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@ctvottawa The hijacking that occurred on #IWD2023 showed #canpoli & funded orgs shamelessly falling over themselves to centre males. They exposed themselves as having done nothing of significance to address real issues affecting women #OnTheBasisOfSex, like repro rights, #femicide, #VAW.
@ctvottawa #Canadians are told ‘there’s no gender equality without trans women’, but no one can back up the rhetoric with substance. No one can answer the simple inquiring question, Why?
Why are female sex-based rights & protections as enshrined in the @CanadianCharter being held hostage?
Why are female sex-based rights & protections as enshrined in the @CanadianCharter being held hostage?
@ctvottawa @CanadianCharter Why are males, especially rapists and violent offenders who begin identifying as trans after their crimes and convictions, being placed in the Women's prison estate? And all this against the Geneva convention.
Ich hatte eben auf dem Rückweg vom Tierarzt @WDR im Radio laufen. Dort äußerte sich ein @Schroeder_Live verächtlich über Alice Schwarzer, @SWagenknecht und ihr Manifest und bescheinigte ihnen Identitätspolitik und eine behandlungsbedürftige psychische Angsterkrankung. #frauenhass
U.a. warf er deren Friedens-Manifest mit einer Kritik am #selbsbestimmungsgesetz oder dem Aufzeigen der Herkunft der Täter der Kölner Silvesternacht zusammen und erklärte, das spreche für ein Festhalten an gestrigen Sichtweisen und darin sei sich "Schwarzerknecht" mit Putin einig
Hier zum Nachhören www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audi…
Europaweiter feministischer Protest gegen unklare EU-Direktive gegen Gewalt gegen Frauen. @WORIADS_eu
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Aktuell sieht die EU eine Änderung einer Direktive gegen Gewalt gegen Frauen und häusliche Gewalt vor. Hier werden die Begriffe „Geschlecht und „Gender“ vermischt, so dass der geschlechtsbasierte Schutz von Frauen als Opfer männlicher Gewalt auf dem Spiel steht. /
Da der Entscheidungsprozess schon sehr weit fortgeschritten ist und im Hintergrund über viele Jahre von Transaktivisten lobbyiert wurde, haben Feministinnen in Europa einen Last-Minute-Protest eingelegt.
Aurora Linnea, the author of this joint review of @caitlin_roper ‘Sex Dolls, Robots and Women Hating’ and my ‘He Chose Porn Over Me’ understands our work at the deepest level. 1/
@caitlin_roper “Two books released in 2022 by Spinifex Press shine light on pornography’s morbid sway over men and culture, and how its ever-expanding range of desecrations brutalize women and girls, “ she opens. 2/
@caitlin_roper ..Melinda Tankard Reist’s “He Chose Porn Over Me” compiles the personal accounts of 25 women whose lives have been marred by the pornsickness of male partners. ...3/
'Pornography today is so violent and dehumanizing to women and girls that most women can’t look at it without being traumatized...
Canadians have the honour of owning the world’s biggest conveyor of woman-hating, the Montreal-based website Porn Hub. The website is free to access, with no age restrictions and no restrictions on the defilement of women. Rape and torture videos abound...
Porn Hub was visited 42 billion times in 2019. To put this number in perspective, there are 4 billion men on the planet.
The #HannahClarke inquest report said there was nothing more services could have done to prevent the death of her and her 3 children. But I don't this is accurate or helpful as a narrative. #iph #vaw #ipf #ipv #dfv
When we think of iph risk, we still expect women to appear with bruises and broken bones, for their partners to be drug users and unemployed and to be in touch with stat services. That we will be able to detect risk by just looking at her and the abuser. But they may not be.
Based on our IPH research, Baxter was a Fixated Threat offender.
✅️He presented well.
✅️He was charming.
✅️He was employed.
✅️He wasn't in contact with the cjs. Which made him relatively invisible to existing systems But... @ANROWS anrows.org.au/project/pathwa…
✅️He presented well.
✅️He was charming.
✅️He was employed.
✅️He wasn't in contact with the cjs. Which made him relatively invisible to existing systems But... @ANROWS anrows.org.au/project/pathwa…
#NZ This is a long thread on the issue of harassment & threats made against #WomenInLeadership, primarily #WomenInPolitics.
⬇️ Reviews incidents over time, highlights the danger & escalation of #misogyny & the real life consequences on the personal & our democratic institutions.
⬇️ Reviews incidents over time, highlights the danger & escalation of #misogyny & the real life consequences on the personal & our democratic institutions.
