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Federal prosecutors unsealed indictment against activists trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Wednesday against eight pro-Palestinian activists who are accused of conspiring to run a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials while trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel.
The indictment also describes vandalism against some companies that operate in Michigan and against the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
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Xena the Greek warrior princess, who started as an antagonist of Hercules, captivated audiences around the world more than twenty years ago. One of the joys of looking back at Xena is its playfulness. It features some badass female characters and at times offers a serious message about female solidarity and feminism.
By Amanda Potter
Xena the fictional Warrior Princess, played by Lucy Lawless, captivated audiences around the world for six series with her high kicks, sword skills, and distinctive war cry. The series followed her as she fought her way through armies, monsters, and gods alongside her soul mate and moral compass, Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor).
Xena travelled across space and time, taking us from ancient Greece to Rome, Egypt, Britain, China, India, Scandinavia, and finally to Japan, where it all came to an end twenty years ago on June 18, 2001.
Starting life as an antagonist of Hercules in three episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena was so popular as a character that she was given her own spin-off series that ran from 1995 to 2001. At the time, Xena: Warrior Princess was considered groundbreaking, as it starred a strong female action heroine and was the only popular adventure, action, science fiction, or fantasy show that featured female leads without male counterparts.
On the twentieth anniversary of the final episode, it is worth revisiting this great show and exploring why it was loved by a broad spectrum of viewers, from young girls drawn in by an active female role model to ancient history buffs, sci-fi fans and the LGBTQ community.
A reformed warlord from ancient Greece, Xena was not an Amazon but a friend to the tribe of warrior women. To ancient Greek writers, the Amazons were women who fought and behaved like men and were unnatural barbarians. They have since been adopted as positive female role models who break with misogynistic stereotypes of womanhood—they live in a self-sufficient, female-dominated society as warriors and intellectuals. The term “Amazon feminism” is now used to describe a branch of feminism that promotes female physical prowess as a way to achieve gender equality.
Before Xena, the Amazons featured in the 1970s Wonder Woman television series. Not quite the feminist icons we expect today, these women wore pastel-colored negligees as they adopted a peaceful life—without men—on Paradise Island.
In Xena, while the Amazons may also have been attired in revealing costumes made of furs and skins, their separatist society valued martial, as well as academic, skills. An Amazon tells Gabrielle that the Amazon world is based on “truth and an individual woman’s strength.”
The Amazons from Greek mythology lived apart from men at the edge of the known world and fought bravely against male heroes such as Hercules, Theseus, and Achilles. In Xena, the Amazons also lived in a matriarchal society and were skilled fighters who could hold their own against men.
The Amazons in Wonder Woman (2017) can be seen as Xena’s big-screen descendants. The costumes and fighting prowess of Penthesilea (Nina Milner) in the BBC drama Troy: Fall of a City (2018) has tinges of Xena. The leadership ability of the immortal Amazon Andy (Charlize Theron) in the Netflix film The Old Guard can also be seen as inspired by Xena.
But while Troy: Fall of a City and The Old Guard are aimed at older audiences, Xena was popular across all age groups. For instance, episodes of Xena were broadcast in the UK on Channel Five’s Milkshake! Saturday morning slot in the ’90s and early 2000s for young viewers. This led many young girls to adopt Xena as their role model.
Xena was also popular with gay and lesbian viewers. In the 1990s, openly gay relationships were mostly missing from popular US television series. However, Xena’s relationship with Gabrielle was interpreted as friends and lovers as much as hero and sidekick. Series producers began to play with this idea, for example, putting Xena and Gabrielle together in a sexy bath in season two fan-favorite episode “A Day in the Life,” so that for many, the subtext became the main text.
Although a lot of fans were dismayed that Xena died in the final episode, they were treated to a long goodbye kiss between Gabrielle and Xena’s ghost. Series producers never openly made Xena and Gabrielle a lesbian couple. But LGBTQ+ fans championed their relationship, which is believed to have paved the way for the openly gay relationships we see in television series today.
One of the joys of looking back at Xena twenty years afterward is its playfulness when compared with dark sci-fi fantasies like Game of Thrones. It features some badass female characters and at times offers a serious message about female solidarity and feminism, but doesn’t take itself too seriously. Some of the special effects may now seem dated, but the storylines still ring true, and the characters of Xena and Gabrielle can continue to be inspirational for a new generation of young female viewers.
