Monica Lewinsky asked Beyoncé to change lyrics from her "Partitions" track after the performer agreed to remove a word in a song in response to ableism backlash in "Renaissance."
Beyoncé confirmed she will change an "ableist" slur used in a song from her new album, "Renaissance," after criticism from disability rights campaigners.
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Last week 28-year-old Alek Minassian, a Canadian software and mobile app developer, was found guilty of killing 10 people in 2018, when he intentionally drove his van into a crowd of pedestrians in a commercial district in Toronto. The fatalities included eight women and two men ranging in age from 22 to 94, while sixteen other people were injured. Minassian's social media posts immediately prior to the murders give an insight into his motive: in a statement that he posted on Facebook minutes before the attack, he identified himself as an "incel," shorthand for "involuntarily celibate." As Minassian wrote: "the Incel Rebellion has already begun!"