Women's Voices

 

27 September 2020

 

Women's Voices

21 posts today

Black women are most impacted by men identifying into women's prisons. Because of racism and inequality, they are overrepresented in prisons in the US; white transgender sex offenders will be given a captive population of Black women, even as the ...

September 27th @ 6:53 pm |

Women's Voices

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RT @AbigailShrier: “Irrespective of hormonal intervention, male athletes are, on average, 40% heavier, 15% faster, 30% more powerful, and 25–50% stronger than their female counterparts. [T]hese differences pose obvious risks for female players...” By ...

September 27th @ 6:34 pm |

Women's Voices

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Police in Belarus have rounded up dozens of women at a protest against embattled President Alexander Lukashenko. Video footage of the march showed a heavy police presence with officers carrying women by their hands and feet to buses. #BelarusProtest ...

September 27th @ 5:29 pm |

Women's Voices

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My name is Genevieve. If I get banned from Twitter, as I am now speculating might happen, for reasons I'm not sure of, I don't want to lose contact with the amazing women here. I hope I'm not overreacting, but wanted to put it out there anyway.

September 27th @ 3:49 pm |

Women's Voices

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"When I see somebody understand gender a little bit better, it gives me happiness" This is appalling and revelatory. Gender has never been happiness for women. Only men, not completely bound by it and celebrated when they perform femininity, could ...

September 27th @ 3:44 pm |

Women's Voices

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RT @minemercadomx: ¿Por qué se permite a hombres ser guardias de prisiones de mujeres? ¿Por qué "excluir" hombres es peor visto que la violencia que ejercen a mujeres e infantes? Los hombres han excluido mujeres por siglos y aún es visto como algo ...

September 27th @ 3:23 pm |

Women's Voices

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Feminism: Gender is socially constructed; sex is innate, the locus of women's oppression Genderism: Sex is socially constructed; gender is innate; femininity, rather than women, is oppressed #SexNotGender ...

September 27th @ 1:51 pm |

Women's Voices

21 posts today

Why are men allowed to be prison guards in women's jails? Why is "excluding" men seen as worse than the violence they do to women and children? Men have excluded women for centuries, and it is still seen as normal. #SexNotGender ...

September 27th @ 1:22 pm |

Women's Voices

21 posts today

Judges can order the GPS trackers for men convicted of assault. They can also order a man accused of assault to wear a bracelet before he is convicted – if a court finds there is enough grounds for such a measure. #SexNotGender #Feminicides ...

September 27th @ 12:00 pm |

Women's Voices

21 posts today

Recent cases from Pakistan show how religious minority women and girls are abducted, forcibly converted, forcibly married and abused; also how their families are unsuccessful in their attempts to challenge these crimes using legal avenues. ...

September 27th @ 11:36 am |

Women's Voices

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A rape crisis helpline has been launched in Northern Ireland. The Rape Crisis Centre in Belfast closed over a decade ago after funding was withdrawn. According to police, sexual offences in 2018/19 were the highest recorded since 1998/99. ...

September 27th @ 10:30 am |

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Two days, two headlines. Pure misogyny. The erasure of women's rights is happening all over the world, without debate, while women who speak up are threatened and shouted down. @GavinNewsom #SexNotGender #PeakTrans https://t.co/JvdVrY...

September 27th @ 8:55 am |

Women's Voices

21 posts today

Officers said the girl was first attacked by four men who left her for dead, before she was attacked again by another group of four men, then another group of three. Police estimate that a woman is raped every 36 seconds in South Africa. ...

September 27th @ 7:00 am |

Women's Voices

21 posts today

"Sissies can be self-deprecatory trans women or they can be men who like the humiliation of being seen as a woman" That's the exact same thing. Womanhood is not a fetish. #SexNotGender #peaktrans https://t.co/pa2kJu...

September 27th @ 5:56 am |

Women's Voices

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Feminists in Mexico are calling for international awareness of the murder of #JessicaGonzalez, thought to have been killed by Diego Melgoza, who has since fled the country. #JusticiaPorJessica #femicidio #JusticeForJessicaG... #NiUnaMenos #NiUnaMas h ...

September 27th @ 3:12 am |