Women's Voices

 

26 August 2020

 

Women's Voices

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Twitter's LGBTQIA+ literary panel: A T, with a rip-off of Through the Looking Glass, but with child sexual abuse; a G, who writes for GQ; a Q, who seems a bit removed from reality; an A, who calls herself a slutty virgin. And not a lesbian in sight. ...

August 26th @ 10:06 pm |

Women's Voices

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"We will not let ourselves be intimidated by attacks against women; nor be fooled by praise [for] the 'real woman'; nor be won over by men’s enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share." —Simone de Beauvoir ...

August 26th @ 9:30 pm |

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Brazil - "TRAs are trying to shut down Gisela's peripheric cultural space where lesbians meet to talk about their lives. Gisela also distributes food for those in need." —@cismeucu #TodasPorGisela https://t.co/of8F9i...

August 26th @ 8:37 pm |

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The policing of language to refer to women's bodies and experiences is not about protecting the feelings of sensitive or vulnerable people. It is about setting up camp in women's heads; any time she begins to speak about her life, she must be ...

August 26th @ 8:21 pm |

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"Being born a woman is my awful tragedy... All is spoiled by the fact that I am a female, in danger of assault and battery. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night..." — Sylvia Plath #WomensEqualityDay ...

August 26th @ 7:30 pm |

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"It particularly offends me to be called a 'cis' woman. This is the equivalent of me being described as a 'non-white' person, and frankly I will not be silent about the insult that it gives to all women." — Linda Bellos #WomensEqualityDay ...

August 26th @ 5:30 pm |

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"The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change." — Audre Lorde #WomensEqualityDay #EqualityCantWait #SexNotGender ...

August 26th @ 3:30 pm |

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"We’re living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced. Between the backlash against feminism and a porn-saturated online culture... Never have I seen women denigrated and dehumanised to the extent they are now." —J.K. Rowling ...

August 26th @ 1:25 pm |

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RT @WomensLibFront: URGENT! See the end of the thread to take action. California legislators are reviving SB 132, the bill to let men self-identify as transgender and be placed in women's prisons if they choose. https://t.co/Zd3V35...

August 26th @ 1:09 pm |

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"Real women are being phased out; the first step, persuading them to deny their own existence, is almost complete. Female is real, and it’s sex, and femininity is unreal, and it’s gender.” ― Germaine Greer #WomensEqualityDay #EqualityCantWait ...

August 26th @ 12:14 pm |

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“A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.” ― Andrea Dworkin #WomensEqualityDay #EqualityCantWait #SexNotGender ...

August 26th @ 11:58 am |

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In Turkey, a soldier kidnapped a 17 year old girl and raped her for 20 days. She later killed herself. He was arrested a week ago, stayed in custody for only 7 DAYS and he was released today. #MusaOrhanTutuklans... https://t.co/IyYGa3...

August 26th @ 6:27 am |

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RT @monike_nicolas: No os perdais las respuestas a este twit global que lanzó ayer @WomenReadWomen preguntando como está la situación del borrado de las #Mujeres en 🌎: respuestas de Mexico, Rusia, Francia, Italia, Tailandia, Polonia... @ContraBorrado ...

August 26th @ 2:55 am |

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The new ‘gag laws’ have been described as a “major victory” for convicted paedophiles and rapists, as their victims are now “muzzled” and prohibited from self-identifying in publications – including media and autobiographies – regardless of their ...

August 26th @ 2:04 am |

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The outpouring of accounts about alleged sexual abuse, rape, and unwanted sexual advances and the number of women who have joined the movement, some anonymously, appears to be unprecedented in #Iran. #MeToo https://t.co/b9goIN...

August 26th @ 1:40 am |