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Vasundhara Sirnate Profile picture
@vsirnate
Jun 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I will remind everyone that Donald Trump had taken out full page ads in 1989 asking for reinstatement of the death penalty in New York during the #centralparkfive case. Now the EXONERATED FIVE. Those ads impacted the decision to convict five innocent black men.
How the tides turn! Well done Jay Z!
For more on that case you can watch the Netflix documentary series by @ava called “when they see us”. The system of justice in every country is built to militate against those on the margins of society. It is that way BY DESIGN and not because of a few bad eggs and “mistakes”.
Police violence is a pattern, a system of everyday random and arbitrary domination that is meant to instill fear in specific groups and communities.

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May 4
In the last ten days, two things have occurred that should ideally make all state institutions in India place sexual assault as THE most critical security threat that HALF of all Indian citizens (500 million women) face every single day.
The first is the set of revelations by victims of #PrajwalRevanna who sexually assaulted, harassed, and molested several women and filmed them. He is a sitting member of the Lok Sabha. The number of video clips is over 2900.
The second is a judgment by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which states, "When rape includes insertion of penis in the mouth, urethra or anus of a woman and if that act is committed with his wife, not below the age of 15 years, then consent of the wife becomes immaterial."
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Mar 16
Okay, looks like this is going to be a longish one. Hold on to your hats!

1. The media's job is to ask questions. Hard questions. Annoying questions. Questions that make the powerful want to toss custard at you. That's not being like the opposition. That's what the job is.
The state of the Opposition is not the media's fault. True. Literally no one is saying that. What they do say, and what I have also said in the past, is that opposing voices should be given fair air time. In India they don't. What the opposition does is barely covered.
The media IS a player. You can't have a country with politicians owning news networks or temporarily floating news networks around election time and then say "heh heh.. we aren't playing yo". You're playing. Every time you cultivate a source in a Ministry, you're playing.
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Mar 6
Hi David, I am deeply empathetic about what you have reported as your experience in India w.r.t. sexual harassment and sexual assault. Yes you’re quite right in your assessment, it’s what many, many of us have been saying and reporting for many decades.

However,
I must express my discomfort with YOU being the person articulating this.

I’ve gone over your note on Gaza and find it deeply disturbing. There is really no case to be made to colonize anyone, anywhere, anytime. Period.
Part of what makes the Indian women’s movement what it is, is our recognition that the type of oppression that exists for women, especially Dalit women who are doubly disadvantaged, is replicated in other forms and other shapes in different parts of the world.
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Feb 7
Okay let’s get to the most controversial part of the #UttarakhandCivilCode. I reserved judgment until I had waded through the whole pdf.

Here’s what I noticed.

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The bill mandates live-in relationships to be registered with the Registrar. It then gives the Registrar the power to look further into this relation and summon the partner(s) OR ANY OTHER PERSON to verify this relationship and provide more evidence if needed. Image
Why does the Registrar have this power? Who will they summon? Will the names of other people that can be summoned by the Registrar be provided by the couple in advance? Or can it be anyone? Like an angry parent or mean cousin, or an employer of either partner?
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Apr 5, 2023
I’m going to link some tweets below about what the news isn’t showing you in India. A massive #WorkerFarmerRally today. Thousands of agricultural and industrial workers reached Delhi to rally in opposition to the govt’s neoliberal policies that favor corporates.
They began travelling to Delhi two days ago.
thehindu.com/news/national/…
Newsclick says "thousands" of workers and farmers. If you look at NDTV's report it says "hundreds".
newsclick.in/workers-and-fa…
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Apr 3, 2023
So this is something I am going to ask people to read. It is a story about Prof. Tamara Kay who has faced harassment for writing about reproductive rights. Her co-author on these pieces is one of my best friends, Prof. Susan Ostermann.

thecut.com/2023/04/tamara…
I’ve seen their work hitting back at the denial of reproductive rights and care for women in the US. Everytime a piece came out Susan would send me a message about it. They’ve written widely and strongly. I had some idea of the harassment they faced.
This piece details it. Religion in an educational institution and the power of the Christian right lobbying about abortion is the core of this situation. All I know is these are brave women. I will always stand by them.
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