Jamaica is seeking $10.6 billion in reparations — equivalent to the fees that Britain paid slave owners to populate the island, one lawmaker has said, arguing that Britain owes those slaves’ descendants, at a minimum, their ancestors’ purchase price.
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"Vaginal hygiene products exist because women and girls are told their vaginas are dirty and problematic. They are either too wet or too dry. Too gross. Too smelly. The language used by feminine hygiene is also the language of purity culture." Always astute
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My deep dive into the harm of the feminine hygiene industry -> Merchants of Shame vajenda.substack.com/p/merchants-of
Really, ? Let me fix that obit headline for you: "Bette Howland, Chicago writer and MacArthur Genius Award grantee, dies at 80." #EverydaySexism
Erin Schaff of described what happened when the mob saw her Times ID. "They threw me to the floor, trying to take my cameras. I started screaming for help as loudly as I could. No one came. People just watched. I thought I could be killed." edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/med
““As much as this incident has hurt me personally, I’m glad because it has brought more attention to activists in Africa,” said. “Maybe media will start paying attention to us not just when we’re the victims of #climate tragedies.”” gu.com/p/d6zdy/stw
Thank you : "The hymen is a few millimeters of tissue that is there to protect the infant vagina & yet it has controlled the worth of women for thousands of years and still does for many today. It has been twisted into something false as a means of controlling women."
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Lots of questions about bleeding with first sex. Like lots. So here's what you need to know and it happens a lot less than people think. vajenda.substack.com/p/if-the-hymen
Agreed. The agony of waiting for test results is much worse than the option of looking them up online.
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Agreed! An overwhelming majority of women who get an abortion do not regret the decision to undergo the procedure, according to a new study. Relief was the most common emotion throughout the five years of the study.
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Russian grandma who survived the siege of Leningrad debating armed Russian police, facing arrest.
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Пожилая женщина в Москве обращается к полицейскому: «Я гражданка Российской Федерации. Я житель блокадного Ленинграда. Мой отец погиб на фронте. Мать умерла, я с мертвой матерью лежала. Братья умерли старшие. Что вы хотите от меня?»
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Our treasured 12-year-old son died two months ago from a rare form of brain cancer. We miss him every minute of the day. Poetry offered some comfort. I wrote about my group, "Poetry is Medicine," for The Washington Post,
"Pregnancy terminations at or after 24 weeks of gestation, the time largely accepted as viability, are typically performed because of severe fetal anomalies or fetal anomalies combined with maternal health problems. Enormously courageous nyti.ms/2XmDep7
“You hear governments talking about tree-planting campaigns – these often mean that indigenous communities are going to lose their land. This isn’t what climate justice will look like," says Vanessa Nakate ‘2.4C is a death sentence.' theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
DO NOT CLEAN THE INSIDE OF YOUR VAGINA WITH A WIPE. THIS IS QUITE LITERALLY ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO. TEEN VOGUE, YOU ARE NOT HELPING ANYONE. THIS ALSO PROMOTES THE IDEA THAT A VAGINA NEEDS CLEANING. IT DOES NOT. YES, I AM YELLING. drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/tee
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"It is a shame that I had to experience this ordeal at 100 years old, and over 50 years after the #VotingRights Act was signed into law."
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Grace Bell Hardison, a 100 year old black woman in NC who Republicans tried to purge from voter rolls, wrote beautiful letter to Obama
Unbelievable. A 2005 survey at the University of Oklahoma found that a majority of medical students had performed pelvic exams on unconscious women patients, and in nearly 3 of 4 instances they thought informed consent had not been obtained. nyti.ms/3268fjU
Why do photo editors so frequently choose to depict pregnant women as headless, legless bumps? My essay: The Headless, Legless Pregnancy Bump. With thanks to and for your insights! blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-hea via
"There is no climate justice if it isn’t global, and if it doesn’t include everyone," says Ugandan climate activist vox.com/world/2020/11/ via
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Is there is a ritual incantation recited at an apology dinner? "I hereby eat my words..."
