Women's Voices

 

3 March 2021

 

Women's Voices

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RT @ripx4nutmeg: Pink News, which said this week that the word 'womxn' is 'used extensively by transphobes to delegitimise trans women's identities', has been deleting the word 'womxn' from all its headlines in the last two years. Those stories now ...

March 3rd @ 11:02 pm |

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If you can, please consider donating to this fundraiser for women and girls who are survivors of sex trafficking in the Gambia. Proceeds will go towards counselling and education resources. #Donate4Girls https://t.co/GchLNC...

March 3rd @ 1:19 pm |

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Feminists in Mexico protested outside of the National Palace, demanding justice for two women who say they were raped by former senator and candidate for a position as governor, Félix Salgado Macedonio. One woman was 17 years old at the time. ...

March 3rd @ 1:07 pm |

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The promotion of paid rape goes hand-in-hand with the trans movement. The mantras, "transwomen are women" and "sex work is work" reveal that within the gender movement is a deep-seated notion of male entitlement to women. It is a men's sexual rights ...

March 3rd @ 12:49 pm |

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India’s top judge is facing calls to resign after asking an accused rapist whether he would marry the schoolgirl victim to avoid jail. Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde said: “If you marry (her), we can help you. If not, you lose your job and go to ...

March 3rd @ 12:25 pm |

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"It is very shocking that women were made to dance nude and filmed in government ladies hospital. Police officials who are supposed to protect women are also part of this shameful act," said MLA Shweta Mahala. https://t.co/9vFe8i...

March 3rd @ 11:37 am |

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"Three women who worked at a local news outlet were gunned down in eastern Afghanistan, adding to the bloody tally of Afghan media workers and journalists who have been killed at alarming rates in the past year." https://t.co/9gALnm...

March 3rd @ 10:57 am |

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RT @DiscourserES: Spanish artist @LauraStrego has had her online shop removed @threadless Apparently her #radfem designs are very offensive but #terf hating gear is fine! 👉 https://t.co/6IUvcr... #rt @FiLiA_charity @RadfemBlack @Docstockk @ariana_er ...

March 3rd @ 10:21 am |

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Paedophile Marcia Walker, a transgender prisoner previously Mark Walker, made hoax bomb threats while in prison. Walker, convicted for two rapes of girls under 16, one aged just four, claimed to have made threats in order to get surgery. ...

March 3rd @ 10:10 am |

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Trans prisoners should be excluded from female wings because they are "disproportionately... likely to commit sexual assaults, the High Court heard. There were 125 trans prisoners in 2017, 60 were convicted for sexual offences; 27 were convicted for ...

March 3rd @ 10:02 am |

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Anna Malaika Tubbs' book "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation,” shows these women, who have been largely overlooked, as important figures with agency and influence. ...

March 3rd @ 8:32 am |

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Alex Smith, who is transitioning from male to female and is formally known as Matthew Burren, threatened suicide when officers found, for the fifth time, devices that breached a sexual harm prevention order. #NotOurCrimes https://t.co/vKHYum...

March 3rd @ 3:25 am |

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The Supreme Court of India stayed the arrest of a man accused of rape by his former partner, asking "However brutal the husband is... when two people (are) living as husband and wife, can sexual intercourse between them be called rape?" ...

March 3rd @ 1:50 am |

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Mexico's Miss Sinaloa pageant is described as "a hunting ground for drug lords," who choose teen girls from the contest as brides. "The contest's dark history stretches back to the 1950s, with numerous winners kidnapped, murdered and arrested." ...

March 3rd @ 1:18 am |

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Activists have warned that the pandemic has worsened gender-related violence globally, with independent online initiative Monitor de Femicidios estimating there were 256 femicides in Venezuela last year, compared to 167 in 2019. #NiUnaMas ...

March 3rd @ 1:03 am |

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"Rep. Barb Dittrich, the lead author of the measures, said they would bolster fairness for women and girls in athletics and support Title IX, a federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex at any institution that receives federal aid." ...

March 3rd @ 12:55 am |