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56 posts todayRT @NeallM: Tomorrow Nazanin is back in court in Tehran. The British Embassy is not accompanying her. This sends a terrible message and makes me feel sick. ...
RT @NeallM: Tomorrow Nazanin is back in court in Tehran. The British Embassy is not accompanying her. This sends a terrible message and makes me feel sick. ...
RT @BarbaraRich_law: If you are moved to donate following the tragic death of Sarah Everard, please be aware that this campaign lacks transparency about its decisions to donate to specific charities, and that you can donate directly, with Gift Aid, ...
RT @ArtyBagger: That's it lads. Go easy on the illegal gatherings of anti-mask demonstrators and football fans. It's grieving women holding a peaceful vigil that really need taught a lesson. https://t.co/ho0JIP...
We've been active on Twitter tonight condemning police brutality against Women at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Sorry we haven't been able to keep up on here too. Sisterhood and Solidarity! ...
RT @louisetickle: I have just written to my MP: I want to know who took the decision to police the vigil at Clapham Common in this outrageous way, and I want them to take full responsibility #ReclaimTheseStreet...
'The society's 73 members have written to Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, urging him to take action under new free speech powers to combat “unacceptable silencing and censoring”' https://t.co/IDPwhW...
Campus feminists censured for excluding trans students
RT @gemma_brett: My sister is on this list. This list made by a woman who cares about those on it. I'm sick of this list getting longer and I am sick of nothing being done about that fact but we dare to say we notice and suddenly you turn up. I am ...
These two pictures are entirely aligned. Both are anti-Women https://t.co/iLSw80...
RT @FemicideCensus: 1,425 UK women and girls aged 14 -100, killed by men between 2009 and 2018. Remember them all. #FemicideCensus https://t.co/yF3URx...
RT @VictoriaPeckham: The calculation in Clapham seemed to be: they’re only women, they won’t get that angry or violent. A police officer may be charged with killing one of them, but they’re not going to riot. Shameful. Why did Met not hang back, it ...
Looking to leaders of the main parties to condemn state brutality against Women at a peaceful vigil. @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer It is way beyond time that you took violence against Women seriously. #SarahEverard https://t.co/7zxMKn...
RT @WEP_UK: Like all violence against women, this was not inevitable. The Met and the London Mayor could have worked with women on the ground to support a Covid safe vigil. Instead they are bringing more violence #ReclaimTheseStreet...
RT @nazirafzal: If only police had tackled male violence against women with the vigour & robustness that they have used against women praying for the victims Tragic #ReclaimTheseStreet... #VIGIL
RT @David_Challen: Utterly horrific response by police to women wanting to gather and recognise #SarahEverad’s life. Women standing in solidarity against #maleviolence then on the end of it for protesting against it. Shame on Met police. ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: At least 31 UK women have been killed by men (or where a man is the principal suspect) so far in 2021 #CountingDeadWomen https://t.co/sJA7US...
RT @joannaccherry: This is wrong https://t.co/2Sy8G1...
RT @polblonde: Is it possible that the police don’t understand the strength of feeling among women about #SarahEverard? The impulse to take part in a vigil near where she was last seen was natural & human, & the Met should have done their ...
RT @jessicaelgot: Many of us who have covered protests know police can decide to let a protest go ahead and let people show their anger and then let the energy dissipate. It is a calculation made all the time. A different one was made tonight. That ...
RT @giagia: British police hate women. Change my mind. https://t.co/eyF9ba...
RT @out_of_lives: This is disgusting #ReclaimTheseStreet... https://t.co/KYdmiC...
RT @DrJessTaylor: Next time someone asks me why women and girls don’t report male violence, I’m going to show them the video of police officers assaulting innocent young women who stood crying in silence at a vigil of a woman murdered by a police ...
RT @soniasodha: Could the police have handled this any worse?
RT @suzanne_moore: Arresting and grabbing women at Clapham Common . Jesus the Met? WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS SAYS? ...
RT @Outofthe_Shadow: They are arresting women on Clapham common for speaking the truth ......for saying our truth....for saying we don't want to be raped and killed anymore....they arrest us
RT @VictoriaPeckham: The police at Clapham tried dumbest strategy: ringing the bandstand, blocking & treading on the flowers. They should just let it naturally disperse. It’s bloody cold, women were quiet & respectful until police started ...
