On Monday morning, Michael A. Davitt, a former New York State employee and known rabblerouser, delayed traffic on the Tappan Zee bridge in Rockland County. As a form of protest, he unfurled a rope ladder from the bridge and sat for hours with a 24-foot banner that accused county officials of a “cover-up.”
Kristy Powell, a therapist and Pilates teacher in New Haven, CT., will wear the same multifunctional black dress for an entire year.
The 26-year-old is doing so as a cultural experiment and to protest “the ways that fashion undervalues, denigrates, objectifies and often times insults women...