and if I say this is how we decenter marriage: by accepting family and care structures that are not built around romantic/hetero/sexual relationships and striving to enable legal rights + benefit sharing beyond marriage
@soigomaa Superb! Because upskirting is a real "gateway crime" for all types of sexual perversion. It's how they got on to M.Pelicot, for example. Big red flag, and a reason to check a man's hard drive. Well done Gina Martin! Brava, and thank you.
Her name is Gina Martin. She was at a music festival in London when a man pushed his phone between her legs and took a photo under her skirt. She reported it to the police immediately. They told her it wasn't a criminal offence. There was nothing they could do.
She went home and decided that was unacceptable. With no legal background, no political connections and no funding she launched a campaign to make upskirting a criminal offence in England and Wales. She petitioned. She lobbied MPs. She spoke publicly about what had happened to her. The government initially blocked the bill.
She kept going. The Voyeurism Act passed in January 2019. Upskirting now carries up to two years in prison. Scotland followed. Other countries are following. A woman at a festival with no lawyer, no funding and no political connections rewrote the law for an entire nation in eighteen months.
Petition to stop the olive companies from pitting ALL the olives. Some of us like the PITS! I like the ritual of nibbling around them and savouring my olive😭
“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked my autistic friend whose pattern recognition gives her borderline prophetic accuracy even though no one ever listens to her because she’s awkward and has bad timing and says the wrong thing and has no control over her body or volume or brain