“In Feminist News” is our blog series featuring a round-up of feminist news, pop culture, and content you might have missed throughout the past month. In July 2024, we saw gender parity at the Paris Olympics, young women challenging Iran’s regime, and more.

1. Paris 2024 sets a milestone as the first Olympics to achieve full gender parity (NBC).
2. Trans runner Nikki Hiltz is headed to the Olympics after their record-breaking trials win (Them).
3. “Romantasy” is now a $610 million genre sweeping publishing (Bloomberg).
4. Civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her (The Washington Post).
5. The 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured “Indigenous Voices of the Americas,” including an all-female Bolivian skateboarding crew (NPR).
6. Brehanna Daniels is the first Black woman on a NASCAR pit crew (WGN News).
7. Women are reaching new heights in climbing but still face old obstacles (The New York Times).
8. Deaf women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence than hearing women (The Conversation).
9. Image-based sexual abuse isn’t porn. So why do people keep calling it that (19th News)?
10. From a kickboxer, to a painter, to a film stuntwoman–these women are challenging Iran’s regime (Time).
11. Allyson Felix is launching the first-ever Olympic Village nursery at the Paris Olympics (USA Today).
12. Gambia is maintaining its ban on female genital mutilation (The Washington Post).
13. Lily Gladstone and Kali Reis are making Emmys history with their acting nominations (Variety).
14. USA Gymnastics made a miraculous comeback—but is it actually safer for Olympians (NPR)?
15. Barbie was supposed to change Hollywood for women. Why didn’t it (The New York Times)?
16. Mifepristone could be a treatment for numerous life-threatening conditions (Feminist Majority Foundation).
17. South Africa has appointed a woman as Chief Justice for the first time (AP News).
18. Simone Biles made her name in women’s gymnastics with these five skills (The Washington Post).

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