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Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?
In 1979, the feminist writer and activist Pearl Cleage was thirty, newly divorced, and dating for the first time in more than a decade. After a late introduction to Miles Davis’s famous album “Kind of Blue,” she started playing the record on dates. She was “in need of a current vision of who and what …
Breaking the code of silence over sexual violence at elite French universities
Issued on: 24/02/2021 – 12:35Modified: 24/02/2021 – 12:39 France is coming to terms with the fact that sexual assault and rape cases are often known about but ignored. The situation at the prestigious Sciences Po university has been under the spotlight after one of its top professors was accused of abusing his stepson. The school’s director then resigned …
‘It is not hopeless’: China’s #MeToo movement finally sees legal victories | World news
Liu Li has spent the past year fighting what many said would be a losing battle. Inspired by a flood of MeToo accounts that emerged in China, last year she brought a lawsuit against her former boss, a prominent and award-winning social worker, whom she claimed sexually harassed her four years ago. Over the course …
Judge orders removal of #MeToo posts accusing Indian artist | World news
The high court in Delhi has ordered Google and Facebook to remove all anonymous social media posts accusing the artist Subodh Gupta of sexual harassment and ordered Facebook, which owns Instagram, to reveal the identity of the person behind the account that first made the allegations. Last year, many well-known Indian men, mostly in the …
