The Vegan Rocker Leading America's Socialist Party | Chinese Startups Ride a Wave of Optimism

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Wednesday Jul 10, 2019 1 [Acumen]( [Acumen]( [Chinese Startups Are Beating Silicon Valley ... at Hopefulness]( Despite the trade war, China’s business climate is more hopeful than in the United States — at least for startups. The economic standoff between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump has affected an ever-growing list of companies on both sides of the Pacific. Factories in China producing everything from bicycles and baseball caps to hair clippers and electric generators are bulging at the seams with surplus stock. American farmers have been left frantically searching for customers outside China to buy harvests of soybeans. The price of a Tesla fluctuated by $20,000 as the carmaker tried to find a way to soften the blow of new tariffs. As a result, entire industries are tightening their belts and looking to ride out the economic storm. But one corner of the Chinese economy is actually thriving in the current climate. Or at least it thinks it is. [READ MORE]( 2 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [Trans Porn, Long Shunned, Goes Mainstream]( Led by stars with growing evidence of audience appeal, trans porn is stepping out of the shadows into the limelight. High-profile porn star Jessica Drake released the film Jessica Drake Is Wicked with Wicked Pictures, one of the biggest mainstream adult studios, in 2017. In it, the 20-year vet gave her fans all of the industry staple sex acts, from anal to orgies. But in the film’s final scene, she offered them something new — a four-way between herself and three transgender women: Aubrey Kate, Venus Lux and Domino Presley. It was a statement that shook the porn world. For more than two decades since it hit the shelves, trans porn has been relegated to the industry’s margins. It was rare for cisgender female performers, much less a major star working with a big studio, to make porn with trans women. Trans content was generally ghettoized, produced primarily by studios dedicated to that genre, and targeted since the 1990s as a secret fetishistic pleasure for cisgender, heterosexual men. Porn featuring trans men, which only really kicked off around 2004, is still uncommon and often targeted primarily toward queer cis men. [READ MORE]( 3 [Flashback]( [Flashback]( [Why Thousands of Sikh Men Disappeared at the Hands of Police]( A crackdown saw a generation of young men go missing at the hands of Indian security forces. The January night was dark and dull. Sitting on a charpoy bed, 21-year-old Harjinder Singh Rana was playing his one-string tumbi, a traditional instrument, and singing, “Nanak dukhiya sab sansar.” Lord, the whole world is ridden with sorrow. At about 1 am, his music was interrupted when two police officials came knocking at the door. Rana, who worked as a special police officer, went with the men, thinking he was headed off on a mission. Eight days later, he was dead: His colleagues had killed him, saying he’d been a “militant.” That was 1994, and Rana’s octogenarian father, Sohan Singh, is still awaiting justice. “I want to see the guilty punished,” says Singh, a resident of Kahnuwan at Gurdaspur in India’s northern state of Punjab, bordering Pakistan. “I want the court to tell the world that my son was not a militant,” he says. [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by Chase]( [Coming to OZY Fest?]( Chase cardholders have special access to the Chase entrance, located at 5th avenue and 79th street. Show your card and valid event ticket for entry. [Chase cardholders]( also have access to some of the best views of the stage. Customers who show their card can access these exclusive viewing areas for themselves and a guest, located at each of the two stages. 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