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How a Japanese girl-group empire is conquering Asian pop
The world’s biggest pop group, literally speaking, is AKB48. This Tokyo-based power-pop ensemble typically features between 110 and 140 singers. Most are in their late teens with a smattering of...
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How single women are driving gentrification in Hong Kong and elsewhere
Gentrification is reshaping urban areas all around the world, displacing large segments of the population and making cities increasingly unaffordable.In San Francisco, only 12% of households can afford...
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For this Turkish filmmaker, wedding dresses are a metaphor to discuss femicide
On the first floor of the Gokce Wedding Dress store, Dilan Engin sells a dream.There is the “Helen,” a wedding dress with a classic line. By the window, a more conservative option is sold with sleeves...
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Here's the story behind the iconic image of the Sudanese woman in white
When Hind Makki, a Sudanese American interfaith and racism educator in Chicago, first saw the image, she was blown away.“I was rendered speechless,” she said, “because of the amazing imagery and the...
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Abortion pardons in Rwanda leave rights activists hopeful
When Rwandan President Paul Kagame pardoned 367 women last week who were imprisoned for abortion, it came as a welcome surprise to many women’s rights activists there and around the world. Kagame also...
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As hurricane season nears in Puerto Rico, a doctor tries to help pregnant...
Yahaira Molina Perez was 8 months pregnant when Hurricane Maria hit. In her town of Cidra, downed trees and power lines made roads almost impassable.Molina wasn't too worried, though — she wasn’t due...
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South African lawyer is first woman with albinism on Vogue cover: ‘The way I...
The cover of this month’s Vogue Portugal edition featured a model, like it usually does.But this one is groundbreaking. The issue is about the diversity of African beauty, and it is the first Vogue...
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How women who’ve left Turkey are helping those left behind
For a year now, a group of Turkish women living in Massachusetts have gotten up on Sunday mornings, long before their husbands and children, to work on a project they told no one about.The handful of...
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Ready for her close-up, Guy-Blaché was a film pioneer lost to history
One afternoon in Paris in 1895, a young secretary at the Gaumont Film Company attended a private screening put on by the Lumière brothers to demonstrate the Cinématographe, a camera and projector that...
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Trial for Saudi activists who've served a year in prison has been delayed
Loujain al-Hathloul defied the ban on women driving cars in Saudi Arabia when she filmed herself driving and posted her videos on YouTube.That was nearly a year ago.After the driving ban was lifted,...
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A UN resolution condemning sexual violence against women should've been...
On Tuesday, the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning sexual violence in war. It should have been an uncontroversial vote.But the resolution was only approved after language referring to...
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How a high school student’s hand-painted graduation dress went viral
When 17-year old Ciara Gan arrived to her high school graduation ball on an emerald-green, hand-painted gown, her classmates were in awe.She had kept it a secret that she was making her own dress. The...
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Vancouver Whitecaps accused of mishandling abuse allegations against former...
Fans of the Vancouver Whitecaps, a professional soccer club in Canada, are walking out on their team during games. They’re angry with the club for the way it’s handled abuse allegations against a...
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This English collective says Brexit unfairly targets sex workers for deportation
After the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016, large industries have struggled to handle the ramifications of the upcoming Brexit. One affected industry that does not get much...
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The US movement against female genital mutilation is at a crossroads
Two years ago, a Detroit emergency room doctor, Jumana Nagarwala, allegedly texted, and called, two mothers in Minnesota to arrange clandestine operations for their 7-year-old daughters. Later, the...
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Ethiopian women abroad give abuse survivors a new platform — and a new voice
When the Instagram page Shades of Injera was started in 2014, the slogan was “We don't follow the culture, we create the culture.” On the page, they discuss sensitive topics like dating outside the...
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Thousands of Bengali women must prove their Indian citizenship or face...
Every night, Fatima Begum leaves her brick-and-bamboo home located near a tributary of the Brahmaputra River in India's northeastern Assam state to seek refuge with neighbors. In the morning, she...
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Advocates strive to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous...
This story was produced in collaboration with Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines and was supported by a grant from the Solutions Journalism Network.Tina Russell drives along one of the main roads in Kent,...
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60 years before BTS, the Kim Sisters were America's original K-pop stars
If you want to sing along to today's top hits, you might be belting out Korean lyrics.Korean pop music bands like BTS and BLACKPINK have lit up US music charts and taken on the American teen scene by...
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This opera singer says the ‘hype’ should be on her voice, not her transgender...
Lucia Lucas sweeps across a noisy diner in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 9 a.m. on a Saturday wearing a calf-length, black brocade frock coat and a bright, lipsticked smile.Most opera singers in her position...
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