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✍🏽 Fresco showing a woman holding writing implements, a wax tablet and stylus.

Commonly called Sappho, the fresco actually portrays a high-society Pompeian woman. From Pompeii, ca. 50 CE. (Naples National Archaeological Museum)

📷 Photo by Carole Raddato. 

#WomensHistoryMonth #Pompeii #History

The war in Iran is already hugely expensive Aircraft carriers and stealth bombers are expensive to use.

Trump quite clearly views the military, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, “like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.” And it turns out that sending carriers to turn donuts in the Persian Gulf while destabilizing another Middle Eastern nation for no reason is not cheap.

Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143 On Yeats’s assertion that one must choose between the life and the work: “Of course, if by life you mean life with other people, Yeats's dictum is true. Writing requires huge amounts of solitude.”

“A principal task of art is to strengthen the adversarial consciousness.” —Susan Sontag

Trump administration is 'flooding the atmosphere with lies', says Mary Robinson Robinson also condemned the ‘misogyny of social media for every woman who stands up, or even if they don’t stand up’.

Former president Mary Robinson called for solidarity to guard against “attacks on truth”.

Addressing an International Women’s Day rally in Belfast, she claimed the current United States administration is 'flooding the atmosphere with lies' jrnl.ie/6978188

A lady's shirt reading "Science Is Not a Liberal Conspiracy"

Science is Science!!! Let's not twist that!! Join us in DC or visit your local rally!!!

DC Info: fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/

Find your rally! : standupforscience.net/march7

#March7
#standupforscience
#science
#savescience
#rally

THINK WHILE IT'S STILL LEGAL sign

Great signs at the Take Back our Science Rally in DC! #StandUpForScience

Stand Up for Science National Day of Action YouTube video by Stand Up for Science!

Watch the D.C. rally live stream at the link!!!!

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It’s 2026—and women earn about 20% less than men on average. Unacceptable.

Gaps persist in employment, earnings and leadership roles. At today’s pace, equality in employment could take nearly two centuries.

There is no #SocialJustice without gender equality. #IWD2026

Read about #HeroesofTomorrow Shiori Ito, redefining gender justice. Her bravery sparked movement, empowering survivors & challenging cultural silences around sexual violence. Share to celebrate women shaping the future: https://sdgactioncampaign.org/from-silence-to-systems-change-shiori-itos-fight-for-gender-justice/ #ForAllWomenAndGirls #IWD2026

Read about #HeroesofTomorrow Shiori Ito, redefining gender justice. Her bravery sparked movement, empowering survivors & challenging cultural silences around sexual violence.

Share to celebrate women shaping the future: sdgactioncampaign.org/from-silence...

#ForAllWomenAndGirls #IWD2026

Behind Cambodia’s recycling system are women who sort, collect & recover waste every day, often at great risk.

Meet 4 women whose work supports their families, communities & keeps valuable materials out of landfills.

This #WomensDay, we recognize the women behind this work to #BeatWastePollution.

UNRWA is committed to protecting the rights of #Palestine Refugee women and girls, amplifying their voices, and strengthening their leadership.

In #Syria, #UNRWAworks to support thousands of them through community centres, vocational training, social work and legal services.

#ForAllWomenAndGirls

Give your Zakat through UNRWA to support cash assistance for families in the #Gaza Strip.

With our 100% distribution policy, your Zakat goes directly to those in need — with no deductions and no overhead costs.

Give today: 🔗 Link in bio

Decentralization has been a key part of the IRGC's doctrine since around 2009, when the force was reorganized. Each of #Iran's 31 provinces has its own IRGC hq, command-&-control structure, & chain of command.

"Every province is a mosaic, &the commanders have the ability & power to make decisions,"

Women in South Africa take up guns and martial arts for protection against gender violence Women in South Africa are turning to guns and martial arts for self-defense in a country where rates of gender-based violence are extremely high.

Women in South Africa are turning to guns and martial arts for self-defense in a country where rates of gender-based violence are extremely high.

Dubai and its long-haul carrier Emirates say airline 'will resume operations' after Iranian attack Dubai and its long-haul carrier Emirates say the airline would resume operations after temporarily halting them following an Iranian attack on the city-state.

Lebanese health officials said at least 16 people were killed and 35 wounded in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the town of Nabi Chit.

Pakistan and Afghanistan claim killing dozens of the other side's troops in relentless fighting Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors.

Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors.

A nightclub bombing in Peru injures 33, including minors, authorities say Authorities say a bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center.

Authorities say a bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors.

Woman sues author Amy Griffin, saying her memoir 'The Tell' stole stories of sexual abuse A woman has sued memoir author Amy Griffin, saying Griffin stole descriptions of childhood sexual abuse from incidents in her life.

A woman has sued memoir author Amy Griffin, saying Griffin stole descriptions of childhood sexual abuse from incidents in her life.

This week marked 30 years since the death of Marguerite Duras. In this edition of The Weekend Read, Haley Mlotek explains what the writer taught her about labor organizing.
https://bit.ly/3N8defD

Whatever It Takes Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to cling to power.

Netanyahu has waged war against the institutions that he believes conspired to bring him down: the police, the media, the prosecution, and the court system. buff.ly/GhkkwQV

Vacancy: Trustees - English PEN

📣 We're looking for new Trustees!

English PEN is recruiting for three Trustees to support us in our mission to protect the freedom to write and the freedom to read around the world.

🗓️ Apply by 23 March 2026.

Read more and apply here ⤵️
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Women's History Month

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting the women whose determination reshaped our world.

Explore five powerful books that remind us how progress toward gender equality has always been led by those who refused to accept imposed limits: oxford.ly/46u5hbb

On the OUP Blog. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch’s Fight for Affordable Housing [Timeline]

This Women’s History Month, meet Mary K. Simkhovitch. A force behind community reform and affordable U.S. housing.
🏙️#skystorians

Explore the timeline 🔗 oxford.ly/4aQeE6x

📢Save the date📢

Join our #CSW70 side-event Automating Justice: Can AI Increase Women's and Girls' Access to Justice?

📅10 March 2026
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🔗Webcast: webtv.un.org/en

Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker

After a storied civil rights career, Jesse Jackson heads home to South Carolina and lies in state The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. has been honored in South Carolina by lying in state at the Capitol in Columbia.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. has been honored in South Carolina by lying in state at the Capitol in Columbia.

China Building Subs That Can Strike U.S. From Closer to Home, U.S. Navy Warns Beijing’s accelerating production of submarines is set to challenge U.S. undersea dominance.

China is building new submarines that will put more of the U.S. mainland within range—and do so from waters closer to its own coastline.

Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of criminalisation

Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling

says.

#ElSalvador has some of the most restrictive reproductive laws in the world. Since 1998, abortion has been banned under all circumstances – including rape, incest and risk to the mother’s life – and in 1999 a constitutional amendment enshrined the protection of life from conception. #EndVAW