@QGfeminista Day 28, 28/01/2020. Women are told that other people were noticing they were wearing bras - and we know people also complain when women are not wearing one too. How on earth can we live like that when we are always wrong!?
@QGfeminista Half of women who had abortions in UK were wearing contraception
@QGfeminista Women seeking help for Domestic Abuse/violence are being sexually/physically abused by male police officers. Fresh hell, I'm telling you, fresh hell
@QGfeminista Contraception fails leading to many unplanned pregnancies
@QGfeminista 25% of women already feel uncomfortable in their own skin, and women who are already thin are told that size 14 is XL
@QGfeminista Brave man dies, make national commotion. Brave woman dies, two days later, make local news.
@QGfeminista Fibroids and infertility
@QGfeminista Domestic violence from males against women increases... When England is playing football!
@QGfeminista Having a cervical screening while having a physical disability jostrust.org.uk/about-us/news-…
@QGfeminista "Natural Service": that's what a newspaper called when men want a session with a prostitute without condom, popular among 90% of users. The women who refuse get "bad online reviews" abc.net.au/religion/micha…
@QGfeminista Day 29, 29/01/2020. Sexual violence from Myanmar army's male soldiers against Rohingya women and girls
@QGfeminista On most questions, pro-lifers are against sex equality in society
@QGfeminista More info on endometriosis
@QGfeminista Elderly home care workers are predominantly females. No male workers have complained abt sexual assault but all females have 
@QGfeminista Females with UTIs are more prone to develop antibiotics resistance
@QGfeminista Female performers at Edinburgh Fringe sexually harassed
@QGfeminista More info on what really happens to women in prostitution, directly linked with human traffic
@QGfeminista Man actively takes pictures of car's number plates belonging to women he sees going to abortion clinics so he can go to their houses and question their choice
@QGfeminista Girls fighting to end child marriage
@QGfeminista Black women's groups being left out on discussions about domestic violence
@QGfeminista Day 30, 30/01/2020. Women asked for donor sperm. Drs used their own sperm instead
@QGfeminista Lone women warned about minicab driver preying on them in London
@QGfeminista Yazidi women (and children) missing, children killed/captured, women sold as sex slaves
@QGfeminista Company selling vaginal products to adult women (that we don't need bc the vagina is self cleaning) is afraid of treating adult women as adults and calls vaginas and vulvas "yons" and "hoohas"
@QGfeminista New social network created by @mkay_fain, @spinster_xyz, which is women centered, is banned from Google Play for being, errr... women centered
feministcurrent.com/2019/09/12/spi…
feministcurrent.com/2019/09/12/spi…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz While the Amazon is on fire, Brazilian indigenous women are calling for help newsmaven.io/indiancountryt…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Women and girls who were raped can face stoning for "dishonoring" their families hbv-awareness.com/rape-victim-fa…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Young girls are missing school because they have to use mixed sex toilets and boys are sharing them for their periods walesonline.co.uk/news/education…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Brazil: half of patients attended for legal abortion are underage girls. Average age is 13 but they have attended 10yr olds. They were abused by someone they knew (father, uncle, neighbor)
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Women who fought for the right to travel freely and get a passport without male permission remain in prison
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Women are kept ill informed about health care options in childbirth
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Only 20% of people between 18 and 24 years believe a woman has a choice whether she should have sex or not
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Rohyngia women rebuilt their Libes after rape creating tailor groups in refugee camps
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Scientists are looking into why dementia affects more women than men
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@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Day 32, 01/02/2020. Neurological conditions in women are misdiagnosis and mishandled
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz Girls having to publicly look for the "period toilet" at school
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz The Irish girls and women confined in homes who had their babies taken away from them
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz An account of women killed by men in 2018 in the US, input by @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Acid attacks on women are on the rise and they are forced to live as outcasts in India
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Iranian, Saudi Arabian and Yemeni women are fighting against misogyny and rape culture
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA When talking about females who transition, we must not forget that phalloplasties have an really high rate of complications
practiceupdate.com/content/surgic…
practiceupdate.com/content/surgic…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Economics will remain a man's game while women are kept out of the equation
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Day 33, 02/02/2020. Around 90% of female readymade garment (RMG) workers face various kinds of mental torture at their workplaces
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Myanmar women facing routine pregnancy tests and sexual harassment
