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In 2018, #Pakistani feminists held the first “aurat march" (women’s march) in #Karachi. In 2019, marches were held in other cities too. Filmmaker Olivia Qasir is filming a documentary around this years march on March 8. Here’s a trailer featuring cis & trans women taking part 1/2
Here’s the rest of the trailer 2/2 #Pakistan
And some background on Aurat March: #Pakistani women hold 'aurat march' for equality, gender justice

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Why the Aurat March is a revolutionary feat for #Pakistan:
When society is against the mere idea of women gathering outside the home, pulling off such an event is no easy task. dawn.com/news/1394385/w…
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-Moussa Marega, who is from #Mali and plays for #Portuguese team Porto walked off after being racially abused during his side’s 2-1 win over Vitoria de Guimarães on Sunday
3. The ENTIRE 2 TEAMS should’ve walked off with him, NOT tried to restrain him
-After scoring Porto’s second, Marega celebrated his goal by pointing to his skin.
-In response Vitoria fans aimed abuse and threw seats from the stand at him
-Fuck those racist fucks
-Shame on the referee for doing nothing but give Marega a yellow card
-Just before he walked off, Marega gave the racist fans his two middle fingers. THEY DESERVED THEM.

How long will football authorities let this racist shit continue?
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Mona Eltahawy
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“Women in different-sex marriages reported the highest levels of psychological distress. Men in same-sex marriages reported the lowest.”

nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opi… h/t @rerutled
Researchers found that☝🏽when they asked 3 sets of legally married couples-heterosexual, gay & lesbian-to keep daily diaries recording experiences of marital strain & distress. Men married to women & women married to women were in the middle, recording similar levels of distress.
“What’s striking, says the lead author of the study, Michael Garcia, is that earlier research had concluded that women in general were likely to report the most relationship distress. But it turns out that’s only women married to men.”
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Mona Eltahawy
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cw: femicide

“It enrages us how Ingrid was killed, and how the media put her body on display...It enrages us that the public judges us, saying ‘this isn’t the right way to express your rage,,’...We are not crazy, we are furious.”
#Mexico
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Last weekend, Ingrid Escamilla, a young Mexico City resident was murdered by a boyfriend, who has been arrested and purportedly confessed to killing her with a knife, mutilated her body and flushed part of her corpse into the sewer.
#Mexico #NiUnaMenos
On Friday, women protesting her murder spray-painted slogans such as “We won’t be silenced” on the facade and doorway of the capital’s National Palace as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was holding his daily news conference inside.
#Mexico #NiUnenos
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#Women

Trump’s WORLDWIDE Effect on the Global Reproductive Rights of Women

Trump and his conservative Christian-centric administration are using positions of authority to impose religious policies on long-established reproductive rights that put women around the world at risk.
Background

Ronald Reagan signed the Mexico City Policy in 1984. This sweeping mandate against reproductive freedom around the globe denied,

“US federal funds to any organisation involved in providing abortion services overseas or counselling women about them.”
Though revoked by every Democrat and reinstated by every Republican
since, Trump has taken up the cause with renewed vigor.

Every time the global gag has been reimposed by a Republican president, rates of back street and self-administered abortions have increased.
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But please pass a resolution against Aurat March and organisers because it is vulgar and against Islam.
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But please pass a resolution against Aurat March and organisers because it is vulgar and against Islam.
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But please pass a resolution against Aurat March and organisers because it is vulgar and against Islam.
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Henry Jones
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Okay lets do an India/Pakistan update

Pakistan have shot down 2 Indian jets, and have closed all airspace to commercial flights.

The escalation came a one day after the Indian Air Force bombed a "terrorist training camp" inside Pakistan.
Pakistan’s PM @ImranKhanPTI currently addressing the nation:

"We didn't take action earlier without assessing our own damage from Indian airstrikes...Two Indian MiGs that entered Pakistani airspace today after our retaliation were shot down. But where do we go from here?"
In direct breach of the Geneva Convention, an Indian Air Force pilot tied up and filmed by Pakistani captors

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I saw that @GoldmundUnleash poked the hornet's nest by upsetting some fugly #feminists with his tweet.

WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN RUSSIA

Russian women are different from Western women.

Here are 24 ways how:

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1. NO OBESITY IN RUSSIA

I challenge you to find fat people under 25. There are none.

Body positivity means looking as beautiful as possible.

If you're too fat you lose weight or stay home.
2. APPEARANCE MATTERS

I visited a Californian campus a few years ago. All females were dressed in sweatpants.

That shit doesn't fly in Russia.

University means you DRESS UP.

Just like for the theater.

Or the club.

Or grocery shopping.

ALWAYS
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@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @BrightonSurvivorsNET “In the light of a highly disturbing increase of #transphobia locally & nationally…” IF everything anybody says or does is #transphobia, of course you can say it is rising. Any reputable statistics?
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Just got to Davos. Ready to fill the leadership vacuum with big ideas. My focus will be on privilege and women. Only going to #womanels #methree. Also, my alligator-skin boots got snow on them, anyone have a blow drier or an FT I can use to dry them off?
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