Chris

@laurawattsflem1 My boy.

19 year old Iranian wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi was just publicly executed for protesting against the Islamic Regime. So, to all liberal Westerners: Watch and learn. This is what it’s like to ACTUALLY live in a nation with no free speech.

This was how I began thinking when I was trans identified, after being convinced of the brain sex theory and the combination of internalized and external homophobia I completely rejected the possibility of being gay for so long. I just couldn't face the reality of it. It's taken me many years to slowly shed the prejudice I had internalized and see what I had been led to believe was completely based on lies. So thankful for groups like @genspect and @LGBCourage for fighting for kids exactly like me. I wish groups like this existed when I was young and needed support to accept myself. Instead I was put through extreme body modification to heteronormatize me.

Well if you continue to bastardize women’s language, the only language we have to advocate for ourselves as a sex class legally and politically is, then you’re probably going to continue to get pushback from women. We are human beings who are unique from men. It’s disgustingly misogynistic to dissociate us from our embodied humanity into an abstract objectified identity label for men. You will continue to get called out for this sexist dehumanization of women. Especially when your language perpetuates entitled men to disrespect our boundaries, privacy, and safeguarding in the single sex provisions our foremothers fought for CENTURIES to attain. The absolute audacity of you. STOP. 🛑

"Jo Delahunty KC: ‘The bar was a cat-and-mouse game for abusers’ The ‘radical feminist’ tells Catherine Baksi about the harassment female lawyers have endured and why she’s still fighting for a more ‘inclusive’ profession" The Times archive.today/fYL4u

This woman was described as ‘the meanest woman’ when she was pictured (left) in March 1942, before the lobotomy. In the second picture two weeks later she is described as ‘giggling a lot’ but has lost much of her hair. Although I am unable to identify this woman when doing research, it is not an uncommon tale in the 1940s. Lobotomies were promoted as a breakthrough treatment for mental illness. Developed by Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz in 1935 (he later won the Nobel Prize in 1949), the procedure involved severing connections in the brain’s frontal lobes. In the United States, Dr. Walter Freeman popularized a quicker “ice-pick” technique that could be performed in minutes. Between the late 1930s and early 1950s, an estimated 40,000–50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. alone. Many patients were women. They were institutionalized for reasons that today would range from depression to defiance, trauma, or simply not conforming to social expectations. Outcomes ranged from temporary calm to permanent cognitive damage, personality changes, seizures, and death. “Improvement” was often defined as compliance or quietness. We have come a long way baby...Thank God. By the mid-1950s, the introduction of antipsychotic medications like chlorpromazine led to a rapid decline in lobotomies, and the procedure is now considered one of the most controversial chapters in psychiatric history. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories

We had a great zoom meeting with @michaelpforan recently. Here he is explaining why there is no need to wait for the @EHRC to deliver bespoke guidance for each and every situation that may arise. Inexplicably however, organisations STILL drag their feet. Michael Foran is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Keble College, specialising in public law, equality, and anti-discrimination law.

