What’s Current: Vancouver’s new statue-less statue highlights lack of monuments devoted to women

  • An empty statue is unveiled in downtown Vancouver to bring attention to the lack of public monuments in Canada honoring women or girls.
  • Irish women protest on Twitter after a trans-identified male is named as a keynote speaker at University College Cork’s Lesbian Live Conferences 2022. 
  • Hundreds of women and girls march through London for the Million Women Rise march to protest male violence against women and girls, misogyny, and racism.
  • 13,000 teams led by women are going door-to-door in Pakistan’s Sindh province to administer COVID-19 vaccines to an estimated 12 million people.
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.