This thread is being woven, the week Michael Cruickshank was sentenced to jail in #NZ for threatening to blow our #WomanPrimeMinister’s head off & to “..wipe you off this f---planet”- Also arrested this week Richard Sivell who has allegedly been posting threatening messages.
Here you can take a look at #OnlineAbuse ~ ⬇️ is a really useful article by @shesource & @WMCLive that names online hostile behaviour, how it is that #Women are targeted, & explains why “online harassment exists on a continuum with offline violence”
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What do economists want to see in #Budget2022?
We need investment in the economy's "real" productive capacity.
That means R&D, investment in the health & care workforce, housing, digital connectivity, dismantling barriers to women's economic inclusion
#ausecon #auspol
We need investment in the economy's "real" productive capacity.
That means R&D, investment in the health & care workforce, housing, digital connectivity, dismantling barriers to women's economic inclusion
#ausecon #auspol
… This requires a #Budget2022 with long-term vision and policy innovation, not just short-term cost relief.
Current inflationary pressures mean that splashing cash could actually make things worse, unless we also focus on the "supply side" of the economy.
Current inflationary pressures mean that splashing cash could actually make things worse, unless we also focus on the "supply side" of the economy.
The Budget is also a statement of a country's values and priorities
Expect a sizeable increase in defence spending to "keep Australians safe"
Meanwhile Australian women continue to be murdered by a current or former partner at a rate of one woman per week (Source: @OurWatchAus)
Expect a sizeable increase in defence spending to "keep Australians safe"
Meanwhile Australian women continue to be murdered by a current or former partner at a rate of one woman per week (Source: @OurWatchAus)
A thread 🧵
1/ I was well mannered.
I was a people pleaser.
I once and believed that people who were also well mannered and smiled must be honest and kind.
I was groomed. @davtw2
1/ I was well mannered.
I was a people pleaser.
I once and believed that people who were also well mannered and smiled must be honest and kind.
I was groomed. @davtw2
2/ Unfortunately being well mannered in a situation of trust, can lead to being used and abused.
It can lead to grooming.
It can lead to many forms of abuse including IPV and DFV.
Teaching our children to be obedient isn’t sending the right message. @DrWilliams
It can lead to grooming.
It can lead to many forms of abuse including IPV and DFV.
Teaching our children to be obedient isn’t sending the right message. @DrWilliams
3/ Through adversity Grace Tame learned to trust her instincts and show her emotions.
This deflects those who are not genuine. It helps to deflect shame. Shame grows in silence. @TamePunk
This deflects those who are not genuine. It helps to deflect shame. Shame grows in silence. @TamePunk
Day 2
Please Read the findings below from a survey by National Judicial Academy
For GBV survivors who are less educated, poor, & marginalized what will be the entry point to seek justice even TODAY?
#16Days
#16DaysofActivism2021
#16DaysOfAction
#OrangeTheWorld
#GBV
#Nepal
Please Read the findings below from a survey by National Judicial Academy
For GBV survivors who are less educated, poor, & marginalized what will be the entry point to seek justice even TODAY?
#16Days
#16DaysofActivism2021
#16DaysOfAction
#OrangeTheWorld
#GBV
#Nepal
DAY 3
Is there an UNDER-REPORTING with only around 12% of #VAW Issues reported in the MEDIA?
What kind of Structural constraints play a role in COVERAGE or PRIORITY SETTING of issues around #GBV or #VAW or #VAWC in the Media?
#16Days
#OrangeTheWorld
#SGBV
#Media
#Nepal
Is there an UNDER-REPORTING with only around 12% of #VAW Issues reported in the MEDIA?
What kind of Structural constraints play a role in COVERAGE or PRIORITY SETTING of issues around #GBV or #VAW or #VAWC in the Media?
#16Days
#OrangeTheWorld
#SGBV
#Media
#Nepal
DAY 4
In a situation with predominance of men in the police system (NWC 2017 Report-94% police men) & steep power gradient due to #gender roles in #Nepal
Can mediation by the police perpetuate the culture of impunity & reinforce women’s vulnerability?
#16Days
#OrangeTheWorld
In a situation with predominance of men in the police system (NWC 2017 Report-94% police men) & steep power gradient due to #gender roles in #Nepal
Can mediation by the police perpetuate the culture of impunity & reinforce women’s vulnerability?
#16Days
#OrangeTheWorld
One would think this is from @MargaretAtwood fiction. But no, this is contemporary #Europe where babies (sex, colour, ethnicity, of "customer's" choice) are for sale.