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA New challenges for China after the end of their one child policy: 60 million girls missing
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Russian girl goes missing, she's afraid of strangers, so she might not respond to men. An all female rescue team is set, using records of her mother and grandmother's voice
rt.com/russia/467075-…
rt.com/russia/467075-…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA After putting sex work (striptease artist) as a viable option of employment by Universal credit seekers, UK department is heavily criticized
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA The Holbeck Managed Zone in Leeds, UK, is being criticized by ppl who helped to create, fearing it has not stopped violence against women in prostitution theguardian.com/global-develop…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Other UK media has reported that violence against prostitutes have not fallen, and now users are also becoming more aggressive towards women walking around Holbeck during the day leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-new…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Women share their experiences of going through menopause, which, like periods and breastfeeding, still carries massive stigma
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Hysterectomy can be painful, whether it's necessary or not. Researchers says pain is irrelevant in face of the benefits of the procedure
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Day 34, 03/02/2020. More on pain from hysterocopy
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Girl who suffered fgm has developed keloids. She's in pain and needs surgery, but for now her mother is "happy" because the boys are disgusted by her
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Late stage miscarriage
miscarriageassociation.org.uk/information/mi…
miscarriageassociation.org.uk/information/mi…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Woman, 22, is petitioning to get a hysterectomy. Because, you know. Women need permission
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/w…
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/w…
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Females working for charities like Samaritans answering phone calls are constantly getting sex calls from men
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Better outcomes in pregnancy when miomas are properly treated
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA We talked abt how important is to provide single sex toilets to keep girls at school and women in the public sphere. Besides period shaming, females risk urinary infection for holding up for too long
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA "Housing is a feminist issue". Bet that a quick search will provide evidence that few women can afford buying or even renting
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Be aware of the people who constantly say "what about men" when women are campaigning
@QGfeminista @mkay_fain @spinster_xyz @cats_owl @Count_WomenUSA Glasgow council blocks women only taxi driver license. Meanwhile.. heraldscotland.com/news/17631254.…
Day 35, 04/02/2020. An organization is advertising female genital mutilation as a beauty treatment. I'm fuming!!!
Good news for Bangladesh women: they won't need to have "virgin" stated in their marriage certificate anymore. A 5 year battle
In Turkey, virginity tests are still done. We don't have links for it, but there's evidence this practice is still done in Morocco huffpost.com/entry/morocco-…
Sport bodies have the need to adjust sport equipment for women's bodies
Iran "fake hymen" industry to attest a woman's virginity
Anatomy apps are teaching female anatomy completely incorrect to medical students medium.com/@jessica86/ob-…
Men *should* be excluded from #gynecology. They took over the medical field from women by force, by killing midwives & denying us knowledge of our own bodies"
On this one I'm going to take a guess that it will be girls and women the more affected by it
Day 36, 05/02/2020. Women are more scared of sex then men - any guesses why?
Women are lured to prostitution
Mozambique passes law to end child marriage
Walking unveiled got this woman 24 years in prison
Proper screening detailing the female anatomy can improve significantly the outcomes for women with uterine fibroids
Canada and USA missing and murdered indigenous women crisis en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_a…
Factories in Bangladesh often employ female workers because they wouldn't dare to exploit or enslave men
Obstetric cholestasis nhs.uk/conditions/pre…
Sexual liberation didn't actually freed women. It just gave men a free pass to women's bodies
Black women fighting against prostitution describes what they like about the sex industry: to finally have access to some money. That's about it.
Day 37, 06/02/2020. Thread in the making about vagina stigma and misogyny
Facebook has closed down an account, The Girdle
@thegirdlengr, that fights against FGM, and is promoting "mass female circumcision for 10 dolares"
@thegirdlengr, that fights against FGM, and is promoting "mass female circumcision for 10 dolares"
@thegirdlengr Using accurate words to raise awareness is a long running campaign by gynae charities." End the stigma around the female anatomy!
@thegirdlengr Doctors are not warning women about the risks of inserting IUDs minutes after birth
@thegirdlengr Women in Saudi Arabia who have been jailed can only be released under the Scott of a male guardian
@thegirdlengr Fun thing to share: this company is making periods pants and it looks good! Sharing this for the maternal pads, I hated them!
