Rita Banerji Retweeted
Kaish Khan @kaishwhy Mar 10
Kaish Khan Retweeted Amicable Brumby
#50millionmissing
Kaish Khan added,
Amicable Brumby @brumbyOz
Genocide casualties:
Holocaust - 6 million
Rwanda - 1 million…
0 replies 3 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Ciara @Ciaraioch Mar 8
✨ It works! ✨
538 replies 24,127 retweets 56,462 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 10
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Thank you 💜
https://twitter.com/cara_weed/status/840221482701717504 …
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50 Million Missing @50millionmissin 23 Mar 2016
A public warning to #women in #India. Shows the #misogyny inherent in how India insists on celebrating #Holi today!
28 replies 120 retweets 59 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 10
Injusto y cruel
Mujeres q tras enviudar lo pierden todo, derechos, posesiones #India y son desahuciadas socialmente
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/patrimonio/2017/03/9/viudas-de-la-india-impregnan-su-luto-de-colores#imagen-1 …
Rita Banerji
1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Mrs Perez @RoperCoast Mar 10
Mrs Perez Retweeted 50 Million Missing
#daywithoutawoman #IWD2017
Mrs Perez added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
The festival women dread in India is coming up this weekend. Is #HoliFestival an excuse to justify sexual assault?
https://twitter.com/50millionmissin/status/712638417201332224 …
1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
AditiVerified account @awryaditi Mar 10
Aditi Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Y dun v hav a menz day coz menz suffer so much
Aditi added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
A public warning to #women in #India. Shows the #misogyny inherent in how India insists on celebrating #Holi today!
2 replies 18 retweets 23 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 10
Rita Banerji Retweeted Rita Banerji
@HoldsASharpPen Are you calling this "slut shaming?"
Rita Banerji added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
The RSS is the Indian Prime Minister's Alma mater. Redefining the role of #women in India. Bless them!
https://twitter.com/ikaveri/status/839700973270413313 …
1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 10
Rita Banerji Retweeted kaveri
The RSS is the Indian Prime Minister's Alma mater. Redefining the role of #women in India. Bless them!
Rita Banerji added,
kaveri @ikaveri
RSS women's wing says wife must not irritate husband, justifies wife beating as form of disciplining
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/saffron-women-inside-the-rss-womens-wing-596730.html …
6 replies 9 retweets 6 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 10
Rita Banerji Retweeted GL
Indian women should start a national movement demanding a curfew on men from 5pm to 9pm every day. But what about the women at home?
Rita Banerji added,
GL @GL_Funky
@Shy_Survivor @50millionmissin And further extend it to other days - get home/hostel before 6PM,no pub visits etc
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Amicable Brumby @brumbyOz Mar 9
Amicable Brumby Retweeted 50 Million Missing
About time UN officially treats this as a genocide.
Amicable Brumby added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
#ff Census shows 17 million girls are killed in #India age group 1-15 years
http://ow.ly/Cq1vn #DayoftheGirl #IDG2014
2 replies 6 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Amicable Brumby @brumbyOz Mar 10
Since you asked me to check the data @AgentSaffron bhai, here your guy made up fake data to counter @Rita_Banerji
Real gender ratio is 1.12
7 replies 3 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Springtime Siren
🌿 @Sirensongs Mar 10
@rameshfilms @Rita_Banerji I am SO SICK of foreigners romanticising Holi. It's become.a dreadful occasion
1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor Mar 9
Louise Raw Retweeted Coralie Alison
Some days I think, The horrors to which women are subject under patriarchal capitalism can't get any more shocking. Never been right yet
Louise Raw added,
Coralie Alison @CoralieAlison
How Nepali Women Are Forced To ‘Sell’ Their Skin To Make Rich Indians Beautiful 😓
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2017/03/how-women-from-nepal-are-trafficked-to-india-and-disfigured-to-make-rich-men-and-women-beautiful/ …
4 replies 23 retweets 14 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor Mar 8
I know you're busy, but I'd love you to read/RT Karishma's story today, for IWD. I've never told one quite like it.
4 replies 27 retweets 16 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rosemary Goude @greengoude Mar 9
Rosemary Goude Retweeted Louise Raw
Thank you @LouiseRawAuthor for highlighting this heartbreaking story. Pls #ff @50millionmissin & @Rita_Banerji
Rosemary Goude added,
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor
I know you're busy, but I'd love you to read/RT Karishma's story today, for IWD. I've never told one quite like it.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-23f4-The-girls-and-women-killed-by-their-own-families#.WMBcA0nfXYV …
1 reply 8 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted 50 Million Missing
The prime minister's constituency btw!
Rita Banerji added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
A public warning to #women in #India. Shows the #misogyny inherent in how India insists on celebrating #Holi today!
7 replies 10 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
ramesh sharma @rameshfilms Mar 9
ramesh sharma Retweeted Rita Banerji
Holi- the unholy day which gives men the license to grope and maul women while pretending to celebrate the festival of colours
ramesh sharma added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
The prime minister's constituency btw!
https://twitter.com/50millionmissin/status/712638417201332224 …
5 replies 10 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
GL @GL_Funky Mar 9
GL Retweeted Rita Banerji
Cautionary tale for Indian Americans - "model minority" is a myth,nonsense.
GL added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
An Indian American who has been a US citizen for 40 years, for the first time fears racist hate crimes
0 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin 10 Oct 2014
#ff Census shows 17 million girls are killed in #India age group 1-15 years
http://ow.ly/Cq1vn #DayoftheGirl #IDG2014
17 replies 249 retweets 70 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Here's the story of a woman Roopa & her girl child Karishma who @50millionmissin & I tried to save
0 replies 7 retweets 6 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted Mr. Kulkarni
Why don't you publish this with links & all as dispute to India's census data?
Rita Banerji added,
Mr. Kulkarni @NumbRealist
@Rita_Banerji here, i just proved that 3.7 million men in age group 20-24 were EXTERMINATED using your logic
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
#BetiBachaoBetiPadhao program must make the registration of births and deaths of ALL girl children compulsory.
#internationalwomensday
3 replies 10 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
#BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (Save the Girl Educate the Girl)
campaign's emphasis on rhetoric puts a ? on its ability to accomplish its goals. #IWD
2 replies 11 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 9
50 Million Missing Retweeted Hemant Gala
We are talking about the #sexualharassment women experience during #HoliFestival. Are you a woman?
50 Million Missing added,
Hemant Gala @h_gala
Yes some miscreants bring disrepute to this great festival but certainly not one which is dreaded. Please don't give wrong colours to this.
https://twitter.com/50millionmissin/status/839778778238738432 …
0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Letra Escarlata
✍ @letra_escarlata Mar 9
Letra Escarlata
✍ Retweeted 50 Million Missing
¿Cómo calificarían el asunto si viesen un cartel de este tipo en las fiestas locales?
Esos"incontrolables" instintos
Letra Escarlata
✍ added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
A public warning to #women in #India. Shows the #misogyny inherent in how India insists on celebrating #Holi today!
2 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted Inder Gopal
I didn't write that. That was census data released to media. @NumbRealist & co. don't read news? BTW Next census after 2011 is in 2021.
Rita Banerji added,
Inder Gopal @indergopal
What did you use when you wrote the article? Brains 1 doubts but funds received for distortion as your funders having only brains around
https://twitter.com/Rita_Banerji/status/839877782624591875 …
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Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 9
Here's the story of a woman Roopa & her girl child Karishma who @50millionmissin tried to save
3 replies 6 retweets 4 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted lilo
Thank you xxx
Rita Banerji added,
lilo @jogwarts
@Rita_Banerji that's ok. i really admire you and your work, you are an inspiration to me and a true feminist icon, ty for everything ❤️
0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
lilo @jogwarts Mar 8
8/ Rita Banerji (@Rita_Banerji)
2 replies 16 retweets 17 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 9
.@LouiseRawAuthor on our campaign's work on India's genocide of #women, and why this is a global #humanrights issue
1 reply 10 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 9
.@LouiseRawAuthor visibiliza la pésima condic. de la mujer en India a través de @Rita_Banerji y ONG @50millionmissin
0 replies 5 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Paul Bowen @Paul_Bowen Mar 9
Unbearably sad but must-read piece by @LouiseRawAuthor about the condition of women and girls in India. Please RT.
0 replies 20 retweets 11 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Stronger Together @snerber Jan 3
.@50millionmissin If a woman or feminist said the exact same thing, men would be crying about "misandry."
0 replies 5 retweets 9 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Mehk Chakraborty @verslunivers Mar 9
Mehk Chakraborty Retweeted 50 Million Missing
#IncredibleIndia- Choosing to let prospective sexual predators run loose but caging those on receiving end of violence.
Mehk Chakraborty added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
A public warning to #women in #India. Shows the #misogyny inherent in how India insists on celebrating #Holi today!
