US-Russian journalist Masha Gessen won Germany’s Hannah Arendt prize for political thought

A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•10 months ago

    They are non-binary, FYI. It’s not an accident that Gessen isn’t gendered in the article.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•10 months ago

      Got it… Really wish we had a good way of representing that because it’s gonna take a bit before people stop defaulting to use of pronouns even with best intentions