@thegirdlengr Venezuela abortion law's are awful, it can only happen legally to save the mother's life, leaving thousands of teen girls forced to carry babies conceived after rape
@thegirdlengr "Abortion reversal pills". When dubious science come into law pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
@thegirdlengr Women released from prison: 170 women are released every month, half of them don't have a home to go to
@thegirdlengr Women storm men's toilets for better facilities
@thegirdlengr Day 38, 07/02/2020. Woman gives birth alone in jail cell slate.com/news-and-polit…
@thegirdlengr Breast ironing is also happening in UK, and is spreading independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
@thegirdlengr Primary school girl told that her tank top were distracting male students
@thegirdlengr Women's health needs urgent update. We are treated with neglect, as if we are hysterical, but our pain is dismissed and, when addressed, we are "dealt" with outdated and painful services
@thegirdlengr Women often use single sex facilities, specially public toilets, to escape predatory men
@thegirdlengr Lack of sedation/pain relief during procedures on women's bodies
@thegirdlengr Doctors don't check women for fibroids before implanting IUDs or prescribing birth control pills
@thegirdlengr International human rights lawyer Bashi Hazard says an increasing number of devastated Australian women are likening their experience of childbirth to assault
@thegirdlengr On FTM (Female to Male) transition, the Phaloplasty 4thwavenow.com/2019/08/29/for…
@thegirdlengr Hormone therapy for menopause
@thegirdlengr Day 39, 08/02/2020. "Girls who Code": project taught girls to code, but companies are not hiring them
cnet.com/features/girls…
cnet.com/features/girls…
@thegirdlengr So, tell us women again that women are not oppressed in the West? How about having sex just after giving birth - sometimes just a few hours after childbirth? news.com.au/lifestyle/real…
@thegirdlengr Diastasis Recti: "when the rectus abdominis muscles in your abdomen separate during pregnancy, leaving a gap that allows your belly to pooch out" babycenter.com/0_diastasis-re…
@thegirdlengr Important discussion about women's health
@thegirdlengr Fgm: "tradition" that needs to end
@thegirdlengr Women fighting against the Taliban rule
@thegirdlengr Censorship of Chinese women is preventing them from organizing
@thegirdlengr Fetal abduction. Pregnant women who were cut open to be ripped of the baby they were carrying en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abd…
@thegirdlengr Ovarian cancer: the earlier the diagnostic, the better are the outcomes
@thegirdlengr More on FGM: 800 girls are mutilated everyday around the world
@thegirdlengr Day 40, 09/02/2020. "Women suffer more painful conditions than men" and may be more adept to perceive pain
@thegirdlengr Consent during childbirth: it's a joke. It's obstetric violence to not ask for consent. And it can be fatal telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-h…
@thegirdlengr Heart attacks on women will look very different from the signs men show
@thegirdlengr How many pads do women need when they're on their periods? According to Trump, you need only one pad per day independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
@thegirdlengr Lack of antenatal care for pregnant women newsecuritybeat.org/2019/08/failin…
@thegirdlengr Thousands of Rohingya women who are rape victims expected to give birth ctvnews.ca/world/thousand…
@thegirdlengr Lack of research on uterine fibroids and monitoring affecting pregnant women
@thegirdlengr Living with pain for many years: a grim reality for many women. Delayed diagnosis of endometriosis
@thegirdlengr A fantastic thread by @MaxDashu on female oppression
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Female Kurdish fighters
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Day 41, 10/02/2020. "Women are dying and language matters"
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu The story here is about female anatomy. Woman is charged with online trolling, spends 7h without menstrual pads and unable to breastfeed her baby or pump breast milk dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Most times, it doesn't matter if a woman is very strong physically or can defend herself
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu An adult woman can be killed by an teen boy
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu In Patriarchy, women never win. Never. Ever. I'll repeat: ever. They are forced to wear jihabs. Many women are in jail right now for not wearing them. In this case, a woman is attacked for wearing the jihab
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu We talked about lack of consent in childbirth for women. The next case is lack of birthing choices:
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Birth control: not only they are not 100% effective, they can still lead to unplanned pregnancies when badly inserted, or they can move for unexpected reasons
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Such good news for women, in the opposite world: IUDs (intrauterine Devices) implanted right after childbirth have a higher rate of failure. Add fibroids to the equation. We're so lucky
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Ukraine Baby factories: it's a sentence that acknowledges babies are being treated as products, but forgets the women involved in this process to "produce" them aljazeera.com/indepth/featur…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu The water women fighting against India parched land. Patriarchy and global warming
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Day 42, 11/02/2020. Drive-tru brothels: how many men will be working in those?
