Castro resigns as CSU Chancellor
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California State University Chancellor Joseph Castro Thursday notified the California State University Board of Trustees of his resignation as chancellor effective immediately.
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A U.S. crackdown on Confucius Institutes demonises and stigmatises the normal functioning of the program, China's foreign ministry said on Friday (August 14).
Revered and Reviled: Life as India's Third Gender
Transgender women, intersex people, and "eunuchs" are sought out to bestow fertility blessings. But they're also feared, and kept largely invisible from public life.
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by Natasha Frost
November 13, 2017, 4:37pm
All photography by Ana Singh
Hundreds of photographs of children line Shri Buhacharaji Mataji Temple in Gujarat, India. They gaze moonily out from behind their plastic laminates, smoky kohl smeared around their eyelids. The uninitiated might assume these photographs are a kind of memorial. But actually they're a celebration—the children are the offspring of previously childless couples who come here from far and wide to honour the Hindu mother goddess, Bahuchara Mata. They came with one goal in mind: to receive a blessing from a hijra, a member of India's third gender, who are believed to have a direct line to the goddess.
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When couples finally succeed in giving birth, they return to paste a photograph of their baby on the wall as a kind of buyer's testimony. It's proof of the Goddess's powers, and the new parents' faith in the hijra to have performed the miracle.
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