RT @Sistah_Space: I'm so sad about Sarah's murder. I'm a black woman, a mother.Yet many will disregard black Victims I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW BLESSING OLUSEGUN WAS MISSING, WHY? BECAUSE SHE'S BLACK READ THE CAPTION, STAND WITH US. WE NEED YOUR CONTINUED SU ...
RT @ClaireShrugged: “Women still have a long way to go until we are free – lesbians in particular. Yet nowadays woman-only space and lesbian separatism are both seen as evidence of bigotry rather than an escape from it.” Me for @LesbianGayNews ...
RT @TybilAlper: Definitions...from Gerda Lerner's The Creation of Patriarchy. https://t.co/RRMHeJ... https://t.co/xRWr1K...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: Reminded by @M_Addison_Clare of this by Liz Kelly outlining some problems with making misogyny a hate crime (on the surface seems a no brainer.) https://t.co/gQ4gh5... A lot of us who are specialist in work to combat MVAW are ...
RT @SexMattersOrg: Stonewalling the Domestic Violence Bill: Why is @fawcettsociety trying to make “misogyny” gender neutral? #makingwomeninvisib... #sexmatters #DARVOAmendment87B https://t.co/7U6GP7...
RT @WalsheSam: Sadly, As many women involved in street prostitution will know - A Police Badge or Uniform does NOT mean Safety or Protection! As For Being “Kidnapped” “dragged” off the street - That’s A Regular Occurrence for Pimped Women ...
1960: Panorama: Stiletto Heels
'They're uncomfortable, they kill me and I wish to god the fashion would change.' 'They are just about a perfect instrument for ruining the human foot' Thanks to M for sending this through! https://t.co/P39nuU...
RT @JohannLamont: Was looking forward to being on @BBCScotland GMS just now to discuss the impact of the Hate Crime bill not including women. Sadly cancelled because no one available to debate with me. Exercising a veto by refusing to engage may be a ...
132 #Feminist #podcasts should keep you busy this weekend .... Listen, subscribe and join us at FiLiA2021 on 16th - 17th October #FiLiA2021 https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/boYLAQ...
No, we women will not stay safe indoors
'“It happens all the time.” Systemic killing of no other group would be seen as inevitable. But a woman’s corpse is banal.' By Janice Turner https://t.co/H1d8mW...
The Coalition to End Violence Against Women: A FiLiA International Women’s Day interview — FiLiA
The Coalition to End Violence Against Women In 2005, a collection of frontline women’s organisations, researchers, lawyers and activists came together with a shared belief: that violence against women and girls is not inevitable. ...
Boomer feminism is not what we need at this transformational moment
Had to read this twice ... absurd in the extreme 'In some perverse ways, the “rape culture” young women are currently protesting is a consequence of Boomer failure to review the progress of the revolution.' #WomenBlaming #Nonsense ...
As police found Sarah Everard's body, the Scottish Parliament let women down with shocking arrogance – Susan Dalgety
'... Scots law offers protection against the “stirring up of hatred” on the basis of someone’s race, religion, disability, transgender identity (including a person who cross-dresses), sexual orientation and age. But not on the basis of sex.' ...
Poland must adopt clear and effective procedures for women to access lawful abortion
' These procedures should ensure that no unnecessary requirements are imposed on pregnant women seeking lawful abortion by hospitals beforehand and cover abortion refusals on grounds of conscience.' #Poland #Abortion https://t.co/tS3tve...
Pakistani Taliban threaten organisers of Women's Day March
“Each and every one of these allegations is completely false and part of a malicious campaign to silence women from speaking out about their rights,” the march organisers said in a statement. Solidarity @wdf_pk and other organisers #Pakistan ...
Women disproportionately suffering under furlough, study finds
'“However, our results suggest that in 2020, once furloughed, women were disproportionately furloughed for longer periods, and had worse perceived job and financial security than their male peers.' https://t.co/tXelXa...
'A recent YouGov poll for UN Women found that seven out of 10 of women had experienced some form of sexual harassment in public. This number was nearly nine out of 10 for younger women.' Do we believe that sexual assaults are decreasing? ...
How many attacks on women are there?
Men must challenge other men on women's safety, campaigner says
“I’m glad that women have not given up, that we’re still asserting our right to have freedom,” Garthwaite said. https://t.co/fSzMzK...
Elite women might have ruled El Argar 4,000 years ago
"The singularity of these diadems is extraordinary. They were symbolic objects made for these women, thus transforming them into emblematic subjects of the dominant ruling class," #WomensHistory https://t.co/Bwo4dJ...