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A few months ago, I was on a tram when I met an Afghan woman speaking Persian. Since Persian is my first language, I joined her conversation. She shared her hope that one day Afghan women will be able to protest against the Taliban, just as women in Iran have done.

Today, Afghan women are showing incredible courage by standing up against policies that try to control their bodies and their lives. These policies, introduced since 2021, have included restrictions such as revoking access to education and limiting women’s presence in public spaces.

"Berserk" manga series by Kentarou Miura, Studio Gaga, Kouji Mori will publish a three new chapters in a row starting in Young Animal issue 12/2026 out June 12

According to Kouji Mori: "the new chapter of tomorrow was an episode that Miura agonized over for twenty years, and even I, who have heard it dozens of times, found it quite difficult... Miura and I, along with Shimada-san, who was my editor at the time and my long-time mentor, checked the lines many times, and somehow we finally arrived at it."

1997: roland emmerich inserts a character named “mayor ebert” into his next film (an american adaptation of godzilla) as a barely-veiled jab as roger ebert for panning his previous films

1998: godzilla is released to largely negative critical reviews. roland emmerich seemingly admits defeat, sticking to making schlocky disaster movies for the next decade

2015: in an attempt to prove he is a serious director capable of serious movies, roland emmerich releases stonewall, a film about the 1969 riots. the movie is panned not only for its quality, but especially for its lack of racial diversity, centering its narrative around white men almost exclusively. the backlash to this causes the dissemination of a certain myth that had persisted among the gay community for decades already but was not widely known, that the drag queen marsha p johnson had incited the riots by throwing a brick, despite records from himself and others that he was not there until at least midway through the event. nonetheless it’s a powerful and bite-sized narrative that makes for a fun underdog story against “director erases historical details in hamfisted adaptation” despite the fact that it’s about as historically accurate as the movie

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