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu Menstruation can affect women's brains - in positive ways bbc.com/future/article…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT shared her experience in childbirth with disability …pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Sooo... tell us again we women were attacked bc we were wearing provocative clothes, or walking alone at night. This young woman was raped and beaten to death during the day at a post-office, by a man who worked there enca.com/news/man-arres…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT More info on FMG: a girl is cut every six minutes around the world. 90 million girls might be mutilated until 2030
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Social aspect: lesbians on dating apps are facing a parade of straight men wanting to "convert" them
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT "We need more women’s hands writing medical books". Why? Because doctors don't trust women. Why? Because they don't know us
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Sooo... Tell us again how women in the west are not oppressed? If a woman has lost mental capacity, doctors are allowed to perform c-sections, even against the woman's will theguardian.com/society/2019/s…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Social aspect: woman attends conference remotely, is slagged off for not "running the extra mile". Because women never win in patriarchy
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Day 43, 12/02/2020. Essure birth control device: women sounded the alarm but no one heard them nbcnews.com/health/womens-…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Study shows that there's a difference in the microbione of women with and without endometriosis obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Male nurse uses woman's VULVA as ventriloquism aid. Wtf is wrong with men?!?! metro.co.uk/2019/08/30/nur…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT In the next case: "Male GP secretly films multiple women colleagues in bathrooms, keeps his licence because "he has no clinical issues" and the community needs a competent GP" nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Social aspect: are women "better" at multitasking? Research says no - we are just given more work sciencealert.com/women-aren-t-b…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT "100 women have been killed by a partner so far this year" in France. "A woman is killed in France by her partner or former partner every three days"
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT "BokoHaram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria" - the majority are girls
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT 20 thousand rape kits were never tested in Texas alone, sat on the shelves, while women are told by police they have "no evidence" to charge the rapists texasobserver.org/activist-and-r…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Spy Cams on female toilets for porn: the Korean scandal that is everyone's problem: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT 'Men like that don't care what time of day it is. They don't need the cover of darkness to frighten and intimidate women' newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT Day 44, 13/02/2020. Canada indigenous women and girls suffer higher rates of violence and homicide than non-Indigenous women and girls cbc.ca/news/politics/…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT "Wrong victims; wrong perpetrators": "a politician putting his hand on a journalist’s knee dominates the news for months — the rape of working-class girls is ignored"
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT "Domestic violence survivors are being forced to choose between homelessness and returning to an abusive partner"
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT The first woman to win the Nobel prize for maths gucmakale.com/wp/the-nobel-p…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT I cannot stress this enough. This is @ailsaholland, one of the women who keeps @OnThisDayShe, tweeting about females in history. Female erasure is very real, and proposital
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT @ailsaholland @OnThisDayShe Nigerian women exploited by smugglers, madams, priests
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT @ailsaholland @OnThisDayShe Rise of labiaplasty among teenage girls. That's what life is like in a pornified culture for females
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT @ailsaholland @OnThisDayShe These women have a campaign to raise awareness of menopause! Do give them a share/like
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT @ailsaholland @OnThisDayShe Recurrent miscarriage and early pregnancy evidentlycochrane.net/recurrent-misc…
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT @ailsaholland @OnThisDayShe Breast implants causing inflammatory on women
@thegirdlengr @MaxDashu @Tanni_GT @ailsaholland @OnThisDayShe Day 45, 14/02/2020. A woman had her period for 5 straight years. Von Willebrand Disease
Author @Emmabarnett jokes abt how men would be around periods and gets heavy backlash on social media
Sometimes, when a fgm is performed on a female, it lives only a tiny whole the size of a matchstick
Boys are "action scientists", girls are "sparkle scientists"
Physical and psychological harm on women suffering incontinence and prolapse
These women were sold to prostitution as girls. Now they are lawyers helping other women indianwomenblog.org/once-sold-into…
After acknowledging the astonishing rate of femicide in South Africa, protests explode in the country theguardian.com/world/2019/sep…
*Up to Sep 19: 18 women killed so far by family members #Honour_killing
Woman who has founded a Radio Station is facing death threats for speaking up against the Taliban
Day 46 15/02/2020. Investing and women's brain and mental health will benefit all willibnext.com/investing-in-w…
Most miscarriages may happen in public toilets fairplayforwomen.com/miscarriages-p…
Solo mums: "When you stand back and look at the bigger picture, of who is bearing the burden of poverty in our country, it is sadly women." rnz.co.nz/national/progr…
"#endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women,hardly anyone knows what it is (inc many doctors)& 7-10 year average diagnosis"
France wants femicide included in international law rfi.fr/en/france/2016…
Girls cannot refuse to dance intellectualtakeout.org/article/school…
Smoking, menopause and fibroids
Better birth control exist but big pharma is not interested