Croatian women in Bosnia and Herzegovina displaying traditional tattoos known as sicanje or bocanje. These pagan designs were worn by Balkan Slavs to avoid forced conversion to Islam, 1930-1940... Sicanje tattoos were used by Catholic women to identify themselves as Catholics and thus save themselves from forced marriages, abduction into the harem, and rape during the Ottoman period. This method of tattooing in our country arose during the Ottoman occupation of medieval Bosnia and continued to be practiced extensively until the end of the Second World War. After the end of the Second World War, sicanje slowly disappeared into oblivion, but in certain areas, it can still be found. During Ottoman times, anyone who was marked in this way would be prevented from converting to another religion, that is, to Islam. However, this was not always the case. According to the traditions collected by Croatian ethnologist Ćiro Truhelka, there is evidence that some Catholic women who were tattooed, but who still converted to Islam so they could marry the man they loved. According to one of the articles in the Glasnik magazine, published by the BiH National Museum, Truhelka and Dr. Leopold Glück were the first to talk about “common” tattooing, as it was called then. Marking religious, ethnic, or any other affiliation with tattoos was common at that time, but much more so among Catholics than any other peoples. “When we were little girls, Mare’s aunt used to do it. That’s how it was in the old days, that’s what our people did to show that they were Croats during the Turkish occupation,” explained Marta, also a resident of Rumbok. The girls who decided to get sicanje tattoos mostly did so between the ages of 10 and 15. Those I spoke to told me that they had done it at the age of 15. “When I was little, this [tattoo] was done by your late relative,” Marta tells Mare, laughing. A question that really intrigued me was whether men also tattooed each other. The answer I received was “rarely,” to which Mare added, “It was so nice for us and us women wanted to do it.” They confirmed that while “almost every girl had tattoos,” it was rare for men. Later in the conversation, Marta mentioned that her late brother had tattoos similar to hers. Truhelka’s sources confirm that tattooing was more frequent among women. Both hands were tattooed, but according to Truhelka, the left hand was slightly more tattooed. Sometimes women had so many tattoos on their hands that the color of the hand wasn’t visible. Women tattooed their arms, above and below the elbow, as well as their hands. Chests were also tattooed along the sternum. Sometimes you could also see some simple design on the forehead. Truhelka says that in that period, it was mostly women from Central Bosnia who were tattooed, especially in the cities of Sarajevo, Visoko, Travnik, Fojnica, Prozor/Rama, Bugojno, and the Banja Luka area. The custom was slightly less common in Olovo, Vareš, Vijaci, and in the Neretvica river valley. When men decided to get tattooed, they would get a simple design above their right elbow or a cross on their index finger. The men also used to get tattoos under their armpits or behind their ears. They even got designs from stećaks or traditional tombstones. © Matija Krivošić #archaeohistories

Gay people demanding equality in the west and excusing the worst human rights abuses against lgbt people in Iran are displaying the epitome of bigotry of low expectations.

This is what Smallpox looked like in a world without vaccines. You've never seen such a thing. Know why? Because vaccines work...

Either women accept men in women-only sports, which eliminates women-only sports. Or they don't, which eliminates women-only sports.

"The Crown had maintained the evidence pointed to a well-thought-out plan to commit the crimes." It usually does, especially when #femicide motivations are involved. Quebec father who drowned his 2 children found guilty of murder - Montreal | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11736865/… (1/2)

This guy was arrested for raping an infant girl.

I wrote about a recent Canadian court ruling that it's perfectly fine to deny a group the right to advertise the dictionary definition of "woman." Link ⬇️ (paywall, but tons of stuff above it).

🚨Police to monitor victims not perpetrators 🚨 It's always the victim who loses rights and privacy. "Hand over your phone," they say. Now it's "We'll tag you to keep you safe." Because monitoring serious criminals sounds too much like policing.

On this day in 1923, Henry Morgentaler was born. A Holocaust survivor, he spent his life fighting for women's abortion rights. This lead to the landmark Supreme Court case Morgentaler v R. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2022/10/04/r-v…

Bobby Green, just watched your this, the way your voice broke when you spoke about the execution of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari, it broke me. You were right. It’s heartbreaking. Today Saleh Mohamadi, 19-year old wrestler executed for protesting. We need your voice again. 💔

Suffragette-defaced Edward VII penny with subversive political graffiti for the UK women's suffrage cause - 20thC, via British Museum #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Whoever wants to eat non-halal Indian food, please DM me for bookings or just walk in. The restaurant is not busy, as bulk fake bookings are made online to sabotage my business. Looking forward to see you

Jenna here, as a survivor of prostitution, some of the worst memories I have are of men who were not physically strong. They were elderly, disabled and just as entitled as any other man who bought sex. nordicmodelnow.org/myths-about-pr…