Pailona Ramirez from Guarani people looks on during rain at Pindo Poty village after it was flooded, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Vovchansk resident Hanna, 74-year-old holds a covered cage with a parrot as she sits inside an evacuation bus to Kharkiv due to Russian military strikes near the frontline town of Vovchansk, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Mother's Day just passed, but let's remember the Indigenous women who couldn't be mothers because of the stеriIizаtion programs led by the US like in the 1940s against Mexicans under California's 1909 Eugenics law or the 1970 law that stеriΙzed at least 25% of Native American women
"Stormy Daniels has reminded us of what a disgusting misogynistic creep Donald Trump is: unable to control his carnal impulses, eager to exploit his power and influence and wealth to procure sex, devoid of shame or guilt or remorse, incapable of fidelity, focused completely on his own sexual satiety, and totally fine about said sexual satiety being generated by violent means."
"A quarter of the way through the 21st century, a predilection towards sexual misconduct and misogyny is practically a BFOQ of a Republican politician. The party of trickle-down economics and tax cuts for gazillionaires has long been the party of plunder. As long as Donald Trump is its leader, it will also be the party of rape."
"The proposed law provides for direct, personal contact to be initiated by a cadre of newly installed, theocratic government employees toward pregnant patients who register their contact information with the site in order to pressure them in their reproductive decisions. … What it reveals, however, is not compassion, but coercion, harassment, and ultimately, control."
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 13. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
'It’s not a story of one bad apple, or one bad chief executive, or one bad institutional culture, or one underprivileged area. In 2022, 80 of the country’s 193 maternity units were deemed unsafe by the Care Quality Commission. That definitely wasn’t the austerity promise, not even in the small print: creating a country not safe to give birth in'!
One more dimensions of the Tories wrecking of the NHS
An incredible number of hours went into covering up #Trump's alleged affairs in 2016. #MicgaelCohen & the team at The #NationalEnquirer went to elaborate lengths & constantly communicated about how to keep #women quiet. Accounting departments were engaged. Front companies were created. Misleading invoices were produced.
Climate Movement Cheers Michigan AG's Plans to Sue Big Oil
"I don't know that there's a bigger issue facing the state of #Michigan than climate change," Nessel told the outlet. "We are talking about billions and billions of dollars in damages and we're already starting to see that on a day-to-day basis. We know this is only going to get worse."
@CelloMomOnCars
The WOMEN in charge in Michigan are fearless, effective, relentless and dedicated…..and I for one could not be more pleased! #politics#women#michigan
A Palestinian woman who was forced to flee Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate, in Gaza City in northern Gaza [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
#Women and girls as victims of domestic violence in #Syria (what’s done about it? Lip service by Baathists. Reports by internatl agencies) #HappyMothersDay@syria
Gender, Trauma and Coming to Terms with a Haunting Past Tickets, Mon 20 May 2024 at 18:00 | Choman Hardi Book event in London #Women#Iraq#Kurds@kurdistan@iraq
A displaced Palestinian woman and her child, who fled Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate, make their way towards Gaza City [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Although this figures are from 2018, there's little reason to expect that things have got better for women in the subsequent 7 years.
Around a third of women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence from a current or former partner, from a non-partner, or both of these forms of violence combined at least once in their lifetime (since the age of 15).
We still have a lot of work to do to stop men abusing women
Republicans hate Girls and Women - they have already bent the laws to be able to murder us and disappear us. They are now making it legal to humiliate and torture us. There is no love - and there is nothing redeemable - in a man who would be ok with this assault, subjugation, and physical abuse of Girls and Women. Girls and Women aren't vessels to club and claim caveman style. We aren't vessels to impregnate and imprison. We are autonomous beings with fundamental human rights to self determine. And: whether raped or not--> Abortion is healthcare! Ps.Men speak up for us.
🎥 Jessica Valenti she/her, Feminist author & columnist. Subscribe to her newsletter Abortion EveryDay.com
Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris—who helped lead the effort to overturn #Roe—says that he and his colleagues plan to amend our US Constitution to ban abortion care in all 50 states (from conception until natural death) once they amass enough political power. He promises to take away healthcare from all Women and Girls.
Fake religious MAGA lawyer Michael Farris—who helped lead the effort to overturn #Roe—says that he and his colleagues plan to amend our US Constitution to ban abortion care in all 50 states.