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A reminder

Hadia worries most about her 13-year-old daughter, fearing the girl could be pushed into an early marriage by her father-in-law. As a victim of forced marriage herself, she knows what that would be like.
Read more: rukhshana.com/en/no-one-wi...

Sarah’s story is not an isolated one. Many LGBT people around the world are still enduring the same violence, silence, and exile.
Let’s not forget them. 🌹

harassment from people in Egypt -messages that never stopped. In June 2020, Sarah ended her life in Toronto. She left behind a heartbreaking farewell letter:
To my siblings — I tried and I failed, forgive me.
It was too hard.
To the world — you were extremely cruel, but I forgive.” 💔

The Egyptian regime also denied her permission to attend her mother’s funeral, deepening her CPTSD and emotional suffering. She was charged with “inciting immorality.”
Even after being granted asylum in Canada, she continued to receive threats and

She spent three months in prison, where she was subjected to sexual violence by authorities, electric shocks, solitary confinement, and the stripping away of even the most basic human rights.

Sarah Hegazy was a lesbian from Egypt who died by suicide in Canada after enduring severe trauma. In 2017, she was arrested for raising a rainbow flag at a concert — a simple act of visibility that led to a brutal chain of events.

Photo of a large cast sculpture in plaster in a gallery space of the negative area around a staircase, showing two sets of stairs

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Stairs) 2001, the artist is known for her large scale sculptures which cast the space inside or around objects and architectural features #WomensArt

a cartoon of a woman with red hair and the words " when the lactose kicks in " Alt: a cartoon of a woman with red hair and the words " when the lactose kicks in "

Okay, I know my ass is #lactoseintolerant but the vicious ads I keep seeing about it are almost comical at this point.

In addition to that, due to my #fibromyalgia I'm beginning to have issues with gluten.

I can't fucking win.

It’s important to look beyond slogans and question who really benefits from these alliances.

The Islamic regime in Iran is not a friend of Palestine.
Their support comes with political agendas and power plays. True support for Palestine means standing with the people’s rights and liberation not using their struggle as a tool for regional influence or sectarian control.

The Islamic regime in Iran is not a friend of Palestine.
Free Iran! Free Palestine! Free Kurdistan!

In Their Own Words: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Patients Describe Their Symptoms I would not wish this illness on my worst enemy (if I had one), but sometimes I wish the naysayers could live in our bodies for a few days.. The symptoms are taken from a thread on the Health Rising ...

In Their Own Words: #MECFS & #Fibromyalgia Patients Describe Their Symptoms @CortJohnson

"I would not wish this illness on my worst enemy (if I had one)... sometimes I wish the naysayers could live in our bodies."
🔗
www.healthrising.org/forums/resou...

#MEAwareness #FibromyalgiaAwareness

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white woman in a suit with a cigarette in her right hand facing slight left and looking outwards

"I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude" - Colette,
French author, actress and journalist
#WomensArt

"People with schizophrenia are dangerous and should be locked away."
"I’m dangerous too… when I decide to knock your glass off the table at 3 AM."
#mentalhealth
#schizophrenia

“Autistic people don’t have empathy.”
Should I educate you or scratch you? 🐱
#autism

Photo of a dark coloured statue of a sitting woman on white blocks in long skirt with one arm resting on her knee and the otber hand propping up her chin, the sculpture is surrounded by three storey stone buidings

Statue of Anne Lister (1791-1840) by artist Diane Lawrenson, Halifax, UK, unveiled by actress Suranne Jones (who played the landowning diarist & adventurer in the TV series 'Gentleman Jack'). Lister is often described as "the first modern lesbian". #WomensArt

Photo of a hand with palm showing, with brown and black significant symbols and designs on the palm and fingers

Mehndi, the intricate designs drawn on the hands of Muslim and Hindu women using henna ink to celebrate festivals and significant events/dates #WomensArt

Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

Monocrome photograph of two young women in long grass in a field facing forwards and looki g happy, one waves, behind are trees

WOMENSART blog:
Amrita Sher-Gil, Not the Indian Frida Kahlo
womensartblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/a...

Kenyan migrant workers face exploitation, racism in Saudi Arabia, according to shocking new report - Voice Online Many Kenyan women have said their employers in Saudi Arabia would talk disparagingly about their skin colour because they were from Africa.

'The report also highlights how employers subjected the Women to extreme exploitation in private homes, often fuelled by #racism, and how domestic workers continue to be excluded from #Saudi Arabia’s labour law and other limited reforms.'

#SaudiArabia #Kenya

www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

in schizophrenia and bipolar most people tend to have auditory stuff (human (or other) voices, but also footsteps, knocking, screaming, radio static, cats meowing, sirens, etc--could be anything) more than other senses. in sleep depravation or stress-related psychosis, it tends to be more visual

some of us literally can't work! if i lose my healthcare, I lose my schizophrenia meds, and that would be a terrible time.

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

This is a fantastic article from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social that lays out the core issues with ChatGPT and psychosis. I really appreciate the point that the industry’s own claims about AI technology are not rooted in reality and reinforce delusional thinking. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

Black and white photo of a smiling white woman wearing a floral headscarf and dress, looking adoringly at a shorthaired black and white kitten she holds aloft on her hands.

Adoration. Photo from my collection, 1952.

"Cats don’t have facial expressions."
Meanwhile, my cat: 😾😼😹😻
#cats

Does anyone take this supplement?

Misogyny in the metaverse: is Mark Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women? Graphic sexual content, bullying, abuse and threats of violence are rife in the metaverse - and the NSPCC says a huge proportion of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products. Is it to...

'Mark #Zuckerberg has grandly promised: “In the #metaverse, you’ll be able to do almost anything you can imagine.” It’s the sort of promise that might sound intensely appealing to some men and terrifying to most women.' #LauraBates

#misogyny #Meta

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

Fascinating article...

'The collective Lesbianas y Feministas por la Descriminalización del Aborto (Lesbians and Feminists for Abortion Decriminalization) started the hotline with a dozen volunteers.'

#Argentina #LatinAmerica #Abortion #AbortionRights

www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...

Murder of young Iranian woman reignites debates on sexism and justice The murder of 24-year-old Elahe Hosseinnejad gripped Iran, sparking grief and anger over gender violence, legal discrimination and the state’s failure to protect women.

“How is it that thousands of agents and surveillance cameras are present across cities to harass #Iranian women for improper veiling, but no measures (are taken) to ensure the safety of citizens, especially #Women?” #Iran

#Femicide #FiLiA2025 #WomanLifeFreedom

www.iranintl.com/en/202506069...