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28 posts today#135 The Life's Work of Dr Melissa Farley, Prostitution Researcher
#135 The Life's Work of Dr Melissa Farley, Prostitution Researcher
RT @DrProudman: There is no age of consent to sexual intercourse in France. A man can have sex with a child legally. 20 firefighters had “sex” with child, 14, are found NOT GUILTY of rape by French court. Magistrates said this child was “provocative ...
RT @LabrysLit: We had our first #LabrysLit meeting this afternoon! Women loved hearing V.G. Lee reading and talking about her work. And we got so many positive comments from women who enjoyed being in a lesbian space. 🙏🏾
FiLiA Volunteer Sally Jackson Diary 27th March 2021 — FiLiA
𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗬 25 or so years ago I was involved in designing, developing, and running the violence against women services in this city, now I’m prevented from speaking about them – progressive eh? #Portsmouth #ViolenceAgainstWom...
RT @LabrysLit: Hi women. Our first meeting is scheduled to start at 4.30pm - just over half an hour from now. Some of you have been in touch to say the email with the Zoom link never came through - sorry about that! If you respond to this tweet, I’ll ...
My sons ask if a man has ever hurt me. Not really, I lie | Hadley Freeman
Heartbreaking and familiar to all Women. By Hadley Freeman https://t.co/ogu8rB...
*𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗪* See you there! If the conference cannot go ahead all tickets will be carried over to #FiLiA2022 https://t.co/zp94QS... https://t.co/9F7Na2...
#FiLiABlogs
Global Women write on a wide range of subjects. Spend some time this weekend hearing from: #Brazil #Spain #Guatemala #Argentina #France #SouthAfrica #India #Taiwan #Peru #Kenya #Russia #Germany #Belarus #Uganda #Zimbabwe #Canada and more #filiablogs ...
Women in Turkey rally against Erdogan decision to exit domestic violence treaty
Solidarity with our Sisters in #Turkey 'Several thousand women took to the streets in Istanbul on Saturday to demand Turkey reverse its decision to withdraw from an international treaty against domestic abuse which it once championed.' ...
'A monster' - Abuse survivor's despair as thug partner avoids jail
No jail time. Sisterhood and Solidarity Tia Bryan '"The two worst things were the bite marks and when we went to the cinema - that by far was the worst day of my life," she explained.' https://t.co/7tQQQH...
“They were all the more monstrous because they were women, they transgressed everything”: - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
Fascinating article, but 'anachronistic'?! 'These different executives were “women only” (even if the term is anachronistic) ... Women understood that this is how they should organize themselves in order to be able to act and be heard! Mathilde ...
'Well into the 1900s, book clubs continued to serve these dual purposes: functioning as both an intellectual outlet and a radical political tool.' https://t.co/buGAKE... https://t.co/ahP1Fy...
Pakistani judge orders blasphemy probe against organisers of Women's Day march
'The organisers of the march said in a statement: “These lies and the outrageous allegations of blasphemous slogans and banners in particular have been definitively debunked many times over.”' #Pakistan https://t.co/nI6QyC...
Calls for change for women's rights in French sports
“Whether we are a female journalist or a female minister or a female leader, today, if we want to advance the (women’s) cause, we need to push it forward with determination, ambition, conviction, because it can change people’s way of thinking” ...
Frustration among women in China as new divorce law stalls process
'The feminist writer Xiao Meili called the law a "step backwards" for women and said it limited their rights to freely seek separation from a spouse.' https://t.co/UYzMvt...
Archdiocese: RSE resource calling women ‘receiver-responder... in sex ‘authentically reflects Catholic teaching’
'A faith-based RSE resource saying the contraceptive pill is dangerous, that gay and #lesbian people cannot marry and must entirely abstain from sex, and that men were ‘created to initiate sexual relationships’ and women to be ‘receiver-responder...
RT @AuroraNewDawn: Here for you #247 #WeBelieveYou https://t.co/iATxJa...
RT @Nadine_Writes: The mother of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, who were killed in a north London park last summer, has said she believes their race meant their deaths were not taken seriously. https://t.co/r8JCx2...