Women's Voices
16 posts today"It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind." —Gwendolyn Brooks #ReadWomen https://t.co/xjU3JJ...
"It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind." —Gwendolyn Brooks #ReadWomen https://t.co/xjU3JJ...
Society: listen to transwomen! Me, listening: 😨 #peaktrans https://t.co/pUZsHx...
Why are women constantly asked to prove that men are violent, no matter how they look, when this is a reality all our male relatives try to protect us from? Men know that men are violent, yet in this women have to repeat ourselves ad nauseum, because ...
This person still has a Twitter account and a blue check after posting a naked selfie and insisting that lesbians should be straight. This *is* a movement built on porn, and conversion can manifest as coercion. Yet women get banned for simply ...
"Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognise as women, men who believe that they are women and have had themselves castrated to prove it, because they see women not as another sex but as a non-sex." —Germaine Greer, "The ...
Looking for women to contribute to the audio project I'm building. The goal is a digital library of women speaking on the topic of sex-based oppression. Any language. It may be something you've written, also. #SexNotGender https://t.co/L7Gkux...
Sending love and solidarity to all my sisters around the world I've had the privilege to connect with here. Your life and your struggles matter. I feel braver and less alone seeing you use your voice. ♥️ #GlobalFeminism #WomenSupportingWom...
Many, if not most, murders of transwomen take place in the sex industry. Which is why it is completely baffling that transactivists fiercely advocate for legalizing sexual exploitation. Women in the sex industry have a mortality rate 40x the gen. ...
RT @GuerraMasLarga: Encerró durante 1 año a una adolescente (17 años) en una jaula. La violó, la torturó. El juez ha decidido dejarle en libertad: la sentencia solo ve crueldad contra menores pero no violación porque en ese Estado la edad de ...
RT @MAbolicion: La pandemia de Covid-19 ha provocado un aumento en los matrimonios infantiles en toda #India, muchas familias se han quedado sin trabajo y empujadas hacia la pobreza, recurren a casar a sus hijas para reducir su carga financiera. ...
RT @MorganaTierra: "Se conocieron en un chat online. Él tenía 31 y ella 15. Ella tenía anorexia y baja autoestima, que él usó para manipularla y que accediera a una relación BDSM. El patriarcado desgasta a las chicas para facilitar que los hombres ...
Despite considerable progress, child marriage remains endemic in #India, a country that accounts for one out of every three child brides in the world. According to 2019 data, 102 of 223 million child brides in India were married before 15. ...
One of the women, Fawzia Koofi, has survived two assassination attempts during her career — the latest was just weeks ago near the capital Kabul and came after the Taliban and Afghan government said they were ready for talks to begin. #SexNotGender ...
”I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.” —Yayoi Kusama ...
To make matters worse, both Facebook and Twitter decreased human security checks in response to Covid, despite increased internet usage. Presumably to test AI in hopes of removing human checks altogether, they put children at risk when they ought to ...
RT @DworkinDaily: When one thinks about womens ordinary lives and the lives of children, especially female children, it is very hard not to think that one is looking at atrocity—if ones eyes are open.