Women's Voices

 

26 September 2020

 

Women's Voices

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California Gov @GavinNewsom is placing women in harm's way: violent ♂️ criminals may now be incarcerated with a captive population of women. On average ⅔ of US women in prison experienced abuse; many are there for self-defense. Now they may be held ...

September 26th @ 11:32 pm |

Women's Voices

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Raquel Liberman, who escaped from and helped destroy a sex-trafficking ring, was recognized in Buenos Aires where she was a symbol of resistance. City officials installed a tile with Liberman’s name on the street near a brothel where she was abused. ...

September 26th @ 7:40 pm |

Women's Voices

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The leader of an international sex trafficking ring targeting Thai women was sentenced to 17 years. Victims were lured into slavery through promises of a better life in the United States and the ability to provide money to their families. ...

September 26th @ 7:24 pm |

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The link between lack of toilet access / mixed-sex facilities and rape is well-known. Powerful orgs, such as @UN_Women, advocate for women's toilets in less developed regions, even as they claim industrialized nations no longer need them. ...

September 26th @ 1:47 pm |

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"#Sudan has recently witnessed a heinous rape crime sparking widespread anger across the country, as an eight-year-old girl was gang-raped by 14 people." Let's guess the sex of these "people." #SexNotGender #MVAW https://t.co/zTCcE4...

September 26th @ 1:36 pm |

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A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" by Cho Nam-joo, follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. #SexNotGender #ReadWomen #82년생김지영 https://t.co/fyBja9...

September 26th @ 11:20 am |

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Siphesihle Maluleka went missing on September 12. Her family fears she was abducted by human traffickers via social media. She is believed to be in Cape Town, #SouthAfrica. Please share her photo. #SiphesihleMaluleka https://t.co/Phok0Q...

September 26th @ 9:56 am |

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RT @HJoyceGender: This is a brilliant, brilliant thread on how my home country got gender self-ID which hardly anybody supported or even knew about, and which was pushed through under cover our same-sex marriage referendum. Ireland - you were played ...

September 26th @ 8:02 am |

Women's Voices

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Women in the central Philippines have banded together to protect their marine sanctuaries from poachers and illegal fishers. Armed with only paddles and kayaks, these women willingly risk their lives to manage their marine protected area. ...

September 26th @ 6:30 am |

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This is "Barbie Kardashian," accused of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to two people. Kardashian was “very anxious she be detained in a prison facility for females, as she identifies as a female." #SexNotGender https://t.co/z4qwLR...

September 26th @ 5:34 am |

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A Chinese university published a handbook that said women fell victim to rape because "they are pretty and handle matters frivolously, are cowardly and powerless... have weak willpower and find it hard to resist temptation." #SexNotGender ...

September 26th @ 3:51 am |

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Since 2005, there have been eight cases in which officers were charged with manslaughter or murder of a Black woman. In the past five years, there has been just one. Almost all of the officers in those cases were acquitted. #SayHerName #BreonnaTaylor ...

September 26th @ 2:43 am |

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Barbie Kardashian appeared before the court wearing a pink puffy jacket, purple top, and a long-hair blonde wig. Kardashian, “born a male but identifies as a female”, is accused of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to two people. ...

September 26th @ 1:41 am |

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RT @ripx4nutmeg: Last year a gender identity lesson was secretly recorded at a school in which a senior Mermaids representative taught that some children are born in the wrong body. Today Mermaids agreed with the statement 'No child is born in the ...

September 26th @ 1:28 am |

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RT @DworkinDaily: If you look around you and you see male supremacy, you know that somewhere where you cannot see, a woman is being prosti­tuted, because every hierarchy needs a bottom and prostitution is the bottom of male dominance.

September 26th @ 1:20 am |

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RT @DonovanCleckley: “...feminine soul enclosed in a male body...” - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, on feminine homosexual males, from young to old (1868) “I have a girl brain but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way!” - Jazz Jennings ...

September 26th @ 12:45 am |