Women's Voices
16 posts today"Fifty-six per cent of Brazil’s 211 million citizens identify as black or brown but last year nearly 80% of those killed by police and 75% of murder victims were black." #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/inom6j...
"Fifty-six per cent of Brazil’s 211 million citizens identify as black or brown but last year nearly 80% of those killed by police and 75% of murder victims were black." #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/inom6j...
Women said "no" to being reduced to an identity, a performance, a set of stereotypes; did you listen @UN_Women? No. https://t.co/6Bnvw8...
"JK Rowling has called for an end to the 'climate of fear' around the trans debate after being sent 'heart-breaking' letters from women who had irreversible gender reassignment surgery." #IStandWithJKRowlin... #IStandWithKeiraBel... #SexNotGender ...
This is the problem with a failure to recognize that all filmed pornography constitutes a human rights violation: economic coercion is a tool of rape; Pornhub is trying to clean up its act so it can go on profiting from objectification. ...
Women in prison were segregated at a far higher rate than men (despite being less violent offenders). Māori women were segregated for longer and at a far higher rate than other women, making up 78% of all stays in solitary confinement. #SexNotGender ...
"If the bill passes, the Victorian Human Rights Commission would get extraordinary powers to launch investigations into people questioning gender change practices and to 'take any action it considers appropriate.'" #SexNotGender ...
Women have repeatedly rejected the term "gender-based violence", and even worse, GBV, and adamantly expressed this to @UN_Women, an organization that displays recurrent amnesia regarding women's material existence, reality, and sex-based oppression. ...
A pair of ♂️, one of whom identifies as transgender, targeted homeless men for sexual assault. They allegedly raped as many as 30 men; in court, defense brought up bullying regarding one defendant's trans identity in high school as a justification. ...
A 12-year-old girl has given birth to twins in Argentina after being denied an abortion despite having been raped. Authorities forced the child to remain pregnant until the twins could be safely delivered by caesarean section. #SexNotGender #16Days ...
A free online discussion of “Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints and Subversives” will take place today. Sandra Cisneros and co-editors Kathy Sosa and Ellen Riojas Clark will take part. #ReadWomen ...
Residents of a small town in central Japan have overwhelmingly voted to remove the local council's only female member after she accused the mayor of sexual assault. In total, 92% of votes lodged demanded her removal. #MeToo #SexNotGender ...
This person has been quoted as an authority on feminism in an article on the censorship of women for @TheAtlantic. Women are being defined, by gender ideologues, as images depicted in pornography: objectified, degraded, disembodied parts. ...
RT @yatakalam: This is unspeakable garbage from @TheAtlantic. They use trans activist pornographer, bookburning enthusiast and sexism fan G. Lavery as the supreme authority on feminism. @JeffreyGoldberg https://t.co/NQZrkk... https://t.co/9j6LMT...
"Ella died on 15 Feb 2013 after suffering two and a half years of acute asthma, which saw her taken to hospital nearly 30 times, and left her on five occasions with lung collapse. Her death coincided with a high air pollution episode in London." ...
Tsukino committed suicide on Sept 30, indicating that cyberbullying was her reason. In response, netizens attacked anyone they perceived as a bully, including a former co-worker, who was forced to kneel and beg for forgiveness in a Youtube video. ...
A Brisbane man drugged and raped 21 women while recording the sexual abuse. There has been a rise in men filming acts of sexual abuse, exacerbated by tube porn sites that allow users to upload content. Porn is encouraging violence against women. ...