Some call it “domestic violence.” But “domestic” is important only when it hurts men and the State--as in Domestic Terrorism.
Otherwise “domestic”--as in domestic violence--is not taken seriously. It is private, it is hidden, it happens in the realm of the home, that space cleaned and cared for by women, that space headed and ruled by men, that space where women are most endangered. Home is where the hurt is. 
If terrorism means politically-motivated violence intended to scare us into changing the way we behave, then surely femicide is terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology; cis men are the terrorists.

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

https://open.substack.com/pub/feministgiant/p/essay-home-is-where-the-hurt-is?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Human rights defenders are often targeted, which forces them to hide and reduce their movement or change their place of residence for fear of arrest or death. Youssef says many other women human rights defenders are subjected to bullying and smear campaigns on the Internet as a result of their demands to stop the war, while others have been killed. One of them is Bahjaa Abdelaa Abdelaa, who before her death, had been sent death threats for monitoring rape cases.

#HowTheLawFailsWomen #HomelessnessIsAtTheIntersectionOfWarMisogynyPovertyMilitarismRacism

https://open.substack.com/pub/feministgiant/p/global-roundup-bulgaria-lgbtq-rights?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Screaming. Insubstantial. Hysterical. What men call banshees, women call prophecy. And of course if there are any sitting justices on the Roberts court whose entire jurisprudence can be reduced to a soggy skein of hurt feelings and self-pity, they are not females… But although Roberts cannot bring himself to even imagine the thing that actually happened in 2021, Sotomayor just can’t blind herself to it.

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/john-roberts-trump-immunity-sotomayor-dissent-boys-vs-girls.html

#HowTheLawFailsWomen: Britain pays Kenya about $400,000 a year to allow its soldiers to train… Allegations of rape and other crimes, including murder, by British soldiers deployed there date back to the 1950s… reference to hundreds of women from the mostly pastoralist Maasai and Samburu communities

#PatriarchyViolatesUDHR

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/africa/british-army-abandoned-children-kenya-intl/index.html

Obstetrics harms: Around the world – from Ukraine to Sudan to Gaza – violence experienced by pregnant civilians, women giving birth, nursing women, and women struggling to survive in the period after childbirth remains entirely at the sidelines of global political conversations. 

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

https://justsecuritypodcast.buzzsprout.com/2074610/14959515

Trying to close a loophole since 1978 for soldiers accused of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, kidnapping and murder that resulted in discharge instead of court martial or chapter 10.

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-army-soldiers-violent-crimes

If it has become routine to ask “Who radicalized them?” about violent armed militants, be they Muslim or white supremacists, that question is even more imperative to ask of men who commit femicide. Because they are everywhere, in all our countries, in all our cultures.
We deserve to be free of the terrorism of cis men.

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

https://open.substack.com/pub/feministgiant/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation:
“Corporations and states typically concentrate power among men during project negotiations, limiting women’s autonomy and normalizing their oppression.” When women then speak out against environmentally destructive projects or attempt to defend their communities from them, such action “defies gender expectations of docility (lack of retaliation) and sacrifice (absorption of extractive consequences).”

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-violence-faced-by-women-environmental-defenders/

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

Women’s Health Month: Many white suffragists were unwilling to address the issues of racial inequality, and some even actively excluded Black women from their organizations. As a result, separate groups were formed, such as the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which advocated for both racial and gender equality. 
This is especially ironic to reflect upon today, as many white women have critiqued spaces and groups designed for people of the global majority while forgetting that historically, it was they who segregated. We created separate spaces not out of hatred but out of necessity. 

#CRTisHerstory #JournalisticMalPracticeIsRampantFromSegregationToGaza

https://open.substack.com/pub/here4thekids/p/womens-history-month-a-corrective?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

#HowTheLawFailsWomen

Aside from the most obvious effect of fetal personhood laws—banning abortion—and the recent court ruling making IVF unworkable in Alabama, these laws also assist prosecutors in criminalizing women for their conduct while pregnant. At its most expansive, fetal personhood applies all of the states’ laws to embryos and fetuses, including child welfare statutes.

#HowTheLawFailsWomen #CriminalizingMotherhood #AbolishPoliceAbolishPrisons

https://open.substack.com/pub/keeptrack/p/fetal-personhood-laws-are-about-more?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios