In India, an estimated 70% of all reproductive diseases in women are caused by poor menstrual hygiene. And yet, people are not comfortable talking about it. Even in educated households, words that describe a woman's health remain taboo. #SexNotGender ...
Researchers found the third most common context for women being killed by men was “sexually motivated”. #SexNotGender #16Days #IDEVAW2020 #IDEVAW https://t.co/zIJUSB...
RT @WomensLibFront: A male student athlete and the @ACLU have teamed up in Idaho to overturn the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which protects women and girls' Title IX right to equal educational opportunities. Two students are fighting back. Read ...
We cannot end violence against women if we can't name women as a sex class and men as perpetrators. “The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves... by criteria of their own choice.” - Dworkin ...
Police in Poland are using increasingly violent tactics against women peacefully protesting a law restricting abortion. At least 60 protesters, including a girl of 17, have been detained. #StrajkKobiet #piekłokobiet #WyrokNaKobiety #16Days ...
"Feminism has to be able to talk about bodies. Many of the advances women have made in my lifetime — reproductive rights, discussions of menstruation and menopause — depend on biology, the biology we were now told was irrelevant." — @suzanne_moore ...
It is not possible to end violence against women if we can't name the sex class who perpetrates the violence — men — and the sex class, women, who are oppressed and subjugated by force. (Art by Renee Gerlich) #SexNotGender #IDEVAW #IDEVAW2020 ...
Not.a.woman. "Alana Gibson broke into the house, where her female coworker lives, and attacked her coworker's husband with a machete while he was asleep. Gibson allegedly tried to strangle the coworker as she intervened." #NotOurCrimes #SexNotGender ...
Today is #IDEVAW2020, and this year has been marked by increasing violence against women globally in part due to pandemic lockdown measures. Mainstream organizations established to protect women are failing as they play dumb with us about what a ...
Hathloul was arrested with nine other women’s rights advocates in May 2018, months before women were finally granted the right to drive. Her family claim she has been tortured. At least five of those arrested remain in jail. #FreeLoujain ...