . . .

Recently, a friend from college who is a chef and food writer posted about Gordon Ramsay's abusive behavior in the kitchen -- violently assaulting cooks while hurling verbal abuse and threats at them. The clips were from the documentary . . .

A few days ago, I went down a rabbit hole while following Google’s firing of Timnit Gebru, the co-director of its ethical AI program, known for raising questions about bias in Google’s large-scale AI systems. I found a great review of Gebru’s research paper on language models . . .