1 reply 6 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Annie GowenVerified account @anniegowen Mar 6
The number of hate crimes against South Asians rose to 140 in the last year, up from 76 in previous five yrs
2 replies 22 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
deepti asthana @deeptiasthana Mar 9
@Rita_Banerji @50millionmissin At loss of words. It is becoming so difficult for women to stay safe in public spaces. We need to reclaim it.
0 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted Raymond Kelly
Thank you for sharing your story Fiona. And for the term #FamilyViolence. That's what dowry murders, female infanticide, honorkillings are.
Rita Banerji added,
Raymond KellyVerified account @IndigenousX
In the first 3 weeks of escaping Family Violence, 23 separate agencies and services engaged in my case. None of them spoke to each other.
0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 9
@arghyalahiri The Q by WSJ to Mr.Modi was why are under 5 kids malnourished & stunted. He said they were dieting.
http://m.indiatoday.in/story/go-figure-figure-conscious-gujarati-girls-cause-malnutrition-in-the-state-says-modi/1/215245.html …
1 reply 3 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
JS Mill XX #resist @Shy_Survivor Jan 5
@50millionmissin If men have so much trouble with self-control, the obvious solution is a curfew for men. Say, 2 PM? 🤔
1 reply 4 retweets 16 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted 50 Million Missing
#internationalwomensday How can I "celebrate" it when this is my reality?
Please read this thread & tell 👇
Rita Banerji added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
0 replies 13 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Tehseen PoonawallaVerified account @tehseenp Mar 9
Tehseen Poonawalla Retweeted Rita Banerji
They should until they are completely tamper proof. At the moment it is v easy to tamper if circumstamces / bureaucracy does cooperate.
Tehseen Poonawalla added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
@tehseenp why don't we demand EVMs be removed?
14 replies 103 retweets 103 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 7
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
3 replies 48 retweets 38 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
deepti asthana @deeptiasthana Mar 8
Groped, molested and harassed, that was experience of celebrating Holi in Vrindavan
http://datravelography.com/un-holi-and-un-safe-in-vrindavan-uttar-pradesh/ …
#WomensDayFail #Holi2017
The Wanderer, Mariellen Ward, Ami Bhat and 5 others
34 replies 143 retweets 152 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted barkha dutt
Only in India have I been asked this, when I came back. And I bit back so hard, they learnt NEVER to ask again 🔪
Rita Banerji added,
barkha duttVerified account @BDUTT
Why do journalists ask successful women about balancing work & home. Or on Marriage. you would never ask men this stuff #womensday
0 replies 2 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Yasmin Rehman @RehmanYasmin Mar 9
Yasmin Rehman Retweeted Gita Sahgal
Pakistan sinking lower. Progress will never happen whilst religion retains power and authority in all institutions of State.
Yasmin Rehman added,
Gita Sahgal @GitaSahgal
Pakistan Judge considers secular extremists, 'blasphemers more dangerous than religious fundamentalists .
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1349611/place-names-blasphemers-exit-control-list-ihc-orders-govt/ …
1 reply 13 retweets 26 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted Annie Gowen
Library, municipal corporation, courts, registrar's office, gas, even entrance to police stn. SICK! I've fought but NEVER paid a bribe.
Rita Banerji added,
Annie GowenVerified account @anniegowen
India has highest rate of bribery in Asia, 69 percent paid bribe for basic services
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/f9G3k4lTmTfK7jI9yYe3gN/India-has-highest-incidence-of-bribery-in-Asia-Pacific-Surv.html …
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
ramesh sharma @rameshfilms Mar 9
ramesh sharma Retweeted Annie Gowen
Shame on us!
ramesh sharma added,
Annie GowenVerified account @anniegowen
India has highest rate of bribery in Asia, 69 percent paid bribe for basic services
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/f9G3k4lTmTfK7jI9yYe3gN/India-has-highest-incidence-of-bribery-in-Asia-Pacific-Surv.html …
4 replies 10 retweets 12 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted Tehseen Poonawalla
What are the chances of no tampering with electronic voting machines this election @Stupidosaur ?
Rita Banerji added,
Tehseen PoonawallaVerified account @tehseenp
Hope this #BudgetSession of Parliament does discuss ways of ensuring EVMs are tamper proof.
Barring EVM tampering no way can BJP win UP.
1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
@arghyalahiri Modi told Wall St. Journal girls in Gujarat are malnourished because they are "beauty conscious"
1 reply 5 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Men with professional & higher degrees are marked for bigger dowries. Educated brides thus have to pay more! #Education no leveller! #IWD
1 reply 29 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
India’s census shows, child #sexratio for #girls 0-6yrs is BEST among the poorest and least educated communities.
#internationalwomensday
1 reply 30 retweets 15 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Educated daughters are a bigger threat as they can fight for their legal share of parental property.
#WomensDay
1 reply 19 retweets 13 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted The Local Sweden
Strange how different Sweden's response is when Swedish girls are gang raped by immigrants.
Rita Banerji added,
The Local Sweden @TheLocalSweden
Court orders teens who raped boy to be deported
http://dlvr.it/NZJBPw 0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
MeghnadVerified account @Memeghnad Mar 8
Meghnad Retweeted Press Trust of India
After children & victims of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, #Aadhaar has arrived to screw with farmers wanting crop insurance.
Meghnad added,
Press Trust of IndiaVerified account @PTI_News
Government makes Aadhaar must for availing crop insurance policies from kharif sowing season onwards.
4 replies 22 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
APSC @ambedkarperiyar Mar 9
.@ShashiTharoor on the awesome history of India. Pretty sure he just forgot to mention the great Indian traditions of caste and patriarchy.
8 replies 20 retweets 16 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
AditiVerified account @awryaditi Mar 8
Aditi Retweeted Maneka Gandhi
how are we equal if we are required to sit behind a wall.
Aditi added,
Maneka GandhiVerified account @Manekagandhibjp
Brick by brick I am building a wall of protection for women & children who continue to be vulnerable sections of society #weareequal
27 replies 253 retweets 403 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Penny White XX @unbreakablepenn Mar 8
Andrea Dworkin #SheInspiresMe
3 replies 17 retweets 20 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 9
Rita Banerji Retweeted Elissa Rodkey
Absolutely right. "Invoking" puts the blame for men's misogyny on women. "Incurring" puts the responsibility on men.
Rita Banerji added,
Elissa Rodkey @ElissaRodkey
@NewYorker Not to be finicky but don't you mean "incurring" rather than "invoking"?
1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Namita Bhandare @namitabhandare Mar 8
Namita Bhandare Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Do read this depressing thread:
Namita Bhandare added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
0 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Monitoring of all girls from birth to 7yrs is compulsory as 95 % of Indian girls are killed in this age group.
#internationalwomensday
0 replies 12 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Survival of girls is defined by family economics. Rich families benefit by killing them. Poor families benefit by letting girls live. #IWD
1 reply 8 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Many tribal communities sex traffic daughters & sisters as a primary source of income for families & call it a ‘family trade.’ #WomensDay
1 reply 13 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Baby girls from poor tribal communities are trafficking out via government orphanages for as little as Rs 5000/- (approx. £60).
#IWD
1 reply 15 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Esther @esther_dearest Mar 8
Esther Retweeted 50 Million Missing
A worthwhile thread.
Esther added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
0 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
R @O_edipus Mar 8
R Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Las familias pobres tienen mejores ratios porque las hijas pueden ser fuente de ingresos por la servidumbre.
R added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Poorer homes have better #sexratios for girls because they can be put to the economic servitude of their families. (Sad Truth). #IWD
1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
R @O_edipus Mar 8
R Retweeted 50 Million Missing
En Hyderabad, pederastas del Golfo Pérsico compran niñas en matrimonios temporales para abusar de ellas.
R added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
In Hyderabad wealthy paedophiles from Gulf pay poor Muslim families handsomely for a temporary “marriage” with their underage girls. #IWD
1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
R @O_edipus Mar 8
R Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Hilo sobre el genocidio femenino en India. En los estados más ricos llega a haber sólo 850 niñas por cada 1000 niños.
R added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
In Hyderabad wealthy paedophiles from Gulf pay poor Muslim families handsomely for a temporary “marriage” with their underage girls. #IWD
2 replies 18 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Millions of poor girls are leased/sold by their families for domestic/farm/factory and sex work. Girls=income.
#internationalwomensday
1 reply 17 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Poorer homes have better #sexratios for girls because they can be put to the economic servitude of their families. (Sad Truth). #IWD
1 reply 11 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin 11 Oct 2016
16/ Rate of killing of #girls in India increases with wealth & #education. The top 20% account for most #femicides
1 reply 27 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
#StandAgainstHate @swarochak Mar 8
#StandAgainstHate Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Thread *total despair warning*
#StandAgainstHate added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
0 replies 7 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
R @O_edipus Mar 8
R Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Millones de niñas pobres son vendidas/cedidas para trabajo doméstico o en granjas, además de la explotación sexual.