Twitter and Facebook are under fire for removing 'vagina' from ads for a gynecology book fox2now.com/news/twitter-a…
Day 47, 16/02/2020. Menstruating girls are bleeding through their clothes in detention centres huffpost.com/entry/migrant-…
Lesbians are attacked all over the world
Womb rental being advertised as a solution to women's financial problems
#Mesh procedures leading to complications
She has just been acquitted on a 2nd trial and we all celebrated. Now El Salvador wants a 3rd trial
Why do women have periods? Because the womb is self cleaning
Iranian women fighting against patriarchy
The thalidomide scandal
Woman with unknown pain, seeks help, goes undiagnosed independent.co.uk/life-style/hea…
Day 48, 17/02/2020. Meet Edna Adam, 81 yrs old woman, fighting against FGM in Somaliland, a place where nearly 100% of females had FGM, 95% of them the most severe type youtube.com/watch?v=jINCHW…
Google is directing women seeking for abortion to antiabortion sites
So.. Women are considered "small men" by science, leading to dodgy hip replacements, not designed for them themandarin.com.au/113649-women-a…
Fgm is declining but in some places it's still done for profit
In the next case, Indian couple (82 yr old man and 74 yr old woman) have a stroke a day after their babies are born
Decrease in girls' puberty age in the last 100 yrs vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/decreasing-age…
Female chief ends forced marriage on underage girls, many would develop vagina fistula in childbirth
A reminder: over a thousand cases of breast ironing and 170 thousand cases of fgm are happening in the UK
A bit of info on ultrasound for a diagnosis of endometriosis
The effect of porn on girls between 11-21 years old
Day 49, 18/02/2020. Personality characteristics of men who physically abuse women
Death rate of women in prostitution fondationscelles.org/fr/tribunes/13…
Pesticides in food may be related to women's infertility
Sexism (sex-discrimination against women) can cause depression youngwomenstrust.org/what_we_do/med…
Prostitution is inherently violent nordicmodelnow.org/facts-about-pr…
A startling reality: women have created, invented and done amazing things throughout history, but their work is never recognized smithsonianmag.com/history/what-s…
IUDs (Intrauterine Devices) are causing side effects that doctors are not telling women
The romanticizing of stripping is not empowering for women
Disabled women and women over 40 are the most impacted by austerity theguardian.com/society/2017/n…
Day 50, 19/02/2020. Experts in the female anatomy are still fighting to get a correct description of the clitoris in medical books
vice.com/en_us/article/…
vice.com/en_us/article/…
Drs prescribe Mirena to reduce fibroids when there's no evidence it reduces them, and can even cause womb perforation
Period tracker apps used by millions of women are sharing sensitive, intimate information with third parts buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Surgeons are misinforming patients about clitoral anatomy and the risks of dorsal nerve damage with clitoral hood reduction
medium.com/@jessica86/jes…
medium.com/@jessica86/jes…
NHS maternities charges vulnerable migrant women
When helping food banks, we must not forget that women in poverty will also need period items
Sahar was a girl who was a football fan and tried to watch a game in a stadium. She was jailed. She had her appeal postponed and set herself on fire. Iranian women against the ban on sports
Sexism: breast cancer affect mostly women. Like, really. Very few men are affected. What do scientists want? To have men in trials. Unbelievable
Uterine #Fibroids are Not associated with an increased risk of miscarriage"
Women with heavy blood flow in periods who have checked and are cleared from complications may benefit from more natural methods to decrease blood flow
Day 51, 20/02/2020. UK Patient Survey on why some Women dislike a progestin Hormonal Contraceptive IUS Device. Answer: side effects. Only 50% were satisfied & used for 5yrs. Early Removal Reasons: Irregular Bleeding, drug reactions, abdominal pain
Women systematic underrepresentation in STEM
phys.org/news/2019-09-g…
phys.org/news/2019-09-g…
Girl disqualified in swimming competition for how the swimsuit looked on her, suspicion of racism
Male offender on domestic violence against women still gets knighthood
Females still "associated" with household chores in school books
"Neurological conditions on women are often misdiagnosed, mishandled and misunderstood"
Girls are still being told that they mature faster than boys metro.co.uk/2018/01/29/sto…
Woman speaks up on what's like to be a lapdancer
Mother is called at nursery because her daughter said the word vagina
Mothers who give birth to girls are getting postpartum visitors who want to ensure the newborn girl receives FGM to keep the "family tradition"
Day 52, 21/02/2020. Birth control pills are linked to depression. We deserve contraception that doesn't cause so many and sometimes devastating side effects theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Ready for a omfg moment? Sex trafficker locks pregnant woman who he intended to force into prostitution because pregnant women are a "niche"
The remains of a Viking warrior beloved by archaeologists was thought to be a male bc of the items the warrior was buried with. DNA proved the warrior was a female
Kenyan girl takes her own life after being shamed for her periods bbc.com/news/world-afr…
Research says that better nutrition for girls improve their learning, but leads to earlier menarche, so the advantage of better nutrition disappears in places where girls don't have access to period items
Brazilian surge in violence against women of colour
Unregistered Uber driver rapes woman, gets light sentence because he only raped her with no violence. You heard the judge.
Symptoms of heart attacks differ according to each sex nhs.uk/news/heart-and…
Rape convictions are at the lowest rates since records begun theguardian.com/law/2019/sep/1…
Woman flees with her baby girl to avoid fgm being performed on her newborn
Day 53, 22/02/2020. So, people insist that watching porn doesn't do any harm. Well, think again
Words like woman, she, her, mother are being erased from legal documents
In Baghpat, district of Dubai, girls are being forced to marry multiple husbands gulfnews.com/amp/world/asia…
Staggering high femicide rates in Europe is a wake up call for everyone who actually gives a fuck to human beings born with female anatomy, sorry for the rant
Does this company know that the monopoly game was created by a woman?
Endometriosis and... Childhood abuse. Is that real?
