From the Daily NK: North Korean officials in Nampo are forcing unmarried women over 28 into arranged marriages, declaring that remaining single is a “non-socialist act” that shirks patriotic duty. A source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK recently that the party committee of Nampo “recently began arranging forced marriages of women over the…

For the benefit of those questioning why fencing has sex categories, have any of you ever watched fencing? Lunge strength and speed passed you by, did it? pic.twitter.com/yCB7O5iszT — Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) April 2, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The case of the Adult Human Female film-makers against the UCU, as reported in the Guardian: Two academics behind a gender-critical film have taken legal action against their union, accusing it of discrimination and harassment after it campaigned on social media to stop the documentary being screened. Deirdre O’Neill, a senior lecturer in film studies…

The real story is that there’s not a newsroom on the planet who hasn’t known this since day one. pic.twitter.com/IuWhQ9d7b4 — Galut Greg🎗️ גלות 流亡 (@ExiledIsraelite) April 2, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Eastern Blocks II is the latest photobook from Zupagrafika -  a follow-up to the original 2019 Eastern Blocks, expanding their survey of the brutalist aesthetic in the concrete suburbs of the former Eastern Bloc.   Tbilisi Prague Tbilisi Vilnius Tallinn Tbilisi Lviv Chișinău Prague[Photos © Zupagrafika]

Judith Butler explains why water is not H20: we can tell that the glass contains water without checking it contains hydrogen or oxygen. https://t.co/JXuzSw3Nrh — Alex Byrne (@byrne_a) April 1, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From that LRB article: There are two significant problems with using gametes to define sex. First, no one checks gametes at the moment…

A man has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com/8bRfGWvWru — Sall Grover (@salltweets) April 2, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the article: Stone, credited with starting the academic field of transgender studies, is also a recording engineer, an artist, and the first known trans woman in the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Around…

This last week from historian Benny Morris in the Telegraph – The West has blinded itself to the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians: During the second half of 1915, in a giant outpouring of empathy and generosity, many thousands of Americans, organised by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, donated millions of dollars…

From the Telegraph: New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures. Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands of people it previously listed as having been killed last year. “Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality…

Magnolias at Golders Hill Park this morning: