Ingrid VDH, PhD

Human rights, women's rights, disability rights activist and researcher. Fuck Trump. Decriminalise abortion. Stop the genocide in Gaza.

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@Rangwan83660043 @skollie What's wrong with foreigners? If they legal, they can work anywhere. Don't blame foreigners for SAs problems. Blame the government. Vote better next year.

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@Symply_rhoda1 haha the chatgpt conclusion is priceless

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@BellaBaddie__ yes!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Here comes the UN pushing another “framework” off the back of reports like this “UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence”.

You might think that as a chick I would agree with this article. But I don’t.

Would unmasking anonymous accounts make women safer? No.
Would it force those intent on being vile into behaving better? Yes probably.

But the issue is what you give up in exchange.

Because once you remove anonymity, you don’t just catch trolls you give governments infrastructure to monitor, control and punish all speech they don’t like!

“If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear” only works if you trust whoever defines “wrong”. I don’t. And I don’t think any government or unelected global institution should get to decide which opinions are acceptable.

It will absolutely mean ordinary people losing the ability to speak freely without fear of consequences in their jobs and lives.

Social consequences for abusive accounts should work. Decent people pushing back against trolls, blocking them and platform enforcement targeting behaviour not identity are the answers. Make abuse costly in social terms, not political ones.

Because ending anonymity is far more dangerous than the online trolls.

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@CapeTownEtc what are you talking about and where do you get your sources?

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@Abramjee Or maybe put in armed police or army along this stretch for 24/7 - why should visitors have vigilance? What a welcome for tourists in first hour of landing in CPT - "BEWARE of AMBUSH on exit from airport - DO NOT SLOW DOWN!"

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@WallWhiz @JoJoFromJerz It is alleged he drugged her. Also why can't she go to his hotel room? He didn't have to drug and rape her?

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@snicklink Please send me a download of this its gold!

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@snicklink @grok i need to download or link this video outside of X

[justlenasart @justlenasart]

I am in Bali now for 2 weeks …. And I’m too old for this place.

The crowd is easy to spot.
Yoga mats. Linen bags. Tattoos.
Matcha to go.
Scooters. No helmet. No shirt.

It’s almost a UNIFORM/ BRAND of
the consciously awakened nomad, spiritually aligned,
recently escaped from the 9–5 pressure of the West.

Three months in Bali. Sometimes more.

Living well on prices they’d complain about back home.

Sitting in cafés, MacBooks open,
talking about healing, spirituality, the next cacao ceremony.

And how much they LOVE this island.

Sure you do.

You love your photos.
The aesthetic.
The affordable “healthy lifestyle”…. bowls, matcha, sunlight.

But DO YOU actually love Bali?

Because loving a place isn’t just consuming what’s beautiful.
It’s taking responsibility for what isn’t.

And the other Bali exists too….
trash in the streets,
sick street dogs, stray cats,
the parts that don’t fit your feed.

They don’t disappear just because you crop them out.

So here’s a thought:

Skip one smoothie. One.

And donate that money to the people actually doing the work here…
cleaning up what your version of Bali ignores.

Or at least BE HONEST.

You don’t love Bali.
You love the version of it that looks good on your social media feed.

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@james_xond Solo travel is amazing! Your own itinerary at your own pace.

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@slmkmn @Mr_SPICI agreed

[Western Cape APD @WC_APD]

Employees who are not wheelchair users spend four hours navigating their workplace in a wheelchair & quickly discover the barriers persons with disabilities face every day. A powerful awareness experience by WCAPD. [email protected] Read full Article: https://t.co/j3gT1f63nO

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@soigomaa HAichiko with Richard Gere

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@CapeTownEtc wtf? this should have gone to affordable housing not a cult?????

[Cath Jenkin @cathjenkin]

Hello, South African journalists:

Epstein and his associates were NOT engineering "sex crimes"

Sex is consensual.

What they were doing is rape.

Use words properly.

[Stepha @StephaEnyinna]

Why is women’s independence always framed as loneliness?

[angry buni 🤬 @theangriestbuni]

Imagine being a woman and getting a Nobel Peace Prize medal and giving it to a rapist who’s best friend was a child sex trafficker.

[Ingrid VDH, PhD @inxvdh]

@donwinslow Truly psychotic..Shame you Americans are privy to this in 21st century... It's outdated dick swinging bullshit so those with intellect would just ignore it. Opiates for the masses.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

it’s probably worth noting that for all of the right-wing narrative around Minneapolis being unsafe, there has only been *one* homicide in the city so far this year.

it happened today and was committed by a masked ICE agent