Trending Hashtag – Law Street https://legacy.lawstreetmedia.com Law and Policy for Our Generation Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:46:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 100397344 The Internet Thinks Podesta is a Satanist After Leaked #SpiritCooking Email https://legacy.lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/weird-news-blog/internet-thinks-podesta-satanist-leaked-spiritcooking-email/ https://legacy.lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/weird-news-blog/internet-thinks-podesta-satanist-leaked-spiritcooking-email/#respond Sat, 05 Nov 2016 18:55:10 +0000 http://lawstreetmedia.com/?p=56721

Really guys, he's not.

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On Friday afternoon the internet went totally wild after finding out about one more leaked email that supposedly proved that John Podesta, and therefore the whole Clinton clan, are Satanists.

The email in question was sent to John Podesta from his brother, asking if John could join him for a dinner at artist Marina Abramovic’s place. He included the forwarded email from Abramovic, in which she described the dinner as a “Spirit Cooking”. Because of that phrasing, right wing people online got all frenzied and started sharing their best conspiracy theories. The hashtag #SpiritCooking had over 500,000 tweets by late afternoon.

Despite the influx of conspiracy theories, it doesn’t seem likely that it was a real, blood-drinking orgy that took place. “Spirit Cooking with Essential Aphrodisiac Recipes” is the name of a cookbook that Abramovic created for a 1996 exhibition at the MoMA. It was accompanied by a piece of performance art in which she paints with blood and incorporates  a huge snake.

The list of ingredients in the cookbook did call for “fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk” to be consumed “on earthquake nights,” but the dinner she invited the Podestas to was more a normal one, with real food. “It was just a normal dinner,” she said to artnews.com on Friday afternoon. “There was no blood, no anything else. We just call things funny names, that’s all.” She told the website that John Podesta never made it to dinner and they have never met in real life. She called the right-wing attacks “absolutely outrageous and ridiculous.”

Thankfully all of this insane election mudslinging will be over soon.

Emma Von Zeipel
Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.

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Hashtag #WhenIWas Reveals How Early Sexual Assault Starts https://legacy.lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/culture-blog/hashtag-wheniwas-reveals-early-sexual-assault-starts/ https://legacy.lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/culture-blog/hashtag-wheniwas-reveals-early-sexual-assault-starts/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:00:52 +0000 http://lawstreetmedia.com/?p=51951

These chilling stories show just how common sexual harassment is.

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Warren Central High School hallway Courtesy of [Michael Gilliam via Flickr]

Every 107 seconds someone in America is sexually assaulted. A staggering 35.8 percent of these assaults occur when the victim is between the ages of 12 and 17. Still despite these figures, the topic of sexual assault is still too taboo for many to even talk about.

Everyday Sexism, a project aimed at spreading awareness about sexism, equality and women’s rights, decided to challenge this stigma with the creation of the hashtag #WhenIWas on Tuesday. The hashtag allows victims to share their early experiences with sexual harassment, violence, discrimination, and abuse, in order to bring attention to its alarming prevalence among children and teenagers.

Early this morning the account tweeted:

The responses quickly began flooding in. Hundreds of women shared their chilling entries with the world using the hashtag, and quickly it became pretty apparent just how similar many of their stories were.

These tweets reveal just how early sexual assault and harassment can start. Click through the slideshow below to learn more.

Alexis Evans
Alexis Evans is an Assistant Editor at Law Street and a Buckeye State native. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a minor in Business from Ohio University. Contact Alexis at aevans@LawStreetMedia.com.

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