Divine Recalibration: This Week's Global Good News

Nepal Names New Living Goddess: In Nepal, there's a 300-year-old tradition where they choose a young girl to be worshipped as a living goddess called a Kumari. Two-year-old Aryatara Shakya was just selected during Dashain (Nepal's biggest religious festival) to be the new Kumari. The little girl will live in a special palace and be treated as divine until she reaches puberty. While this honors the sacred feminine, former Kumaris describe how hard it is to return to regular life after years of isolation, so Nepal has added reforms like mandatory education and small pensions for its Kumaris. 

First Woman Archbishop in Church of England: Dame Sarah Mullally became the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury. She's already addressing safeguarding, antisemitism, and the misuse of power while defending blessings for same-sex couples. 

Library Director wins $700K: Terri Lesley, a Library Director in Wyoming, just won her case for $700K after being fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ and race-related books. After suing due to years of pressure and retaliation amid a national surge in book bans, the courts agreed you can't fire librarians for doing their job of providing books to everyone.

Spain Moves to Constitutionalize Abortion: Spain's ruling Socialists proposed making abortion a constitutional right, which would make Spain only the second country, after France, to protect abortion in its constitution. After years of expanded access and moves to curb misinformation, they're building legal protection for when political winds shift. 

Bamboo Bioplastic Breakthrough: Scientists figured out how to turn bamboo into a plastic-like material that's just as strong as regular plastic, but way better for the planet. Unlike normal plastic (which is made from oil and takes hundreds of years to break down), this bamboo plastic dissolves back into soil in about 50 days. Plus, you can recycle it, and it keeps 90% of its strength. 

World's First Pollen Sunscreen: Researchers figured out how to turn flower pollen into sunscreen that works just as well as regular sunscreen. Most sunscreens contain chemicals that bleach and kill coral reefs when you swim in the ocean, but this pollen-based sunscreen with SPF ~27.3 was tested for 60 days and didn't harm corals at all. Protecting our skin shouldn't mean poisoning our seas—this is a rare win for people and planet.

Mexico City Women Build Safety Networks: Amid rampant rideshare violence, a mother-daughter pair founded AmorrAs—a women-driver, women-passenger service with real-time monitoring and support networks including lawyers and psychologists. When systems fail to protect us, we build our own.

Philly Moms' Communal Scream: Moms in Philadelphia got together, wrote down everything stressing them out (like worrying about their kids, climate change, job loss, attacks on immigrants), then screamed together to let it all out. Like a group therapy session but louder and more cathartic. Seems appropriate given everything right now, doesn't it?

NFL Launches Women's Flag Football: The NFL announced they're creating professional leagues for women to play flag football before the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, where flag football will be an Olympic sport for the first time. More pathways for girls and women in sport means more resources, visibility, and equity. Don't underestimate the ripple effect.

The beautiful thing about the energy this week is that it's revealing what's been ready to transform all along. With Wyoming's library director winning $700,000 for defending our right to read and Philadelphia moms gathering to scream their stress into the Delaware River, this is what collective healing and transformation looks like.

What will you shift this week?