What’s Current: Searches for ‘Ukrainian girls’ trend on major porn sites amid Russian invasion

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  • Searches for “Ukrainian girls” and related terms on major porn sites suddenly spiked on the day immediately following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • At least 125 women in the U.K. have been killed by a man in the year since the widely publicized rape and murder of Sarah Everard by London Met police officer Wayne Couzens.
  • A man in New York has been charged with hate crimes for a series of seven unprovoked attacks on Asian women.
  • Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law, effectively immediately, which preserves sex-based protections for sports. Reynolds said that it worried her that the bill was needed at all, stating: “It’s hard to imagine how anyone who cares about the rights of women and girls could support anything less.”
Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve Gluck is a writer and advocate for women's sex-based rights and creator of Women's Voices, an audio library dedicated to bringing awareness to feminist texts and speeches.