Update from Slate After more than a month of imprisonment, the so-called “feminist five” (Wang Man (王曼), Li Tingting (李婷婷), Wu Rongrong (武嵘嵘), Zheng Churan (郑楚然), and Wei Tingting (韦婷婷) were released from custody by Chinese police yesterday. The five activists had been arrested on March 8, International Women’s Day, over a campaign they attempted…
Michael Masucci spoke this April 30 in Nashville at InfoWarCon 15 which is an annual conference of political, military, academic, DIYer, and commercial cyber-leaders and thinkers from around the world who examine the current, future, and potential hostile use of cyber and related information technologies and how to neutralize the current ones. Michael addressed the…
Demonstrators in front of the Central Government Liaison Office in Hong Kong last Saturday call on Beijing to release the five women detained as they were planning to distribute stickers highlighting the problem of sexual harassment on public transport. Credit Didi Kirsten Tatlow/The New York Times Like a modern-day Leviathan scenting challenges to its rule,…
Wu Rongrong, Wei Tingting, Wang Man, Zheng Churan and Li Tingting are five courageous women who have been staging protests for the past several years in China. They are advocating for equal-rights legislation and highlight discriminatory behavior in government and businesses. Their protests have been viewed as “performance art”—a term strategically employed to dodge the…
The Los Angeles Geffen MOCA museum has just opened a wonderful new exhibition for the artist William Pope L that features a stunning metaphor of the fraying of the American Vision. A mammoth American flag fills the central hall of the Frank Gehry designed annex. Propelled by large industrial fans and lit dramatically by arc…