Akhona

Just busy living, learning and thriving through this thing called life. Also a serial retweeter.

[Khanyisa Tyoda @Makhanyak]

I’m reminded that in 1987 when I was 2 years old, my mother went to work as a student nurse and never came back. Days later she was found lying on the road, dead! Leaving a 2 year old me, a six month old boy without a mother! Nothing much has changed since then!
#RIPTsontso

[Rape Crisis Cape Town @RapeCrisis]

No matter how much time has passed, we believe you.

We provide free and confidential counselling support to survivors of sexual violence at our offices in Athlone, Observatory & Khayelitsha.

[... @Thulani_Dlamini]

It’s been spoken about for your years but people who are bigoted in one way, are often bigoted in others as well. If you’re xenophobic, it’s not a stretch to assume you’d harbour racial prejudices as well 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Maduduzo @MaduduzoR]

Dear women, reproductive freedom is a human right.

You’re not selfish for not wanting kids.
You’re not broken if you can’t have them.
You don’t owe your body or time to others.
You are not a vessel for someone else’s dreams.

Your body, your choice. Always.

[Luna M ✨ @tiredfeminist_]

A doctor in Limpopo allegedly attempted to rape his 22-year-old pregnant patient while performing an ultrasound AT A HOSPITAL … But yes, women must avoid dangerous places… 🙃

[Pontsa Ledwaba @tiyebalafazii]

Unfortunately the killing of women is the real targeted hate crime in South Africa

[Mntrazana @moanerleaser]

Women cannot ‘extra-careful’ rapists & murderous men, please put your inane warnings to rest. Olerato shared her location with loved ones, Uyinene was at the post office, Cwecwe was at school; the list goes on. We don’t have a careless women problem, we have a murderous men one.

[Meg @_nomadic_soul]

Men will blame women for "not seeing the red flags" and thus experiencing abuse (because we're supposed to magically know) but when we act with caution and suspicion towards men until we figure out if there are any red flags or not, we are accused of hating men.

We can't win.

[Moamen Nashwan~Gaza 🇵🇸 @Moamen_Nashwan]

Yesterday, they said the bakeries would open. I stood in line from 3 AM and came back 8 hours later empty-handed. Still hungry—not just for bread, but for dignity, for a normal life, for days without the humiliation of waiting for a piece of bread.

[D_elleriously A slightly uppity African @D_elleriously]

I will never get over how dehumanising poverty is.
And how it is a manufactured crisis to keep us down, beaten and too tired to fight.
I hate everything.

[bruv. @sandisodhlomo]

Yes and while we’re at it, things shouldn’t have to be in your direct personal interest only for you to advocate against an obvious injustice.

[Jordan Sumbu @JordanSumbu]

Men, your “protect women and girls” tweets are useless & performative if tomorrow you will defend, enable or protect men accused of rape, abuse & violence against women. If you are not willing to actively talk to other men and hold them accountable, you don’t care about femicide.

[vampira @vampl0vrrr]

palestinians will continue to exist, resist & revolt.

[Scammy Sosa @JUST_KWANDA]

Can’t report crime because the police may rape you
Can’t be on call at night because patients may rape you
Can’t post a parcel because a PO employee may rape you ( and kill you)
Can’t get into a bolt because the driver may rape you
Being a woman is a terrifying thing experience

[Ash Alves @ashalves_]

It’s impossible to talk about wellness without considering how racism, imperialism and other -isms make us sick.

It’s not enough to heal individually, we need system change. We need justice. We need accountability from those who have historically and presently harmed us.

[Danie ❤️ you @obaa_boni]

The thing about Transphobic people, they truly don’t understand gender

And inevitably because they believe in the gender binary, they end up being very violent to intersex people, gender non conforming people, masculine cis women,

Anybody who isn’t a normative cis women

[Feminist Witch 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🌙 @DonCorleANN]

We should definitely brag about our reproductive rights. We should freely and honestly speak about abortions. Normalizing abortions ensures that more people learn about safer methods and it decriminalizes abortions. We lose too many people to unsafe abortions to be against this.