M A Y A O P P E N H E I M 💃🏻 ✍️
@MayaOppenheim
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Journalist & author Send stories / tip-offs to [email protected] More active on Insta: maya_oppenheim
London, England
Joined April 2012
📚🚀PERSONAL NEWS📚🚀: My dream as a little kid was always to write “chapter books” and now I'm thrilled to announce I've written a book with 22 chapters. The book is called The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy and it is being published next Thursday
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JUST IN: Romanian authorities seize Andrew Tate’s car collection
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Misogyny is the fact that when Russell Brand uses his own "promiscuity" as a defence against allegations against him, people rally behind him. Yet when women allege sexual violence, their apparent promiscuity is weaponised to undermine, disbelieve and demonise them.
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Massive but incredibly sombre & raw demo in central London for #ChrisKaba, who was shot dead by a Met Police officer in Streatham in South London this week 💔💔💔
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@CCDHate previously unearthed 47 videos of Tate pushing what it describes as “extreme misogyny”. Their report unearthed ads on videos where Tate discusses fighting women, saying “grip her up by the neck” in a video.
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Iranian women removing headscarves to protest mandatory hijab laws @AlinejadMasih #WalkingUnveiled #No2Hijab.
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Domestic abusers using Depp trial to terrorise and gaslight victims, psychologist warns. @DrJessTaylor #JohnnyDepptrial.
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Back in Clapham. Hundreds remembering Sarah Everard on Mother’s Day. A fair few mums and daughters paying respects laying flowers. Atmosphere is peaceful and calm but also sombre. Like it was yesterday until the police kicked off #saraheverard
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I can't emphasise enough how much of journalism revolves around sending emails, texts, WhatsApp, Twitter and Insta messages to strangers desperately hoping they will reply.
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1/4 THREAD ABOUT MY GRIM EXPERIENCE OF AN ABORTION IN UK. Overwhelmed services meant I was near to cutoff for surgical abortion which are far riskier. It was suggested I travel 100s of miles to Liverpool. Services are broken - government must rectify this.
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Still in total confusion as to how Depp's supporters can ignore / brush off / normalise / justify these text messages which Depp sent to his agent about Heard in 2016 #JohnnyDepptrial
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BREAKING: Argentina legalises abortion in landmark vote
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An interview I did with my grandma about coming face to face with Hitler before escaping Nazi Germany for #holocaustmemorialday
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Memes and videos mocking Amber Heard expose hatred and distrust of women, experts say. .@womensaid @DrProudman @DrJessTaylor @RefugeCharity @RapeCrisisEandW #JohnnyDeppvAmberHeard.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tories ‘sluggish wage growth’ mean female workers losing out up to £3,000 a year @AngelaRayner @UKLabour
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A selection of just some of the best placards at the Women’s March in London today
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MPs just voted in favour of national buffer zones outside abortion clinics ! A big win for anyone who doesn't think those seeking abortions should be harassed and bullied at what can be one of the most vulnerable times of their lives @MSIchoices @BPAS1968 @SisterSupporter.
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@CCDHate You can't look at Tate's comments promoting violence against women without remembering.violence against women is at epidemic levels. In US, almost 3 women are killed by a partner every day. Between 2 and 3 women are murdered each week by their partners or exes in England & Wales.
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How can Labour accept £4.5 MILLION from new members in last week on the promise they could vote and now withdraw that promise. #LabourNEC.
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Symptoms present differently in females': Hundreds of thousands more women tested for ADHD last year . .@ClinicalPartnrs @ADHDFoundation @ljtheodosiou.
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JUST IN: Exclusive figures that lay bare the shocking scale of Andrew Tate’s reach among young men @hopenothate @NSPCC.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Riley says government will be to blame for deaths if it fails to create register of serial domestic abusers.@RachelRileyRR @laurarichards99.
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Crowds steadily gathering picking up steam at Scotland Yard as people gather to mourn Sarah Everard, call out violence against women and girls, and the aggressive policing of last night’s peaceful vigil in her memory
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘I am scared of my shadow’: Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain.@marziababakarkh.
