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Women have harvested mussels and other shellfish, a valuable source of protein and income, on South Africa’s Wild Coast for three centuries. Barry Christianson

Climate change hits South African women unevenly: why race, class, age and power matter

Climate risk assessments guide how much funding is available to support climate impacts and need to work out which women are worst affected.
Medusa is Tunisia’s best known female rapper internationally, but she’s not the first woman in the scene. Medusa TN/Size Me cover art

Tunisia’s rap revolution: 5 women who are redefining hip‑hop

Women only really emerged in Tunisia’s male-dominated rap scene with the revolution in 2011. And they’re rapping about much more than just patriarchy.
Participants in the 2023 San Francisco Pride parade show their opposition to law enforcement. Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images

LGBTQ people have a troubled relationship with police − new survey shows high rates of harassment, abuse and distrust

A landmark study of police-LGBTQ relations finds that 21% of respondents have been stopped by police in the past year, and 53% of Black trans respondents have been the victims of police brutality.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a break in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

The intersectionality of hate helps make sense of the ideology of Donald Trump and the far right

The intersectionality of hate, which combines racism, antisemitism and misogyny, leads the white heterosexual male to believe that he is a victim of the “minorities” he must resist.

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