Culture
Madonna scores highest-grossing tour of 2024 so far as live music growth settles down
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/madonna-tops-pollstar-midyear-tour-chart-1236046955/
Russia sentences playwright, director to 6 years for ‘justifying terrorism’
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-sentences-playwright-and-director-to-6-years-for-justifying-terrorism/7689945.html
Forget Ethiopia’s Spice Girls – this singer salutes the true queens
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cprq92174g5o.amp
Denée Benton on centering Black women in HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’
https://www.wgbh.org/culture/film-and-tv/2024-07-02/denee-benton-on-centering-black-women-in-hbos-the-gilded-age
Alice Munro’s daughter says her mom supported abusive stepfather
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/alice-munro-daughter-sexual-abuse-1.7256829
Taylor, Megan, Billie & Chappell: Women claim four in top five on Billboard 200 for first time in over a year
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/billboard-200-top-five-four-women-taylor-swift-billie-eilish-megan-thee-stallion-chappell-roan-1235725967/amp/
New museum exhibition celebrates women war artists
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/new-museum-exhibition-celebrates-women-war-artists/
Women football players in Africa have overcome enormous barriers – new book tells the story
https://theconversation.com/women-football-players-in-africa-have-overcome-enormous-barriers-new-book-tells-the-story-231314
‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/04/100-feminist-how-eleanor-rathbone-invented-child-benefit-and-changed-womens-lives-for-ever
What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/03/bollywood-indian-women-social-status-researcher-shah-rukh-khan
