tag: VAWG (feimineach)

#womenslives: Will I be next? South Africa women ask – BBC News

May 22, 2017

Caption: Karabo Mokoena’s killing is being seen as symbolic of the wider violence faced by women in South Africa Gender violence in South Africa 1 in 5 women are assaulted by their partner More than 40,000 cases of rape are reported every year, most of the victims are female Femicide in South Africa is 5 times higher than the global […]

#womenslives: “Why i’m done trying to get you to help fight rape culture” – @wearyourvoice

April 19, 2017

Sometimes it feels as if no matter how many times we write our stories, no matter how many statistics we show you, you don’t really care. (Content warning: discussion of sexual assault/rape) I’m not who I was before I was sexually assaulted. There are parts of myself that I have shed for my own safety and mental health. Being kind, […]

#picturethis: Overcoming anger through street art

March 29, 2017

#picturethis: Overcoming anger through street art: a sexual assault survivor’s story – @estblshmnt An artist known as ‘Miss Me’ has used artful vandalism to reclaim female power — and in the process, her own life. Before it happened, Miss Me had been living a “normal life,” she says. Everything fit: her job, her friends, her understanding of the world and herself.But then […]

#womenslives: No sleep for Congolese mothers trying to save their girls from rape

December 7, 2016

The mothers of Kavumu hardly sleep. But on rainy nights, they don’t even try. The rain pounds on their tin roofs so noisily that they worry they won’t hear rapists breaking in to steal their daughters. So they sit up all night, just watching their front doors. Since 2013, 49 young children, one only 18 months old, have been abducted […]

#womenslives: “I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home…”

November 29, 2016

I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home in order to avoid dark streets or alleys. I am a young woman who once mentioned the need for consent to be taught in schools, and was told that consent was a grey area, as if consent isn’t already a very low bar, and maybe it […]

#womenslives: “I have never been sexually assaulted.”

November 25, 2016

#womenslives; #womensstories: I have never been sexually assaulted.When I was eight, I was riding my bike down a main street in my home town when a group of men drove by. I would never have noticed them if one hadn’t yelled, “I WANT TO LICK YOUR PUSSY!” to me through the rolled down window as they passed. The men probably […]

#womenslives: This woman explained rape anxiety to her favorite men, and they were shocked – @nsanluis

October 28, 2016

They had no idea this feeling was shared, to some degree, with most women (and other marginalized people who are threatened in public spaces). It had never even occurred to my favorite men that many of the people they interact with live with this form of apprehension all the time. #womenslives: This woman explained rape anxiety to her favorite men, […]

#womenslives: “Have you ever wondered how much energy you put in to avoid being assaulted?”

October 27, 2016

#womenslives: Have you ever wondered how much energy you put in to avoid being assaulted? It may shock you – @conversationUK My recent research looked at how women navigate interruptions, intrusions, and harassment from unknown men in public. What was most surprising was how all 50 of the women I interviewed significantly underestimated the amount of work they were putting […]

#guestpost: Why Gigi Hadid is my new #FemHero – @hollykwhitman

October 5, 2016

Want to know why Gigi Hadid is my new feminist hero? Because she showed a healthy respect for her own personal space and fought back against someone who threatened it. Gigi and her sister were recently leaving a fashion show in Milan. As they were walking, a man grabbed Gigi and lifted her up. She didn’t know him, and he […]

#vivelafeminism: ‘Marketplace Feminism’ and the Commodification of Empowerment – Susan J. Douglas

July 12, 2016

“This feel-good, hip feminism is about style, attitudes and words, Zeisler argues, not about confronting “deeply entrenched forms of inequality.”” Susan J. Douglas on inthesetimes.com: Feminism seems to have made a big comeback. In Verizon’s 2014 “Inspire Her Mind” ad, a voice issues patriarchal dictates as a girl defies them: “don’t get your dress dirty” as she stomps through a […]

#womenslives: “I’ve never seen a poster giving tips to stop me being potentially run over by a motorist” – @FeministIre

July 4, 2016

The dark, lurking horror of parenting girls (and what we’re teaching them about their bodies). @FeministIre (emphasis added, as always): So, with this in mind what are we teaching girls about that? Are we telling them to watch out for the man who lives next door/the older cousin/the guy you’ve been dating for 6 months/his best friend? Are we teaching […]

#maleficentmisogyny: pornography is violence against women

May 28, 2016

It is crucial to understand pornography as a form of violence against women. Overwhelmingly, content is produced and consumed by men, with strikingly consistent themes. The content categories of two of the most popular tube sites — XHamster and Pornhub — reveal a dismal pattern of endless scenarios of male dominance and female subordination, categorized by specific acts, female body […]

#womenslives: “We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and assault…”

May 19, 2016

“We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and assault only happen in violent fits of rage” Every woman has been a little bit raped’: the complicated politics of ‘No’ – Elizabeth Skoski,@rolereboot (emphasis added, as always) We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and assault only happen in violent fits of rage, […]

#womensstories: my mom was an underground railroad for abused women -@xoJane

April 26, 2016

What She Taught Me About Feminism And Fear Once, my mom spotted a bruised woman with three children holding a cardboard sign in the Wal-Mart parking lot. It was pouring down rain. I was seven. “Stay in the car,” she said, locking me in. HALEY B. ELKINS on xojane: As a child, I didn’t understand most of the midnight phone […]

#maleficentmisogyny: When asked, “How do you …

April 20, 2016

I reblogged a piece about this report before but it’s a worth a reboot because it’s horrific. When asked, “How do you know a guy likes you?,” an 8th grade girl replied: “He still wants to talk to you after you [give him oral sex].” A male high school student said to a girl: “If you [give me oral sex] […]

#research: “[Porn] is influencing men’s attitude towards women and what they think is acceptable” – via @meltankardreist

April 1, 2016

“We need some sort of crack down on the violent pornography that is currently accessible to boys and men. This violent pornography should be illegal to make or view in Australia as we clearly have a problem with violence and boys are watching a lot of pornography which can be very violent … This is influencing men’s attitude towards women […]

#womenslives: Four women share their stories about rape, disclosure, and dealing with rape myths

March 31, 2016

Grim reading on openDemocracy. Four women share their stories about rape, disclosure, and dealing with rape myths. TW. Women of the World (WOW) created a public, cultural space where women’s stories of survival and their manner of telling them expanded their particular narratives into the universal and political. Four women, from Pakistan, the US, Britain and Germany, sit quietly on […]

#todayin: rape culture

March 31, 2016

In the week leading up to Christmas, I had a lot of festive-type things on my to-do list. Purchasing gifts, finally putting up the tree, and preparing to go away to visit family. But that’s not what I did.Instead I accompanied a close friend to court for the trial of the man who allegedly raped her.Her employer, John*, the dealer […]

#maleficentmisogyny: sex in pornography

March 30, 2016

I was 12. I thought Kate and I were simply too naive to aspire to the heights of sexual maturity to which the boys had risen.Their wisdom seemed self-evident – they did, after all, studiously compare notes on the hottest porn star on RedTube, and congratulate one another on the previous night’s masturbation.It only occurred to me recently, at the […]

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