Unseen: Missing, murdered Indigenous women in California part of nationwide crisis
KLAMATH, Del Norte County -- It is a brutal and silent crisis: the growing number of missing or murdered Indigenous women across the U.S., including right here in California. Many of these cases are under investigation and remain unsolved.
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Glenda Jackson, fearless actor and politician, dies aged 87
Her singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP
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Dame Sue Carr appointed first female lord chief justice in England and Wales
Carr will be the first woman to lead the judiciary in the history of the role dating back to the 13th century
Abortion
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Outrage at jail sentence for woman who took abortion pills later than UK limit
Mitigation plea signed by medical groups was sent to judge, while BPAS chief executive said sentence was ‘shocking and appalling
Campaigners and MPs have reacted with outrage to a woman being sentenced to more than two years in prison for procuring drugs to induce an abortion after the legal limit https://www.theguardian.com/…
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Calls for abortion to be decriminalised amid row over jailing of UK woman
Leading expert warns of ‘sustained attacks’ on reproductive rights after sentence imposed on...
Leading women’s health experts have warned of an attack on women’s reproductive rights and the potential for more prosecutions, following the jailing of a woman for terminating her pregnancy after the legal time limit.
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In a sign of tensions within the abortion rights community, a Manhattan clinic alleges the reproductive health behemoth poached one of its doctors, bringing it to the ‘point of implosion’
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Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance
Exclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues
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FERTILITY
The Cruelty of Natalism
Personal Perspective: If you don’t know what it means, that’s part of the problem.
- People without children may struggle to survive in a natalist world.
- Natalism can render individuals without children invisible.
- Natalism holds no space for those without children
Natalism is, essentially, the promotion of childbearing. It’s when having children is the norm. Don’t have kids? You’re not normal. Welcome to life in the U.S. and most other countries
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A third of German men find violence against women ‘acceptable’: Survey www.straitstimes
Nine out of 10 people are biased against women, UN report finds
Amy Woodyatt, CNN https://amp.cnn.com/…
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UK
Bar for street sexual harassment offences in England and Wales set too high, charities say
Open letter says burden on victims to prove intent leaves door open for perpetrators to claim they were joking
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Gabriel Fortin, 48, is alleged to have killed two HR directors and a jobs centre worker and wounded a fourth person in 2021 attacks
Hollywood/ #MeToo
Black Panther 2 actor Tenoch Huerta
who plays a leading villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has denied allegations of sexual assault made against him on social media by the musician and activist María Elena Ríos https://www.theguardian.com/…
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Warner Bros. Discovery faces backlash for 'ignoring' Ezra Miller's crimes - including allegations 'they' groomed teenage girl
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Ezra Miller Accused of Harassing Woman in Germany, and Iceland Choking Victim Breaks Her Silence
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Warner Bros not properly addressing the Ezra Miller controversy www.google.com/...
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The right-wing Young Women's "Leadership" Summit featured career women telling young women to forget about careers & stay in their place.
A wrenching story from Jessica Valenti: A young woman in Texas learned she was carrying a fetus with no head. But it still had a heartbeat - so she and her boyfriend had to drive 11 hours to New Mexico to end a pregnancy that was endangering her health and breaking her heart.
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Marriages in China drop to record low despite government push
Number of couples tying knot fell 800,000 in 2022 amid birthrate ‘crisis
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'I trusted him’: human trafficking surges in cyclone-hit east India
Poverty-stricken women and girls are being tricked and abducted in West Bengal
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'Patriarchal and biased’: Israeli women fear loss of rights in legal overhaul
Feminist groups sound alarm over little-noticed plan to expand power of state-run religious courts
Saudi Arabian woman arrested over Twitter and Snapchat posts promoting reform
Manahel al-Otaibi, 29, was held in November on charges including using a hashtag calling for end to male guardianship
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The US supreme court upheld race-conscious voting protections. Affirmative action could be next
The court’s decision this week served as an affirmation that race-conscious protections such as these can and should exist in US law
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Kathleen Folbigg’s ‘fierce women’ on the need to challenge misogyny in criminal cases
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Women behind the lens: ‘The next day she got a tattoo of broken glass’
Rania Matar has found inspiration in Beirut’s resilient women, trying to rebuild lives after the huge blasts that wrecked the city
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Hermione Eyre
The woman who pioneered colour photography
Madame Yevonde's 'Goddesses' series from the 1930s saw her controlling colour like a Renaissance master
The great women's art bulletin
‘Blatant sexism’: why is a great painter who lived to 101 still defined by a man she left in the 1950s?
Instead of honouring and remembering her as the accomplished woman she was, The New York Times wrote: “Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101.” The Guardian followed with “painter and muse to Picasso”; The Washington Post defined her as “celebrated artist, writer and muse to Picasso”; ARTNews wrote that she was an “Artist Who Fearlessly Chronicled Her Relationship with Picasso”. https://amp.theguardian
News items for June 17th
from Salon Why women don't host late-night television.