R added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Millions of poor girls are leased/sold by their families for domestic/farm/factory and sex work. Girls=income.
#internationalwomensday
0 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
R @O_edipus Mar 8
R Retweeted 50 Million Missing
La práctica misógina de la dote hace que las familias más ricas vean a sus hijas como una amenaza económica.
R added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
More wealth an Indian family accrues, the more likely it views daughters as a threat to the patriarchal retention of the wealth.
#WomensDay
1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
R @O_edipus Mar 8
R Retweeted 50 Million Missing
El viejo prejuicio de clase desmontado. El problema es mucho más agudo a medida que asciendes en la escala social.
R added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
India’s census shows, child #sexratio for #girls 0-6yrs is BEST among the poorest and least educated communities.
#internationalwomensday
1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
AnjumChoudhry Nayyar @masalamommas Mar 8
When a mother has to justify why both her children are girls" My Daughter is Like a Son"
http://masalamommas.com/2017/02/28/the-day-my-mother-said-my-daughter-is-like-a-son/ … by @Rita_Banerji #IWD2017
0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
gabbarni @gabbarni Mar 8
gabbarni Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Damn....these are some shocking revelations if true.
gabbarni added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Fact: Child #sexratio for girls 0-6yrs in India gets worse with increase in wealth and education.
#Femicide
…
3 replies 7 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Esha Shah @eshasshah Mar 8
Esha Shah Retweeted 50 Million Missing
This. Denial.
Esha Shah added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
As Gujarat Chief Minister, Modi said high rate of (starvation induced) #malnutrition in #girls under 5yrs was due to dieting & fashion. #IWD
0 replies 4 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 7
Dama Azul Retweeted Rita Banerji
Importante lectura para entender por qué la campaña India 'Save The Girl' no detendrá el feminicidio x @Rita_Banerji
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide/ …
Dama Azul added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
0 replies 6 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
In time for #womensday2017 IMDb's will now rate #movies with #feminist POVs with an 'F'
http://bit.ly/2lTlfCG 0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
Rita Banerji Retweeted R
First thing they teach women in self defense.
Rita Banerji added,
R @O_edipus
@Rita_Banerji, it doesn't matter how big the guy is. Hit him in the balls, he'll bend over like a prawn. No blood, no marks.
0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
gabbarni @gabbarni Mar 8
Trust me this day looks so made up and fake with all these over the top #womensday messages. 😅
0 replies 4 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Esha Shah @eshasshah Mar 8
Don't forget that thousands of women lost their lives getting you the rights you enjoy today. Make it count. #IWD #InternationalWomensDay
0 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
gabbarni @gabbarni Mar 8
gabbarni Retweeted 50 Million Missing
REALLY?
gabbarni added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
As Gujarat Chief Minister, Modi said high rate of (starvation induced) #malnutrition in #girls under 5yrs was due to dieting & fashion. #IWD
2 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dimitri François @sommelier50 Mar 7
Here's Why India's 'Save The Girl' Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide/ … via @50millionmissin
0 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 7
50 Million Missing Retweeted 50 Million Missing
Our message for #Womensday
50 Million Missing added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide …
1 reply 8 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Peter Persyn @peter_persyn Mar 8
Peter Persyn Retweeted 50 Million Missing
50 Million Missing...#womensday2017
Peter Persyn added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Our message for #Womensday
https://twitter.com/50millionmissin/status/839121909266722817 …
0 replies 4 retweets 4 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
Rita Banerji Retweeted taslima nasreen
The question that won't go away by the glamorous, brand funded projection of what it means to be a woman on #internationalwomensday
Rita Banerji added,
taslima nasreenVerified account @taslimanasreen
How many women will be victims of sex trafficking,sexual slavery,abuse, rape,genital mutilation,violence,murder tomorrow on Women's Day?
0 replies 8 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Dowry is a way of dispensing with a daughter who then can make no further claims on the family’s inheritance. #internationalwomensday
1 reply 25 retweets 19 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
More wealth an Indian family accrues, the more likely it views daughters as a threat to the patriarchal retention of the wealth.
#WomensDay
1 reply 27 retweets 19 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Dowry is a misogynist politics of wealth ownership and distribution and why wealthier people kill daughters & wives.
#IWD
1 reply 19 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Farishta @FarishtayPK Mar 8
Farishta Retweeted 50 Million Missing
How can anyone talk abt #womensday
Farishta added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
More wealth an Indian family accrues, the more likely it views daughters as a threat to the patriarchal retention of the wealth.
#WomensDay
0 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
Rita Banerji Retweeted newslaundry
I saw that on TV with disbelief & then thought you keep a nation uneducated for long, and this is where we are headed.
Rita Banerji added,
newslaundryVerified account @newslaundry
.@IndiaToday has got a tarot card reader and an astrologer to predict UP results. This may just be more scientific than their exit poll.
1 reply 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Fact: Child #sexratio for girls 0-6yrs in India gets worse with increase in wealth and education.
#Femicide
#internationalwomensday
2 replies 25 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Janice Birch @JaniceBirch1 Mar 8
@50millionmissin @Rita_Banerji: this is true victim hood: if India wants to be world leader: it has to stop treating girls as a commodity!
0 replies 4 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Dowry is India's way of saying a man not only has an inherent right to his own parents’ property but to his wife’s parents’ wealth too. #IWD
1 reply 24 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
Fact: Wealthier neighbourhoods & regions record the highest rates of #dowry violence on women and dowry murders.
#internationalwomensday
1 reply 17 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
India’s female #genocide is widely attributed to poverty and illiteracy even though data and facts say otherwise.
#internationalwomensday
2 replies 44 retweets 24 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Penny White XX @unbreakablepenn Mar 8
Here's Why India's 'Save The Girl' Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide/ … via @50millionmissin
0 replies 9 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
As Gujarat Chief Minister, Modi said high rate of (starvation induced) #malnutrition in #girls under 5yrs was due to dieting & fashion. #IWD
4 replies 35 retweets 11 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Gender Equal @WomanIsHuman Mar 8
The Day My Mother Said ‘My Daughter is Like a Son’ :
http://masalamommas.com/2017/02/28/the-day-my-mother-said-my-daughter-is-like-a-son/ … By @rita_banerji #internationalwomensday
0 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Letra Escarlata
✍ @letra_escarlata Mar 8
Entender pq la campaña India 'Save The Girl' no detendrá el feminicidio x @Rita_Banerji
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide/ …
#LaCafeteraNosotrasParamos
0 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
Rita Banerji Retweeted GL
Yeah. And the real estate mafia are likely offering them a good cut. Which is how this whole rotten system works.
Rita Banerji added,
GL @GL_Funky
@Rita_Banerji Unmarried/divorced/childless woman-everyone's business. Domestic/property-related violence-"trala lalala,can't hear/see you"
0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
Good one! LOL! @awryaditi slaps misogyny in the face. "No one has paid me to be a woman!" #internationalwomensday
1 reply 21 retweets 41 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 8
Rita Banerji Retweeted Rita Banerji
#womensday no.1 lesson on how to deal with #sexualharassment. I rolled over laughing! 😂
Rita Banerji added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Brilliant! How a mother handles a case of sexual harassment of her daughter in school!
http://www.storypick.com/mom-fitting-reply/ …
0 replies 10 retweets 11 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
When PM Modi was #Gujarat's Chief minister, it recorded the lowest #ChildSexRatio (CSR) for #girls under his stewardship. #womensday2017
4 replies 35 retweets 14 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
British census data in the 18th century attributed India’s skewed #sexratio to female infanticide and other forms of #femicide as sati #IWD
2 replies 21 retweets 9 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 8
#BetiBachaoBetiPadao launched in 2015 was first time the Indian government raised the issue of female genocide in a public campaign. #IWD
1 reply 15 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dyestopia @Dyestopia Mar 8
Dyestopia Retweeted Rita Banerji
Oh boy! A lesson from an adolescent girl's mother that this boy, his teachers and even the principal will never forget. Bravo!
