#genderviolence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #genderviolence, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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"#Afghan #women and girls continue to live under a system of institutionalized persecution — while governments, tourists and influencers increasingly treat the regime as a legitimate partner, and #Afghanistan as a travel destination" https://ricochet.media/international/five-years-of-the-talibans-gender-apartheid-in-afghanistan/
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CW: #usPol #genderViolence #transRights
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It is a day to honour the murdered and missing. #Yellowknife showed up! https://cklbradio.com/2026/05/05/hundreds-turn-out-in-yellowknife-to-march-against-violence-on-red-dress-day/
#RedDressDay #MMIWG #LivesCutShort #Violence #GenderViolence
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@brfaucette Thank you so much for recommending this compelling book. It is devastating, dark, entrancing and revelatory as you say. And as one reviewer said unputdownable.
#gender #misogyny #genderviolence #ModernGothic #sisterhood #books #bookstodon
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@nativeCalgarian Chilling! "In 2024 dollars, male-perpetrated domestic #violence costs #Calgary approximately $58 million every year. Ninety per cent of that cost is borne by taxpayers. The remaining 10 per cent is absorbed directly by victims, who have already experienced profound harm."
#Gender #GenderViolence #DomesticViolence #femicide #Alberta #Canada
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@CindySue @bookstodon Just finished this excellent #memoir. Gotta' question what has changed and whether in fact patriarchal predators and institutional corruption are even worse these days.
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Last book of 2025! This #memoir confronts the consequences of a middle class white woman from GOP lineage speaking truth to power. I wondered if she really thought the outcomes would be different than they were for Anita Hill? She articulates the #trauma survivors of #sexualAssault experience including victim blaming, harassment, death threats and #criminalization. It is a compelling, courageous and honest story. #GenderViolence #SupremeCourt #USpol #patriarchy #MeToo #books #bookstodon
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Finishing #reading Dream Count, the powerful stories of four Igbo women confronting #racism, #patriarchy, #poverty, #genderViolence, #sisterhood, #colonialism and so much more from positions of power and influence or not. It's a great read and reminded me about Adichie's wonderful Ted Talk of the danger of a single story. https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
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Finished #reading Evie Woods' celebration of #books and stories through three characters traumatized by and challenging #genderviolence, #addictions, #patriarchy, #misogyny and alienation. Part magical realism, fantasy, historical fiction, and romance, this fast read is pure brain candy and escapism.
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"the biggest threats to #women in #Canada, statistically, are the men closest to them. They are most at risk in their own homes." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-intimate-partner-violence-women-progress-stalled-advocates-fear/?login=true
#Gender #GenderViolence #NationalsDayofRemembrance #NationalDayofMourning
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This is great news that I never would have expected from the current Italian government! Is there a catch to it that I don't immediately see or is it really just a good thing?
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Madrid streets filled with thousands protesting gender violence in Spain.
Thousands of people marched in Madrid as part of more than 40 demonstrations held across Spain on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Many paid tribute to the 38 women killed so far this year, while some groups linked the march to broader social and political causes.
#Spain #GenderbasedViolence #Femicide #GenderViolence #Women #Madrid
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Finished #reading this compelling #memoir. Told with love and deep sadness, there is no #justice in #patriarchal societies that turn a blind eye to #femicide and #intimatePartnerViolence.
#gender #genderViolence #books #bookstodon #PulitzerPrize #literaryPrize
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It is SO much easier for men to blame us than to topple the patriarchy from within.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdu3Q5U/
#masculinity #patriarchy #men #manhood #mentalhealth #gender #genderviolence
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When Does a Boy Learn Gender Superiority?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Br54FQ8jg
#thedarkknaik #feminism #honourkillings #humanrights #womenempowerment #auratmarch #gendersupremacy #superioritycomplex #genderviolence #karachi #lahore #pakistan #education #health #imrankhan
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Feminicide is reshaping Mexico’s demographic future. Between 2000 and 2019, nearly 50,000 women were murdered. Study by @itzeldiazj & Victor Garcia-Guerrero shows that eliminating these gender-based killings could raise women’s life expectancy at birth by up to five years. #Feminicide #Mexico #Demography #GenderViolence
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~Stem voor de mogelijkheid om de organisatie en massale uiting van afschaffing voort te zetten.
