November is #DomesticViolenceAwareness month in Canada. On Friday, a 25yo woman was found dead in Montreal along with her male partner in what police say was most likely a murder-suicide. Every six days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner.montreal.ctvnews.ca/two-bodies-fou…
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1454814093311979520
A report by the @CAN_Femicide which tracks femicides across Canada, said the pandemic had led to a spike in femicides: 160 women and girls were victims of femicide in 2020, an uptick from the 118 who were killed in 2019. Between January and June of 2021 feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
The report #CallItFemicide says one woman or girl is killed every two and a half days in Canada, according to the 2020 figures.
Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately impacted by femicide. ctvnews.ca/canada/one-wom…
Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately impacted by femicide. ctvnews.ca/canada/one-wom…
Less than a month ago, in broad daylight on a busy Montreal street near McGill University, Romane Bonnier’s ex-partner stabbed her to death as students and passersby watched, too afraid to intervene because of the size of the knife he used to kill her. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
Nov is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Canada. "Domestic” isn't taken seriously: private, hidden,happens in the realm of the home, that space cleaned & cared for by women, that space headed & ruled by men, that space where women are most endangered. Home is where the hurt is
So we call it instead Intimate Partner Violence to shake off the air of privacy and denial, but even that is not enough to convey the horror.
So let’s call it what it is: terrorism.
So let’s call it what it is: terrorism.
If terrorism means politically-motivated violence intended to scare us into changing the way we behave, then surely femicide is terrorism.
Patriarchy is the ideology; cis men are the terrorists. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
Patriarchy is the ideology; cis men are the terrorists. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
Violence against women is everyday; ordinary men commit it.
All men benefit from some men’s violence against women.
They are beneficiaries of that violence because that violence upholds patriarchy. It is foundational to patriarchy.
All men benefit from some men’s violence against women.
They are beneficiaries of that violence because that violence upholds patriarchy. It is foundational to patriarchy.
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