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We’re an African/Black feminist movement working for gender justice | Conveners #TotalShutDownKE Against Femicide. | Join the community. 👇🏾

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

9 months

In 2019, alarmed by the increasing cases of femicide and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya, we rallied together in the #TotalShutdownKe march to protest and demand accountability. Sadly, femicide persists today, exacerbated by an increasingly misogynistic online environment (1)

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4 years

She was arrested, tortured and sexually assaulted for raising the Pride flag while at a concert in Egypt. She died by suicide while in asylum in Canada. “The world was brutal, but I forgive” Say her name. #SarahHegazi Rest in Power.

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We urge the feminist community in Kenya & globally to amplify the call for the immediate release of the following women who have been abducted: 1. Harriet ( @Harriet_divine ) 2. Ms. Wega ( @NthiaNadia ) 3. Chebett ( @KiruiChebet8 ) We must not forget them. #RejectFinanceBill

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Tupo Site! See you all soon at the March! #TotalShutDownKE

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We mourn the loss of Rebecca Cheptegei and remember Agnes Tirop whose talents were taken from the world at the hands of femicide. We stand united against violence towards women both in the sports industry and beyond #EndFemicide #TotalShutdownKE #StopKillingWomen #SayTheirNames

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Men who want to be feminists don't need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society and make it feminist. Kelley Temple.

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For showing up, for raising your voices, for saying their names, for marching - asanteni sana. The work continues- we will be providing more updates in the coming days. #TotalShutDownKE #EndFemicide

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4 years

Haki yetu! We the people! Power to the people! #SabaSabaMarchForOurlives

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This is why we March! #TotalShutDownKE

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Kenyan misogynist starter pack:- 1. Chimamanda is the only feminist I respect. 2. Akothee is not a role model. 3. Listen, I went to law school. 4. I understand feminism better than these pseudo feminists. 5. Makeups. (1)

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8 months

Our feminist solidarity stands firmly with Queer Ghanaians following the passing of a legislation that criminalizes and punishes anyone identifying as LGBTQ+. This legislation will have devastating consequences on human rights and democracy and we call on the global feminist

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4 months

We are joining all Kenyans in #rejectfinancebill2024 ! Read our series on the implications of this Bill! #RejectFinanceBill2024

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4 years

We share the anger and pain of the students of Lugulu Girls High School as they march in the streets of Webuye to protest cases of rape and sexual assault in the school. We demand that the school administration stop silencing the students & perpetrators arrested immediately!

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4 years

Expert Ugandan and Ghanaian feminists have entered the chat.

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9 months

Here’s a feminist reminder that women deserve to exist fully and express themselves both online and offline without self-censoring themselves due to the fear of surveillance, scrutiny and nitpicking of their words, bodies , sexuality lifestyles and decisions. 🧵

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9 months

Being a woman should not be a death sentence! As Kenyan women, including LBQT+ women and girls in all our diversities, we are tired of the dehumanization that permeates our existence, the tragically normalized occurrences of femicide, and the pervasive victim-blaming rhetoric (1)

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3 years

Stop the lynching of old women on the suspicion of practicing witchcraft. Witch-hunting always targets older women living alone, impoverished, widowed or divorced. The patriarchal culture of blaming and lynching older women to oust them from their rightfully owned land must stop.

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9 months

#TotalShutDownKE #WeAreNotSafeKE #EndFemicideKE March Updates Permits have been confirmed for most counties, including Nairobi. We do not anticipate any arrests but in case it happens, we have legal teams on standby to offer support.

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

9 months

We have consolidated all the March meeting points in this poster. Please also check the individual posters (on our Instagram) to know the specific locations, and times for each city. Nyeri is set to march on January 26th, while the rest of the cities will march on January 27th.

