PK Feminist Network

Talking about Pakistan, feminism, and society with an intersectional perspective.

[Salaar Khan @Brainmasalaar]

Today, in court, the lawyer in a case involving the rape of a 12 year old girl said ‘uss ka character waisay zara loose tha’. Phir boltay hein #AuratMarch kyun ho

[⁧Aurat March Lahore @AuratMarch]

ہمارا “ریپسٹ ہو تم” ترانہ!
یہ ترانے کے بول ہیں، ان کو سیکھیں ، تاکہ ہم آٹھ مارچ کو مل کر یہ نعرہ لگا سکیں!

یہ ترانہ کیوں اہم ہے؟
کیونکہ ہم جنسی تشدد سے تنگ ہیں۔ کیونکہ ہمیں شدید غصہ ہے کہ پاکستان میں ہر دو گھنٹے میں ایک عورت کا ریپ ہوتا ہے (ایچ آر سی پی رپورٹ 2015)۔

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

A desi wedding season reminder:
1. Marriage is not an accomplishment.
2. It is rarely about love.
3. It is most often about the reproduction of gender, class/caste hierarchies.
4. It is increasingly a means of feeding the capitalist machine.
5. It excludes many.
Good luck!

[Progressive Students’ Collective @PSCollective_]

A pictorial thread on how we’re mobilising for the #StudentsSolidarityMarch/#StudentSolidarityMarch happening on 29th November in various parts of Pakistan.

[Haider Kaleem @HaiderKaleemB]

Comrade @AroojAurangzaib, the famous black leather jacket and I. #NewProfilePic
#StudentsSolidarityMarch
#StudentSolidarityMarch
#StudentRightsNow

[Climate Action Pakistan @ClimateActionPk]

This September, millions of us will walk to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand #ClimateActionNow!

Join our movement across #Pakistan on 22 September 2019.

Are you ready?

#ClimateStrike #ClimateActionNow #weCAN #ClimateStrikePakistan

[PK Feminist Network @PFeministNet]

This person has a huge following and a marked impact on how women in Pakistan perceive religion. A lot of the conservative, outright discriminatory, rape-endorsing (see video) comments we’ve heard from our families can be traced back to her.

[SAMRI @SAMRIReports]

#Salafi televangelist Farhat Hashmi: There's no such thing as marital rape. A wife must always submit to husband's sexual desires. Since women have joined workforce, it has become difficult for them to follow this divine commandment. https://t.co/6MOK0KOKQj

[Hamna Zubair @hamnazubair]

There's a video circulating where an 'evangelist' encourages rape.
It's not 'marital rape' - just rape.

To everyone endorsing that video or defending it - you've outed yourself as either potential rapists and/or rape apologists.

That's it, that's all of it.

[PK Feminist Network @PFeministNet]

@sabizak There’s so much about Maryam Nawaz to criticize, maybe we shouldn’t be talking about her face and/or any cosmetic procedures? It can come off pretty shaming esp. from someone who teaches people about feminism.

[Sabahat Zakariya @sabizak]

Hearing news of FauziaViqar’s removal from Punjab Conmission for the Status of Women. The work she did there to collect data on women’s lives in Punjab is unparalleled. PTI’s political vitcimization of genuinely competent ppl is deeply saddening

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Here’s a tip: if you’re not a member of a particular minority group, & especially if you’re part of the group in power, avoid publicly (or privately) questioning when members of that group call out discrimination. It’s unseemly. Also, you have no f-ing clue, so shush.

[desi babushka 🌈 @desi_babushka]

FEMinIsTS aRe RuINInG OuR CuLtUrE. You mean your rape culture? Your acid throwing culture? Raping children culture??? Hitting women culture? KAUNSA CULTURE HAI YEH? JAWAB DOH!!!!

[PK Feminist Network @PFeministNet]

I love the term snowflakes because men use it to describe someone offended (which I usually am, and I don’t hide away from) but they always say it because they’re offended and they think it’ll hurt 🤔

[PK Feminist Network @PFeministNet]

Bear in mind: taking pictures of women reclaiming spaces and posting them online WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT can have disastrous consequences. We live in a patriarchal and violent society. Please, before you post images of women living their best life, ask for consent.

[Containeristan @guldaar]

People are citing their grandmothers being married at 14 and bearing 10 healthy children by the time they were 24 to oppose child marriage bill don’t realize that their kindly grandmothers were also exploited by a culture that must go extinct in this day and age.

[m*hru @moonphatt]

can brown parents stop checking their children's rooms? like how much of my life am i supposed to hide from you and where else am i supposed to be the person that i am? How much of my life do i have to compartmentalise for YOUR ease?

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Using 'tradition' to defend sexism, classism, or chauvinism of any kind is the oldest and lamest excuse in the book. Stop using it. We're not falling for it anymore. If your culture is any of those things, it needs to change.