auratcollective

Community Engagement Platform + Resource Network in Pakistan
For Women, By Women

[auratcollective @auratcollective]

We second this! Should we organise skills-based virtual workshops? ☝️

[Hija Kamran 🇵🇸 @hijakamran]

Why is no one organising a workshop on how to file your own taxes? This should have been taught in school, I know, but someone please do the labour now. I'll enroll.

[Hafsa S. Ahmad @HafsaAhmad]

It gets worse- in court, opposing counsels have (more than once) said “aap meri betiyon ki tarah hain” to me. This ENGRAGES ME. I am not like your beti at all. I am standing next to you as your professional equal- no matter how old you are.

[Nighat Dad @nighatdad]

جناب @iqrarulhassan آپ نے مینارِ پاکستان کے اندوناک واقعہ کی متاثرہ لڑکی کی جس طرح سے تصویراور نام شائع کیا ہے اور اپنی ہمدردی کی تشہیر کر رہے ہیں اس پہ آپ کو شرمندہ ہونا چاہیے یہ کون سی بد صورت صحافت آپ اور آپ کے ساتھ بیٹھا ہوا نام نہاد صحافی کر رہا ہے delete her picture now

[auratcollective @auratcollective]

This incident is the worst fear of every woman who steps foot into a public space in Pakistan. The sheer terror of being touch without consent, the vigilance you must practice both in and outside your home. There is no sigh of relief, no moment of peace.

[auratcollective @auratcollective]

What you saw at Minar-e-Pakistan was assault, violence against women, the patriarchy, harmless teasing, crude jokes, misogyny, deep-seated mindsets, gender inequality, mob culture. What you saw is the terrifying reality for women in Pakistan. We demand #accountabilty.

[auratcollective @auratcollective]

Please stop sharing the video of the young woman being assaulted. Do not share her trauma - an indescribable trauma that she must not live with for the rest of her life.

[alishbish @alishbabrar]

A woman in Lahore was assaulted, harassed and stripped naked by hundreds of men all at once. What could compel every man there to act like a monster? Then you say it’s “not all men”?

Independence Day. Minar-e-Pakistan. Men of Pakistan assaulting a woman. Quaid would be proud.

[Zoya Rehman @pind_wave]

i feel sick to my stomach. there is no way a woman can just "switch off" for even a day in pakistan. there is no respite from violence for us, no escape, no closure. what happened to that poor woman at minar-e-pakistan is our worst nightmare becoming a reality.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Today's Aurat March in Faisalabad has been cancelled. Assistant Commissioner Faisalabad threatened to arrest organizers and called young female students to intimidate them. Its a blatant example of how the state suppresses women's movements.

#ShameonACFaisalabad #JusticeForNoor

[MEESHA SHAFI @itsmeeshashafi]

PSA! 📣

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[Ghazi Taimoor @ghazi_taimoor]

The onus of educating men should not be on women

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

When a horrific case like #NoorMukaddam's surfaces, we often paint the perpetrator either as a 'psycho' or as a 'monster'. This helps us explain the evil that leads to such a crime as exceptional; it gives us comfort. The truth is too much to bear: that our society enabled this.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Advice for male allies. The best way to be a part of the struggle against gender-based violence is not to lecture us on patriarchy or tell us how to protect ourselves. It is to reflect on why masculinity in our country is so toxic & how you can help fix it. #JusticeForNoor

[Human Rights Commission of Pakistan @HRCP87]

Educate your sons. Protecting your daughters is secondary.

#EndFemicide

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Some tips for raising sons who grow up to be decent human beings. Teach them to:
1. respect women/girls as equals; never treat them as objects.
2. express emotions openly, including crying without shame. Bottled up emotions often manifest in violent/self-destructive forms. 1

[sohni @sohnianika]

As a woman, I’m not as afraid of death as I am of dying in a place where I wasn’t “supposed” to be. The thought of my parents hearing “why was she there?” while mourning my loss is unbearable. We are burdened even after death.

[auratcollective @auratcollective]

Tomorrow in Lahore 5:00pm at Liberty Roundabout ⬇️

[⁧Aurat March Lahore @AuratMarch]

Tomorrow, Saturday, July 24th.
Liberty roundabout, Lahore.

We gather in rage, to make our anger known regarding the constant assault on our freedoms and bodies.

[Kanwal Ahmed @kanwalful]

Our daughters shouldn’t have to grow up in a country where they could end up being a hashtag begging for justice.

[Amal Khan @amalkhan]

The murder of Noor Mukadam unpacks a layered mess: gender-based violence, state complicity, mental illness, elite privilege, drug abuse, parenting, entitlement. And there's more to come when the legal battles begin. Somehow this case took me back to a 2014 story we covered.