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.
Are you sure Masha Gessen is a man?
Nope. They use Gessen’s name the entire time in the article instead of a pronoun and I had a very androgynous photo to go off of and I may have misgendered them.