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8 Oct 20

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YOUR ACTION IS REQUIRED TODAY!
The Indian government has set up a committee to rewrite all of our criminal laws and here's the big problem- (via @citizensspeakup)

YOUR CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTIES ARE IN DANGER. Criminal laws define the limits of what we can do without fear of punishment. They are meant to have safeguards to ensure that the police, the government, and those in power can't jail, punish or kill people at will.

THERE IS A RISK OF DILUTION OF SAFEGUARDS!
All indications suggest that this committee has been set up to widen the net of criminal laws and to dilute what safeguards exist to prevent unfair prosecutions/persecution and wrongful convictions.

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18 Sep 20

#Thread September is PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) Awareness Month!
The patriarchal gender bias in healthcare care practice and medicinal research has a negative impact on our well-being!

The impact is huge and diverse! People living with PCOS find it challenging to navigate through the bias that distorts research, diagnosis, and treatment. According to research, PCOS is fast becoming a modern epidemic, especially in Asia.

So what is it? PCOS is a common endocrine disorder that affects people with ovaries, with 20-25% womxn in India and around 1 in 10 womxn worldwide affected by it.

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15 Sep 20

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#Thread Why we prefer the terms “disabled" or "person with a disability” by @Srishhhh_tea & @ananay__

Terms such as "specially/differently-abled" or "divyaang" actually do less good and more harm. We find these terms derogatory. Well-intentioned as they may be, they have roots in ableist notions and imply that having a disability is bad.

When a person very clearly tells you that they prefer the terms "disabled" or "person with a disability" and if you start able-splaining them and ask them to use a different term, you are, in a way, denying the fact that they are disabled.

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17 Jul 20

#THREAD How to be an anti-caste feminist when you have caste privilege. (Not an exhaustive list)

1. Listen actively to Dalit feminists. Respond with feminist love & solidarity rather than with indifference, defensiveness or opposition.

2. Acknowledge your caste privilege. Do not constantly centre only your own feelings, experiences or perspectives.

3. Do not speak for Dalit feminists. Do not appropriate the anti-caste discourse to earn social capital or use it for your personal gain.

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16 Jan 20

https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1217675344930594816

Death penalty for rapists does not lead to long term impact that ends rape and other gender-based harms & as feminists we unequivocally stand against all violations of human rights, including against the death penalty. 1/n

https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1217675344930594816

The most common reasons people supporting the death penalty for “heinous crimes” including gender-based violence is that such a punishment is deserved &/or that a punishment as harsh as the death penalty will deter more people from committing rape & symbolize zero tolerance 2/n

Yet, there is very little evidence which shows that the death penalty adequately serves as a deterrent. Most people when committing gender-based violence are less focused on how severe the punishment will be and more focused on the fact that they should not get caught 3/n

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12 Dec 19

There's been a lot of talk on #CAB, some in good faith, some uninformed, others plain bigoted. A thread on this complicated, complex issue that dates back to colonised India (imp to keep this in mind). Views expressed here will be different to yesterday's due to change in curator

There’s a huge difference between an “anti-immigration” sentiment of the bigoted kind by a powerful majority and the resistance to immigration by people whose autonomy over their own land has been historically undermined by people they consider outsiders or oppressors.

For instance, the "anti-immigrant" sentiment among white Europeans against immigrants from countries they had colonized and continue to plunder is bigotry. Or in India- where Muslim citizens are framed as outsiders or immigrants.

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