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Crowds singing “We are family. I’ve got all my sisters and me” at the Women’s March in Portland Place
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EXCLUSIVE: UK’s pet theft penalty worse than sentence given to man who choked woman to death in sex, MPs warn @HarrietHarman @carolinenokes @Wecantconsentto.
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Ahhh so when Mary Wollstonecraft said women should be granted "respect for their abilities and virtues" over two centuries ago, she really meant I want to be immortalised in 2020 with my tits out
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Five women found dead in Doncaster over seven weeks: ‘We don’t want women’s deaths to become normalised’ @SaveWomensAid
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EXCLUSIVE: U-turn on register for serial domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators will leave ‘gaping hole’, government warned @YvetteCooperMP @laurarichards99 @zarahsultana.
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Without sounding a fuddy duddy there is nothing attractive or flattering or majestic about this trend
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EXCLUSIVE: 41 women killed in cases where a male suspect has been charged since Sarah Everard case @K_IngalaSmith @CountDeadWomen @RosaForWomen.
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of women at risk as police reject over 10,000 background checks on potential abusers.
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‘Debunked’ psychological diagnoses of Amber Heard ‘must be discounted’, prominent psychologist warns @DrJessTaylor @realamberheard
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@CCDHate While in the US, every month an average of 70 women are shot & killed by a partner & almost 1 million women currently alive have reported being shot or shot at by partners. On top of this, over 4.5 million women report a partner threatening them with a gun (@Everytown research).
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@CCDHate @Everytown And recent UN data showed more than 5 women & girls were killed every hour by a family member around the world in 2021. Some 45,000 women and girls – 56% of the 81,100 murdered around the world in 2021 – were killed by their husband, partner or another family member. RIP.
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Today is a big day for women's rights in Argentina: Landmark bill legalising abortion passes Argentina’s lower house
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: ‘Time is running out’: Dozens of Afghan girls from national youth football team and families unable to escape
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Dawn Butler saying “Boris Johnson is not in touch with his own feelings let alone the country” was mos def the standout line from tonight @DawnButlerBrent #itvdebate.
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Sex workers at risk of homelessness as ‘banks freeze their accounts’
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Black female MPs condemn racist abuse and death threats they have received for supporting George Floyd protests.@DawnButlerBrent @MarshadeCordova @BellRibeiroAddy
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EXCLUSIVE: Jail sentences to end for thousands of abusive men in bid to tackle overcrowding
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Joanne Welch, founder of BackTo60, tells me: "The legal team is actively considering a Supreme Court appeal. 1950’s women who support full restitution were not created to retreat nor run from the opposition. We have armour to keep moving forward and we stand strong." @2020Comms.
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Discussing the response to the Depp Heard case online, @DrJessTaylor tells me the body language being wielded “to condemn and scrutinise” Heard is “being used to defend and support” Depp. #JohnnyDepptrial.
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Government whipping up US-style ‘culture war’ to divide communities, Labour's @zarahsultana warns
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Very chuffed to be launching my own new women-focused weekly newsletter titled Independent Women: Find out more about what it'll include & sign up here ♀️ ❤️ ♀️ .
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@DrJessTaylor tells me dozens of women say their abusive male partner or ex called them “Amber” after they tried to stand up for themselves. She warns #JohnnyDepptrial has “vindicated” abusive men around the world & case will have damaging “ripple effects” on women for years.
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EXCL: Covid would have been dealt with better if key decisions weren’t all made by men, warns equalities minister @MarshadeCordova @UKLabour
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Trump official who blocked pregnant migrant teens from accessing abortions 'should face investigation' @ACLU @brigitte_amiri @Accountable_Org
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Excited to announce that my position at The @Independent has changed to Women's Correspondent ! ♀️🕵️♀️💪.
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This feels like a joke. Jason Grant - Scotlands first "period dignity officer" - will never know the indignity of being bullied at school for having a period, of leaking, of being unable to afford period items, despite these being routine things many women sadly know all too well
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EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s new policing shame: Accused of crimes against women – but still working @RefugeCharity.
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EXCLUSIVE: Judge orders woman to directly arrange childcare arrangements with rapist ex-husband @DrProudman.
