Women/ Lives
I was an addict, a prisoner, a sex worker. I thought the world had written me off – but I saved myself ‘I used to go to prison for a break’ … Mandy Ogunmokun. For two decades Mandy Ogunmokun was either in jail or selling sex to pay for drugs. She had four children – but never got the chance to raise them. Now clean, she has devoted her life to helping other struggling women. https://www.theguardian.com/…
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Women/Lives
Hearing a room full of Black women open up about sex and shame was
Hosting a workshop around issues muffled by a blanket of silence in our community felt daunting. But it was revelatory
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Women/Lives
If you scream you are a dead duck’: At 14, my mother left me alone all summer – then the man with a knife found me
Stephanie Clare Smith photographed aged 15.
I asked her not to go on the six-week camping trip with her boyfriend, but she said I would be fine. I wasn’t
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Women/Lives
Pain renewed her resolve’: how my mum tried to die on her own terms
Writer Marianne Brooker reflects on the onset of her mother’s multiple sclerosis , the ‘broad-shouldered, red-eyed’ work of caring – and, after doctors and politicians had failed to help, her mother’s decision to hasten her death
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Wonen/Lives
Writer Kerry Hudson: ‘I grew up with the narrative that working-class mothers were the worst’
The author on following her acclaimed debut Lowborn with a memoir about motherhood.
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World Hunger
We must act on Ethiopia food crisis, says UK minister
Andrew Mitchell warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
The UK has launched a fund for ending preventable deaths, targeted at children – particularly under-fives – as well as pregnant and postnatal women. www.theguardian.com/...
Feminism
What hope do we have when even female breadwinners like Paloma Faith have to put their men first? 21st-century women should surely be inundated with liberal, modern-minded men who ‘get it’. Sadly, that’s not the case https://www.theguardian.com/…
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The Week in Patriarchy
If anyone can get the US government to take deepfake porn seriously, it’s Swifties Arwa Mahdawi Their collective anger over AI-generated sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift may help spur changes to federal law when it comes to deepfake porn. https://www.theguardian.com/…
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The Week in Patriarchy Arwa Mahdawi reviews the most important stories on feminism, sexism and those fighting for equality https://www.theguardian.com/…
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Feminism
Sometimes I long for the life of a tradwife.
Then I remember it’s a reactionary fantasy
It’s easy to get lost in the idea that the traditional housewife role is a soothing existence of baking bread and Agas. The reality is so much darker
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US Congress/child sexual exploitation
Social media CEOs testify on child sexual exploitation to US Congress Chief executives of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord to be questioned over alleged harms to young users on their platforms The hearing, titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis”, promises to “examine and investigate the plague of online child sexual exploitation”, according to a statement from the US Senate judiciary committee. In attendance are chief executive officers including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Linda Yaccarino of X (formerly Twitter), Shou Zi Chew of TikTok, Evan Spiegel of Snap, and Jason Citron of Discord https://www.theguardian.com/…
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Media/Meta
the Wall Street Journal has shown Meta’s algorithms enable paedophiles to find each other. New Mexico’s attorney general is suing the company for being the “largest marketplace for predators and paedophiles globally”. A coroner in Britain found that 14-year-old Molly Jane Russell, “died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content” – which included Instagram videos depicting suicide.
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MMIW
Is There Hope for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women? A hashtag and a political campaign have brought attention to the epidemic of violence, but a New Mexico woman is fighting case by case. Rachel Monroe reports. https://www.newyorker.com/…