Culture
Cannes kicks off with France’s film industry engulfed in belated #MeToo reckoning: ‘It took much longer’
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/cannes-france-film-industry-metoo-movement-greta-gerwig-1236002369/
Alice Munro, Canadian author who mastered the short story, dead at 92
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alice-munro-author-dead-obit-1.7203737
Cannes flashback: jury President Olivia de Havilland was a pioneer (in more ways than one)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-olivia-de-havilland-jury-president-1965-1235896900/
The 40 most powerful women in international film
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/40-most-powerful-women-international-film-1235892742/
‘Suffs’ review: Broadway musical about women’s fight for the vote gets thrilling and entertaining musicalization
https://variety.com/2024/legit/reviews/suffs-review-musical-broadway-1235974881/
Cree woman tracks down her great-great grandfather’s remains — in a U.S. museum warehouse
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/smithsonian-little-poplar-1.7199497
‘Explosive’ secret list of abusers set to upstage women’s big week at Cannes film festival
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/11/secret-list-abusers-cannes-film-festival
With the new professional Women’s Hockey League, athletes’ personal style takes centre ice
https://www.ellecanada.com/fashion/womens-hockey-athletes-personal-style-pwhl
Kristen Stewart says Hollywood’s self-congratulation over gender equality ‘feels phony’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/09/kristen-stewart-says-hollywoods-self-congratulation-over-gender-equality-feels-phony
The biggest myth about Maria Callas? She was no tragic icon
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/14/maria-callas-was-no-tragic-icon
The future of flower farming is female
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-design/article-flower-farming-canada-women/
Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/drake-kendrick-lamar-diss-battle-women-survivors