"Never in my life have I experienced the kind of bullying that I have in the past 4 years.
That the bullying spike corresponds with Donald Trump’s presidency is no coincidence. He has normalized, encouraged and, yes, participated in this bullying behavior," writes
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For @washingtonpost, I wrote about why this election is so critical for disabled people: “In 2020, your vote has very real consequences for disabled people such as me. When you support Trump and this administration’s policies, you’re condoning ableism.” 
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washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/My father woke up on his tenth birthday in the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen after sleeping all night in the snow. An exhibition examines childhood after the war. #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
“Out of the gate, Senator was creating plans for everyone from Black mothers (reducing a maternal mortality rate that is three times greater than our
White counterparts) to offering a $50 million investment into Black Colleges” —
"It’s heartbreaking,” says Nasser Nawaj’ah, the South Hebron Hills field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization .
Yet another Palestinian shepherding community is driven out by settler violence
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In her confirmation opening statement, Amy Coney Barrett talked about her children’s talents — except the youngest son, who “has Down syndrome and is the unanimous favorite.”
What about his talents? His attributes? Disabled people deserve to be seen for their own merits...
Max Brod describes, in his Biography of Franz Kafka, being part of a group that “laughed quite immoderately” when Kafka read aloud the first two chapters of The Trial; Kafka himself was laughing so much that he had to stop reading altogether. nybooks.com/articles/2023/ via
In 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell was admitted to Geneva Medical College after the other students, all male, voted her in as a prank. She finished top of her class. A decade later, she & her sister Emily were running their own hospital, writes
If Homo sapiens did the deed with Neanderthals multiple times, are we more than merely cousins? My deep dive into this question is now published in . With thanks to sapiens.org/evolution/homi
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Aboriginal Australians arrived on the continent more than 50,000 years ago. nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl.
75% of new COVID-19 cases in Israel are under the age of 39, a new report by Israel's Coronavirus Information Center published on Sunday shows. The report revealed that as much as 15 percent of patients in a serious condition are age 39 or younger.
I'm so proud to win this award from for my article "Land Divided, Coast United." hakaimagazine.com/article-long/l
"To learn that the walls were placed there intentionally, so my colleagues and I would be stopped as we tried to promote our magazine’s work, makes me livid," Facebook deliberately made changes to show you less news from motherjones.com/media/2020/10/
"I’ve been crying all the time, but now you’re here, I am going to stop." Soccer player returns to Iraq.
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After bombing at a youth tournament, an Iraqi player hopes soccer holds the power to heal nyti.ms/1TFw6Ow
A Passion for Beetles (and Spiders) in the Time of #Coronavirus: how my kids discovered the beauty of beetles while confined close to home. My latest for blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a via
Translation: "What's happening now is thrilling. Thousands in HaBima Square [Tel Aviv.] Demanding peace. Demanding equality. Demanding partnership. Remember this evening. This is the evening on which we started to win." עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together
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מה שקורה כאן הוא דבר מרגש. אלפים בכיכר הבימה. דורשים שלום. דורשים שוויון. דורשים שותפות. תזכרו את הערב הזה. זה הערב שבו התחלנו לנצח!
Ecologist said it was a mistake to frame the capybara influx as an invasion. “It’s the other way round: Nordelta invaded the ecosystem of the carpinchos.” Viale has campaigned for 10 years for a law to defend the wetlands from development. theguardian.com/world/2021/aug
Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday!
Here's a giant old Ficus aurea (Florida Strangler Fig) in the Israeli city of Acre.
Here's my just-published story in on reading and sharing stories by my sister science writers:
To fly or not to fly? In January 2020, I set out to interview climate scientists about their no-flying pledges. Then, unexpectedly, almost everyone else stopped flying due to #Covid_19. One year later, here's my much-revised story
"To combat climate change, we don’t just need people to make better choices. We need to give people better options. We don’t need to ban cars; we need to electrify them (and we need that electricity to come from clean energy)" writes bit.ly/30cpHk1?utm_so
August is #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth - Hurrah! But there's no need to wait until August 1. Here's a stack of #WIT books I've read since *last* August. Happy reading!