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The 'rough sex' defence needs to stop being used in court to paint a picture that the woman, who is in longer alive to share her story, somehow consented to her own death #NoConsent @DrProudman
The only way a person can consent to her own death is suicide or euthanasia says @MayaOppenheim talking about the rough sex defence #NoConsent.
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JUST IN: ‘Anti-woke’ Liz Truss accused of ‘feeding bigots’ with Tory leadership culture war @SholaMos1 @WEP_UK.
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‘Too young to retire, too old to work’: How the pandemic has ravaged women hit by state pension age rise @2020Comms .
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Campaigners ‘supremely confident’ ahead of today's state pension age rise hearing: 'If we do not get our money back. I and many thousands of women will be left with nothing. No hope. No money. No life.' @2020Comms
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Women hit by state pension age rise 'can’t sleep and are beside themselves' as they await Court of Appeal judgement @2020Comms
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EXCLUSIVE: Abortion laws: Woman kept in police cell for 36 hours after stillbirth .@MSIchoices.
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One of the few positive stories I've written in 2020: How Argentina became the first major Latin American country to legalise abortion 💚🇦🇷
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EXCLUSIVE: NHS rule which forces pregnant women with Covid to give birth alone ‘legally wrong’
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Great to see @YvetteCooperMP, @EricaOsakwe, @RefugeCharity and @womensaid's campaign to give domestic abuse victims longer to report was successful. I covered this issue in May, with Cooper saying: "Many survivors cannot report these crimes immediately".
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@elliereeves @AAFDA6 @BarnettAdrienne "I’ve always thought ‘I’ve got to be careful what I say or do, because what if he kills me?’" Diane Clarke tells me. Labour's @elliereeves says: “It is shocking that, as the law currently stands, killers retain parental responsibility after murdering their child’s mother".
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EXCLUSIVE: Police often engage in ‘appalling bullying’ if officers accuse colleagues of sexual offences, ex police chief warns @SusannahFish.
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Davina Lloyd, their UN envoy, says: “50s women are the group of women who are statistically going to need their state pension more than others. They couldnt build up a private pension in their own right because of having to do childcare, or working part-time, low pay and sexism".
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I spoke to seven women whose lives were turned upside down by the state pension age rise ahead of their crucial court case challenging the government tomorrow. Their stories are unspeakably harrowing @2020Comms
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EXCLUSIVE: Police officers accused of domestic abuse and sex crimes using ‘combative tactics’ to ‘deflect’ blame @INQUEST_ORG @VictimsComm @LabourSJ.
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I interviewed the brother of imprisoned Saudi woman's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul who is allegedly being tortured, whipped, electrocuted and sexually harassed: 'They saw the signs of torture – the burns and bruises on her legs' @WalidAlhathloul.
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News to celebrate in a year of setbacks for women's rights: Argentina’s president introduces bill to legalise abortion in 'watershed moment'.
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'Grubby charade': Sister of leading jailed Saudi women's activist begs Ladies European Tour golfers to boycott Saudi event.
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@RishiSunak's cabinet office has largest gender pay gap of all government departments . @AngelaRayner: "Findings speak to a wider culture of women being held back" & a "gender glass ceiling" in govt & sets "terrible precedent for women" in public sector.
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‘The Met need to get a grip’: 160 Met Police officers accused of sexual misconduct in two years .@centreWJ @EVAWuk @HWistrich @RapeCrisisEandW.
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Women hit by pension age changes could impact general election, say experts: 'One person told me she had sold her grave plot where she would have been buried next to her parents' @2020Comms
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ANOTHER BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trafficking victims not referred for support in 7 in 10 'brutal' sex industry police raids @emilykenway @ProstitutesColl.
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Women hit by state pension age rise 'sick with anxiety' ahead of court verdict @2020Comms.
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Want to see London’s ‘shadow side’? Try cycling around as a woman 🚴♀️ | New story by me for.@Independent
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EXCLUSIVE: My father killed my mother and got custody of me – now I’m fighting to change the law @elliereeves @AAFDA6 @BarnettAdrienne.