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4 months

Kenya’s liberation must happen in tandem with the liberation of Kenyan women. We must not forget that. Amplify the abduction of @Harriet_divine @NthiaNadia @KiruiChebet8 and call for their release! #RejectFinanceBill2024 #FreeHarriet #FreeNadia #FreeChebet

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9 months

Nandi county will be marching tomorrow against femicide! Remember to amplify their voices and continue the conversation to #endfemicide #TotalShutDownKE

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3 years

The causes of rape are rapists, emboldened by patriarchal systems of violence. Not clothes. Stop attaching morality to clothing @CoopVarsityKE and pull down this harmful banner.

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9 months

We know it’s been a challenging few weeks, so we wanted to share some feminist care notes ahead of tomorrow’s march against femicide. We hope you reflect on these words and see you all tomorrow! #TotalShutDownKE

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9 months

Sending our solidarity with folks in Nyeri as they collectively March against femicide in Kenya. We’re also excited to welcome Homabay county as they join us on 27th! The Homabay meeting point is at Kendubay Showground at 10.00 a.m! #TotalShutdownKE

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4 years

Here is your daily reminder that access to safe abortion is a reproductive health right that women need, deserve and must be decriminalised!

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2 years

Re: Uganda and the proposed Anti-LGBTQ bill - we protest the dominant structures that provide privilege to heterosexuality as the default and normal way of expressing sexuality.

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So happy for trans activist Audrey Mbugua, who will now be able to change her name on her academic certificates after the Court of Appeal upheld the decision compelling KNEC to change her name. This is also a daily reminder to keep showing unwavering support for trans womxn.

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To become a feminist is to stay a student. Sara Ahmed.

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We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. We love the revolutionary and radical movement building of earlier feminists and a lot of that herstory has been erased to a certain point but as feminists in 2019, we owe it to the movement and to our ancestors to rewrite it

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9 months

The collective calls to end femicide have echoed all over Kenya!! The movement against femicide belongs to every woman in the country. Mombasa will march on 27th! Come march with us & let our collective voice echo in every city, town, and village. #TotalShutDownKE #StopKillingUs

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6 months

Consent is important. Seek it actively, seek it continuously, let it be informed and remember, it can be revoked at any time!

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3 years

The Olympics 🤝 misogynoir

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3 months

Reminder that labeling protesters as ‘anarchists’ is misleading. Protesting is not anarchy. It is a constitutional right. Exercising our freedom of assembly is not anarchy, it is a democratic expression.

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4 years

Whatever you do, don’t ever become tolerant to your own oppression. Don’t accept it. Don’t become numb to it. Don’t ignore it. Don’t become it.

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Dr. Nyanzi's activism is a constant reminder to feminists that at the very centre of our politics is to question hegemonic power and to do this, we must silence our fears, divest from respectability and speak even when our voices shake.

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Here's your daily reminder that well behaved womxn never made history. Remember to disrupt the system, stand up for yourself, refuse to be roped in respectability and be ungovernable. Good morning to all womxn who are boisterous disruptors of the system.

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4 years

Kibera arrested team; Editar ochieng Vincent Odhiambo Frank Chacha Ruth Ochieng Rian Mercy Belinda Adhiambo Caren Akinyi Sharon Risper Angela Hope Caren Brandy Emily Akinyi Lavian Anyango Beryl Anyango Beatrice Adhiambo Millicent Atieno #SabaSabaMarchForOurlives

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4 years

It’s very urgent for African feminists to continue building resistance and solidarity across borders, learn from each other, document our work and share resources and skills. No matter what let’s keep organising and never allow feminist movements on the continent to shrink.

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Rape culture is supporting athletes who are charged with rape and calling their victims "career-destroyers." Rape culture is a whole society that thinks rape jokes are funny talking about "that paper raped me" and proceeding to guffaw like a damn fool. #16DaysOfActivism

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9 months

Welcoming Kisumu as the latest city to join us in the anti-femicide march. Together we amplify our voices and march on January 27th against femicide. #TotalShutDownKe

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3 years

Classed African women must interrogate their steadfast allegiance to class hierarchy and their readiness to oppress poor African women, all in pursuit of personal comfort.