Dyestopia added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
#womensday no.1 lesson on how to deal with #sexualharassment. I rolled over laughing! 😂
https://twitter.com/Rita_Banerji/status/839156819016597504 …
0 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Joanne Lock @Tweetmags Mar 8
First shout to @Rita_Banerji an amazing, tireless woman who roars against the treatment of women and girls in India. #IWD
2 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Annabelle @annabelle_bzhpb Mar 7
#Women : Here's Why #India's 'Save The Girl' Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide/ … via @50millionmissin
1 reply 3 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 7
Carta de las mujeres de Polonia a USA y al mundo
Una advertencia y una adhesión #iwd2017
#dzienkobiet #womensday #8M
1 reply 6 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 7
#Shame #Turkey #womensday
Brutalidad policial Riha 23 mujeres kurdas detenidas por convocar el #8M v @RRYrevolucion
Revolución Real Ya
0 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rachel @Diana_Fire_ Mar 7
Here's Why India's 'Save The Girl' Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
https://genderbytes.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/heres-why-indias-save-the-girl-campaign-will-not-stop-female-gendercide/ … via @50millionmissin
0 replies 5 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
DianaBellerose @DiannaBellerose Mar 7
I support 50 Million Missing! Come help @50millionmissin on
http://justcoz.org/50millionmissin 1 reply 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted Mishi Choudhary
Idea of personal liberty, freedom & choice is alien to Indian society which has always emphasised the collective. Ideal 4 totalitarianism!
Rita Banerji added,
Mishi Choudhary @MishiChoudhary
In Digital India, every policy decision about the Internet affects the rights of citizens.
2 replies 5 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 7
Alarmante que incluso en países europeos eximan a violadores si admiten culpa y llegan a "acuerdo" v @Rita_Banerji
0 replies 5 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide
1 reply 7 retweets 8 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted Mental Floss
👏🎥
Rita Banerji added,
Mental FlossVerified account @mental_floss
'F' for Feminist: IMDb Adds New Movie Rating —
http://bit.ly/2lTlfCG 0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
I hope this 12 hr Luchnkno siege isn't a ploy to keep Musims from voting? Last day for UP voting
http://m.indiatoday.in/story/lucknow-thakurganj-uttar-pradesh-anti-terrorist-squad-terrorism/1/898742.html …
26 replies 6 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Seerat Bhatia @seeratbhatia90 Mar 7
@Rita_Banerji - what an eye opening piece. really intrigued by Gandhi's story
1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Mishi Choudhary @MishiChoudhary Mar 7
Restrictions on the Internet can cancel peoples’ civil rights, imperil livelihoods, and cost businesses their ability to function.
3 replies 8 retweets 11 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
WomenOccupyHollywood @WomenOccupyHwd Mar 6
"To all the women who keep charging forward, who never give up despite all that is thrown at them. You are the...
0 replies 31 retweets 49 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Kiran StaceyVerified account @kiranstacey Mar 7
The Economist asks the question I've been puzzling over since arriving in India 6 mnths ago.
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21717988-fast-growing-economy-india-stuck-alarming-credit-slump-indias-twin …
3 replies 45 retweets 24 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
YOLO @nina_mrs_mummy Mar 7
YOLO Retweeted Gina Khan
Moral policing & taking ownership of "their" women leads 2 abuse, violence & murder. All in name of honour. For patriarchs women r property
YOLO added,
Gina Khan @GinaKhanUK
.@WMPolice must investigate Islamist Misogynists👇🏼
Who harassed this young girl in a #hijab for dancing
Pls take death threats seriously..
https://twitter.com/lalodagach/status/839008277144842240 …
1 reply 5 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Brilliant! How a mother handles a case of sexual harassment of her daughter in school!
3 replies 26 retweets 36 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Gangraped by male relatives for her property, 50-yr-old Indian woman wants to commit suicide. Police no help!
http://fb.me/EQsTNSwy 0 replies 9 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide...
2 replies 6 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
AparVerified account @aparatbar Mar 7
Aadhaar Data : "Exclusion errors" are when people (usually the most vulnerable) cannot obtain PDS rations as their thumbprints. Don't match.
2 replies 36 retweets 15 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted Sky News
People when you throw coins into water bodies for "good luck" this is what happens
Rita Banerji added,
Sky NewsVerified account @SkyNews
A 25-year-old female sea turtle nicknamed Bank had to have 915 coins removed from her stomach
http://trib.al/sowwijS 0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Middle East EyeVerified account @MiddleEastEye Mar 7
"We want to eat! We want bread!" protesters chanted, in response to attempts to cut subsidies and supplies
2 replies 24 retweets 11 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Farishta @FarishtayPK Mar 7
Farishta Retweeted Rita Banerji
A campaign which is ignored but is the most important
Farishta added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Here’s Why India’s ‘Save The Girl’ Campaign Will Not Stop Female Gendercide...
http://fb.me/1cUajLklF 0 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted Farishta
No 😞
Rita Banerji added,
Farishta @FarishtayPK
@Rita_Banerji @50millionmissin it must stop before its too late. Do they have brains?
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
An Indian American who has been a US citizen for 40 years, for the first time fears racist hate crimes
2 replies 7 retweets 4 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Hostel curfew is necessary to protect college women from 'hormonal outbursts' says India's women affairs minister
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted The Ladies Finger
A rodent yes, but I think that's a guinea pig?
Rita Banerji added,
The Ladies FingerVerified account @TheLadiesFinger
OMG stop what you're doing and meet @the_aliciasouza's adorable pet mouse Henry Oates!
http://theladiesfinger.com/alicia-souza-henry-oates/ …
1 reply 2 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Persistent Nasty Bat @Abstractivum Mar 7
Are You An Echo: The Story of the Young Woman Who Became Japan's Most Beloved Children's Poet
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/03/03/are-you-an-echo-misuzu-kaneko/ … via @brainpicker
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted Saikat Datta
So govt of India has told citizens it owns them & their data & if hacked, stolen etc they cannot question the govt! #DemocracyDiedinIndia.
Rita Banerji added,
Saikat DattaVerified account @saikatd
.@PandaJay If this is true why is UIDAI refusing to follow the law and answer RTI applications about data breaches?
https://scroll.in/article/830589/under-the-right-to-information-law-aadhaar-data-breaches-will-remain-a-state-secret …
0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rethink Aadhaar @no2uid Mar 6
Pl Share. Press conference in Delhi Press Club, tomo, March 7, 2pm, on Impact of UID/Aadhaar Coercion on Women:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=393576531018426&id=328963204146426 …
0 replies 24 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
JayKay @JayKay074 Mar 4
Dalit Sarpanch was killed in Gujarat by UpperCastes for he got elected. It got no media outrage in India like Kansas shooting incident got
1 reply 30 retweets 22 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted Outlook Magazine
Oh shameful!
Rita Banerji added,
Outlook MagazineVerified account @Outlookindia
Children With #HIV Write To PM #NarendraModi After #Cipla Stops Drug Supply Over Non-Payment By Govt
https://goo.gl/U1DXWH 0 replies 3 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Even Belgium exempts #rapists who admit their guilt by reaching a “settlement” with their victim?
0 replies 5 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 7
#Gangraped by male relatives for her property, 50-yr-old Indian woman wants to commit suicide. Police no help!
http://fb.me/3Cow3r76f 0 replies 5 retweets 3 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 7
Rita Banerji Retweeted #DestroyTheAadhaar
Yes the government wants no responsibility for your details compromised on their site!
Rita Banerji added,
#DestroyTheAadhaar @Stupidosaur
.@Rita_Banerji Which is exactly why all this #DigitalIndia and efiling is bullshit. #DestroyTheAadhaar.
0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Vidhi @MissVidhi Mar 7
Vidhi Retweeted Rita Banerji
@SayftyCom @pinthecreep @safeworld4women @Rohinisgh_ET
Vidhi added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Gangraped by male relatives for her property, 50-yr-old Indian woman wants to commit suicide. Police no help!
http://fb.me/EQsTNSwy 1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor Mar 3
Karishma is from a wealthy family: why did she have no name until she was 2?
Part 1 of her story, Morning Star next week. @50millionmissin
0 replies 4 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 4
India's new normal: A 16-yo was #gangraped & the video shared with the entire village
38 replies 124 retweets 73 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted 50 Million Missing
@angel4many so important to recognise this is facilitation of rape. Specially for Indian women
Rita Banerji added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Survey: In 2012, only 5% of women in India had sole control over choosing their husbands
http://bit.ly/2l3LU3q http://fb.me/86EwPlcMm 1 reply 14 retweets 12 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
WomenOccupyHollywood @WomenOccupyHwd Mar 5
Hulu’s “Harlots” is Written, Directed, and Produced Entirely by Women
1 reply 32 retweets 72 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Maryanne Pope @MaryannePope Mar 6
"One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately & creatively to the hidden silences."~J. O'Donohue
http://goo.gl/5BGG34 1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted #DestroyTheAadhaar
But the ECI is an institution. Just as are the RBI, the Supreme Court whose freedom & institutional integrity need to be questioned too.
Rita Banerji added,
#DestroyTheAadhaar @Stupidosaur
.@Rita_Banerji It is NOT about institutions. Electronic Voting Machines are a FRAUD. Either ECI does not fully understand or it is complicit
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
N @_morphiine_ Mar 6
@Rita_Banerji @Stupidosaur Thanku! been looking for it since a Prof in Univ mentioned regarding such an article by a German researcher.
