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A campaign which challenges products, media and marketing that prescribe heavily stereotyped and limiting roles to young girls 🦖#istandwithjkrowling

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

Day 11 of the One-Month #OpenSchoolDoor Campaign
Invitation to the World: End the Nightmare of Afghan Women 💔🙏
@WDIAfghanistan1 and thousands of other voices shout this message every single day:
“Dear World,
For over 1,700 days, girls in Afghanistan have been banned from secondary school and university.
Women are forbidden from working, traveling without a male guardian, visiting parks, doing sports, and even raising their voices in public.
Child marriage (even for 9-year-olds) has been legalized, and beating women without breaking bones has been declared a “husband’s right.”
This is Sex-Apartheid — a crime against humanity.
If you remain silent, you become complicit in this nightmare.
It’s time for real action.
Please Wake up, world, before an entire generation of Afghan girls is silenced forever.”
#OpenSchoolDoor
@WDIAfghanistan1

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

The BBC reports children being sold in Afghanistan but does not ask the obvious questions: which children, and what happens to them? This is a sex-based crime so giving the sex of the victims is important.

We have heard repeated reports of girls sold into marriage to old men.

We have heard reports of disabled newborn girls buried alive while their male counterparts receive medicine.

Afghan women and girls continue to endure appalling levels of cruelty and abandonment. It is difficult to see why the BBC seems to sympathise with the human-trafficking fathers.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

A woman is someone who, in Afghanistan, has now lived 1,704 days under a ban that denies girls the right to go to school and human rights.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world where education has been turned into a crime for teenage girls.

And while this continues, organizations like UN Women are watching, and no action 💔

How long must this silence last?
Please talk about Afghan women 🙏

[WRN Afghanistan @WRNAfghanistan]

Selling their daughters

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

We feel our updates about Afghan women don’t reach everyone .
I have to repost the same things manually every time.
If you see content from @WDIAfghanistan1, please repost
and stand up with Afghan women as always 🙏🥰

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

Sex-based violence is not only physical. It is the ban on a girl’s education. It is economic strangulation. It is the slow, deliberate erasure of women from public life, carried out not with weapons alone, but with policy, silence, and the world’s willingness to look away.

[Helen Staniland @helenstaniland]

It is insanely wrong to remove single sex toilets and then expect the girls to state *exactly* what they are doing in the cubicles to make the case for getting them back. Why does a male teacher feel its an appropriate question?

[#MenAtWork @MenAtWork_MC]

I have said this since my first tweets in 2015 (and of course in the ‘real world’ before & since!):
We cannot possibly end sexism or male violence against women & girls if we pretend we believe in ‘gender identity’ and support ‘Self-ID’. It’s a no-brainer. Everyone knows, really

[#MenAtWork @MenAtWork_MC]

A male UK uni lecturer wears enormous prosthetic breasts, in clothing showing a lot of (plastic) cleavage, to work. This isn’t a hypothesis, it’s actual

Is it:

A. justifiable ‘identity expression’
B. abusive sexualisation of a power imbalanced context (against female students)

[Pinkstinks @PinkstinksUK]

@speakoutsister equating this man’s fetish with women who’ve gone through cancer is some stretch.

[Pinkstinks @PinkstinksUK]

@SpursWomen Please don’t go. We’ll miss you 😢 x

[Pinkstinks @PinkstinksUK]

@speakoutsister Even for someone who’s had cancer? Did you really think about this before you typed it?

[Pinkstinks @PinkstinksUK]

@JosephKBennett @selasayer @helenstaniland @_bezpilotnik To put that bloke with his sexual fetish on display to his young female student, into the same catagory as women who have undergone mastectomy due to breast cancer and have a prosthetic breast, is deeply offensive. I am one of them by the way.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

And this is Peter, the Green Party candidate who thinks that it's perfectly acceptable for a male University lecturer at Oxford to swan around in huge prosthetic breasts.
Men like Peter trouble me greatly when it comes to their views on women...

[Pinkstinks @PinkstinksUK]

@FondOfBeetles @PankhurstEM @_bezpilotnik @runthinkwrite @UniofOxford It IS harassment

[Pinkstinks @PinkstinksUK]

Stop the BBC airing Eurovision content that normalises violence against women - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/hulSv3kdWm via @UKChange

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Day 1,677 of Afghan girls being barred from getting an education.

This cannot go on. Restricting the basic human rights of an entire generation of women poses an existential threat for #Afghanistan.

You are not forgotten.

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[teresa smith @treesey]

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride Editorial meeting for @RestIsPolitics

[Anna Gát 🧭 @TheAnnaGat]

Idea:

Podcast but some of the guests are women.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

Ffs. Different eras had different ways of imposing gender stereotypes. The Victorians still knew which posh children would grow up to get the vote and which ones wouldn't