Women's Voices

 

21 September 2020

 

Women's Voices

32 posts today

"The verbal sexual abuses are part of an organized policy to infuse humiliation and torture against all Palestinian detainees especially against women and children,” said Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, a prisoner support and human rights group. ...

September 21st @ 11:03 pm |

Women's Voices

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“Twitter is still not doing enough to tackle the deluge of abuse women face on the platform... @Twitter is not doing enough to protect women users, leading many women to silence or censor themselves on the platform" Worse still, Twitter censors ...

September 21st @ 11:00 pm |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

RT @sarah_lindt: 1) [Thread] Almost one month ca. 50 babies born from surrogate mothers were held in a hotel-room in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Their new parents could not pick them up due to the closed borders during Corona-Lockdown. ...

September 21st @ 10:51 pm |

Women's Voices

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RT @DworkinDaily: We say we want to be human. We say that we want them to treat us like human beings. In a male-dominant soci­ety, men are the human beings. I want to point out to you that we use the word human metaphorically. We are not talking ...

September 21st @ 10:50 pm |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

I left my country when I was in my early 20's and have lived in two countries since. The one constant has been women's friendship. I'd be honored to dedicate myself to women, to use what power I can muster to stand between another woman and male ...

September 21st @ 2:45 pm |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

“I was able to find freedom in the South, but only after I was trafficked three times in China.” Women defectors face sex trafficking and violence during their escape. But 1 in 4 face even more violence in the South. #SexNotGender ...

September 21st @ 1:42 pm |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

"Almost all the Vietnamese children who arrived in Dutch asylum centers in recent years disappeared and were probably trafficked. Vietnam is consistently one of the top source countries for modern slaves in Britain." https://t.co/VbUZ0I...

September 21st @ 12:27 pm |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

Most media fails to mention that deepfake video currently is 99% porn, wherein a woman, actually two women, are being raped: one physically, the other, figuratively. The neutrality of tech is an outdated concept used to obscure male violence ...

September 21st @ 11:33 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

RT @marie_skou: Women's rights defender, Yasaman Aryani was sentenced to 16 years in prison, because of her peaceful campaigning against discriminatory forced veiling laws. She's one of the many women imprisoned in Iran. Be her voice today. We ...

September 21st @ 10:50 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

RT @thegirdlengr: Let's #EndFGM 🙏🏽 Mrs Aminat said: "I'm from Mali and infibulated when I was 13 years old. Girls of that age were told how "our husbands would inspect our virginity and use a knife to open us up on our wedding night". We lived in ...

September 21st @ 10:49 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

RT @therestofus5: If a movement declares that a man is allowed to define being a woman by way of his feelings but that a woman is not allowed to define being a woman by way of her material reality, it is a men's rights movement. #adulthumanfemale ...

September 21st @ 10:31 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

If it was women marrying young boys— If it had been women denying men a name— If it had been women starting all the wars— If it was women forcing men to cover in shame— Then said, be grateful, we gave you society— But we can't even imagine this ...

September 21st @ 9:10 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

There are many intelligent women who would prefer not to waste time arguing why women aren't gender stereotypes. But we have to argue that we exist, and this distracts us from all the other shit stacked against us. If men believed in our humanity, ...

September 21st @ 8:40 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

"I know it’s a bit simplistic to say, ‘well imagine if this was a work by a man’, but, if this was a poem that was this lauded and had been composed by a man, I feel fairly certain that we wouldn’t have forgotten where he was buried." #ReadWomen ...

September 21st @ 8:34 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

Women's bodies are more "policed" than male bodies, and there are centuries of laws across the world that prove this, from denying women reproductive sovereignty, to laws about what women can wear, to child marriage, and sex trafficking. ...

September 21st @ 8:21 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

I have so many receipts of trans identity and fetishism I had to start a Google drive folder so as not to completely disgust those who follow me by posting them all. https://t.co/yYDanK... https://t.co/3ByE6r...

September 21st @ 7:51 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

RT @moveincircles: The sad case of a disabled girl rejected by surrogate ‘parents’ underlines how, no matter how well intentioned many of its participants, commercial surrogacy drives the objectification of children as well as women. Me at @unherd ...

September 21st @ 7:15 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

#Thailand—Prosteste... rallied against a military monarchy that has disappeared activists, later discovered dead with concrete in their bellies. The nation is a global epicenter for trafficking of women and children; this is also a women's rights ...

September 21st @ 7:14 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

I've never done this before—usually try to keep my personal life out of the mix and focus on information about women's sex-based oppression—but coming up on 14k followers and feel the need to say thank you, so much, and sisterhood is powerful. ♥️

September 21st @ 7:01 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

Japanese women, on average, spend five times as much time doing housework and taking care of family members as men. This is the highest ratio among 37 OECD countries. Japan's 23.5% gender pay gap is also the second widest in the OECD. #SexNotGender ...

September 21st @ 4:53 am |

Women's Voices

32 posts today

The posters are the work of feminist activists who, critical of the government’s lack of action on domestic violence, have taken to the streets with a poster campaign aimed at raising awareness of violence against women #feminicides #sexnotgender ...

September 21st @ 12:02 am |