1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
#DestroyTheAadhaar @Stupidosaur Mar 6
.@Rita_Banerji Just #BanEVM and #DestroyTheAadhaar. All else is irrelevant and not in our control. BTW it was Modi who opened defense to pvt
0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted #DestroyTheAadhaar
The weakness of institutions central to democracy & citizens rights has never been so obvious in Indian history!
Rita Banerji added,
#DestroyTheAadhaar @Stupidosaur
.@Rita_Banerji Democratic govt is accountable to people only if ppl have real power to bring it down for misdeed, not when West rigs a show.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted #DestroyTheAadhaar
So it really wouldn't matter which political party is in power!
Rita Banerji added,
#DestroyTheAadhaar @Stupidosaur
.@Rita_Banerji It's not just BJP. They probably also gave UPA fake wins in exchange for Aadhaar, Food Security (money not food) etc.
1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted #DestroyTheAadhaar
If weapons sale is a big part of the economy, then more wars & civil conflicts in the world is better for businesses 😕
Rita Banerji added,
#DestroyTheAadhaar @Stupidosaur
.@Rita_Banerji They are also behind fake wins of BJP with EVM rigging. They need thug Modi in power to fully sabotage India and wage wars.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted NDTV
Just goes to show how controlled ministers are in the Modi government. I doubt if this is what she really thinks!
Rita Banerji added,
NDTVVerified account @ndtv
Maneka Gandhi says hostel curfew to save girls from 'hormonal outbursts'
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/maneka-gandhi-says-hostel-curfew-to-save-girls-from-hormonal-outbursts-1666742 …
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Tarek FatahVerified account @TarekFatah Mar 6
In India, a 10-year-old Muslim girl is murdered by a Mosque manager as 'human sacrifice' to cure a paralysed man.
102 replies 811 retweets 553 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dr. Vidyut @Vidyut Mar 6
"Press Conference on the impact of the UID project on women"
Tomorrow. 2pm. Press club.
RT, FB, whatever. Share, please? #DestroyTheAadhaar
3 replies 61 retweets 26 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 6
#AcidAttack by man on wife for #dowry. He dumps her body assuming her dead....
0 replies 11 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Honor Diaries @HonorDiaries Mar 6
Exhibition to tell stories of women who underwent genital mutilation
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/exhibition-to-tell-stories-of-women-who-underwent-genital-mutilation-1.2997372 …
1 reply 14 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Fuuse @Fuuse Mar 1
I wanted to tell the stories of young people who live among us but whose reality we know very little about – @Deeyah_Khan
Deeyah Khan explains her motivations for becoming a filmmaker
1 reply 39 retweets 58 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Simran Jeet SinghVerified account @SikhProf Mar 6
One thing people aren't saying? The #MuslimBan has immense consequences on all minorities. Four South Asian immigrants shot this past week.
7 replies 309 retweets 324 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted Kate Rose
Wow! Bannon does not want Silicon Valley to turn South Asian BROWN! He says “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society."
Rita Banerji added,
Kate Rose @KateRoseMe
@Rita_Banerji Bannon's use of "civic society" here...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-trump-presidency-chief-strategist-breitbart-tech-visa …
2 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
sex and power @sexandpower Feb 27
Kerala priest says women who wear jeans, T-shirts should be drowned in the sea with a rock tied to their bodies.
0 replies 3 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
Women Madhubani tribal artists are addressing issues that effect them in their works, like #sexuaharassment
http://www.thebetterindia.com/16558/photo-essay-madhubani-art-transformation-women-artists-bihar/ …
0 replies 13 retweets 11 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Sabrang @sabrangindia Mar 6
दैनिक जागरण ने छापी मोदी की रैली की पुरानी तस्वीर, गाड़ी के रंग से पकड़ में आया फर्जीवाड़ा
https://hindi.sabrangindia.in/article/dainik-jagran-published-fake-photo-of-modi-varanasi-rally …
1 reply 25 retweets 14 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted Elliott Lusztig
Why indeed. A rhetorical question.
Rita Banerji added,
Elliott Lusztig @ezlusztig
Brought to the US as a boy. Served two tours in Afghanistan. Why on earth would we deport him?
http://abc7chicago.com/1739129/ via @abc7chicago
0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted what do you see?
✨
A frog :)
Rita Banerji added,
what do you see?
✨ @tinydotblot
⠀
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⠀…
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Rita Banerji Retweeted
Letra Escarlata
✍ @letra_escarlata Mar 6
Letra Escarlata
✍ Retweeted Rita Banerji
Empoderamiento en estas mujeres q denuncian la violencia sexual a través d sus dibujos
#8M #LaCafetera8MTodasParamos
Letra Escarlata
✍ added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Women Madhubani tribal artists are addressing issues that effect them in their works, like #sexuaharassment
http://www.thebetterindia.com/16558/photo-essay-madhubani-art-transformation-women-artists-bihar/ …
0 replies 5 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Davinder Kaur @angel4many Mar 6
@Rita_Banerji You are so right. No control over choosing our husbands, saying no, and we have to endure hell. So traumatic, evil & horrific!
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted Vaishnavi
Why women who assert sexual autonomy scare India
Rita Banerji added,
Vaishnavi @Vaishax
I smacked my lips writing this one.
I hope it resonates with you in the same way, while you read my angst :)...
http://fb.me/8eYs0AseA 0 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
LibertyALF @ALFLiberty Mar 5
Trump and Mussolini: The same, only different? Eleven key lessons from historical fascism
0 replies 6 retweets 4 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted LibertyALF
Yup! Racism like misogyny finds strength in like minded groups.
Rita Banerji added,
LibertyALF @ALFLiberty
It’s Hard to Stay Racist One-On-One, Face-to-Face
http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/its-hard-to-stay-racist-one-on-one-face-to-face …
0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
Rita Banerji Retweeted Kate Rose
That's what Indians are still in denial about.
Rita Banerji added,
Kate Rose @KateRoseMe
@JoyAnnReid that’s why it’s funny to see ppl shocked about the H-1B visa proposal bc of economic impact... it’s not about the economy!!!
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 6
23 yr-old Ranjana in Ludhiana was attacked with #acid for #dowry and left for dead....
1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Davinder Kaur @angel4many Mar 6
@Rita_Banerji I have made a new song about forced marriage.Let's end this abuse. AM FM - I Say No More
https://youtu.be/LtiJwKJPBdo via @YouTube
1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
So we don't forget in this age of drummed up support.
0 replies 11 retweets 15 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
School meals & sex trafficked victims! Aadhaar made mandatory for 11 more schemes, violating Supreme Court ruling
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
Rita Banerji Retweeted Mumbai Heritage
Whatever happened to that 👇 Bombay 😞 ??
Rita Banerji added,
Mumbai Heritage @mumbaiheritage
1949: A rare pic of the Flora Fountain,Mumbai
1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
Rita Banerji Retweeted Dama Azul
Beautiful, beautiful portraits! Just love them.
Rita Banerji added,
Dama Azul @_damaazul
#8marzo #8M #NosotrasParamos #WomensStrike #MujeresEnHuelga #ParoInternacionalDeMujeres #womensmovement
#Art #Dignity @DanaGluckstein
1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Gender_Issues @gender_issues Mar 5
Death penalty bill scrapped in Iowa Senate for 2017
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 5
Dama Azul Retweeted Rita Banerji
Hay mucho de empoderamiento en estas mujeres que denuncian la violencia sexual a través de sus dibujos
#8M #WomensStrike #womensmovement
Dama Azul added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Women Madhubani tribal artists are addressing issues that effect them in their works, like #sexuaharassment
http://www.thebetterindia.com/16558/photo-essay-madhubani-art-transformation-women-artists-bihar/ …
0 replies 3 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Dama Azul @_damaazul Mar 5
Absolutely @Rita_Banerji & a petition v @amnesty Indigenous women who face high rate of sexual abuse that's #Dignity
https://www.facebook.com/dana.gluckstein/posts/1122748054435272 …
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
Rita Banerji Retweeted Ophelia Benson
😆
Rita Banerji added,
Ophelia Benson @OpheliaBenson
Ooh, ooh, I love this game! Let's see...was it Meryl Streep? Simone Biles? The Dalai Lama?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/838353481526312961 …
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rana H. @RanaHarbi Feb 3
No food No medicine No hope ..
Amid world silence, millions of Yemenis starve to death as US-backed Saudi Arabia continues to impose a siege
196 replies 3,579 retweets 2,140 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rana H. @RanaHarbi Feb 3
Arab world's richest country Saudi Arabia starving Arab world's poorest country Yemen. What does the "free" west do? Sell Saudi more arms.