Amanda Potter is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University. The article was published in The Conversation and is republished here under a Creative Commons License.
Lima, 10 jun (Prensa Latina) La candidata presidencial Keiko Fujimori siguió avanzando hoy en el conteo oficial del balotaje, con el voto mayoritario de los peruanos emigrados que le ha permitido reducir la ventaja que hasta hoy tenía su rival, Roberto Sánchez.
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Lima, 10 jun (Prensa Latina) La candidata presidencial Keiko Fujimori siguió avanzando hoy en el conteo oficial del balotaje, con el voto mayoritario de los peruanos emigrados que le ha permitido reducir la ventaja que hasta hoy tenía su rival, Roberto Sánchez.
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No próximo dia 13 de junho de 2026, o Parque de Convívio e Lazer de Pechão recebe a primeira edição do Sunset no Parque, um evento de entrada livre promovido pelo Clube Oriental de Pechão, que promete marcar o arranque do verão na freguesia com música, convívio e animação ao ar livre. Com início marcado para as 18h30 e prolongando-se até às 02h00, […]
Mucho se está hablando ahora de la herencia de Paquirri, aunque hace más de 40 años que falleció. Bien podría ser un asunto resuelto, pero Isabel Pantoja puso trabas a que se cumpliesen las últimas voluntades de su marido. El diestro quiso dejar parte de su legado en las plazas de toros a su familia, pensando especialmente en sus hermanos y sus hijos mayores, Francisco y Cayetano. Así estipuló en su testamento cómo debían repartirse no solo sus propiedades, también sus recuerdos. Pero su viuda impidió que sus hijos tuviesen las espadas, traes de luces o cabezas de toros que les había legado.
Incluso se llegó a fingir un robo y se puso la correspondiente denuncia para explicar que la herencia de Paquirri había desaparecido. Pero no era cierto. Estaba en Cantora. Así lo descubrió Kiko Rivera en 2020 al abrir una puerta que siempre estaba cerrada a cal y canto. Así su relación con su madre y su tío Agustín se rompió hasta que ahora se ha vuelto a retomar, seis años después. Así se ha producido el regreso del Dj a Cantora, finca que es de su propiedad, aunque para entrar tuvo que romper una cerradura y varios candados con una radial. Así logró llevarse consigo el preciado botín que, para sorpresa de muchos, piensa repartir entre sus hermanos, haciendo así justicia con la memoria de su padre.
La semana pasada, Fran Rivera confirmaba que había recibido un cariñoso mensaje de su hermano pequeño. Kiko Rivera le prometía que pensaba repartir las 8 cabezas de toros que había recuperado de Cantora. Unos aseguran que su madre le había dado el visto bueno y estaba conforme con la idea de que los herederos de Paquirri recuperasen lo que les corresponde por ley. Otros, como ahora, plantean que simplemente dejó a su hijo hacer lo que considerase oportuno, no se metió lo más mínimo y, de hecho, le importa bien poco el destino de un botín al que tampoco tenía tanto aprecio como se consideraba en un principio.
Así lo han planteado desde ‘Vamos a ver’ este mismo miércoles. Según Kike Calleja, la cantante no le dijo en ningún momento a su hijo lo que debía hacer con esas famosas cabezas de toros. Mucho menos le animó a complacer a sus hermanos mayores, pues ella misma les ha desafiado durante cuatro décadas y nunca se mostró dispuesta a hacer lo correcto. Según el periodista, la madre le dijo simplemente a su hijo “haz con ellas lo que quieras”. Y así hizo el Dj. Y es que una confidente del colaborador asegura que “si hubiera sido por ella, se hubieran quedado e Cantora. Nunca le gustaron las cabezas de toro”.
Se pone de relieve también la explicación del rechazo de Isabel Pantoja a estos trofeos. No les tiene inquina por recordarle lo sucedido con su marido, sino más bien porque siente aversión profunda hacia dos animales: los murciélagos y los toros. Insólito que se enamorase de un torero, a buen seguro no le gusta nada Batman y sus películas. Se quedó con las preciadas cabezas “por respeto a su marido, pero no le gustaban”. Y eso que la voluntad de Paquirri era que sus hijos tuviesen sus tesoros taurinos, especialmente después de que siguiesen sus pasos en las plazas y valorasen mejor que nadie lo que les legó y nunca les llegó.
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