This is 3rd incident of violence against women reported in #Pakistan over the last week that sparked social media outrage.
“I was already so sick of the news about recent incidents. We are so desensitised about aggressive men. And then my friend was murdered.” #JusticeForNoor
“There are fears that the accused will get bail and leave the country…If the accused ends up going scott-free, it will feel like all women in the country have died. It will really show the reality of our criminal justice system,” @nighatdad
“He comes from one of the most influential families in Pakistan…Influential families often wait for the outrage to subside and then bribe their way to their own form of justice. But we will not let Noor’s death be another statistie,” Elia Rathore #JusticeForNoor
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I wish I had coined “fuckery!” I can’t remember now where I first heard it. I know it’s in Amy Winehouse’s Me and Mr. Jones “What kind of fuckery is this?”
Thank you @heathercorinna for your book What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You. I am delighted to be one of the many diverse group of people you interview in it!
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"While the case received little attention outside of the legal world, it marked the culmination of more than 30 years of legal strategy by Christian conservatives who have sought ever-broader leeway to flout the law." truthout.org/articles/the-c…
Just as Trump was not an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot, so too is the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court, which conservatives have worked for since the early 1970s. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
I moved to U.S. in 2000. I've learned that many white Americans have delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions. That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought.
"'She would not compromise on Black people’s rights,' said Joseph R. Fitzgerald, author of The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation.
That iron will didn’t sit well with many men in the civil rights movement who harbored sexist attitudes."
Richardson and other women balked at the “politics of respectability” that dictated how they should behave in public, Fitzgerald said. At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, Richardson could only utter “Hello” before the microphone was snatched away.