54 replies 924 retweets 883 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
Rita Banerji Retweeted Press Trust of India
In India election rallies are called roadshows. And yes they are like traveling circuses. But is it not embarassing to openly call them so?
Rita Banerji added,
Press Trust of IndiaVerified account @PTI_News
UP CM #AkhileshYadav says PM @narendramodi's roadshows are bound to fail like earlier ones and would stray him "somewhere else."
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Diké @DikeJu Mar 4
Meerut is a business hub of gangrape videos, also called "local videos" or "WhatsApp sex videos"
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/10/dark-trade-rape-videos-sale-india-161023124250022.html … @50millionmissin
0 replies 11 retweets 5 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 5
Rita Banerji Retweeted Rohit Kapoor
True. And drivers & bus conductors are rude as they almost push old people off in the middle of traffic saying "hurry up, get off!"
Rita Banerji added,
Rohit Kapoor @IndianTrainFan
@Rita_Banerji Ma'am Low Floor Non-AC & AC Buses of WBTC are preferred by many Senior Citizens in #Kolkata but they dont halt properly @ stop
1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Maria PopovaVerified account @brainpicker Mar 4
Exquisite Indian folk art meets women's empowerment in this self-taught artist's journey from poverty to reinvention
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/16/drawing-from-the-city-tara-books/ …
3 replies 31 retweets 56 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 4
Rita Banerji Retweeted Springtime Siren
🌿
Very prophetic :)
Rita Banerji added,
Springtime Siren
🌿 @Sirensongs
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 4
India's new normal: A 16-yo was #gangraped & the video shared with the entire village
1 reply 11 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Suzanne Simnick @SuzanneSimnick Mar 3
Suzanne Simnick Retweeted 50 Million Missing
WOMEN and GIRLS.....
RISE. XOXO
Suzanne Simnick added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Herabai Tata: The Power Behind Indian Women's Voting Rights.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#suffragettes #India
…
0 replies 3 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
GL @GL_Funky Mar 4
GL Retweeted 50 Million Missing
WHOA!Read ur Huffpo piece last yr,but didn't realise ur mom's relatives also r involved.Awful wt u 2 are going thru
GL added,
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin
Why do Indians say "my daughter is like a son" and what this feminist daughter's response was....“In a son-crazy,...
http://fb.me/1hUKC6GsG 1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Eclectic Northeast @eclectictweets Mar 4
Two-Day Film Festival in @guwahaticity
@AssamAdda @Assam_24X7
#Assam #NortheastIndia
http://bit.ly/2moBsUC 0 replies 4 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
♀ womens art @womensart1 Mar 3
Rathika Ramasamy, Indian wildlife photographer #womensart
3 replies 129 retweets 281 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
♀ womens art @womensart1 Mar 4
Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914), one of Japan’s first women photo-journalists, was still taking photographs at age 101 #womensart
3 replies 437 retweets 825 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 4
Rita Banerji Retweeted SwatKat
Unfortunately, yes, that's what use of technology without education does.
Rita Banerji added,
SwatKat @bluelephant5
Digital India
https://twitter.com/Rita_Banerji/status/837871760489926656 …
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 4
Rita Banerji Retweeted The Hill
Vicious!
Rita Banerji added,
The HillVerified account @thehill
Homeland Security considering separating women and children at border: report
http://hill.cm/92BxEoc 0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
AnjumChoudhry Nayyar @masalamommas Mar 3
Why does a mother have to justify why both her children are girls" My Daughter is Like a Son’
http://masalamommas.com/2017/02/28/the-day-my-mother-said-my-daughter-is-like-a-son/ … by @Rita_Banerji #IWD
0 replies 9 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Suzanne Simnick @SuzanneSimnick Mar 3
@50millionmissin @Rita_Banerji
WOMEN and GIRLS.....
RISE. XOXO
0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 3
Herabai Tata: The Power Behind Indian Women's Voting Rights.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#suffragettes #India
1 reply 12 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
sister-hood @sister_hood_mag Feb 27
The pomp and ceremony that we, as a society, have added to the simple event of marriage is monstrous.
1 reply 13 retweets 14 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 2
Why do Indians say "my daughter is like a son" and what this feminist daughter's response was....“In a son-crazy,...
0 replies 8 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
WomenCanSee @WomenCanSee Mar 3
An Australian inquiry found >7% of Catholic Priests are child abusers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-38877158 … @Rita_Banerji
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
WomenCanSee @WomenCanSee Mar 3
The Catholic Church priesthood should be banned as a criminal rape organisation
http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/exclusive-kerala-catholic-body-s-bizarre-justification-says-consumerism-led-rape-priest … @Rita_Banerji
1 reply 4 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
WomenCanSee @WomenCanSee Mar 3
"Vincente Fuillerat was still under that protective order & on probation when he murdered them both"
#SystemFail
0 replies 4 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Wadi @Wadi_eV Feb 28
India's female genital mutilation: a thousand-year-old secret
0 replies 5 retweets 3 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
SouthallBlackSistersVerified account @SBSisters Mar 3
Would you like to work for Southall Black Sisters? #Vacancies for Violence Against Women Advocates Deadline 8 March
0 replies 11 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
🏹PosieParker @ThePosieParker Mar 3
I feel uneasy about wealthy celebs asking poor people for cash when they could all give 1/10 of their wealth and solve poverty. #RedNoseDay
1 reply 7 retweets 18 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 3
In Kerala, Catholic body makes a bizarre justification of rape by a priest. Says consumerism led to #rape!
3 replies 7 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Anoo Bhuyan @AnooBhu Mar 3
Anoo Bhuyan Retweeted Outlook Magazine
Here's a clip from my video story on #ManipurElections. 15yrs of Congress, will there be change? Watch the whole video at the link below!
Anoo Bhuyan added,
0:20
Outlook MagazineVerified account @Outlookindia
#ManipurElections2017 Ground Report From Manipur,#IromSharmila On Her Role In Formal Politics. Full Video And Story
https://goo.gl/LXTwIr 2 replies 4 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor Mar 3
Louise Raw Retweeted
Yes:women's strikes all over world, all eras; but we don't hear about them. Leicestershire spinners in 1788 formed militant all-female union
https://twitter.com/rita_banerji/status/837598998265384960 …
Louise Raw added,
This Tweet is unavailable.
0 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor Mar 2
You can hear @lynbrownmp & a host of inspirational women at Matchwomen's Festival on 1st July! All info & booking:
2 replies 21 retweets 16 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Louise Raw @LouiseRawAuthor Mar 2
Louise Raw Retweeted Lyn Brown
130 years ago,the Bow Matchwomen were derided for their class, sex & Irish origins. Regardless, they faced down a cruel,powerful employer 1/
Louise Raw added,
Lyn BrownVerified account @lynbrownmp
Cross party support for my demand for blue plaque for Matchwomen after today’s Int Women’s Day debate @LouiseRawAuthor let’s make it happen
5 replies 53 retweets 53 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Persistent Nasty Bat @Abstractivum Mar 3
Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay to Be Angry?
1 reply 9 retweets 5 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 3
Rita Banerji Retweeted Khaled Hishma
I wonder how Mrs. Trump resolves her stand on clean environment for children's health with her husband's anti-environment policies?
Rita Banerji added,
Khaled Hishma @khaledhishma
The latest Humanity Portico Daily!
http://paper.li/khaledhishma/humanity-portico?edition_id=e3840040-ffd3-11e6-89dc-0cc47a0d15fd … Thanks to @heike_schormann @LeroyLeadbeater @RDOTRAW #environment #nature
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 2
Shocking! Politician of India's ruling party arrested for running a child trafficking network.
0 replies 10 retweets 7 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Penny White XX @unbreakablepenn Mar 3
Startup workers see sexual harassment on 'breathtaking' scale in Silicon Valley
1 reply 11 retweets 8 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Penny White XX @unbreakablepenn Mar 3
Survivor of clerical sex abuse resigns from Vatican’s Commission for Protection of Minors
http://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/03/01/whats-current-survivor-clerical-sex-abuse-resigns-vaticans-commission-protection-minors/ … via @FeministCurrent
0 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
ninjabob @therealninjabob Mar 3
The things I don't believe in anymore could fill an encyclopedia.
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 3
Rita Banerji Retweeted barkha dutt
Does Kuchibhotla's racist in killing in the US really convince most Indians otherwise, who like him think "Trump is good for us?"
Rita Banerji added,
barkha duttVerified account @BDUTT
"His name was Srinivas Kuchibhotla"- my column on the Kansas Killing - in the op-ed pages of the @washingtonpost. Do read.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
sex and power @sexandpower Mar 2
What my response was The Day My Mother Said ‘My Daughter is Like a Son’...
“In a son-crazy, daughter-hating...
0 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Not at all Shocking...Politician of India's ruling party arrested for running a child trafficking network.