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There are rainforests in Britain. They once covered much of the wet western side of the country.
A project in Snowdonia national park in north Wales is restoring and expanding the rainforest there.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that the Supreme Court had prevented “thousands of otherwise eligible voters from participating in Florida’s primary election simply because they are poor.” slate.com/news-and-polit via
Good morning from this beautiful hoopoe.
In this deeply researched “twenty-first-century portrait of the Neanderthals” from birth to burial and beyond, palaeolithic archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes smashes stereotypes. My review of "Kindred" by
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I came up with a great idea during an extensive interview process and later saw that the magazine used it. I didn't get the job.
The "Edinburgh Seven" were the first women admitted to study medicine in Britain when they enrolled in 1869.
"A full-scale riot broke out when the women turned up to sit an anatomy exam at the university and male students pelted them with mud."
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"Seven women who were prevented from graduating as doctors 150 years ago have been awarded posthumous honorary degrees in medicine."
#GiveGirlsRoleModels #GirlsInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine 
#STEMGems #ChildrensBooks #YABooks #Books 
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#GiveGirlsRoleModels #GirlsInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
#STEMGems #ChildrensBooks #YABooks #Books
bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scHappy #ThickTrunkTuesday!
Here's an old magnolia tree in the courtyard of the Al-Jazzar Mosque in Acre, Israel.
Many soldiers literally drowned in shell holes at the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I, because of rain and flooding. (Source: To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild.)
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My grandfather was shot twice in France.
He spent almost three years in a mud and water filled trench.
I think about the millions of mostly men, but many women, who died and suffered.
And a little rain was too much for Trump who was going to head back to an elegant hotel.
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Clara Rockmore, the first virtuoso of the theremin, is one of 10 electronic music pioneers featured in Sisters With Transistors, a documentary about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers. FYI theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/
"Wild," "savage," "cannibals." This is how Charles Darwin described the indigenous peoples of South America. In my new essay , I revisit Darwin's racism during his Voyage of the Beagle. Thanks to & for insights
"Sudan has declared a state of emergency due to record flooding; the Nile River rose almost 17.5 meters in places. In East Africa, a plague of locusts threatens the food supply of 20 million people," writes theroot.com/africa-is-expe via
Wow this is a must-read. Writer Sanora Babb's notes on destitute farmers displaced by the Oklahoma Dust Bowl were shared with John Steinbeck. He published The Grapes of Wrath to great acclaim; her novel Whose Names Are Unknown was unpublished. nybooks.com/articles/2021/ via
I'm happy to share my latest story for : What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa? Was it #ClimateChange or an innate adaptability to varying environments?
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“This pandemic knew no class, it knew no authority, it knew no money, all of us can be victims. When leaders learnt about the science behind the virus, they listened and put in place lockdowns. But when it comes to #ClimateChange, they do not take action," says
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“We cannot eat coal, we cannot drink oil. No one serves fossil fuels at the dining table.” @vanessa_vash euronews.com/living/2020/10
"It was my cheeky, defiant response to being told that I don’t deserve to be seen,” says of #MyBestSelfie. “Because that comment didn’t just take a dig at me, it was an insult to all disabled people."
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I’m surrounded by so many amazing women writers, so I was beyond honored when @Laura_Studarus interviewed me for her @byshondaland piece on women who are changing the way we think about wellness!!! What a power list to be on... 
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shondaland.com/live/body/a353My Year in Books, 2021: Another year of excellent reading thanks to
I wandered into an untended garden and found this beautiful lemon tree, laden with fruit.
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Have you been reading any news about the #climatecrisis? The 95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump? The global gag rule? Separation of #asylumseeking children from their parents? Etcetera. nytimes.com/interactive/20
“Nothing can justify today’s reality in parts of the West Bank, where people on one side of the street are receiving #Covid vaccines, while those on the other do not, based on whether they’re Jewish or Palestinian,” said at Human Rights Watch. hrw.org/news/2021/01/1
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People who suffer from chronic pain experience it for more than an hour, and cannot end it when they choose, as you can. Stop giving stupid advice.
