#IMPORTANT #UPDATE: #ECP’s in #TAMILNADU The Director of the Drugs Control Dept. will direct pharmacies to make emergency contraceptive pills available for OVER THE COUNTER purchase. The Dept. will clarify to all pharmacies that ECP’s are LEGAL/NOT BANNED, must be stocked & sold

This @thenewsminute story by @NidhiSuresh_ — who spent a year trying to understand the mind of the rapist hired for one of Kerala’s most horrific and high profile cases of assault through multiple conversations with him — is unlike anything you will read. https://t.co/PgdgkiU10a

Dileep walked free today. The legal case will continue. But let’s take a moment to sink this day. These eight years ushered in a cultural reset that cannot be reversed by any court decision. The legal case itself made abstractions like patriarchy and power structures suddenly

Leigh Lucas ♥️ “Help. Is a beautiful thing to say.” from LANDSICKNESS (Tupelo Press)

Extended, extreme heat spells pose a severe threat to women’s health - @ramyakannan features @mssrf study @the_hindu. Not only do health systems need to prepare, action is needed across labour, urban planning, social welfare & rural development depts. Climate Adaptation is urgent

I made a Goodreads for academic papers! (..and blog posts, substacks, lesswrong, etc) Paper Trails [ https://t.co/dPzhlBgo8E] is something I built because I wanted a place where engaging with research felt fun, beautiful, and personal to you I hope you give it a try & love it!

Who is the judge behind Dileep’s acquittal? This profile traces Honey Varghese’s contradictions, from empathy in some courtrooms to hostility alleged in others. Read the profile by @HarithaJohn1 and  @cristweets

A profile of Judge Honey Varghese, who today pronounced the verdict in the actor assault case. The survivor had approached both the Kerala High Court and Supreme Court on at least three occasions, requesting that her case be transferred from Judge Honey’s court. Says a lot.

Good on the hindu to seem to be the only mainstream publication I can find that did the act of recollecting stories and narratives about the Babri demolition, an event all too conveniently forgotten on most platforms. https://t.co/qZoBjodtrV

Malayalam actor Dileep has been acquitted in the 2017 sexual assault case involving a woman actor. Responding to the verdict, actor Parvathy Thiruvothu wrote on her Instagram story, “Justice what? And we now watch a carefully crafted screenplay unfold so cruelly now.”

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There is no one way to. Love be nimble with your. Desire love as big as you. —Michelle Peñaloza, from “To My Little One (and Their Little One and Their Little One) Long After I Am Gone”

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Dileep just ensured that he dragged Manju in. https://t.co/PRsgn4cRMz

This is so vitally important it made me tear up this evening.

Really superb ground report on Thiruparankundram by Abhishek Vijayan: “For the people here, it has caused unnecessary tension. We have never seen the lamp lit at the top the way they (right-wing activists) claim,” he said. https://t.co/9hlRcjbGcE @Ahmedshabbir20

The tragedy of people who are not loved as children is not that they were not loved as children, but that more often than not, love will escape them in adulthood as well. They are more likely to pick the wrong person or be stuck in the wrong relationship because they don’t know

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Louise Glück ♥️ “I speak / because I am shattered.” Always revisiting this poem.

Global progress against tuberculosis edged forward in 2024 — but with development aid cuts looming, last year’s small gains are now at risk. ✍️@kerrycullinan11 @gatesfoundation @GlobalFund @TerezaKasaeva https://t.co/xdTH0VMzoQ

The kind of political questions the Dravidian movement enables you to raise: - Will TN get the Metros and Airports it deserves? - How many investment MoUs have converted? - How can we skill our youth to get them good jobs? - How can we improve urban infrastructure? The