Women's Voices

 

29 January 2021

 

Women's Voices

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NYPD officer used Twitter to groom and target teens and preteens for sexual abuse. Not only did Carmine Simpson solicit explicit content, in some cases he urged them to hurt themselves, said he wanted to carve their flesh and claimed to be into “gun ...

January 29th @ 7:39 pm |

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My thoughts about the recent statement from the @feministlibrary: "Many brilliant and brave women suffered to illuminate the structures that naturalize our subordinate status in society, and we will not submit to the flattening of our humanity." ...

January 29th @ 5:31 pm |

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"Recent English translations are now introducing Keun's works to a broader audience, restoring her status as a unique, fearless novelist of interwar Germany. Her stories are mostly of young women, attempting to make their way in the world despite ...

January 29th @ 1:10 pm |

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Sara Omar denounces violence inflicted on women in the name of Islam, a "calling" that has left her living under police protection. Her first novel "Dead Washer" sold more than 100,000 copies in Denmark where it was hailed as the "#MeToo of Muslim ...

January 29th @ 12:43 pm |

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The mental health of girls declines sharply at 14 and worsens through adolescence, a two-year study has found. It concluded that heavy social media use and a lack of exercise made teenagers’ wellbeing and self-esteem worse. https://t.co/aHvrgL...

January 29th @ 12:20 pm |

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This is the sort of person women are being called bigots for not wanting in our spaces of undress. Women are losing our rights and being redefined under law to accommodate male fetishes. And many people prefer to believe them over us about our own ...

January 29th @ 11:52 am |

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"To accept a world where there is a right to a child, or where the use of a woman's body can be used to fulfill a “need” for another, is to accept a world where children & women are relegated to a subclass to take on inhumane risks for a ...

January 29th @ 9:16 am |

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A man in Mumbai accused of raping and impregnating a 16 year-old girl has been released from prison after offering to marry her, with the court stating "it is the case of a consensual relationship." #SexNotGender https://t.co/d7LbcX...

January 29th @ 9:06 am |

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France's lockdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus have led to a big drop in the number of reported crimes – except for domestic violence and rape cases, which continued to rise for the third consecutive year. #SexNotGender ...

January 29th @ 9:01 am |

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In New Jersey's Edna Mahan women's prison, inmates were raped for years; the DoJ found "a culture of acceptance of sexual abuse." After reports that a trans woman was beaten there, 31 guards have been suspended and a criminal investigation is ...

January 29th @ 7:54 am |

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'Suzanna' Hopwood is a lay member of The Royal College of Obs and Gyn, as well as serving on Stonewall's Trans Advisory Group, a conflict of interest that is causing @RCObsGyn to show deference to @stonewalluk while downplaying the implications of ...

January 29th @ 4:35 am |

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The Bombay High Court acquitted a man of raping a 15 year-old girl ruling that “it seems impossible... to remove her and his clothes, and perform the forcible sexual act without any scuffle," claiming no visible injuries could be seen. #MVAW ...

January 29th @ 2:21 am |

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Imagine showing up to a protest for women oppressed explicitly because of their sex and waving a flag which signifies that you don't believe sex is real. #StrajkKobiet #PiekloKobiet #SexNotGender https://t.co/CJ6NKg...

January 29th @ 1:48 am |