'FEMINICIDE ALERT IN THE NETHERLANDS‼️
❌This is not rare. It’s not an “individual tragedy.” It’s not “intimate terror.”
📣 This is feminicide: the most brutal expression of gender-based violence (GBV) - basically patriarchy at work. And it is reinforced and entrenched by racism, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, Zionism, cis-heteronormativity, transphobia, ableism, and violent migration and border regimes.
Feminicide exposes patriarchy’s logic: granting men control and power over the lives and bodies of women, trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse people.
🚫And the numbers don’t lie: here in the Netherlands almost weekly - every 8 days - a woman is killed. In nearly 60% of cases, by her partner or ex-partner.
🔔 Given recent events, it seems that we need to put this out there: neither patriarchy nor feminicide know borders, and they do not belong to a specific culture. They are endemic everywhere. Yet migrant and racialized communities are constantly scapegoated for violence embedded in all societies.
👉🏽 [...] To end feminicide, we must confront that complicity.' See all slides and caption ► https://www.instagram.com/p/DNtXghaUKyE/?img_index=1 #femicide #feminicide #patriarchy

feminicide has no "culture"and no borders. It is not "imported" or "foreign".  It exists everywhere. We refuse the scapegoating of migrant communities and other minorities for violence that is embedded into every society. yes, including here in the NL. Ending feminicide starts with dismantling partriarchy everywhere. Not blaming it on "others".  Rood met witte letters. Sommige zinnen zijn in lila. De kop is donder blauw met witte letters
feminicide has no "culture"and no borders. It is not "imported" or "foreign". It exists everywhere. We refuse the scapegoating of migrant communities and other minorities for violence that is embedded into every society. yes, including here in the NL. Ending feminicide starts with dismantling partriarchy everywhere. Not blaming it on "others". Rood met witte letters. Sommige zinnen zijn in lila. De kop is donder blauw met witte letters
feminicide is threat to all women. butthis risk is not equal. racialized women, trans, non-binairy and queer plp, sex workers, undocumented mirgrants and refugee women: women with diesabilities: women living in pverty. as well as girls and older women face greater danger - falling first through the cracks of broken prevention and protection systems. rood met witte letters, de kop is donkder blauw met witte letters
feminicide is threat to all women. butthis risk is not equal. racialized women, trans, non-binairy and queer plp, sex workers, undocumented mirgrants and refugee women: women with diesabilities: women living in pverty. as well as girls and older women face greater danger - falling first through the cracks of broken prevention and protection systems. rood met witte letters, de kop is donkder blauw met witte letters

'FEMINICIDE ALERT IN THE NETHERLANDS‼️
❌This is not rare. It’s not an “individual tragedy.” It’s not “intimate terror.”
📣 This is feminicide: the most brutal expression of gender-based violence (GBV) - basically patriarchy at work. And it is reinforced and entrenched by racism, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, Zionism, cis-heteronormativity, transphobia, ableism, and violent migration and border regimes.
Feminicide exposes patriarchy’s logic: granting men control and power over the lives and bodies of women, trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse people.
🚫And the numbers don’t lie: here in the Netherlands almost weekly - every 8 days - a woman is killed. In nearly 60% of cases, by her partner or ex-partner.
🔔 Given recent events, it seems that we need to put this out there: neither patriarchy nor feminicide know borders, and they do not belong to a specific culture. They are endemic everywhere. Yet migrant and racialized communities are constantly scapegoated for violence embedded in all societies.
👉🏽 [...] To end feminicide, we must confront that complicity.' See all slides and caption ► https://www.instagram.com/p/DNtXghaUKyE/?img_index=1 #femicide #feminicide #patriarchy

feminicide has no "culture"and no borders. It is not "imported" or "foreign".  It exists everywhere. We refuse the scapegoating of migrant communities and other minorities for violence that is embedded into every society. yes, including here in the NL. Ending feminicide starts with dismantling partriarchy everywhere. Not blaming it on "others".  Rood met witte letters. Sommige zinnen zijn in lila. De kop is donder blauw met witte letters
feminicide has no "culture"and no borders. It is not "imported" or "foreign". It exists everywhere. We refuse the scapegoating of migrant communities and other minorities for violence that is embedded into every society. yes, including here in the NL. Ending feminicide starts with dismantling partriarchy everywhere. Not blaming it on "others". Rood met witte letters. Sommige zinnen zijn in lila. De kop is donder blauw met witte letters
feminicide is threat to all women. butthis risk is not equal. racialized women, trans, non-binairy and queer plp, sex workers, undocumented mirgrants and refugee women: women with diesabilities: women living in pverty. as well as girls and older women face greater danger - falling first through the cracks of broken prevention and protection systems. rood met witte letters, de kop is donkder blauw met witte letters
feminicide is threat to all women. butthis risk is not equal. racialized women, trans, non-binairy and queer plp, sex workers, undocumented mirgrants and refugee women: women with diesabilities: women living in pverty. as well as girls and older women face greater danger - falling first through the cracks of broken prevention and protection systems. rood met witte letters, de kop is donkder blauw met witte letters