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7 months

On this Women’s History Month, we continue to raise our collective voices against femicide in Kenya. We collaborated with @jhrnews @citizentvkenya , @johnallannamu , @CelestGachuhi , @vwgrs , @NjeriWaMigwi , and @Zamara_fdn to spotlight the rising cases of femicide and call on the

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-It’s not “Revenge Porn” -It’s not porn -It’s not revenge -It’s abuse -It’s Intimate Private Violence (IPV) -It’s Non-consensual Dissemination of Intimate Images (NCII) -Do not participate in sharing such images or videos #FeministFridays

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1 year

Grounding ourselves in transnational feminist solidarity and guided by our feminist responsibility to name and confront oppression whenever, wherever and however it happens, we @FeministsKE stand in unwavering support and solidarity with the people of Palestine. 🧵

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Girl boss + choice feminism. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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9 months

Do you want to learn how to speak about femicide? Open this thread 👇🏾

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9 months

As we gear up for the Feminist March happening on Jan 27, 2024, against the alarming cases of femicide, we'll be facilitating a crucial conversation on collective actions against femicide.Join us today at 7pm, with speakers, @OuyaVivianne , @NjeriWaMigwi , @marthamwatha @KelsieKim

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4 months

Femicide in Kenya - Silence Floods in Kenya - Silence High cost of living - Silence Peaceful Assembly - Armed police killings We #RejectTheFinanceBill2024 and we unconditionally stand in solidarity with Kenyans! #RejectFinanceBill2024

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Anti-blackness remains a universal language even during war. We stand in solidarity with all African people trying to leave Ukraine and experiencing racism at different borders.

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9 months

The #TotalShutDownKE movement is now officially trending #1 on Twitter! Every tweet, share, conversation, and live brings us closer to collectively ending femicide in Kenya. Join us in welcoming yet another city to the March: Eldoret will march on the 27th!

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Sending our feminist solidarity to Ugandans as they #March2Parliament to agitate for transformative governance.

@amwaafrika

Akina Mama wa Afrika

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We stand in solidarity with Ugandan youth and people in all their diversity as they exercise their constitutional right to demand accountable, responsible, and transformative governance from their leaders today. #March2Parliament

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Daily reminder that feminist consciousness is valid at any age: teach the babies, the teens, the youth and older people. Feminism leaves no stone of oppression unturned, and the more people who understand and practice it, the better for the movement.

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Nadia Nthia has been released! News just in from @FaithOdhiambo8 Keep pushing for the release of Harriet and Chebett as well as all remaining abducted Kenyans. #RejectFinanceBill2024 #FreeHarriet #FreeChebett

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5 years

-Sex work is real valid work. -This curfew means a total loss of income for Sex Workers. -Not all Sex Workers can transition to online sex work because the Internet is a luxury in Kenya rather than a utility. -Decriminalise sex work. -Donate to and tip sex workers.

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Hey - We’re back, refreshed and ready to continue our collective feminist movement building work!

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9 months

Have you read our collective statement of demands against femicide? We have consolidated some of them in this video! Please watch to know how you can support the nationwide cause to end femicide. #TotalShutDownKE #EndFemicideKE

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I’m a feminist, of course I ..👇🏾

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"Do not cower, do you hear me? Do not retreat back into your shell, enclose yourself in darkness and silence. When has silence ever saved women like you? Do not cower, do you hear me? You stand. You speak. You own your voice." Ijeoma Umebinyuo.

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9 months

Great being in feminist community with grassroots women in Soweto & Kibera. We reflected on femicide and its occurrence in grassroots communities, access to justice & importance of believing survivors. Thanks for hosting us @oeditar and @usikimye . #TotalShutDownKE

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“There’s no thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not live single-issue lives.” Audre Lorde

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There is no polite way to fight oppression. The revolution will be unrespectable. #REJECTFINANCEBILL2024

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Trans Women are Women.

