#this.cm

There’s been a ton of feminist content this year - whether articles, videos, art, etc - but here are some of my faves. 

List based on what I shared on This. in 2015 (More about This. here!)

Lindy West on This American Life with the most heartbreaking segment about online harassment you’ll ever hear. (Seriously, have tissues at the ready)

Adam Serwer and Katie JM Baker’s searing profile of a men’s rights movement leader.

Asam Ahmad on call-out (and call-in) culture.

Marissa Alexander, the Florida mother of three who was jailed after trying to protect herself and her family from an abusive and estranged husband, tells her story in her own words.

One of the most powerful political cartoons I’ve ever seen: The phone rang, it was my college rapist.

The incomparable Saeed Jones with Self-Portrait of the Artist as Ungrateful Black Writer.

This Broad’s Life: an interview with Janet Mock, who continues to amaze.

Artist Sophia Wallace collaborated with HuffPo to bring her Cliteracy project online.

I could read Roxane Gay’s review of Magic Mike XXL every day.

Ann Friedman takes on the war on the way women, like, talk.

Kate Harding’s book on rape culture, Asking For It.

Why Consensual Sex Can Still Be Bad, from Rebecca Traister.

Hi. I am planning to post a single link here, pretty much every day, of something I think you should look at. That’s kind of the whole shtick of the website.

Jeden Tag werden wir mit einer Fülle von Artikeln und Beiträgen im Netz überflutet. Ein wahrlich nicht unerheblicher Teil dessen was auf uns herein prasselt hat dabei einen mehr als zweifelhaften Informations- oder Unterhaltungsgehalt. Das soziale Linkshare-Portal “This.cm” verfolgt einen völlig neuen Ansatz um das wirklich lesenswerte herauszufiltern. Könnte Schule machen! (more…)

According to a new NYTIMES article published Jan. 28th, 2015, a new social media tool is taking a drastically different approach to the game. Many critics of social media say it's too "time consuming", which is the case many times. Anyone who says they don't get distracted 30 times a day by social media is either lying or my grandmother. Attempting to narrow down the distraction time, This.cm is placing a limit of only ONE post per day. This may seem like some sort of torture system put in place by the government but it might not be so bad! 

There is a level of exclusivity to the new platform as of right now... 

"Currently, the platform is available only to those who receive an invitation from one of the nearly 4,500 users. As more journalists and media insiders become aware of it, they are jockeying for the exclusive invitations. “Someone get me an invite to @THISdotcm already,” tweeted Jessica Reed, the features editor at Guardian US, who punctuated her message with four cigarette emojis to signify her impatience, as she later explained it." 

There are only four main functions that you can do on This.cm... 

On the website itself, users can do four things, and no more. They can post a link, but just one a day; they can follow other people on the network; they can click on the links posted by members they follow (no limit); and they can click “Thanks” to endorse a link they particularly enjoyed. (Think of it as this-ing someone’s this.) There is no sharing of selfies on This., and no user-to-user messaging.

I for one would definitely NOT be opposed to seeing only interesting stories or images from people I respect. Not a selfie of some guido I went to high school with who SURPISE SURPRISE went to the gym today #gymflow. 

Regardless of whether or not this new platform takes off, only time will tell. But I think more of THIS rather than THAT would pretty refreshing to many frustrated Facebook, Instagram and Twitter users. 

This is where people share only the best content they’ve seen that day.