The Global Gag Rule and Drivers Licence

Happy New Year! While the advent of 2021 didn't quite bring the end of COVID/all our other woes, it did bring a helluva lotta politics and pop culture news. Here's what you need to know. 

Reading

• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings 
• *We found the story about the book with an error! https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/naomi-wolf-interview-book-error-bbc-interview.html 

Watching 

• Never Rarely Sometimes Always 
• On The Rocks 
• Small Axe 
• Promising Young Women 
• Blown Away 

Listening 

• right where you left me and it's time to go by Taylor Swift 
• *And our Taylor Swift episode for your reference: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womens-health-care-and-taylor-swift-7/id1380846237?i=1000437216656 

Politics 

• Planned Parenthood International: https://globalgagrule.org/
• Guttmacher Institute: https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2020/04/unprecedented-expansion-global-gag-rule-trampling-rights-health-and-free-speech#
• The impact of the global gag rule https://ghrp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41256-019-0113-3
• COVID impacts: https://www-thelancet-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31679-2/fulltext 

Pop Culture

• Olivia Rodrigo background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Rodrigo
• Olivia and Josh dating?: https://www.feelingthevibe.com/news/are-high-school-musicals-olivia-rodrigo-and-joshua-bassett-dating/
• Relationship timeline/breakup: https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/what-happened-between-high-school-musical-spin-off-stars-joshua-bassett-olivia-rodrigo-explainer/6bf0a9c1-c0cf-4046-a8ac-dbba0a8ac78e
• Josh and Sabrina: http://www.justjaredjr.com/2020/08/17/sabrina-carpenter-grabs-weekend-lunch-with-fellow-disney-star-joshua-bassett/