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9 months

Here’s a feminist reminder that sex work is a valid form of labor. Like any other occupation, it’s an economic pursuit for income, rooted in consensual choices. It's important that sex workers, like all workers in other industries, have improved working conditions.

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9 months

Today we’ll join @usikimye , @feminist_centre and @Zamara_fdn in Kibera and Soweto for grassroots discussions about femicide. #TotalShutdownKE

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3 years

Bell Hooks informed our feminist organizing and practice. Her life inspired our values as a movement- community, joy and resistance. Her writings always offered so many feminist solutions for society and we hope to keep them alive in our organizing. May she rest in peace. ❤️

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5 years

Privilege means you're getting benefits rooted in the injustice of someone else. Part of allyship is using whatever privilege you have to dismantle oppressive systems.

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Movements are not immune to external and internal threats! Read our series! #RejectFinanceBill2024

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Here’s how you can support the various community-led flood mitigation efforts. Please share widely and add more resources to this list. 🧵

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Join us tomorrow as we co-host a Twitter Space with @just_a_jame , @SeiseBagbo , @brendawambui , @njahira_g and @marthamwatha to discuss feminist perspectives on the current protests in Kenya. Save the date!

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Today and everyday, remember to humanize mums everywhere. Not as working machines. Not as nurturers. Not as emotional caregivers. But as human beings with needs, emotions, ambitions and dreams. Happy Mother's Day to all mums. ❤️ #MothersDay

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4 years

Thanking all the feminists who constantly remind us, even when it’s unpopular, that our collective agenda is liberation and that we cannot use the master’s tools to get this liberation. Let’s keep organising & let’s keep speaking out even when it’s an uncomfortable truth.

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We stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan as they march today against the military control of Sudan that has led to internet restrictions,military control of the media and killings of protesters. Calling on global feminist support for today’s march against military rule.

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5 years

1. To centre black women. 2. Black capitalism is not the answer. 3. Black men must also use their labour to organise, black women are not your mules. 4. To rest.

@blkwomenradical

Black Women Radicals

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5 years

What has Black feminism and Womanism taught you? How has Black feminism and Womanism transformed your life? Please share with us your thoughts below! 👇🏿 📷: Photo Credit: David Fenton/Getty Images. #blackwomenradicals

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“Feminist activists are tirelessly pushing for substantive changes,building feminist consciousness, imagining alternative realities for African women & are saying, ‘this can’t be it for us, what else is there?” Read our feature on the Republic, below!

What Kenya’s Anti-Femicide Protests Achieved

The co-founder and executive director of feminist movement, Feminists in Kenya, discusses convening Kenya’s anti-femicide protests of January 2024 and what needs to happen next.

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We belong only to ourselves, our bodies are not vessels, temples or political playgrounds for endless debates. WE get to make decisions about our bodies. WE get to live in our bodies. Here’s to bodily autonomy and agency for all women and girls. ✊🏾

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3 years

Reminder that Makueni County is still the only county, nearly 11 years after devolution, that runs a state funded safe house for victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence.

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4 months

For the fatigued feminist activists. 👇🏾

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We are letting go of the false notions that we are only valuable when we speak, act, think and exist in ‘respectable’ ways. Here are some of the things you can do to begin letting go of respectability politics 👇🏾

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At this point, it’s like we are speaking into a void. Nobody is truly listening. The crisis is RAPE. Can we acknowledge this problem and begin addressing it as a matter of national emergency instead of parading these harmful & misogynistic responses that re-traumatize victims?

