Thread by @ForthFeminists

We now have @MaraMatria speaking #FVFWomensFestival

@MaraMatria What has changed in the last year - Elaine Miller has proved that journalists don't know what a vulva is!

@MaraMatria In terms of childbirth and repo rights. New report called Embrace. #FVFWomensFestival

@MaraMatria 229 women died up to 6 weeks up to the end of pregnancy. 2018 2020 up to the end of their pregnancy 366 motherless children. Racial disparity. #FVFWomensFestival

@MaraMatria Women 3x more likely to die by suicide in 2020 than between 2017-2019 6 weeks after childbirth #FVFWomensFestival

@MaraMatria Multiple deprivations, racial mental health, drug use. @MaraMatria becoming emotional. Women are killing themselves. Midwives don't want to be midwives anymore #FVFWomensFestival

This is deeply connected to women living under patriarchy. these are women who have been abused, these are women who have lived under racism. #FVFWomensFestival

every year between 50-100k in sub-Saharan African and north Africa women experience obstetric fistula. the babies die and women are ostracised because they become incontinent. Every year #FVFWomensFestival

50 year since roe v wade - last year it was overturned #FVFWomensFestival

73 million abortions every year. 45% are unsafe #FVFWomensFestival

The difference between a life and a death is an injection. #FVFWomensFestival

85,000 women died by homicide, 45,000 of those died at the hands of their partner or family member. #FVFWomensFestival

5 women AN HOUR dying at the hands of someone they trust, at the hands of someone they know.

The women who kill themselves 6 weeks after birth, the women murdered by their husbands, those babies killed because they're girls are killed for the same thing. We're killed because we're girls. Being a woman is a war. #FVFWomensFestival

The world is selling tickets as though its a theme park I won't allow that #FVFWomensFestival