To celebrate International Women’s Day, tonight In The Fray tweeted links from stories we’ve published over the past decade that relate to violence against women. We joined thousands of other individuals and groups in a twenty-four-hour, global tweet-a-thon to raise awareness about gender-based violence. In case you were asleep during our time slot, here are the links we tweeted:
Breaking the Silence, by April D. Boland
When Rape Becomes Normal, by Anna Sussman and Jonathan Jones
Naked Feminists: A Conversation with Director Louisa Achille, by Laura Nathan-Garner
Gender Outlaws, by Emily Alpert
Genocide Is Not a Spectator Sport, by Anustup Nayak
Sisters of Fate, by Sarah Marian Seltzer
Here are the tweets:
"Words are powerful and can influence a young boy. Jokes about beating women are inhumane." http://t.co/Q6DZCY6c6g #EndVAW #IWD2013
— In The Fray (@inthefray) March 9, 2013
"One woman described her life as less valuable than that of a chicken." http://t.co/bm1lAIiTX5 #EndVAW #IWD2013
— In The Fray (@inthefray) March 9, 2013
Trend in #porn "to push the boundaries of sexual violence towards women as far as possible." http://t.co/FYC1SQQjrL #EndVAW #IWD2013
— In The Fray (@inthefray) March 9, 2013
In prison #transgender women are targeted for #rape by inmates, officers: Sex is "way of survival." http://t.co/5Iww7VBuA2 #EndVAW #IWD2013
— In The Fray (@inthefray) March 9, 2013
"Women and children were singled out for the most perverse forms of torture." http://t.co/06OojU02mX #EndVAW #IWD2013
— In The Fray (@inthefray) March 9, 2013
Surviving war, forgiving each other: “Parents die, daughters grow up, but sisters are for life.” http://t.co/sPvooDTFvb #EndVAW #IWD2013
— In The Fray (@inthefray) March 9, 2013
Victor Tan Chen Victor Tan Chen is In The Fray's editor in chief and the author of Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy. Site: victortanchen.com | Facebook | Twitter: @victortanchen
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