@ntvkenya

NTV Kenya

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‘Funga Miguu Initiative’ - a provocative and bold initiative kicked off in Kajiado South sub county that seeks to stomp out unplanned pregnancies in the area. #NTVAtOne @MarkMasai

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"I want more women to understand that being a “slut” has almost nothing to do with sleeping with men for money and more to do with your audacity to assert yourself in ways that are considered unconventional"

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4 years

Good morning to feminists only! Have you followed us on IG? Follow us here👇🏾

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

6 years

Sisters, we did this. We organized over 1800 women in 4 cities in Kenya to march against femicide. Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa and Busia. We would like to deeply appreciate the amazing women and men who showed up to march in solidarity against the killing of women. #totalshutdownke

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

4 years

Kenyan high schools must stop telling students to “tame” their hair in the name of ‘neatness and grooming’. Afros, kinks, coils, locs, braids, twists are okay. Let students reacquaint themselves with their hair, freely choose how to wear their hair and enjoy their hair.

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

8 months

1. On this International Women’s Day 2024, we, @FeministsKE @Zamara_fdn and @usikimye who marched alongside Kenyan women in the nationwide #TotalShutDownKE marches against femicide, unite under the global #IWD2024 theme of Inspiring Inclusion. We are deeply aware that mere

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

6 years

Don't buy into the patriarchal narrative that your strength as a womxn is determined by the level of pain you can endure. There's nothing grand in struggle love, pain or toxic relationships. Do not glorify a narrative that tells you to take care of everyone but yourself.

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

4 months

We strongly condemn the killings of innocent Kenyans exercising their constitutional right to peacefully assemble! We further condemn state abductions and incommunicado detentions of Kenyans and demand for their immediate release! #RejectFinanceBill2024

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

3 years

Black women are never really accorded any grace- ever. We have to prove over and over why we’re deserving of anything good. This is why we’re so here for all the Black girls choosing their well-being and rest, & the Black girls saying they’re much more than their accomplishments.

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

1 month

Standing with all Kenyans to reject the privatization of JKIA. Read our statement. #StopAmbani

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

5 years

15. Our women. 16. Not all men. 17. Boy child is under seige. 18. Feminists are ugly and bitter 19. Hi pliz 20. Gold diggers

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

4 years

Makueni County is the only county running a state funded safe house for victims of SGBV. All the other 46 counties, 10 years since devolution, WHERE are the shelters? The state can fund shelters in all these counties! Tweet your governors and ask them where are the shelters!

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

5 years

We're beginning #FeministFridays with one of our favorite quotes by Assata Shakur: Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

3 years

Congratulations to Justice Koome on her nomination as the first female Chief Justice in Kenya. This is a significant step for women leadership. A win. A chance for more meaningful participation of women in the judicial system.

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

5 years

“Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society and make it feminist”

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

2 years

Our first Feminist Movement Building convening this year since COVID! We are excited to commune in joy, feminist love, accountability towards each other and solidarity in our organizing.

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

3 years

Daily reminder that there’s no freedom in pandering to oppressive systems. Assimilating with these systems will not bring liberation.

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FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

5 years

9.Will upload pictures of corrupt male politicians and sing their praises. 10. I will not vote for her, let her go home and take care of her husband. 11. What about the boy child. 12. Slayqueens. 13. Spend A LOT of time crying over weaves. 14. A man is the head of the house

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

4 years

Join us this Saturday as we collectively create a feminist action plan against online violence with our amazing panelists @Judicaelle_ @bintiM and @Queerly_So , moderated by @OuyaVivianne To register please follow the link below. See you then!

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

6 years

Here's a daily reminder that throwing other womxn under the bus for cookie points from men won't exempt you from violence. The patriarchy does not discriminate. We best achieve collectivism and unite against any form of violence on womxn. #TotalshutdownKE

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@FeministsKE

FEMINISTS IN KENYA /#TotalShutDownKE

5 years

5. Abortion is murder. (Proceeds to give a christian explanation of why abortion is murder.) 6. Submit to your husband. 7. Will quote Proverbs 31 and demand that you transform into his ideal woman. 8. I cannot marry a woman who cannot cook chapatis.

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