300 thousand black women die in childbirth every year
@Jessica_Ann_Pin who studies the female anatomy and campaigns for awareness and proper description of female genitals has been suspended for talking abt the female anatomy
Indian women are roaming the streets of their villages after the men who commit violent acts abc.net.au/news/2019-08-0…
The truth about domestic violence: it's men, mostly, killing their female partners
Day 54, 23/02/2020. In Bangladesh, a woman reports on a gang rape. Police officers force her to marry one of her rapists at the police station
"Cardio nurse said they don't put women on the treadmill because we give 'wrong' readings". By wrong readings, they mean females don't give readings like the ones they get from males?
What we should be telling girls and young women
Women's incarceration happen for the main reasons:
1. Mental health conditions.
2. Substance use.
3. A history of sexual or physical abuse.
1. Mental health conditions.
2. Substance use.
3. A history of sexual or physical abuse.
Women rebelling against compulsory abaya
Female baldness is still researched through male pattern
"Benign Joint Hypermobility Syndrome, suffered by more women than men"
London school reverses decision on policies about hair style of female students
So, apparently, myomectomies are the preferred treatment for uterine fibroids, rather than hysterectomy. But professionals are not trained! Wow mercy.net/service/myomec…
South African women are revolting against misogyny
Day 55, 24/02/2020. Women recount about their late diagnosis of Von Willebrand Disease, with heavy periods
Substance in most birth control pulls pollutes the environment. You'd think this is not about women. But it's harmful for the environment and women put it inside their bodies!
@DrJenGunter author of the book "The Vagina Bible", had to pay 600 dollars for her son, understand here why
Instagram allows the offering of young girls
Female Genital mutilation kills females and causes fistula
Oh wow. Men think it's ok to kill women. How? Forcing women with ectopic pregnancies to have a dangerous procedure to "move" the baby to the womb.
GP who sexually assaulted women is allowed to keep attending women, he just needs to have a chaperone. How didn't we think of that before eh?
Babies born out of womb rental are rescued but the women who gave birth to them are left behind
Diagnosing women with personality disorders before assessing background on sexual abuse or domestic violence
LEEPs (Loop Electrosurgical Excisional Procedure) risk loss of sexual pleasure
cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness…
cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness…
Day 56, 25/02/2020. Brazil: each hour, 4 girls under 13 yrs are sexually abused
FGM: this is what is done to many, many girls (sometimes right after they are born)
Saudi Arabia women are wearing western clothes to protest
China study reveals "that exposure to plastics, cosmetics,other chemicals, intake of soybean milk, food additives, artificial sweetener, preserved foods may be fibroids risk factors
Not being able to talk abt the correct terms describing women genitalia can put women at unnecessary health risks!
Men are teaching each other how to pull earphones from women to call their attention
"How rape is not a lack of self control from men, but a tool to punish and control women"
Women too traumatized by q lifetime of abuse may prefer to risk the streets rather than shelters that are not sex-segregated
Women going through menopause are often prescribed antidepressants instead receiving HRT menopausedoctor.co.uk/menopause/wome…
Women, many times, find themselves in a position where they have no financial independence, and have to resosrt to set some "me money" aside, in case they see themselves in difficulties
Day 57, 26/02/2020. Male sexual violence against women is a form of perpetuating oppression, used as a tool to silence women
cadtm.org/Violence-again…
cadtm.org/Violence-again…
"How our culture sexualises teenage girls to the point of devaluing everything else about them"
More info on PMDD: since it has no cure, this is treated with the birth pill, progesterone pill or antidepressants. It's utterly neglected!
8 things you need to know about Female Genital Mutilation
Many women have to resort to find ingenious ways of keeping money away from their abusive husbands in other to survive narratively.com/the-women-in-m…
Links between women trafficked/forced/coerced into prostitution and womb rental
Women are constantly judged on the age they give birth. There's no right time for patriarchy: we are just wrong if we have a baby or if we don't
Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA), a form of hair loss common among black women, may have increased risk of developing uterine fibroids. medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-u…
Original link on Urinary incontinence missing, so a retweet: Urinary incontinence in women have many causes related to the female anatomy nafc.org/female-stress-…
A omfg moment. Women are having medical procedures to " fix" their faces. Apparently, when they don't look "happy" when not smiling. Ppl call it "resting bitch face". Patriarchy sucks!
