What’s Current: The US Academy of Motion Pictures expels Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski

  • The US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that awards the Oscars, has expelled Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski.
  • A Texas man has been jailed and charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Tracie Zuniga, whom he stabbed repeatedly in her driveway in front of her neighbors.
  • The documentary, Roll Red Roll, looks at the community rush to blame the victim and protect the perpetrators in the Steubenville rape case.
  • Trans Media Watch has written the UK parliament to say that they want the term “trans-identified male,” or any instance of referring to trans-identified males as men, to be recognized as hate speech.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.