- Women in Iran are burning their headscarves as protests escalate following the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the “morality police” for breaking hijab laws.
- Late night sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” announces the debut of its first “non-binary” cast member, actress Molly Kearney.
- Canadian students, teachers, and parents gathered to speak out against an Ontario school district’s support of a male teacher who has been documented wearing obscenely large prosthetic breasts to school.
- The stalking and murder of a 28-year-old woman working at a Seoul subway station has sparked protests across South Korea. The BBC reports:
“The harassment started in 2019, a year after the pair began working together. Jeon called his colleague more than 300 times begging her to date him, threatening to harm her if she refused. When she reported him last October, he was fired from his job and arrested. But despite a police investigation and a request to the courts for him to be detained, he was never imprisoned or given a restraining order.”