These videos make a powerful internationalist feminist statement connecting anti-LGBTQ & misogynistic patriarchal violences, from the Azerbaijani soldiers' mutilation of Anush Apetyan to Jina Aminii's murder by the Iranian morality police to gendered Turkish violences in Rojava🙌🏾
I know the majority arms dealer to the Azerbaijani military (and has been since independence/full scale fighting erupted during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1992) didn't just say something
Azerbaijani troops mutilated an Armenian female soldier, filmed her dead body and shared the footage on social networks.
It’s naive to expect legal consequences for the war crimes in this region, but we can’t let atrocities like this go unnoticed.
https://t.co/d73QbsK1Re
TW: Suicide.
7 years ago today, Kalief Browder died. At 16, he was falsely accused of stealing a backpack, charged with a violent felony & prosecuted as an adult. The judge set bail beyond what his family could afford. He suffered at Rikers for 3 years, incl. 2 in solitary. 1/8
Listening to an ex-military officer on NPR say the difference between Russia and US is US doesn’t cause collateral damage, doesn’t kill women and children. Completely unchallenged by NPR host, who instead asks, “Are you saying Russia is a terrorist nation?”