Thread by @viru5detected

Y'alls HR managers are busy organising Women's Day events, meanwhile the files with sexual harassment complaints are so dusty that one can grow beans on them. We see you #InternationalWomensDay

Y'alls organisations celebrating women's day after a whole year of victimising and firing women for reporting sexual harassment, getting pregnant, taking time off to parent etc #InternationalWomensDay

And we know it's the already overworked and underpaid women in your orgs running with the women's day initiatives. Hamuoni haya? #InternationalWomensDay

Instead of bombarding us with hypotheticals about your appreciation for women, this year your orgs should tell us what they have done in the past year to make the workspace accommodating to women

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but maternity cover for your orgs is still 2 bob. Do better

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all are still mistreating and underpaying your domestic workers

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but sex work is still criminalised and everyone either turns a blind eye or victimises them further when they are harmed and abused

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but the rates of domestic violence and femicide especially since Covid are still through the roof

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but care work is still gendered and un/underpaid

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but cis women are still shitting on trans women and denying their humanity

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but abortion is still criminalised and unavailable especially to unclassed women

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all are still using the suffering of your mothers as the benchmark of womanhood. Exit stage left please

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all turn a blind eye to your boy who abuses his partner because "hiyo si shida yangu"

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all still talk about domestic workers seducing your predatory husbands

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but you're still blaming your partners for not giving birth to boys

Happy #InternationalWomensDay from our phallocratic leadership

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but media houses are still boring us with #manels

Even Ministry of Foreign Affairs has an #InternationalWomensDay banner outside their offices but when Kenyan domestic workers in the Middle East cry to them for help it's 🦗🦗

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all are still raising your daughters just to be "good wives" rather than well-rounded/adjusted adults

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all still demand sexual "favours" from women and girls in exchange for everything...jobs, promotions, menstrual hygiene products, fish, water, government services...

TW: rape

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all still blame girls for being molested, abused, raped and impregnated by predatory men

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but y'all are still writing thinkpieces about how to get more girls and women interested in STEM

The whole year mnatuimbia how men are more natural leaders, more logical akia ang'owa then one day you wake up to bore us with your token women leaders #InternationalWomensDay

Next Monday utatusmbua hapa na #InternationalWomensDay messages but the other 351 days you stay flexing your fingers to trash single moms. Delete those tweets from drafts pls

Happy #InternationalWomensDay but you won't do your fair share of house chores and/or childcare because you're the man of the house lakini bills zikikuja suddenly maisha ni 50-50.

Kwanza media houses, you see that place from whence you will suddenly find women to interview/sit in panels etc on #InternationalWomensDay? Just imagine you will still find them right there on the other 351 days of the year!

And I know our president who blamed a mother for a relative abusing her daughter, who said LGBTQ+ issues in Kenya are a non-issue, will have something to say on #InternationalWomensDay