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12 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup compiled by Samiha Hossain:

-Women in Pakistan and Turkey Protest
-Justice for El Salvadorian Woman
-Poland Tightens Same-Sex Adoption Ban
-Indigenous Language Revitalization

feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
FEMINIST GIANT is intentionally intersectional. Global Roundup brings you stories of Indigenous feminist resistance from around the world - including ways to ensuring access to care during the pandemic feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
And Indigenous women's land rights feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
And news of trans and queer Indigenous activists feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
Subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT for twice a week Global Roundups of feminist resistance to patriarchal fuckery.

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13 Mar
“I wrote this book with enough rage to fuel a rocket.”

The opening line to The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls.

There is so much to rage against. Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe. The ebook is on sale for $2.99. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls is out in Ireland and the UK 22 April via @TrampPress. Pre-order here feministgiant.com/p/the-seven-ne…
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls is available in French as Fuck Le Patriarcat via @massot_editions 📷 @rerutled Mona’s torso is visible - w...
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13 Mar
1. Police in England did this to a woman protesting the abduction & murder of a woman by a police officer
2. It is especially shocking to many because both the murdered woman & the woman in this picture are white
3. Fuck the police everywhere
📷 Photograph by @jackhillphoto A woman on the ground weari...
I explain more here in analyzing the Jan 6 insurrection in the US: “She never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home.” feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
The police protect the State and property.

There is a hierarchy of protection: the further we are from wealthy, white, cisgender, heterosexual, able bodied men we are, the least likely we are to be protected.
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13 Mar
Australia:rape allegations vs Attorney General & male staffer
Zimbabwe:VP resigned over sexual misconduct allegation
NY:sexual assault allegations vs Governor
Senegal:rape allegation vs opposition leader
UK:police officer charged w murdering a woman
What fucking world is this?
And remember home is not safer.

This pandemic has been a horrifying reminder, with a spike globally in intimate partner terrorism and domestic abuse (from April 2020) 🎥 @rerutled

“Her body has become a battleground on which powerful men are fighting for political leverage over each other.”

africanfeminism.com/freeadjisarr-t… #FreeAdjiSarr #FreeSenegal #March4Justice #ReclaimTheseStreets
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13 Mar
FEMINIST GIANT sends love and solidarity to all who took part in the #AuratMarch in #Pakistan and to all who were arrested in #Turkey after #InternationalWomensDay marches. Samiha Hossain has included stories on both marches in Global Roundup.
feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
Subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT for twice weekly Global Roundups of feminist resistance to patriarchal fuckery. Inaara Merani compiles Wednesday's and Samiha Hossain compiles Friday's roundups.

feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…
Also in Friday's Global Roundup compiled by Samiha Hossain:

-Justice for El Salvadorian Woman
-Poland Tightens Same-Sex Adoption Ban
-Indigenous Language Revitalization

feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
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12 Mar
The chapter on Violence in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is the most controversial of the "sins." I stand in the disturbance and discomfort caused by the questions I've posted in it. An excerpt feministgiant.com/p/how-many-rap…
I insist you stand in that discomfort and disturbance too, because women, girls, nonbinary and queer people face more than disturbance and discomfort -- they are dying, and patriarchy shows little concern.
In the chapter, I quote University of Miami School of Law professor Mary Anne Franks @ma_franks'2016 law review article Men, Women, and Optimal Violence repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles/2… Text: “Society would be better off as a whole if more wome
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12 Mar
Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and in every universe. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is out in Ireland and the UK on 22 April via @TrampPress. Pre-order here feministgiant.com/p/the-seven-ne…
One of the "sins" is Profanity: feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
And another "sin" is Violence feministgiant.com/p/how-many-rap…
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