Day 58, 27/02/2020. Women in art, portrayed often as sexual objects. Never as intellectuals
Instagram allows pedofilia but won't allow a woman to share her skin condition. It was considered "undesirable"
Abusive tweets are sent to women on @Twitter every 30 seconds forbes.com/sites/fruzsina…
Several European countries show a sharp increase in young females seeking transition
These are some of the signs of gynecological cancers
Women have been taking part in sports for a long time. Here's an account of women in sports and how they were often forbidden to take part in them
Children coerced to film themselves in sexual acts have the videos on porn sites. 96% of the videos are from girls, 85% of the girls are between 11 and 13 years
Some financial issues affecting women: pensions, state pensions and the pay gap
Patriarchy is harmful. So far, 440 women were killed by their male partners in 2019 in Turkey
Research suggests that female fertility improves after miomectomies (removal of uterine fibroids)
Day 59, 28/02/2020. The cosmetic industry profits, heavily, on myths about black women's bodies. This is really, really nasty
Family members tampering with women's birth control to make them conceive
Hair extensions (used by many women) can cause headaches, baldness and allergic reactions
Disparity in science with very little emphasis on female animal subjects in researches, and very few female scientists works deemed valued too
Heartbreaking account of a childbirth experience on a woman subjected to Female Genital Mutilation
Hormone Replacement Therapy, or HRT, is widely used for treatment of menopausal symptoms womens-health-concern.org/help-and-advic…
Women can be also lured into prostitution by friends or acquaintances. An many times, if a country have different laws for different regions, when demand is criminalized, women are moved to places where demand is still allowed
Period blood is a good and reliable way of checking women's health in general
The police is recording inaccurately thousands of rape reports, failing to collect vital data to allow investigations to be actually carried out
Social aspect: pornography could be blamed for ruining a lot of things for women. They feel they need to police their behavior because of the unspeakable behavior of men in public
Day 60, 29/02/2020. People may argue this article doesn't says it only happens to women. But we may be able to have a guess on the sex of landlords offering free accommodation for sex, and the sex of the tenants who are offered this
Abortion: Ecuador rejects legal, free and safe abortions for women after rape
Women's organizations unite to demand a law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services
"Global women's empowerment is directly linked to mitigating climate change disaster but also how the latter poses more harm to women". Important thread!
One in 16 women in America has been coerced into sex when they were still teenagers
Homemade menstrual pads help women from Pakistan to stay in the public life. Half of women in the country never learn anything about menstruation before their menarche
The average girl in sex trafficking in the United States is 12. That's terrifying enough. But younger girls are found in this situation
And we come to yet another omfg moment: vaginismus, the condition that causes the vagina to tighten when penetration is attempted, can also be caused by FGM
"Women are more severely impacted by knee osteoarthritis. Differences in knee anatomy, kinematics, previous knee injury, and hormonal influences may play a role" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Underage girls been forced to marry in Turkey, need protection from rapists
Day 61, 01/03/2020. Women fleeing North Korea get trapped in cyber slavery in China nytimes.com/2019/09/13/wor…
Do sex dolls brothels protect women from male violence? The evidence available says it makes it worse: men do whatever they want to the dolls, and then go do it on women
Women in sports: we have lots of actions to stimulate women to go into competitive sports. Now, it's about time we also talk about women taking up roles in sports competitions:
Women are not paid enough money to be financially independent due to the costs of childcare independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Headline on the Metro UK says that a male teenager, who is 19, killed a woman, who is 19. This is no accident. This is deliberated to make the public be compassionate on the killer for being a teenager
metro.co.uk/2019/09/20/tee…
metro.co.uk/2019/09/20/tee…
Women in prostitution also face victim blaming researchgate.net/publication/31…
FIFA makes statement in favour about the demand that Iranian women be allowed in stadiums to watch sport events
This woman - and she's not alone on her concerns - comments on the importance of finding the safest route home/work/home for women
More than 3.3 million American women ages 18 to 44 were raped the first time they had sexual intercourse, according to new study edition.cnn.com/2019/09/16/hea…
Spousal Veto is an issue that affect mostly women who wish to divorce their male partners who are transitioning (MTFs)
Day 62, 02/03/2020. Short thread about things people say to women online on the grounds that "women are always wrong", no matter what they do
"Transvaginal mesh implant (TVM) is a widely prescribed treatment for common complications following childbirth, such as urinary incontinence – leaks with coughing or sneezing – or pelvic organ prolapse"
independent.co.uk/news/long_read…
independent.co.uk/news/long_read…
Girl goes missing, then she is seen on a Instagram video screaming and calling for her family thesun.co.uk/news/9982974/m…
Vaginal tears in childbirth, input by @MaquisXX
"Some vaginas don't rip in childbirth, some are cut by the doctor to facilitate birth" mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifest…
"Some vaginas don't rip in childbirth, some are cut by the doctor to facilitate birth" mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifest…
Thread about why sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act, and its origins
