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Incarcerated women fight for a place in the #MeToo movement

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.

For four women and gender-nonconforming people at California’s Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, ongoing sexual violence was a feature of their incarceration. The prison offered scant avenues for protection or holding the perpetrators accountable, so the group took matters into their own hands.

Check out these ideas for celebrating Labor Day, even in the middle of the ongoing war on workers

So, no. This Labor Day weekend will not be the traditional end-of-summer big backyard party. At least, not if you’re trying to keep coronavirus from spreading. But if you’re having a scaled-down picnic or grilling session, put some union-made in the U.S. foods and drinks on your table. And don’t forget the sunscreen and games.

If that’s not your speed, you might want to hold an at-home labor film festival.

The Southern-Gothic Stripper Drama That TV Deserves

Though strippers are some of hip-hop’s most , starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. But the series benefits from the spaciousness of television as a format: P-Valley combines the weightiness of a premium-cable show with the fun and soapiness you might expect from a BET marathon. We’ve come a long way from The Players Club. P-Valley’s characters live rich, full lives shaped by the region they inhabit. Mercedes in particular is almost impossibly enthralling.

Paris Is About to Change

Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET on September 5, 2020. The pandemic hit Paris hard. It hit poor Paris suburbs harder. Paris had already staked its future on merging with a wide ring of banlieue towns to form the new Metropolis of Grand Paris—an environmentally resilient 21st-century capital. But the coronavirus made clear how urgent that transformation really is.Last year, more than 38 million people visited Paris. This summer, international travel bans sent hotel occupancy down 86 percent.

There Is No Escapism From America’s Current Crises

In an empty arena, the seats a ghost’s playground, the floors shiny and robbed of traffic, everything is plain and naked and disturbingly honest. And in that absence is a lesson about what we think we should see.If you had found yourself wanting to watch the NBA playoffs the night of August 26, live from the league’s quarantine “bubble” in Florida, this was the reality you faced. Emptiness, confusion, and signs of corporate sponsorship.