Women's Voices

 

24 August 2020

 

Women's Voices

15 posts today

Reports of #surrogacy often frame it from the men's perspective; as is typical for patriarchy, we're meant to identify with men, not the women they use. "We haven't been pregnant since last year, you know, when we lost [the pregnancy] last year." ...

August 24th @ 2:03 pm |

Women's Voices

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This is just to say #ILoveJKRowling. She continues to receive abuse for simply stating that women exist and that sex is an important factor in the violence done to women. Her voice gave strength to many of us who have been abused. ...

August 24th @ 1:25 pm |

Women's Voices

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"In Korea, couples without male heirs used surrogate mothers called ssi-baji. If one of these women had a boy, she was handsomely paid. If she had a girl, she kept the child and received a smaller fee. Her daughter then became a ssi-baji." ...

August 24th @ 1:04 pm |

Women's Voices

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Women's bodies are regulated by the state to produce a labor pool for the benefit of economies and the men who control them. Shame and coercion are forceful tactics. #SexNotGender #ReproRights https://t.co/MuIm3E...

August 24th @ 12:51 pm |

Women's Voices

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RT @AlessandraAster: Women get fired, abused and silenced not because they believe in biology, but because they do not believe in gender ideology. Biology is not a belief. It is a fact. Gender is a belief, an irrational, sexist and damaging one. Our ...

August 24th @ 12:33 pm |

Women's Voices

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Stanford U finds it puzzling that women don't want to give away our privacy, safety, dignity, and our very selfhood. Accusing "TERFs" of cancel culture in the debate over whether women exist is a criminal lie. #SexNotGender @Stanford ...

August 24th @ 11:56 am |

Women's Voices

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#Singapore—Sexual harassment and assaults against women are not being taken seriously enough in Singapore, activists warn, after students at elite universities were given punishments criticised as too lenient for their crimes. #SexNotGender ...

August 24th @ 11:29 am |

Women's Voices

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"What I want is outrageous: all the possible pleasures of freedom. I want to go beyond the system of possession, the notion of person as a thing owned. Like so many of us, I'm experimenting with life, still trying to create a new kind of social ...

August 24th @ 10:35 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @SunnySwamp: наше правительство под влиянием традиционалистов и церквей пытается постепенно забрать у нас право на аборты, и в то же самое время отказывается принимать закон о профилактике домашнего насилия и позволяет проводить в московских ...

August 24th @ 10:02 am |

Women's Voices

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Friends complained that trans activists were “exploiting her image without permission. She was not trans, my sister was muxe and indigenous people are tired of the erasure of our identities.” #SexNotGender https://t.co/Nskxlz...

August 24th @ 9:54 am |

Women's Voices

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Conservative politicians have been trying to introduce a "tax on childlessness." A number of Russian hospitals banned abortions by classifying them as ‘non-essential’ services. In Moscow, only 3 out of 44 hospitals continued these procedures. ...

August 24th @ 9:45 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @jk_rowling: Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya ...

August 24th @ 9:35 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @WomenReadWomen: @jk_rowling Men knew exactly what women were when they made laws to exclude women and girls from education, property ownership, and public life on the basis of sex. It's only now as women globally fight back against sex-based ...

August 24th @ 1:32 am |

Women's Voices

15 posts today

#Surrogacy allows men to claim women's power as their own, to erase the pain of women involved—to erase women from birthing altogether. "I faced so many heartbreaks along the way (failed embryo transfers, miscarriages and a stillborn birth)." ...

August 24th @ 12:21 am |