This is despicable. NO ONE has a "human right" to babies. Babies are not commodities. Women are not "gestators"
This is despicable. NO ONE has a "human right" to babies. Babies are not commodities. Women are not "gestators"
@EuropeanWomen has adopted several emergency motions condemning #surrogacy as a violation of women's human rights that must be stopped and since 2014 has had a number of actions highlighting this form of #VAW
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In 2020 we published "SURROGACY: Globalised Reproductive Exploitation of Women and Girls":
"surrogacy..must be prohibited on the basis of protecting the principles of human dignity, non-commercialisation of human body and the interests of the child."bit.ly/3qUtGTe
"surrogacy..must be prohibited on the basis of protecting the principles of human dignity, non-commercialisation of human body and the interests of the child."bit.ly/3qUtGTe
The more we know about the victims of the #Atlanta shootings, the more heartbreaking and enraging the story. There are so many people who are ancillary victims of this crime--the children, spouses and other family of the victims. What a terrible, horrible crime this was.
▪Xiaojie Tan, 49. Owner of Young's Spa. Mother.
▪Daoyou Feng, 44. Employee of Ms. Tan
▪Paul Michel, 54, mechanic employee of Ms. Tan
▪Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33. Newlywed mother of a baby. At Young's on a spa date.
▪Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30. In ICU. Shot outside w/his child.
▪Daoyou Feng, 44. Employee of Ms. Tan
▪Paul Michel, 54, mechanic employee of Ms. Tan
▪Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33. Newlywed mother of a baby. At Young's on a spa date.
▪Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30. In ICU. Shot outside w/his child.
These are the names of the Cherokee County victims. The names of the four Asian women victims in #Atlanta have not yet been released pending notification of their families, said Deputy Chief of the Atlanta PD, Charles Hampton.
The deaths of #SarahEverard #BlessingOlusegun are triggering because frankly EVERY woman is either a survivor or knows at least one woman/girl who is. But remember violence against women isn’t inevitable. PREVENTION IS POSSIBLE & there’s amazing work being done to show how.Thread
First let’s acknowledge feminists were right-violence against women exists at a pandemic scale (1 in 3) because its a primary tool for defining women and girls in patriarchy-i.e as objects not subjects, who must comply with patriarchal norms or be punished. Violence is normative.
So if we are going to end VAW we can’t just address it after the fact- though we *definately* need high quality holistic feminist response services for survivors. Prevention means redefining the premise of how we relate & structure society= changing gendered power & social norms.
⚠️⚠️⚠️Trigger warning for what I'm about to say - please mute if you'd like to avoid hearing about extreme #violence #vaw and #misogyny on your timeline. ⚠️⚠️⚠️
When people advocate for legal #prostitution I think they have a much too vanilla view of what it is men pay women to do or endure. For all the times' abolitionists are called "prudes", it's really a lot of "sex pozzies" who don't understand the extent of what they're endorsing.
Yes, a lot are just your regular father-of-two cheating on his wife or angry over a divorce looking for a woman maybe his own age, but usually younger, for some usual oral on him, then vaginal in various positions, it's over when he orgasms. Bad enough, but it gets worse.
Well done to @WGEAgency for its latest gender equality scorecard, which deep-dives into the state of gender equality in the Australian workplace. While progress has been made, #WGEAdata continues to show that women are earning, on average $25,534 less per year than men.
Through this data, we know that tackling the drivers of violence against women requires governments and workplaces to lead the change – through addressing the gender pay gap, ensuring equal pay for comparable work and increasing women’s representation at the highest levels.
True transformation and equality will occur when ongoing commitments and actions by workplaces and governments act together to promote women’s decision making and economic independence and challenge rigid gender roles.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Violence against women is preventable.
Its elimination is possible.
Prevention is possible because we can all take action.
#IDEVAW #IDEVAW2020 #VAW #PVAW
Violence against women is preventable.
Its elimination is possible.
Prevention is possible because we can all take action.
#IDEVAW #IDEVAW2020 #VAW #PVAW
We can all #DoSomething to create an Australia where women and their children live free from violence, but no one individual, community, organisation or government can do it alone.
It takes a shared, consistent approach to addressing gender inequality.
It takes a shared, consistent approach to addressing gender inequality.
Because gender inequality is deeply entrenched in our culture, society, community, and daily lives, and it drives this violence.
@getting_hurt desperately trying to call off their attack dogs from our fb/insta pages cos making their community look bad when it is groups like theirs responsible for breeding/enabling/emboldening them in the 1st place. #vaw #mvaw #onlineabuse #misogyny
Like this charmer Ryan Masters
And this one...
