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Gender Agenda newsletter: A Sunday afternoon nap

Welcome to The Hindu’s newsletter that puts gender front and centre. In the best tradition of sisterhood, three of us will share the ‘work’, one every week, each from a different generation of women. A Sunday afternoon nap There is a set of three pictures in photographer Krithika Sriram’s exhibit Anbu Magal at the Chennai Photo Biennale, inaugurated this week, …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Naked dressing trend: How the rise in sheer clothing meets the political moment.

Slate

This is Checking Out, a column about how we shop, what we buy, and how it all makes us feel. More than two years into the trend that fashion writers call “naked dressing,” I am no longer the scandalized elder with an outdated sense of decorum, rubbernecking at each public display of bikini briefs. In an era of fast fashion …

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1 week, 4 days ago

BTS' RM Sparks Debate After Being Named Role Model To Stop Violence Against Women: 'His Own Fandom Has...'

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

‘The Red Virgin’ movie review: Impeccable performances anchor this tale of parenthood and principles

The Hindu

Aware of the term ‘Eugenics’? Director Paula Ortiz, in her recent Prime Video outing The Red Virgin, takes the blood-stained pages from history and turns them into a biopic of one of several personalities whose works were forgotten after the Spanish Civil War. The Red Virgin/La virgen roja Director: Paula Ortiz Cast: Najwa Nimri, Alba Planas, Aixa Villagrán, Patrick Criado, …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Demure, sanewashing, standalone 'staches, sourdough: Let's move on in 2025!

Hindustan Times

NEW YORK — We've demure-d our way through 2024. A passenger princess, according to Urban Dictionary, is “a pretty girl that has no other job but to look pretty in the passenger seat while her sneaky link/boyfriend/significant other drives.” What's a sneaky link, you might ask? “There is just something funny about bubble hems and the way they, well, bubble …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Demure, sanewashing, standalone ‘staches, sourdough: Let’s move on in 2025!

Associated Press

NEW YORK — We’ve demure-d our way through 2024. This image released by Disney shows TikTok creator Jools Lebron, left, with talk show personality Guillermo Rodriguez on the set of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 in Los Angeles. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Passenger princesses: Take the wheel Speaking …

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1 month ago

Real Polo housewives of Orange County: Inside Meghan’s launch into her ‘domestic era’

The Independent

She was there for her husband, Prince Harry; cheering from the sidelines before presenting him with the trophy when his team won. open image in gallery Jam session: one of Markle’s American Riviera Orchard products It’s presumably Defina, however, who inspired her polo wife transformation: Blaquier is an enviably cool landscape architect who homeschools four children as they travel the …

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1 month ago

Notes on feminism from the Dehradun Literature Festival 2024

The Hindu

Introspections around sexuality, female agency, patriarchy and bodily autonomy became a leitmotif of sorts in three all-female panel discussions at the recently concluded sixth edition of the Dehradun Literature Festival. Gender and storytelling Screenwriter Atika Chohan, however, at another discussion titled ‘Women Writing Women – Owning our Stories’, rued the erosion of female agency in recent times. “Since Trump has …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Short cut to feminism: How an assault changed Korean woman's outlook

Raw Story

Aspiring South Korean writer On Ji-goo never considered herself a feminist but changed her mind after being physically attacked by a man for having short hair. But South Korea has The backlash previously ensnared unsuspecting victims such as triple Olympic archery champion An San, who was bullied online during the 2021 Tokyo Games for her short hair. "Athletes often find …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘Handmaid’s Tale’ sales skyrocket on bestseller charts after Trump win: report

Raw Story

Sales of the futuristic dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale" – along with other books with themes revolving around democracy, dystopia, feminism and far-right politics – shot up best-seller charts in the days following Donald Trump’s stunning election night victory, according to media reports. Vance’s novel “Hillbilly Elegy,” Timothy Snyder’s non-fiction book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century” and …

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What is the Fringe 4B movement? American women threating to do against Trump

Hindustan Times

While primarily a South Korean movement, 4B gained traction in the United States after Donald Trump’s recent re-election, with a surge of interest on social media and in Google searches. Many American women, disappointed by the election results, are engaging in 4B conversations, citing Trump’s controversial stance on “abortion rights” as a reason for concern. “Young women don’t want to …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Trump effect: Why sale of dystopian books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘1984’ is on the rise

Firstpost

Donald Trump’s victory has left his critics, especially America’s liberals, worried. Dystopian books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘1984’, and ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’ quickly rose to the top of bestseller charts after the results Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures as he walks with former first lady Melania Trump at an election night watch …

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Why American women are threatening a sex strike after Trump’s win

Firstpost

Donald Trump’s win over Kamala Harris has had an unexpected result: Women in the US are turning to South Korean feminism – a fringe 4B movement. — Anonymous November 7, 2024 “Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline,” an X user said in …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

I Thought Coming Out To My Mom Would Bring Us Closer. Then I Received Something Shocking In The Mail.

Huff Post

The author and her mother during a 2021 visit. I sat in my therapist’s office, holding the shreds, muttering, “I can’t believe how passive-aggressive my mom is being.” My therapist paused, looked at me and said, “I wonder. Later that same year, my mom’s husband at the time, a retired Army colonel she only ever called “The Colonel,” became terminally …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

MAGA's last stand: A duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in diametrically opposite Americas

Salon

The 2024 presidential election is one of the most important — if not the most important — in the country’s history. Trump, the MAGA movement and the larger white right and neofascist cause view Black people’s votes and equal citizenship rights, and multiracial democracy more broadly, as illegitimate and fraudulent. Trump and the MAGA movement and the large white right …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

2024 election and 4B: How the second coming of Trump has heralded a new type of sex strike.