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JUST IN: Andrew Tate trial: Why Romania wants to remind world the toxic influencer is British
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THREAD 1/3: This was a disturbing story to write. Being violently restrained by multiple members of staff to be forcibly injected with powerful medication is routine in psychiatric units. Exclusive data from @DrJessTaylor shows women are substantially disproportionately affected.
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Here is Michelle Obama comparing Trump to a “divorced dad” on stage in London last night and Stephen Colbert even doing a hilarious apparent impression of the president @MichelleObama @L8ShowColbert #iambecoming
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EXCLUSIVE: Over 200 female Afghan judges trapped in hiding at risk of being ‘killed by Taliban’ @marziababakarkh @hrw @heatherbarr1.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘hopeful’ after British Council worker’s release from jail @FreeNazanin . Her husband Richard Ratcliffe tells me: “For Nazanin, it is a bit bittersweet. Whenever anyone gets out, it is a reminder she is still there.". #freenazanin.
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This is a terrifying first-of-its-kind study which sheds new light on the dangerous repercussions of strangulation during sex. Victims often have no signs of injury and it can take weeks for symptoms to show. Please share @Wecantconsentto @centreWJ.
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I interviewed domestic abuse victims who were cooped up with violent partners during the coronavirus lockdown and their stories were terrifying
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Huge relief’: Pakistan to allow Afghan girls from youth football team in hiding 'at risk' from Taliban to cross border @amnesty @hrw @heatherbarr1 @FFHMedia.
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: 'Milestone moment': Change brothel laws to keep sex workers safe, top police officer urges government @PoliceChiefs @NadiaWhittomeMP @cajardineMP @ProstitutesColl @HAHcampaign.
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawyers threaten council with court action to provide ‘buffer zones’ outside abortion clinics amid protests @GoodLawProject @SisterSupporter
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BackTo60 founder tells me women hit by pension overhaul are living below breadline and their stories "haunt" her every day. She adds: "It is one of the worst state pensions in world despite us being the fifth-richest country. But women born in 1950s aren’t even receiving this.".
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EXCLUSIVE: 'I couldn’t recognise relatives or friends': MPs call for ban on electric shocks as mental health treatment.@WalkerWorcester @MarshadeCordova @NadiaWhittomeMP.
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Just heard a woman telling 2 friends she lives in Elephant & Castle. First she complained 3 ppl ask her for money before 7 every day. Then she said: “No1 tells u before u buy a property in a regenerated area u can’t just get rid of people who lived there before.” GRIM GRIM GRIM.
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A 65-year-old woman, who was hit by the state pension age rise who now claims Universal Credit, tells me: “The process of claiming universal credit is degrading. It is outrageous universal credit offered me a telephone interview to join the army." @2020Comms.
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4/4 None of the issues are fault of hard-working amazing abortion providers but are due to govt not prioritising issue. The current problems are set to get drastically worse when at-home early medical abortion stops being allowed in August. Services will be catapulted into chaos.
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EXCL: Women’s rights activists and political prisoners ‘sexually assaulted, tortured and put to death in Saudi Arabia’
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@DrProudman tells me: "These people aren’t incels, they are ur brothers, ur friends, even ur father.”. @DrJessTaylor says women currently awaiting hearings have told her they are considering “retracting or pulling out” after witnessing online abuse of Heard #JohnnyDeppvAmberHeard.
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Some good news: ‘Life-saving’ free train travel for domestic abuse victims extended after demand surges during pandemic.@womensaid @Se_Railway.
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EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand and Andrew Tate push conspiracies to detract from allegations against them, @NaomiAKlein says.
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Domestic abuse charities accuse The Sun of "effectively handing a megaphone to a man who wants to cause fear and humiliation to a woman he has abused" after publishing a front page interview with Rowling’s first husband @refuge @womensaid @safelives_.
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BREAKING: Jailed Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to be tried in terror court, says sister: 'Her body was shaking uncontrollably'
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THREAD: As a born and bred Londoner whose walked streets all hrs of day/night since a teen, mostly people are lovely, but there have also been countless experiences of predatory men. From the various men who asked me to get in their car at night to the man who exposed his penis.
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Pink cab called 'tampon taxi' to distribute sanitary products to homeless women @thisisourperiod @bloodygood__ .
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