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Why Was Abuse in Women’s Soccer Ignored?
On Monday, the sports world was rocked to its core by the release of the Yates Report, an incredibly thorough investigation commissioned by the U.S. Soccer Federation and conducted by former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates which found decades of ignored systemic abuse at all levels of…
These Movies Really Miss the Mark on Abortion
It’s been 100 days since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and we’ve got reproductive rights on the brain. Maybe it’s the fall weather keeping some of us indoors or maybe it’s the absolutely wild anti-abortion scene in Blonde, but today we’re thinking about the ways abortion is portrayed in film and…
Whoopi Goldberg’s Candid Message on Abortion
We’ve got something very exciting for today’s newsletter: Meteor editor-at-large Rebecca Carroll sat down with the one and only Whoopi Goldberg last week at our #SaytheWord event to talk about her long-time commitment to saying that word: abortion.
It’s About More Than a Hijab
What is happening in Iran is not merely an issue of unclipping the shackles of a religion that’s already been demonized in the West. What's happening is a political uprising against a corrupt government; a scene not so far off from recent events in the United States despite what conservative…