Slate

Since the election, women in the United States have been coping with the second administration of Donald Trump by looking into a movement that originated in South Korea: something called 4B. As the Instagram user @4bworldwide put it a few weeks ago, “Life begins for women when we start to center women.” The account’s name references the 4B movement, which …

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2 months ago

17 Spot-On Lines About Womanhood From Ali Wong

Huff Post

“You gotta make this dude believe your body is a secret garden when really it’s a public park.” — “Baby Cobra” “I don’t feed my husband out of the goodness of my heart. What you’re really scared of is doo doo on the dick.” — “Baby Cobra” “For three months, I was walking around my house with a top knot, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

Wired

Marissa Mayer didn’t say AI is Death, destroyer of worlds or even AI needs ethical guardrails. The Big Interview As I spoke with Mayer in Sunshine’s candy-colored digs in Palo Alto, I was so stunned by her boosterism that I ended up mirroring it. “By gum, you’re right!” I said, all but slapping my knee. Had Mayer, after leaving Yahoo …

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2 months, 1 week ago

The Necessity of Central Asia’s Transformative Feminism

The Diplomat

The Central Asian contingent at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in mid-September, was small. “We have transformative feminism in Central Asia,” Dunganaeva, a grassroots activist with the ALGA rural women’s association, said, rooted in the “many aspects of our culture, our history, our family and also our Soviet past, when there were big opportunities for …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Big Brother fans slam Marcello for 'treating the show like Love Island' and 'sexualising every conversation' with women

Daily Mail

Big Brother fans have slammed Marcello for 'treating the show like Love Island' and 'sexualising every conversation with women,' following Friday's instalment of the ITV series. Big Brother fans have slammed Marcello for 'treating the show like Love Island' and 'sexualising every conversation with women,' following Friday's instalment of the ITV series The 34-year-old youth mentor from East London has …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Kin’s speech: One woman is archiving folk songs of insult and dissent from Bihar

Hindustan Times

There is humour, subversion and feminism, in the songs of the Angika language. “They also offer a sense of community that says: you’re not alone.” {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Hoping to be part of a solution, Sufi has been recording, translating and preserving songs and stories in this tongue, on Wikimedia, since 2021. * Jo jo samdhi holo paray, {{^userSubscribed}} …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Go back in time this October with The Bells of Westminster by Leonora Nattrass, The Book of Witching by CJ Cooke, and The Catchers by Xan Brooks

Daily Mail

THE BELLS OF WESTMINSTER by Leonora Nattrass The Bells of Westminster is available now from the Mail Bookshop There's plot a plenty in Nattrass’s stand-alone historical thriller set in 1774. THE BOOK OF WITCHING by CJ Cooke The Book of Witching is available now from the Mail Bookshop Cooke delivers another hair-raising dose of horror in her fourth supernatural novel; …

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3 months ago

The continuing distribution of the death penalty

The Hindu

The life of the death sentence in India has been unending, and like a phoenix revives itself in different forms every now and then. Editorial | Life over death: On death penalty abolition and parliamentary panel report This framing creates an ‘othering’ — as if the accused is not from the same society that we inhabit — and justifies death …

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3 months, 1 week ago

AI meets feminism

China Daily

Liu Siyi, the creator of the website. Tech integration Linking Gen Z culture with serious feminist knowledge became Liu's biggest challenge when designing her website. For example, one can engage in deep discussions on gender topics using the large language model Claude, conduct concept searches with BeingAI or Baidu's ERNIE Bot, find research papers on Google Scholar, or transform topics …

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Gender Agenda newsletter: A Sunday afternoon nap

Naked dressing trend: How the rise in sheer clothing meets the political moment.

BTS' RM Sparks Debate After Being Named Role Model To Stop Violence Against Women: 'His Own Fandom Has...'

‘The Red Virgin’ movie review: Impeccable performances anchor this tale of parenthood and principles

Demure, sanewashing, standalone 'staches, sourdough: Let's move on in 2025!

Demure, sanewashing, standalone ‘staches, sourdough: Let’s move on in 2025!

Real Polo housewives of Orange County: Inside Meghan’s launch into her ‘domestic era’

Notes on feminism from the Dehradun Literature Festival 2024

Short cut to feminism: How an assault changed Korean woman's outlook

‘Handmaid’s Tale’ sales skyrocket on bestseller charts after Trump win: report

What is the Fringe 4B movement? American women threating to do against Trump

The Trump effect: Why sale of dystopian books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘1984’ is on the rise

Why American women are threatening a sex strike after Trump’s win

I Thought Coming Out To My Mom Would Bring Us Closer. Then I Received Something Shocking In The Mail.

MAGA's last stand: A duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in diametrically opposite Americas

2024 election and 4B: How the second coming of Trump has heralded a new type of sex strike.

17 Spot-On Lines About Womanhood From Ali Wong

Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

The Necessity of Central Asia’s Transformative Feminism

Big Brother fans slam Marcello for 'treating the show like Love Island' and 'sexualising every conversation' with women

Kin’s speech: One woman is archiving folk songs of insult and dissent from Bihar

Go back in time this October with The Bells of Westminster by Leonora Nattrass, The Book of Witching by CJ Cooke, and The Catchers by Xan Brooks

The continuing distribution of the death penalty

AI meets feminism