2 replies 5 retweets 5 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted The New York Times
We could run this in India too! "The truth is our nation is more divided than ever."
Rita Banerji added,
0:30
The New York TimesVerified account @nytimes
The New York Times has a new marketing campaign: "The truth is more important now than ever."
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted Maria Popova
"When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open too."~Bill Moyers. #WorldBookDay #ReadingMakesMe
Rita Banerji added,
Maria PopovaVerified account @brainpicker
On #WorldBookDay, @neilhimself on why we read and what books do for the human experience
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/03/neil-gaiman-view-from-the-cheap-seats-reading/ …
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
With increasing distrust of Russia, Sweden announced that mandatory military service would start next year.
1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
What my response was The Day My Mother Said ‘My Daughter is Like a Son’...
“In a son-crazy, daughter-hating...
0 replies 8 retweets 10 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted GCR2P
#R2P #ResponsibilityToProtect #HumanRights #Genocide @50millionmissin women in #India
Rita Banerji added,
GCR2PVerified account @GCR2P
Want to stay up to date on all things #R2P & mass atrocity prevention? Head over to our Facebook page & click like!
http://bit.ly/GCR2Pfb 0 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Freedom of the PressVerified account @FreedomofPress Mar 2
We’re hiring a reporter/researcher to document press freedom violations in the US
http://www.poynter.org/2017/press-freedom-organizations-are-teaming-up-to-start-a-news-site/450642/ …
Apply:
2 replies 60 retweets 50 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted Akash Mahajan
The state is entitled to your biometric data on file if you buy tickets for a game! #Bengaluru say NO and boycott the #IPL.
Rita Banerji added,
Akash Mahajan @makash
No IPL tickets without Aadhaar
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Syed Maqbool @maqbool_sm Mar 2
Modiji told us to give-up subsidy - everyone obliged, than back-stabbed with steepest hike in the history. #BureDin
#NationalistGasLoot
1 reply 42 retweets 25 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
मनमोहन सिंग पहुजा @msgpahujaa Mar 2
picture of October 2012 when LPG cylinders were priced at ₹399. BJP leaders protesting. Now enjoying at ₹777 #NationalistGasLoot
INC India, Office of RG, Sanjay Nirupam and With Congress
20 replies 300 retweets 196 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Salil TripathiVerified account @saliltripathi Mar 2
Salil Tripathi Retweeted scroll.in
The slogan was beti bachao, not beti becho, the BJP Bengal women's wing secretary should have been told.
Salil Tripathi added,
scroll.inVerified account @scroll_in
BJP sacks Bengal women’s wing secretary after her arrest in child trafficking case
http://bit.ly/2luvf4R 6 replies 56 retweets 39 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
VaginaCrone @RadFemCJN Mar 2
India alone has 50 million women missing from its population.
Tell me how that is about gender identity. Go on, try and fucking tell me.
4 replies 53 retweets 76 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Trendinalia EspañaVerified account @trendinaliaES Mar 2
3 cuentas verificadas contribuyeron a convertir #LaCafeteraBERTACACERESVive en TT. Ellas fueron: @radiocable, @radiocablecom & @Rita_Banerji
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Letters of NoteVerified account @LettersOfNote Mar 2
Basically, time spent reading a good book is time not spent in the company of terrible people. #WorldBookDay
10 replies 395 retweets 520 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
VaginaCrone @RadFemCJN Mar 2
Go read @Rita_Banerji and the work she does.
Then come back to me and tell me how that is about gender and not sex.
I fucking dare you.
0 replies 7 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted Caste Aside
Absolutely. There needs to be an international UN legislation against caste as a human rights issue.
Rita Banerji added,
Caste Aside @CasteAside
Is caste discrimination ongoing in the UK? Should the government outlaw it? Send us your thoughts here:
https://www.facebook.com/CasteAside/posts/651460861708759:0 …
1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted Satyender
Not one, but almost all religions! Even to Christianity, Islam & Sikhism in India! That's why Ambedkar chose Buddhism - as it's caste free
Rita Banerji added,
Satyender @satyenderm
@Rita_Banerji Caste in India is bounded to a religion not in UK. To annihilate caste in India religion has to be destroyed.
2 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Letra Escarlata
✍ @letra_escarlata Mar 2
#LaCafeteraBERTACACERESVive @Rita_Banerji Activista, escritora y fund ONG @50millionmissin por su lucha el por la mujer India #Feminicidio
0 replies 6 retweets 6 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
AnjumChoudhry Nayyar @masalamommas Mar 1
What is the status of gender equality, bias in families in India? @Rita_Banerji @50millionmissin shares this:
http://masalamommas.com/2017/02/28/the-day-my-mother-said-my-daughter-is-like-a-son/ … #IWD
0 replies 4 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 1
50 Million Missing Retweeted Manshi Asher
Thousands of elderly women & widows in India stopped getting pension as government declared them dead!
50 Million Missing added,
Manshi Asher @ManshiAsher
Dakhu Bai is no more. Her story on losing her pension because she did not have an #Aadhaar Card.
https://youtu.be/NGYX0uNTClg @nikhilmkss
0 replies 6 retweets 4 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 1
#BhanwariDevi's gangrape gave India a sexual harassment law, but gave her no justice.
#WomensHistoryMonth
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/the-forgotten-braveheart-of-india-india-today/1/240667.html …
0 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted Tehseen Poonawalla
Why not ask the army commander?
Rita Banerji added,
Tehseen PoonawallaVerified account @tehseenp
Am told this is a morphed video. I would apologise if I am wrong. Can anyone verify the authenticity & how did main stream media play it ?
https://twitter.com/KirenRijiju/status/836799184502149120 …
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 2
Rita Banerji Retweeted Pallavi Aiyar
Submissive. As w/everything. The only time they come out in full force is when they demand the right to abuse animals, women & Dalits.
Rita Banerji added,
Pallavi Aiyar @pallaviaiyar
"Most Indians react to polluted air with a compound of ignorance, fatalism and complacency."
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/india-choking-air-pollution-is-a-problem-that-not-only-needs-acknowledgement-but-action-too-364385.html …
2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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Caste Aside @CasteAside Feb 24
"When I came from India to Britain, I never though there would be any caste based discrimination in this country.. But perhaps I was naive."
1 reply 16 retweets 10 likes
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The Pixel Project @PixelProject Mar 1
#UK: #CallTheMidwife puts female genital mutilation centre stage in brave new episode
https://is.gd/5ysBuW #FGM
0 replies 11 retweets 8 likes
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Annie GowenVerified account @anniegowen Mar 1
India's strong GDP data after note ban shock leaves economists scratching their heads
http://reut.rs/2lRzZFc via @ReutersIndia
39 replies 223 retweets 147 likes
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HuffPost IndiaVerified account @HuffPostIndia 12 Mar 2015
Unearthing India's ancestry that descends from Africa, by @Rita_Banerji
http://huff.to/1L12Hv5 1 reply 4 retweets 7 likes
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Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Communicate
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Satyender @satyenderm Mar 1
@Rita_Banerji Gandhi by all means a Hypocrite. Why his kids learn English. It's conspiracy to make low caste ppl to avoid english. Shameless
0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
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50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Mar 1
#VAW #India: 24-yr old Rachna in UP was cremated alive by her husband; a priest in Kerala raped & impregnated a...
http://fb.me/OCQfRWwd 0 replies 8 retweets 4 likes
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AnjumChoudhry Nayyar @masalamommas Mar 1
New: The Day My Mother Said ‘My Daughter is Like a Son’ : Gender Bias and Indian Families
http://masalamommas.com/2017/02/28/the-day-my-mother-said-my-daughter-is-like-a-son/ … By @rita_banerji
1 reply 11 retweets 8 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted AvaDuVernay Fans
"Art will be our weapon." #WomensHistoryMonth #FeministAgenda
Rita Banerji added,
AvaDuVernay Fans @avaduvernayfans
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth !
1 reply 8 retweets 7 likes
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Arleny Alvarez-Peña @AalvarezPena Mar 1
To all the women in my life, whether past or present; you're impacted my leadership. Thank you. #WomensHistoryMonth
21 replies 465 retweets 672 likes
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Dama Martell @Martell_Jackie Mar 1
Today marks the 1st day of #WomensHistoryMonth. Let us continue to stand in solidarity against those who try to keep us down. #womensrights
7 replies 348 retweets 450 likes
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Rita Banerji Retweeted Mona Eltahawy
Imagine if everyone showed the same courage & conviction. #Respect
Rita Banerji added,
Mona EltahawyVerified account @monaeltahawy
I am able to say #FuckFascism & Trump is a fascist fuck and is rather get arrested than hand over device/password bec of multiple privileges
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Mona EltahawyVerified account @monaeltahawy Mar 1
I'm flying into JFK with 2 phones, a laptop & several Arabic novels after 2.5mths in #Egypt. I'll be damned if I hand over device/password
4 replies 15 retweets 50 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted Springtime Siren
🌿
Lovely eyes.