~Angst voor radicale verandering zorgt er voor dat velen hun verstand en hart verraden.
~Niet stemmen betekent geen zitting nemen. We hebben niets te verliezen
~Ik ben niet vrij zolang welke vrouw dan ook onvrij is.
Anti Commerciële Actie BewegingSee video ► https://youtu.be/9LiMOThNpxU?si=wtVEQ9ew9-3VXk4p&t=984
#stemvegan #stemopeenvrouw #verkiezingen #whiteprivilege #devrijestem #acab #angeladavis #bellhooks #audrelorde #assatashakur #johnlewis #stateviolence #genderviolence #vote #stemrecht
#feminist #feminism #antiracist #antifascisme @PSRF @doorbraak #anticommercieleactiebeweging -
💥Announcement! Monday 22.09.2025💥
📜 Workshop and Presentation: Dealing with gender violence 📜
Monday, 22.09.2025 | 7 p.m. | Kadterschmiede, Rigaer Straße 94, 10247 Berlin
Arrival: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=13213 - @rigaer94
WORKSHOP AND PRESENTATION
Dealing with gender violence from a transformative justice perspective
La Cinetika squat social centre from Barcelona presents their guide and experience on how to prevent and confront gender violence trying to avoid punishment culture.
This approach pays special attention to repair the damage and transform the systemic context that produces violence without stabilizing punitive measures.
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💥Ankündigung! Montag 22.09.2025💥
📜 Workshop und Präsentation: Umgang mit geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt 📜
Montag, 22.09.2025 | 19:00 Uhr | Kadterschmiede, Rigaer Straße 94, 10247 Berlin
Anreise: U5, M10, M21 Frankfurter Tor | M10, M21 Bersarinplatz
📣 Aufruf: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=13213 - @rigaer94
WORKSHOP UND PRÄSENTATION
Umgang mit geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt aus der Perspektive der transformativen Gerechtigkeit
Das besetzte Sozialzentrum La Cinetika aus Barcelona stellt seinen Leitfaden und seine Erfahrungen zur Prävention und Bekämpfung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt vor, wobei versucht wird, eine Kultur der Bestrafung zu vermeiden.
Dieser Ansatz legt besonderen Wert darauf, den Schaden zu beheben und den systemischen Kontext, der Gewalt hervorbringt, zu verändern, ohne strafende Maßnahmen zu verfestigen.
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#DrawTheLine protests this week have focused on many #injustices. In #Yellowknife people march to take back the streets. https://cabinradio.ca/259605/news/yellowknife/yellowknifers-march-to-take-back-the-night/
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Fathers, teach your sons to be better!
“Gender-based violence and misogyny are not new problems in schools. But researchers who spoke to The Tyee say they have been amplified through the rise of the so-called ‘manosphere,’ a loose online movement of masculinity influencers such as anti-feminist psychologist Jordan Peterson and ex-mixed martial arts fighter Andrew Tate, who is facing sex trafficking and rape charges in Romania.”
— Katie Hyslop in @thetyee(Edited to add “to be better”)
#GenderViolence #Misogynists #Misogyny
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/19/Andrew-Tate-Effect-Classroom/
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@deborahh Everything about this incident is disturbing and disgusting.
#gender #genderViolence #sexism #hockey #Canada #whitemalePrivilege
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Very tragic!
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Lawsuit filed after Texas Woman's University nursing student Elizabeth 'Tami' Odunsi murdered allegedly by her roommate - ABC13 #Houston
https://abc13.com/post/lawsuit-filed-texas-womans-university-nursing-student-elizabeth-tami-odunsi-murdered-allegedly-roommate/17026442/