What’s Current: Huma Abedin finally kicks Anthony Weiner to the curb

After being caught in the midst of yet another affair, Anthony Weiner’s wife, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, has finally had enough and announced their separation.

Homa Hoodfar, an anthropologist at Concordia University who has been imprisoned in Iran since June, was recently hospitalized. Her family says she is barely conscious and can hardly walk or talk.

French prime minister suggests that naked breasts are more representative of France than a headscarf. “Marianne has a naked breast because she is feeding the people! She is not veiled, because she is free! That is the republic!” Manuel Valls said at a government rally.

Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer found guilty of three felony sexual assault charges, will be released from jail after only three months on Friday, September 2nd. He originally received a six-month sentence but is being let out due to “good behavior.”

On Monday a bill, inspired by Turner’s lenient sentence, was passed in California to add mandatory prison sentences for certain sexual assaults. The Los Angeles Times reports:

“Under current California law, those convicted of rape using additional physical force must serve time in prison. This measure would require the same punishment for sexual assaults of those unconscious or incapable of giving consent due to intoxication.”

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.