Women's Voices

 

13 February 2021

 

Women's Voices

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RT @GetTheLoutKorea: Hi. I’m gwa. S.kor lesbian feminist. Gu Ha-ra and Sulli are all victims of Korean misogyny. Sulli's cyberbullying, such as the content of the article, was a problem, and Gu Ha-ra suffered from illegal filming. Even the ...

February 13th @ 12:54 pm |

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The recent death of actress Song Yoo-jung has triggered a debate about inequality and increasing societal pressures facing young women in South Korea. For the last ten years, the suicide rate of young Korean women has been increasing by 5% per year. ...

February 13th @ 12:41 pm |

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A bill sponsored by Equality Minister @IreneMontero aims to make gender self-determination — no diagnosis, medical treatment or judge required — the norm, with eligibility starting at age 16, and "puberty blockers" available at the onset of puberty. ...

February 13th @ 12:33 pm |

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Weekly updates from a feminist perspective, "In Context" is now available as audio on YouTube, in addition to podcast platforms. If you enjoy my conversations about the news with @CarolineNorma76, or have relevant news to suggest, please let us know. ...

February 13th @ 9:26 am |

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A recommended reading list by @WENWales suggests children visit @galdemzine's website. GalDem promotes sex trafficking and advocates for ♂️ to have access to women's rape shelters. https://t.co/nKQRYf... https://t.co/Jc1MCB...

February 13th @ 6:33 am |

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A group of women Japanese lawmakers wore white in parliament in protest of recent comments by Olympic organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori, widely criticized as sexist against women, who said that women's speaking time should be restricted in ...

February 13th @ 6:22 am |

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US company Folx Health, which raised $25 million to launch and delivers HRT to the doorstep, also says that they will soon be offering treatment for erectile dysfunction. They know that 90% of US ♂️ who ID as ♀️ undergo no surgery and are helping to ...

February 13th @ 5:28 am |

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"A greater proportion of men report having fantasies involving sadism, exhibitionism, and fetishism compared with women. Studies of sex offenders (mostly men) find that a large proportion of those who commit sexual offenses also engage in such ...

February 13th @ 4:49 am |

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Finding out that the 276 girls taken in 2014 were only a “fraction of the thousands of girls” the militants had taken into the forest over the years made Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung realize “this was a story we needed to hear about.” ...

February 13th @ 3:07 am |

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A proposed law in Nepal would require women under 40 to get permission from their family and government to travel to the Middle East or Africa in a bid to help stop trafficking, but has no plan to restrict travel for men, who are often the ...

February 13th @ 3:02 am |

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Today is National Women's Day in India. The day is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of the nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu. Naidu is one of the most recognised persons in the Indian freedom movement. #NationalWomensDay ...

February 13th @ 2:40 am |

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After years of activists’ efforts to alert lawmakers to these legal gaps, movements in the US and UK are gaining momentum to ban deepfake porn. The attention could also help ban other forms of image-based sexual violence, previously neglected. ...

February 13th @ 12:09 am |