Directed by Sue Kim, The Last of the Sea Women is about a community of women on Jeju Island in South Korea. For decades they have been freediving, that is, diving under water without oxygen, to collect seafood. This profession is called “haene”, which means “woman of the sea” in Korean. Nowadays, most professional divers are between 60 and 80 years old, so their profession is under threat. Fewer and fewer young Korean women are willing to devote their lives to such dangerous work in the ocean.

On October 10, at the last hearing in the case of American rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, the judge ruled that the trial will begin on May 5 next year. The rapper faces trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. P Diddy's family and children were present at the hearing. The rapper turned to them and said with his lips: “I love you,” and also repeatedly raised his hand to his heart and prayed.

In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police have arrested a 56-year-old man and his 19-year-old son on charges of raping their 15-year-old daughter and sister, respectively. According to the police, the father began to harass his daughter when her mother left the family. After separating from his wife, he raped the girl several times over the course of two years. When the girl decided to tell her older brother what was happening, he raped her and filmed it.

Bolivian women who work in construction constantly face sexism and humiliation from men. Sometimes they have to hide to avoid unwanted attention and harassment. Many of the women have to sleep with foremen in order to get paid. Reina Quispe told The Guardian about this, she runs the Association of Women in Construction in Bolivia and has worked in construction since she was a teenager.

In the Alabuga special economic zone, several hundred young women aged 18 to 22 from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Nigeria work at a kamikaze drone factory. They work alongside young local college students who have previously complained of irregular work hours and steep fines, according to the Associated Press. In an interview with the agency, the girls told the publication that they work under supervision almost without a break.

In the wake of Hurricane Helen, parts of North Carolina remain isolated from food supplies. And the stocks of frozen milk that mothers stored in the refrigerator began to spoil after the power went out. Several families spoke to The Guardian about this. One of the mothers, Ziska Maria, shared that her five-month-old son required a special formula, which she mixed with milk. But after Hurricane Helen, all the frozen milk that another breastfeeding mother had donated to her began to spoil.

Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco accused singer Marilyn Manson of sexualized violence in 2021. The girl claimed that Manson drugged and raped her for several years. However, the prosecutor, according to her, has not yet brought charges against the artist. “Despite a thorough investigation and hundreds of pieces of evidence submitted to the District Attorney's Office, I am still waiting for justice.

Now we are not leaving Russia, because here the embryos are frozen here Maria and her girlfriend dreamed of a child for a long time, searched for a donor and prepared to become mothers. Maria became pregnant with the help of IVF, but the child was never born - a frozen pregnancy occurred. Now, despite the danger and persecution of LGBT, they remain in Russia, because they stored frozen embryos here . Subscribe to the “braid” in Telegram so as not to miss new texts.