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Hera Hussain حرا
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Founder , fight gender-based violence with tech. Feminist technologist. Live trauma-informed design. Forbes & MIT U35. . Fellow.🇵🇰🇬🇧.
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Folks, 2023 is 10 years of . It's still here, standing, and growing despite all the odds. Survivor-led. Global. Multi-lingual. Trauma-informed. Open source. Free. Our community wants to mark this year with some sort of celebration of the effort that's gone into it.
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A woman was raped in the largest public park in the middle of the capital city - one of the few public spaces that women have access to. Raped at gunpoint and then told by her perpetrators that this should be a warning; that she should not have been out for a walk after sunset.
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Thisssssssssss! 🙌🏽 Also Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic country. It's not just Pashtuns. When you have to remind political pundits of this - it just tells you - how many people have made careers out of talking absolute garbage about Afghanistan and KP.
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Dictators don’t represent people; they oppress them. Taliban are dictators, not elected representatives of Afghans or Pashtuns.
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An Action Hero is on Netflix & everyone should watch this excellent Bollywood 📽️ feat . The movie pulls you into an interesting conversation about the power dynamics of the audience & the entertainer, entitlement, the male ego & our complicated relationship with fame.
"I feel more vulnerable in my uniform than in anything else." 16/17 yr old girls talking about older men sending them pictures of their d*ck & videos of them masturbating, and then requesting images back bec they now "owed" them. 👋🏽All agree that tech corps need to do way more
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"I feel shame & embarrassment..." What Emily is experiencing is what many survivors of sexual assault face even though deep down they know, the shame is not theirs. They haven't done anything to do this but our brains drag us there. It's something 's courses unpack.
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Women talk about this publicly all the time. How much more proof do you need? Yes, it is very threatening and can change your behaviour online. You start policing yourself. For journalists and prominent activists, these threats can materialise into physical threats too.
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Re: the pub scene and men being surprised about women receiving rape and death threats. I keep coming across this in my personal life too. I keep sharing how this is common and the response is always incredulous (surely that can't be true?!).
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Emily talks about men commenting, liking and messaging on her posts expecting a response. This is a form of (sexual) entitlement. Many women in the public eye face this. You are not entitled to a stranger's attention.
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I said women are posting to their public profile, it's not an invitation for men to send them a message. Also, we would never tolerate any man flashing a woman on a beach - a nude one or not. The online space is no different.
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"Maybe this is down to me and maybe I need to change." Heartbreaking to hear say this but sadly most survivors will go through these thoughts too. I've done many interviews last week and this Q comes up again. Are women asking for it if they post "sexy" pictures?
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💔 scenes from Peshawar
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Watch: An explosion took place at a mosque, where a large number of people had gathered for prayer, in the northwestern city of #Peshawar in #Pakistan, according to a police official. english.alarabiya.net/News/world/202
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A huge loss for London!
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Sad news. We’ve received notice to vacate our premises at Bethnal Green by the end of this week. As a property guardianship, we’ve always been aware that we may be asked to leave with very short notice. We’re disappointed that it has come so soon.
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