Thread by @monaeltahawy

Lockdown reimposed in England. People can leave home "to escape domestic abuse.”
-What fucking world is this where men still beat & kill us even during pandemic?
-How long must we wait until men stop beating & murdering us,even under lockdown?
🎥 @rerutled

I made the above in May. Earlier during the pandemic, isolation and lockdown conditions exacerbated barriers to escape for victims of domestic violence in the UK and many other countries. google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.…

Where’s the vaccine vs patriarchy? Unsurprising spike in intimate partner terrorism during lockdowns is the other global pandemic many are happy to ignore.

Women, children, queer people are being terrorized at home. Home is where the hurt is.
🎥 @rerutled

In just about every country across the world, there has been a spike in domestic abuse during lockdown. To see it listed as per below as among the reasons to leave home during the lockdown must make us globally ask: what fucking world is this where such violence is a given.

Remember:
- not everyone can call the police.
- not everyone wants to call the police.
- police don’t protect everyone: ask Indigenous women, Black women, women of colour, marginalized women, sex workers, etc
- I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free of violence

And that is why I don’t want to go back to “normal.” Fuck normal.

-I cut my hair off to cut up my return ticket to “normal.”
-There is no “going back to normal” after a pandemic.
-Refuse to return to the ABNORMAL
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days 
🎥 @rerutled

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