Women have been saying for years that there is a growing backlash against gender equality, and every time the conversation comes up we’re told we’re imagining it.
Now the United Nations is saying it.
According to a UN report, nearly 1 in 4 countries reported setbacks in women’s rights and gender equality. Hundreds of millions of women and girls are living in conflict zones, violence against women remains widespread, and UN officials are warning about a growing backlash against women’s rights worldwide.
The part that stands out to me isn’t even the statistics. It’s that women have been raising concerns about misogyny, online hostility toward women, violence, and attacks on reproductive rights for years, only to be dismissed as overreacting.
If the UN Secretary-General is warning about the “mainstreaming of misogyny,” maybe it’s time to stop pretending these concerns came out of nowhere.
Do you think women’s rights are genuinely facing setbacks, or do you think organizations like the UN are exaggerating the problem?
Mexican isn't a race. Although Julián Quiñones is afro-columbian, he has mexican citizenship. There are black Mexicans who have been there since the slave trade. Slavery wasn't only in the USA, there are black people in other parts of north and south America.
It's funny how we use to tell people with anxiety that "people in public aren't making fun of you, they don't even notice you so don't be scared" and then the internet just proved to us that people will make fun of you when you're in public for virtually no reason at all.
Haitians being chased in the Dominican Republic.
Black and Brown people being terrorized in Belfast.
Bolivians being terrorized for striking.
BIPOC being hunted by ICE in the US.
Black and Latin men being murdered in the ocean by the US...none are isolated from each other.
NASHVILLE: “If a data center project is not good for a zoo, it’s not good for an HBCU.”
Rep. @brotherjones_, students, alumni at @Fisk1866 U opposed a mysteriously-funded on-campus data center project shrouded in secrecy.
(His environmental racism class was abruptly canceled🤔)
I think a lot of people who have seen themselves as "liberals" for a long time are going to have to come to terms with how right wing they actually are. Painful deconstruction stuff, but these logics and conclusions are no different from standard conservative beliefs.
"Being Black is not a problem for a Black person. Being Black is a problem for the community that doesn't understand that you are a human being." Diahann Carroll