it hurts my soul when a celebrity dies and people only post pictures of them when they’re young. this is what olivia hussey looked like, she lived a full life and deserves to be remembered as she was and not just as her younger self.
Dominique Pelicot, French man who drugged+raped his wife, brought men from the internet to rape her, filmed the rapes, plus drugged, raped, photographed his unconscious daughter, was found guilty.
This is the rapist. Show him. Stop using his wife’s picture to report his crimes.
BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, more than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.
Most of the people cheering this on have no real idea what these entities really do. I used Planned Parenthood extensively in college because I could get my yearly gynecological exam and birth control for absolutely nothing. You can also get cancer screenings, STD testing, and HPV vaccinations. This is a critical service for low-income women.
You want to cut the funding for PBS, and yet all I hear about is conservatives bitching about their free speech and being “silenced.” Most of the people complaining about PBS don’t even watch it.
Just asinine.
Gisele Pelicot’s final statement about her filmed, drugged, unconscious rape by 51 men:
"It's time that the macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape changes…It's time we changed the way we look at rape.”
“I’ve lost 10 years of my life…This scar will never heal.”
My biggest nightmare is getting captured by a serial killer, then r*ped, t**tured, murdered and dumped like my life meant nothing. Then get labelled as hook up gone wrong.
one time years ago I said ‘men are trash’ and my dad got really annoyed by it. my mum had to stop and ask him ‘when you’re warning her not to be out late, to be careful, telling her that it’s not safe etc who are you warning her about? not women’
New ad from the Harris campaign on reproductive freedom, ahead of the VP's speech in Texas on Friday. This is a very tough one to watch, but it's incredibly important to. Thank you so much to Ondrea and Ceasar for trusting us to share their story.
Gisèle Pelicot walking to take the stand today, her strength echoing in every step:
“It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them,” she told the court.
"I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer,"