Let's dismantle the myth that girls "mature" faster than boys: research finds that female brains have "persistent metabolic youth in aging women"
Soo, western women are not oppressed anymore eh? But in parts of the US, you can go to jail for a miscarriage businessinsider.fr/us/women-30-ye…
US women who resort to an abortion at home can also being accused of "feticide" - the murder of a fetus. Very telling that it's not called "infanticide" theguardian.com/us-news/2016/j…
Will the Brexit affect more women than men? independent.co.uk/money/spend-sa…
Egyptian teen girl is facing criminal charges from defending herself against a man who tried to rape her
Day 63, 03/03/2020. Adenomyosis, excess of endometrial tissue en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenomyos…
A personal account of period stigma
Girls are raised insecure. It's part of the female socialization put in place so we "know our place"
Coercive control: you bet is used by many men against women
Sharp increase in referrals of children to gender clinics in places like Canada and UK. Most of them were born female
Men goes to jail after filming himself torturing his girlfriend dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
Social aspect: I came up with a news piece today in Portuguese, so bear with me. It says that women who have developed cancer are often abandoned by their partners/ husbands recordtv.r7.com/hoje-em-dia/vi…
Disgraceful: mothers who report child abuse by the kids fathers often loose their children's custody washingtonpost.com/local/social-i…
"Girls in Kabul, one of the sunniest cities in the world, are vitamin D deficient because they rarely are allowed outside and when they do, they are entirely covered up". Info from this book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Books…
"Health effects from wearing the burka and niqab" More info of Vitamin D deficiency and wearing full veils theconversation.com/fact-check-do-…
Day 64, 04/03/2020. The vast majority of new diagnoses of gender dysphoria in Sweden were teenage girls who, unlike more familiar early-onset cases involving males, did not show any trans tendencies before the age of 10 years
Apple and Google Play allow a "wife-tracking" in Saudi Arabia but recently refused an app for
@spinster_xyz theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@spinster_xyz theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Angela Saini: how science got (and still gets) women wrong theguardian.com/books/2017/jun…
Vulvodynia: "kinds of vulval pain women go through" vulvalpainsociety.org/vps/index.php/…
Menorrhagia: heavy menstrual bleeding mayoclinic.org/diseases-condi…
Women are still being sacked for getting pregnant. No, we're not talking about only women in poorer countries. This still happens in most developed countries belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…
It is estimated that about 90% of women incarcerated are survivors of sexual abuse or domestic violence themselves
Girl at risk of suffering FGM because UK courts are failing to stop deportation amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/s…
So, in a female prison in Brazil, inmates were forced to sit, half naked, on anthills. brasildefato.com.br/2019/09/26/em-…
Er... Ok. This has a happy ending of sorts. But... Uterus didelphys: women born with this condition have two female reproductive systems nypost.com/2019/09/24/wom…
Day 65, 05/03/2020. Legal, safe abortion in Brazil is basically for after sexual abuse. But homeless women can't have an abortion generonumero.media/moradoras-de-r…
"Coverture is a long-standing legal practice... held that no female person had a legal identity. At birth, a female baby was covered by her father’s identity, and then, when she married, by her husband’s"
womenshistory.org/articles/cover…
womenshistory.org/articles/cover…
Book "Half the Sky" argues that the moral crisis of our time is "gendercide"
Chinese woman in labour is denied a c-section and jumps to her death. The case sparked a national debate because women in China need family permission to have surgical intervention
In the next case, more countries where girls don't have access to menstrual products and miss school. This time in Nepal
In 104 countries around the word, women are not allowed to do a number of jobs by law weforum.org/agenda/2018/08…
In the US, when a man is abusive to his children, the children's mother is often blamed for the behavior of the abusers truthout.org/articles/child…
Inside legalized and licenced brothels, hundreds of women and children work in dreadful conditions
Failures in uterine fibroid research
Women may try to choose not to be "pretty"(to men's eyes) to avoid sexual harassment
Day 66, 06/03/2020. Social aspect: computer robot reads 3.5 million books. The result: women are described by their appearance and men by their virtue lithub.com/a-robot-read-3…
Womb Rental: former midwife urges professionals to ask
@Law_Commission to abandon #surrogacy consultation
@Law_Commission to abandon #surrogacy consultation
Women: we want pockets! Where you already put pockets, we want better ones! Big ones!
Fashion industry:
#ComedyActivism
Fashion industry:
#ComedyActivism
This case is fucked up: women and girls are hipersexualized for... cycling!
irishtimes.com/life-and-style…
irishtimes.com/life-and-style…
Hipersexualization of women from Asian origins in the West: "Emily Doe" and Turner
Teen magazines are promoting prostitution as a career for girls. Shall we we complete "but not for boys"? Because that would be outrageous, right?
Parkinson disease are different for women and men content.iospress.com/articles/journ…
Women all over the world are still doing most of the unpaid work. And this includes, drums roll: reproductive labour marketwatch.com/story/this-is-…
Sexism and sex discrimination hurts women by damaging their mental health mindbodygreen.com/articles/discr…
Thread highlighting the very "few" achievements of #secondwavefeminists. Lazy women, eh? They think. Know your history
Day 67, 07/03/2020. More on Uterine Fibroids: study finds they are not associated with miscarriages