The #Pascha was until recently German's biggest brothel: 10 stories high, with 126 rooms. Reactions range from sadness over "good ol' times" coming from sex buyers, to joy from those opposed to the sex trade, to concern about "good work places lost." bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Nearly everyday I encounter the assumption that a place like the Pascha is what a modern society should strive for, cause it affords legitimacy, dignity & safety to the women in it - the assumption being that legal brothels only employ women there by choice & are low on violence.
This is not true and I'm only going to a list a few facts to get this story straight: First of all the brothel was built, because the city government of Cologne wanted women out of the inner city, away from respectable parts of town, where people "don't want to see that."
and degradation, a woman holds sexual power — a paradoxical line of argument if ever there was one. Woman cannot be liberated as long as her existence is bound to her ability to inspire male desire...
None of the WAP lyrics are subversive — these are standard ways to flatter men sexually. The approval of his large penis; the indication that his penis is so large that it hurts; the implication that his raw, domineering, red-blooded virility cannot be restrained;
the notion of great male strength and athleticism: all are topes which are frequently used to laud male sexual prowess. As sex has been increasingly commodified with the advent of internet pornography... the demands upon the porn market have become progressively more extreme,
Today is the day! I'm excited to kick-off #FlipTheScript campaign to celebrate African womxn for who they are, not what they're expected to be, ahead of #AfricanWomensDay. We're doing this Eyala-style, so one conversation at a time. For more: bit.ly/3hCwsET 👇🏿
On Tuesday 28/07 at 2pm GMT, join me on IG live (@EyalaBlog) for a chat with #Afrifem extraordinaire @rachaelmwiks, who works w/ women in informal settlements in #Kenya. Can’t wait to hear the lessons she’s learned from grassroots #feminist organizing. #FlipTheScript #SayEnough
On Wed 29/07, I'll speak w/ Francophone West African feminist powerhouses: #LBTQ rights advocate @Emmaonekekou, founder of LBTQ platform @Emmalinfos1 & @BintouMariamT who made waves w/ a satirical feminist campaign in March.Join Eyala's FB Live @ 2pm GMT #FlipTheScript #SayEnough
I’ve been so triggered tonight and I have to get it off my chest & more importantly, you must understand why in #Egypt #women are not believed & what it means. #VAW #thread #ABZ #MeToo #Egypt 1/10
Let’s talk about the believability of women. It is indoctrinated into our culture & even encoded in our genes, that women are liars or that they exaggerate or that they tell half truths.
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I’m someone who was sexually abused by a relative as a child & when I told my father he immediately said I was lying. He actually took the side of the perpetrator. I cannot begin to describe to you the pain this has caused me for years until today and will continue to do so
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Please RT: Professor Penny Jane Burke, Director of @UON_CEEHE "As a survivor of domestic violence, I felt compelled to join many other voices to help bring attention to the terrifying implications of #COVID19 for so many women & children" #endVAW #VAW /1
Briefing from UK's End Violence Against Women: #COVID19: New EVAW Briefing urges Government to act now to prevent 'secondary' abuse disaster @EVAWuk endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/covid-19-new-e… #endVAW #VAW #domesticviolence /3
Sunday is #IWD2020, and a time to reflect on Canada’s record on gender equality. #canlab #canfem 1/6
This year Canada ranked 19th on the @wef ’s #gendergap20 report, up from our poor showing in 2016 (35th), down from 16th last year. Canada’s young women are the most educated generation in history, but they are still hitting the wall in the world of work and politics 2/6
Women working full-time are still paid only 81 cents for every dollar men take home. The gap is even larger for racialized women and Indigenous women, who make 60% and 57% of what non-racialized men earn #canlab #canfem 3/6 behindthenumbers.ca/2019/03/05/dat…
We've been heard - again!
The House of Reps Standing Committee has released its report - 'Protecting the Age of Innocence' - following its Inquiry into #AgeVerification for online porn. aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…
The House of Reps Standing Committee has released its report - 'Protecting the Age of Innocence' - following its Inquiry into #AgeVerification for online porn. aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…
We welcome the news that the Committee has called for a 'roadmap for the implementation of a regime of mandatory #AgeVerification for online pornographic material'. @eSafetyOffice @tweetinjules
Collective Shout and Director @MelTankardReist were pleased to make submissions to the Inquiry and to give evidence in parliament at the Inquiry hearing. collectiveshout.org/submission_to_…
