For a big annual conference on anthropology, Kathleen Lowrey, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, put together several panelists around a controversial theme: that their discipline was in the midst of erasing discussions of sex, which they believe is binary — either male or female. Patel, The New York Times)
Read MoreOn a recent autumn afternoon, Ukrainian worshipers with a branch of the Orthodox church long tied to Moscow gathered on a street outside a monastery in Kyiv to sing and pray. They come here often as an act of protest against a decision issued by Ukrainian authorities earlier this year. (Mann, NPR)
Read MoreThe distribution company responsible for the show — which Channel 4’s official website acknowledges is “provocative”— tweeted that “U.S. audiences are loving” the program. Max’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, cites about 96 million subscribers for the streaming service, HBO and Discovery Plus, with a majority in the United States. (Suliman, The Washington Post)
Read MoreOver the past few years, I’ve heard similar stories from charities, museums, theaters, media outlets, and political groups—about evolving ideas of “harm” and the difficulty of managing rank-and-file revolts that manifest as social-justice blowups. But this stuff was happening to Satanists now? (Lewis, The Atlantic)
Read MoreAt least 52 people were killed on Friday in what officials believed was a suicide attack at a religious gathering in southwest Pakistan, the latest sign of the country’s deteriorating security situation. (Goldbaum & ur-Rehman, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe goal of IVG is to make unlimited supplies of what Hayashi calls "artificial" eggs and sperm from any cell in the human body. That could let anyone — older, infertile, single, gay, trans — have their own genetically related babies. (Stein, NPR)
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