This week we’re thinking ahead to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, chatting about the drama regarding the fecally infused river they’ve got there, plus the state of queerness at the games. In other news, Julian Assange is free, the Taliban refuse to platform women’s voices, Chappell Roan is a star, and Stonehenge got a new paint job.

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✎ These are the links we mentioned:

• There's no openly gay player in the men's AFL. The silence is deafening - ABC News
• Chappel Roan on Jimmy Fallon
• UN Doha Talks Exclude Afghan Women
• Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood : Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics : NPR
• Olympics: Namibia’s sprinters highlight a flawed testosterone testing system
• Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood : Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics : NPR
• Restrictions on transgender athletes at Paris 2024
• Which sports will allow trans athletes at the Paris Olympics? | Context
• MONA fires back by hanging Picasso’s in toilet
• Why the hearing to free Julian Assange is happening on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific - ABC News
• Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters
• Sports are supposed to be for all – but new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport

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