Over 50 Israelis have flown to #Cyprus to stand by the British woman. “The minimum we can do is to be there to offer support, to show her that we believe her,” said Orit Sulitzeanu, of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel. timesofisrael.com/cyprus-uk-woma via
“Too many in the 19th and early 20th century lived thwarted lives because of the exploitation they endured in the mines and mills. Yet no one tells the tale of these workers unionising, fighting for their rights.” - Harry Leslie Smith gu.com/p/5b2q8/stw
My latest story for describes fascinating research by the inimitable and Bible scholar Noam Mizrahi, who used DNA sequencing to discover secrets about the Dead Sea Scrolls. A fab combo of biology and the Hebrew scriptures. scientificamerican.com/article/ancien via
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Solar Energy Is the Cheapest Electricity in History, cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time. tinyurl.com/yb6dlcbq
"Information about ovarian cancer should come from a doctor, not from an actor who plays a doctor on television," writes .
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Ellen Pompeo gives terrible advice about ovarian cancer screening on @TheEllenShow drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/ell
"In the Jim Crow South, for a Black person to step outside norms of behavior established by whites could be a death sentence. Violence could erupt at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all."
A Regional Reign of Terror nybooks.com/articles/2023/ via
I reported anti-vaxxers who were harrassing me after the death of my beloved 12-year-old son from brain cancer, and received this reply from Twitter: "we didn't find a violation of our rules in the content you reported."
In the early days of electronic computing, the work was strongly associated with women. It was feminized because it was seen as deskilled and unimportant. This began to change as computers became indispensable to government & industry, writes gu.com/p/9jc7m/stw
Why Silicon Valley's most astute critics are all women: a shout-out to formidable female tech critics including Mar Hicks
“Fossil fuels are what prop up authoritarian petrostates like Russia who have used the tremendous wealth they have derived from the mining and selling of fossil fuels to the rest of the world to build their military,” said theguardian.com/world/2022/mar
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I also protested the Iraq invasion. I thought it was blitheringly obvious what a gigantic mistake it was.
"America was never designed to take care of the people who built it, and that harsh truth has never been more apparent for the estimated 4.5 million immigrants who live, work, and pay taxes here without formal authorization." nybooks.com/daily/2020/04/ via
My daughter found two caterpillars feeding on her fennel and kept them and fed them in an aerated box until they spun cocoons. This morning one of the butterflies emerged and it is extravagantly beautiful. It sunned itself for a while and then fluttered away to freedom.
Thick Trunk with Hidden Street Cat.
Credit to my 12-year-old daughter, always alert to secret kitties.
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There is a powerful stigma attached to talking about depression. So I am just here to say that I am currently taking antidepressants, they are helping me, and I don't really care what this Davies person has to say.
From 19 years ago: Workers at Veje Leather- a factory that makes only Kate Spade bags -- have complained of harsh working conditions. They believe that they have been exploited because they are new to the country and do not speak the language.
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In 2021, 20 countries *still* had "marry-your-rapist" laws. Kudos to Lebanese feminists for fighting to overturn this law in Lebanon. amp.theguardian.com/global-develop
“Claiming that a book about surviving sexual assault is biased against male students [...] ignores that boys/men/males can be victims. To avoid discussion of sexual violence breeds ignorance, fosters perpetrators,” said , author of "Speak." theguardian.com/books/2021/apr
Out of the 180 assaults on journalists we are investigating, 149 of them have been by police. That’s almost 83 percent. (This number also does not include police arresting journalists, which have occurred at least another 45 times.) interc.pt/372FDKK by
Wonderful essay by : "The Chinese writing system itself is akin to a forest we walk through (where the trees keep grouping and regrouping as we move among them), rather than a series of twigs arranged on a surface." nybooks.com/articles/2020/ via
While vestiges of London's rivers remain visible, most lie buried and submerged in the sewage system.
Now the walking charity is calling for a network of new green walking routes tracing the paths of some of London’s “forgotten” waterways. theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m