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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I do not want to be protected from the violence of cis men. I want patriarchy to stop protecting violent cis men. 

I made this in April 2020 about Femicide and I’m still asking the same question.

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Patriarchal violence: intimate partner terrorism. THAT has been a GLOBAL PANDEMIC for ages. Where is the vaccine against THAT global epidemic?

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7 Nov
#ThisIs54

It’s not my birthday. I want you to see a 54yo woman. I’m saying “Here is a midlife woman. Look.” At a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.
📷 @rerutled Mona in a silver sequin jacket over a black tank top. She ha
I want to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” That is not the compliment some people think it is. I understand that my power comes from saying “I am a middle aged woman. Look at me, breasts and belly and all.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
Not for all the money in the world would I go back to being younger. My 20s w/out exception and at least half my 30s were miserable because I felt I had no power. Now here I am,with more power, being told I “didn’t look” this age I feel I’ve finally earned feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
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7 Nov
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…
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…
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6 Nov
Art and abortion: In 1998, when a referendum to decriminalize abortion in Portugal failed, artist Paula Rego made a series of works to highlight the "fear and pain and danger of an illegal abortion, which is what desperate women have always resorted to." nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artist…
The abortion series, which depicts women in the aftermath of illegal abortions, was so powerful it's been credited with influencing the public to campaign for a second referendum, in 2007, after which abortion was finally legalized in Portugal. bbc.com/culture/articl…
"I tried to do full frontal but I didn't want to show blood, gore or anything to sicken, because people wouldn't look at it then. And what you want to do is make people look, make pretty colours and make it agreeable, and in that way make people look at life." Painting of a woman in a re...
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6 Nov
Protests in Warsaw after the death of a woman who was refused an abortion under Poland’s abortion ban
h/t @Heresy_Corner @J_Jaraczewski
Almost exactly a year ago: protests in #Warsaw against near-total abortion ban. They were largest protests in #Poland since fall of Communism in 1989. And their core message was “Fuck off” to priests and the far-right govt #StrajkKobiet #AborcjaBezGranic

When the fascist fucks in your country use a pandemic to tighten their grip on your body with a near total ban on abortion, the path to freedom must be paved with profanity. Politeness is capitulation.

And Polish feminists know it. feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
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1 Nov
In 1996 I had an "illegal" abortion in Egypt and in 2000 I had a "legal" abortion in the US. The State and its courts can fuck off with their opinions about what I can and can’t do with my uterus. That control belongs to me. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #TexasAbortionBan #SCOTUS
I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I did not already have children. I just did not want to be pregnant. I did not want to have a child.

And so I had my abortions.

I am glad I did. They gave me the freedom to live the life I have chosen.
Criminalizing abortion does not eradicate it nor does it make it rare. It makes it dangerous and often deadly for the poorest and most vulnerable people who can get pregnant. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #TexasAbortionBan #SCOTUS
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1 Nov
Abortion ban in Texas is neither aberration/out of the blue. It's what white supremacist Christian conservatives have been working for, while telling women in the US "be grateful you don't live over there (Muslim country)." #WholeWomansVJackson #SB8 feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
Liberal, affluent, white cisgender women thought as long as Roe v. Wade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along - since the 1970s. In the U.S., white and Chrisitian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized
They remained willfully ignorant to the fact that Roe v. Wade died for many Black and women of colour and poor women in the South, where one after another clinics that provide abortions were being shuttered.
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