#female rights
Spain is discussing whether a law granting up to 3 days a month of paid leave due to very painful menstruations would be okay or not, and the sexist - misogynistic even - comments that we’ve heard are making us sick.
It’s even worse when it’s other women who make them.
Don’t forget the endless debate on whether a 16 year old can make medical decisions about their body, because the new abortion law will allow over 16s to have one without informing their parents, as is the rule with every other medical decision.
True! And also the Spanish government will include in that law project that femenine hygiene products are VAT free from now on (right now we pay a 10% VAT for them).
Truly a nervewrecking week for fatxis.
seeing “balanced” takes on abortion makes me want to state for the record i love abortion. I love it. Unapologetically. I love all my friends who have had abortions and all the reasons they’ve had them. i love people who treat abortion flippantly I love people who have a lot of emotions about their abortion. I love people who will have only one abortion in their whole life and people who will have many. abortion is great, no caveats. Its not a moral quandary. if someone doesn’t want to be pregnant they should have safe access to rectifying the state of their own body
On demand. Without apology.
Without apology or excuse/reason/explanation…to anybody.
#one giant leap backwards
If Roe v Wade is overturned in America, individual states will be allowed to implement their own laws on abortion. This is devastating, as it is expected that nearly half of all US states will implement harsher restrictions and that certain states will even impose a complete ban on a woman’s right to choose.
The thing that people who say they are ‘pro-life’ fail to understand is this; making abortion illegal has never and will never stop abortions from happening - it instead makes it harder for women to access the healthcare and resources they so vitally need in order for an abortion to be carried out safely. If Roe v Wade is overturned, there will be many more deaths and severe illnesses amongst women who have tried to carry out an abortion themselves as they have been denied access to healthcare. It’s not very 'pro-life’, if you ask me, to let a woman go through so much suffering and risk her life in the process. This is just one of many reasons why Roe v Wade cannot be overturned.
Armenian girl with identification scaring on chest and face, 1919.
Credit: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
In the 1920’s thousands of Armenian girls and women managed to escape the Armenian Genocide by fleeing to Syria. Armenian girls were kept in slavery and forced into prostitution. In order to identify them and prevent their escape, their Turkish pimps tattooed their face, arms and chest.
The girl in the photo had just been rescued from a Turkish house and was cared for by the Y.W.C.A workers at Aleppo.
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A Day for Women
So they created a day for women, which I think is refreshing.
But after this day is done;
Will you go back to silencing their accusations?
Will you go back to making them secondary to leadership?
Will you go back to silencing their ideas at work?
Will you go back to not acknowledging them in a room full of men?
Will you go back to assuming they are the assistant or secretary?
Will you go back to shaming them for choosing the ideology of Womanism? When Womanism chose them?
Will you go back to assuming she asked for it?
Will you go back to questioning their choice?
Will you go back to drooling over the slim-thicc, but gagging over true plus sizes?
Will you go back to questioning their ideologies when they love to cook for their partner, but shaming them for not wanting to cook at all?
Will you go back to high expectations of women, but low emotional support?
Will you go back to calling them queens, but not letting them sit at the throne?
Asking for me.
The Texas abortion law diminishes RBG’s legacy. Stephen Breyer should take note.
One hates to say it, but Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision to let a Texas antiabortion law stand — for now — must be seen as part of former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy, a glaring lapse that must be considered alongside all her genuine accomplishments in fighting for women’s rights.
