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[Link] Lawmakers Say This Holy City’s Airport Code Is Too GAY

Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com

As Indian lawmakers double down on their efforts to change a pilgrimage city’s airport code “GAY,” LGBTQ rights groups say the move speaks of their increasing homophobia. On Feb.

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[Link] Woman takes legal action after Met officer who called her ‘hot’ keeps job

Read: 7/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Kristina O’Connor, now 33, said she was sent inappropriate messages by DCI James Mason after he responded to her report of an attempted robbery in October 2011.

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[Link] Brisbane Christian school withdraws controversial sexuality contract after community backlash

Read: 3/2/2022 www.abc.net.au

The contract demanded families denounce homosexuality and that students identify by birth gender, or risk being excluded from the school. Citipointe Christian College's contract describes homosexuality as a sin and compares it to bestiality and paedophilia.

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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter. 

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[Link] Netflix Isn’t Backing Down on Dave Chappelle and Neither Are Its Workers

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Employees have pledged to walk out of work on Wednesday, including the LGBTQ+ storytelling team and its head of queer editorial.

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[Link] Tesla ordered to pay $137M to Black former worker subjected to racist workplace

Read: 10/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Tesla owes Owen Diaz $137 million after a jury found that the Black former worker was subjected to racial abuse that the electric vehicle company insufficiently addressed during his tenure.

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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds

Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.

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[Link] AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers opening the door to a wider array of artificially intelligent medical devices, new research suggests that medical AI systems can perpetuate racial bias in health care in ways humans don’t understand and can’t detect.

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[Link] What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Five years ago, I began to notice that the perpetrators of some of the worst terrorist attacks had something in common.

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[Link] Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work

Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com

After years of tireless organizing, advocacy, and struggle led by trans women of color, the state of New York has finally repealed the pernicious anti-loitering statute that was widely known as the law against “walking while trans.” On Monday, New York Gov.

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[Link] Discrimination against Indigenous Australians has risen dramatically, survey finds

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Major discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – like being unfairly denied a job or unfairly discouraged from continuing education – remains at elevated levels and is far higher than for the rest of the population, according to new data.

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[Link] Advocates say NSW anti-discrimination laws are failing vulnerable

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

New South Wales’ “terrible” anti-discrimination laws are worse than second-rate and are failing the state’s most vulnerable, a coalition of community and rights groups say.

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