Culture

January 09, 2019

Kazuna Yamamoto is a college student who started an online petition to get a Japanese tabloid magazine to apologize for an article that rated Japan's universities according to how easy it is for men to get female students to have sex with them. She succeeded and along the way got 40,000+ responses to her online appeal.

Rare gems in skeleton's teeth challenges thinking about Medieval women

Thomson Reuters Foundation

January 09, 2019

A 1,000-year-old skeleton of a woman was discovered at a monastery cemetery shows that she painted with rare, expensive pigments — and she licked a brush frequently, leaving the traces of lapis lazuli in her dental plaque. The finding shows that women contributed more to painting and literature that previously thought.

As the West jeers, durian mania rises in Asia

PRI's The World

January 09, 2019

It’s difficult to overstate how silly the Western dislike for durian looks from East and Southeast Asia. Across Asia, durian is actually selling like never before. Long a coveted fruit, the durian has, in recent years, become the focus of a full-on food craze.

The legacy of Stan Lee: 'Marvel let us dream'

PRI's The World

January 08, 2019

Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, a screenwriter and hip-hop editor, says that Marvel comics gave him a common language with other kids after his family moved from Guyana to Brooklyn, New York, in the 1980s.

Sexuality

Muslim women chart their own path in #MeToo era

GlobalPost

January 04, 2019

HEART Women & Girls, whose sex educators are all Muslim, raises awareness about sexual health and violence within the community.

Global Politics

‘Maybe we need more God in prisons' to curb radicalization, says one former extremist

GlobalPost

January 04, 2019

As hundreds of Islamic militants return from fallen ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq, France faces the daunting task of tackling the potential for radicalization in prisons.

Will Brazil's women writers lose progress under far-right President Bolsonaro?

GlobalPost

January 03, 2019

Many literary groups across the country focus on contemporary women authors. Newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro has spoken disparagingly about women, though, and some in the literary community worry about what that means for female writers.

Al-Qaeda is gone, but this Yemeni hip-hop group still can't perform

Reuters

January 02, 2019

Members of WaxOn, a Yemeni hip-hop band, thought the defeat of al-Qaeda in their city would free them to dance. But now security forces say otherwise.

Arts, Culture & Media

What's the deal with Vladimir Putin calendars?

PRI's The World

January 01, 2019

"Strong man" calendars are making a comeback in 2019.

Sports

Roger Federer emerges victorious in historic clash with Serena Williams

Reuters

January 01, 2019

Roger Federer emerged triumphant from an historic first meeting with Serena Williams in the Hopman Cup on Tuesday.

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