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The19th Lesbian bars have endured — with community, grit and a little reinvention. "The more than two dozen lesbian bars that remain across the United States are spaces of “hope” catering to all LGBTQ+ people in a political climate that seeks to silence them.
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They Married for a Life Abroad. But They Never Saw Their Husbands Again.
Thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by men working overseas, leaving them trapped in their in-laws’ homes and often defrauded of dowry money.www.nytimes.com/...
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Black Music Sunday: Celebrating talented Tony award-winning sistahs
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from The19th The next red state abortion fight is unfolding in Ohio -- "A group of doctors and advocates want Ohio voters to enshrine abortion rights directly into the state constitution. They’ll have to overcome aggressive Republican efforts to block it first."
-https://19thnews.org/... from The19th] Women of every race and ethnicity broke representation records in statehouses after the 2022 midterms -- "Women still lag in representation in elected office, but a number of new highs were hit, according to data compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics."
HighCountryNews Rancher's daughter Rikki Held and 15 other young people are suing the state of Montana for failing to protect them against climate change.
TheConversation Events in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis in Latin America Public outrage over alleged abuse has been muted in much of Latin America for years, partly because the church remains one of the region’s most powerful institutions – but that may be changing....
NativeNewsOnline Native Americans in Congress are split on Trump Indictment
...Two Native Americans from Oklahoma — Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee) and Rep. Josh Brecheen (Choctaw) [men]— came to the defense of Trump in social media posts. Both are members of the Republican party.
Another GOP member of Congress from Oklahoma, Rep. Tom Cole, has not commented publicly on Trump’s indictment.
The other two Native Americans serving in Congress, Rep. Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) and Mary Peltola (Yupik), both Democrats [and both women], said they are putting their faith in the U.S. justice system.…
NativeNewsOnline “Lakota Nation vs. United States” Documentary to Debut in Theaters Next Month *
Next month, the documentary film chronicling the United States government’s forced removal of Indigenous Peoples from their sacred Black Hills— “Lakota Nation vs. United States” — will premiere in New York and Los Angeles movie theaters.
The film was written and narrated by Oglala poet *Layli Long Soldier, co-directed by Jesse Short Bull (Oglala Lakota) and Laura Tomaselli, and produced by Sarah Eagle Heart (Oglala Lakota), Mark Ruffalo, and Marisa Tomei.
The 118-minute documentary traces the history and controversy around the Black Hills from the arrival of the first Europeans in 1492, to the Indian Wars of the 1800s, to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, when the U.S. government formally recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people. But that treaty, like many others, was broken, which gave way to “the creation of a most ironic shrine to white supremacy, Mount Rushmore,...”
US news
Native American tribes hail ‘major victory’ after supreme court ruling
From The19th email:
A little red book.
Much of what the world knows about the Tulsa massacre, one of the most consequential events of state-sanctioned racial violence and displacement in America’s history, started with the work of one woman, Mary E. Jones Parrish. Editorial fellow Katherine Gilyard tells the story of what a teacher’s little red book taught the world about the Tulsa massacre.
ReligonNewsService Southern Baptists start constitutional step naming only men as pastors "The new language would add that a church ‘affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.’,,,"
ProPublica Native American Families Are Being Broken Up in Spite of a Law Meant to Keep Children With Their Parents "After fighting to win back her parental rights, a young Native American mother prevailed. Then the state came for her second child..."
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Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age:
Gendered “Middle-ageism”
Unlike previous notions of a middle-aged “sweet spot,” women between ages 40 and 60 in our study fared no better than their younger or older counterparts. One college leader described how some search committees chose not to hire women in their late forties because of “too much family responsibility and impending menopause.” Other search committees declined to hire women in their fifties because they have “menopause-related issues and could be challenging to manage.” And still other committees said that “women in their fifties and sixties may not have ‘aged well’ and do not ‘look vital.’” Yet the jobs were given to similarly aged men.
Opinion: I am raising a daughter in Idaho, where shaming women is the law:
The state is anti-abortion with no exceptions for women's health, no longer has a Maternal Mortality Review Committee, refuses postpartum Medicaid coverage, does not fund early childcare assistance, and is the first with an interstate travel bans for minors needing abortions. "Idaho is forcing women to have babies without a safety net before, during and after birth."
The author is the founder and executive director of the Pro-Voice Project:
The Pro-Voice Project is a North Idaho-based organization dedicated to promoting empathy and education related to abortion and its role as an essential pillar of women’s reproductive health care. We utilize storytelling and community building to drive action for reproductive agency, autonomy, and access to care. We believe that, if we generate an understanding of abortion on a human and legal level, we can change the conversation and, eventually, the laws.
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