What’s Current: Twitter allows death threat against J.K. Rowling

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  • Twitter refuses to take action against a trans activist singer who threatened J.K. Rowling’s life in a now-deleted music video posted to the platform.
  • New guidance from the U.K.’s equality watchdog confirms trans-identified individuals should be excluded from single-sex spaces when women’s privacy, health, and safety is concerned.
  • Armenian and Azerbaijani women are launching online grassroots campaigns for peace between their people as fighting breaks out in Nagorno-Karabakh region.
  • At least 15 women of color left their jobs at the BBC in the last year in protest of the agency’s lack of support for minority staff, a Variety investigation reveals.
Meghan McCarty

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