Rita Banerji added,
Springtime Siren
🌿 @Sirensongs
#ThatNoiseUnderMyBedIs my doggie stretching, scratching and rearranging
0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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Rita Banerji Retweeted Springtime Siren
🌿
Envy :)
Rita Banerji added,
Springtime Siren
🌿 @Sirensongs
Happening now
#dharamsala #himachal
0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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LibertyALF @ALFLiberty Mar 1
Japan's gender-bending history
http://theconversation.com/japans-gender-bending-history-71545 … via @ConversationEDU
0 replies 6 retweets 6 likes
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Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted Student Pride
The Kamasutra texts in 500AD India had many chapters on this. Oddly though 21st century India doesn't allow gay people legal status!
Rita Banerji added,
Student PrideVerified account @studentpride
'Gay people didn't exist in our sex education. I had no idea how men even had sex with men.' Olly @ NSP @gaystarnews
http://buff.ly/2l5AdK3 1 reply 8 retweets 2 likes
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Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Not surprised. Gandhi was parochial to the extreme.
3 replies 5 retweets 6 likes
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Kengarex @kengarex Feb 28
Birds, sunlight and a temple inside Batu Caves in Malaysia.
5 replies 184 retweets 379 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted Kengarex
Gorgeous. But I keep thinking about the waste of electricity. Like I do during Diwali in India.
Rita Banerji added,
Kengarex @kengarex
the Tree of Life, done in Utah, US
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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NatlMuseumWomenArtsVerified account @WomenInTheArts Mar 1
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! Take the challenge: Can you name #5WomenArtists?
http://ow.ly/INS4309rtE3 125 replies 415 retweets 550 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted Pranay Kotasthane
Good luck. Because that's the only kind of governance 80% of Indians know, understand & follow. I believe that explains public response2 PM
Rita Banerji added,
Pranay Kotasthane @pranaykotas
@Rita_Banerji well, we keep dismantling that fallacy then. There's power in ideas. @awryaditi
1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
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Mona EltahawyVerified account @monaeltahawy Mar 1
I salute my friend @bisialimi for this.I hope one day an openly gay #Egyptian can write under own name
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/being-gay-african-history-homosexuality-christianity?CMP=share_btn_tw … h/t @rerutled
1 reply 19 retweets 21 likes
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Office of T Satpathy @SatpathyLive Feb 28
As a legislator, this worries me. While The Nation is distracted by students sloganeering, Govt passes far reaching negative laws.
TS
7/7
2 replies 28 retweets 27 likes
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Office of T Satpathy @SatpathyLive Feb 28
Nationalism is being used as convenient cover for a disastrous economy & mass looting by big corps. Top 10 Cos owe banks 40K cr each!
TS
4/
9 replies 81 retweets 32 likes
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MeghnadVerified account @Memeghnad Mar 1
@Scepticindian @Rita_Banerji a bunch of people told me that. Makes the whole thing worse
Minister sharing a fake army man's video. Woot.
2 replies 2 retweets 1 like
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted Meghnad
Really shocking. Unprecedented. It's cataclysmic for the Indian army. My father, an ex-officer, is probably turning in his grave.
Rita Banerji added,
MeghnadVerified account @Memeghnad
Umm an army man is being used to give political speeches? Is this in UP? Where & when did this happen?
https://twitter.com/KirenRijiju/status/836799184502149120 …
3 replies 8 retweets 11 likes
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Springtime Siren
🌿 @Sirensongs Mar 1
Springtime Siren
🌿 Retweeted Untameable Shrews
It's also FGM.
Springtime Siren
🌿 added,
Untameable Shrews @untamableshrews
This is paedophile culture.
0 replies 4 retweets 4 likes
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Springtime Siren
🌿 @Sirensongs Mar 1
Springtime Siren
🌿 Retweeted Untameable Shrews
It's only women's spaces that are being invaded
Springtime Siren
🌿 added,
Untameable Shrews @untamableshrews
0 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
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Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji 11 Mar 2015
Here's #India's reason to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth : India's Unsung African Blood
http://m.huffpost.com/in/entry/6742294 …
2 replies 9 retweets 7 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted HuffPost India
#BlackHistoryMonth
Rita Banerji added,
HuffPost IndiaVerified account @HuffPostIndia
Unearthing India's ancestry that descends from Africa, by @Rita_Banerji
http://huff.to/1L12Hv5 0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
Rita Banerji Retweeted Black History Heroes
"Perhaps Buddha is a woman..." 💡 #BlackHistoryMonth
Rita Banerji added,
Black History Heroes @HistoryHeroes
Marita Bonner (6/16/1899 - 12/6/1971) was a writer and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance. #BHM
1 reply 9 retweets 9 likes
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Maria PopovaVerified account @brainpicker Feb 28
On this final day of #BlackHistoryMonth, Maya Angelou recites her iconic poem “Phenomenal Woman”
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/04/maya-angelou-recites-phenomenal-woman/ …
3 replies 164 retweets 315 likes
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
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Rita Banerji Retweeted India 1st
2 things
1) if I support #freespeech on Kashmir, it does not mean I support its separation
2)u can oppose w/freespeech, BUT not violence
Rita Banerji added,
India 1st @rm1802
@nik_atal u have not heard abt JNU where anti Indian slogans along with free Kashmir were raised @1990kid @Rita_Banerji @mehartweets
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Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Mar 1
24-yo Rachna in UP cremated alive by her husband; a priest in Kerala raped & impregnated a teenager. Normal life:...
http://fb.me/1eSqa03lQ 1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
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Sheila Vakharia PhD @MyHarmReduction Feb 28
On the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth I would like to share this piece by @Rita_Banerji India's Unsung African Blood
0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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Ellie Cumbo @EllieCumbo Feb 28
No. Viewing indecent images drives a market in which new abuse images must be created. That *is* a risk to children.
5 replies 42 retweets 46 likes
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MarinaS @marstrina Feb 28
Should domestic abuse have its own law?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/sian-norris/should-domestic-abuse-have-its-own-law … | And we make fun of Russia. I mean really.
0 replies 5 retweets 7 likes
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50 Million Missing @50millionmissin Feb 28
50 Million Missing Retweeted रॉफ़ल इयान बाबू
College student #GurmeharKaur withdrew from campaign for #womensafety on campus after threats. Her faculty responds
50 Million Missing added,
रॉफ़ल इयान बाबूVerified account @iawoolford
Statement from Faculty at Lady Shri Ram College
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Pedro Carvalho @FNIKMAN Feb 28
@Rita_Banerji @LipstickMovie @monaeltahawy @Deeyah_Khan just been told it's sold out! Well done to the festival for showing the film!
0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
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soraya nulliah @sorayanulliah Feb 28
@masalamommas @Rita_Banerji thank you for re-posting this. More difficult yet of utmost importance in our current political climate
0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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AnjumChoudhry Nayyar @masalamommas Feb 28
What it Means to Be a Woman and Mother Between Two Cultures
http://masalamommas.com/2012/08/01/mother-between-two-cultures/ … by @rita_banerji @sorayanulliah #SouthAsian
1 reply 8 retweets 10 likes
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Cletus Zuzarte @cletusz Feb 28
@Rita_Banerji @YahooIndia Appalling to see the basic freedom of women being threatened. Wake up @sardesairajdeep
0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
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Aditi Sen @urbanwonk_mom Feb 28
Aditi Sen Retweeted Rita Banerji
Feeling proud to be alumnus . Stay strong @mehartweets - LSRites support you!
Aditi Sen added,
Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji
Kudos to the faculty of #LadyShriRamCollege! This is JUST the kind of support Indian women & girls need to confront cultural #misogyny.
https://twitter.com/iawoolford/status/836428326407307265 …
0 replies 2 retweets 9 likes
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Rita BanerjiVerified account @Rita_Banerji Feb 28
Rita Banerji Retweeted रॉफ़ल इयान बाबू
Kudos to the faculty of #LadyShriRamCollege! This is JUST the kind of support Indian women & girls need to confront cultural #misogyny.
Rita Banerji added,
रॉफ़ल इयान बाबूVerified account @iawoolford
Statement from Faculty at Lady Shri Ram College
0 replies 8 retweets 13 likes
Rita Banerji Retweeted
Ananya Ukil @ananyaukil Feb 28
Ananya Ukil Retweeted रॉफ़ल इयान बाबू
Extremely proud to be an LSR alumnus right about now.
Ananya Ukil added,
रॉफ़ल इयान बाबूVerified account @iawoolford
Statement from Faculty at Lady Shri Ram College
0 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
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MHC LITS @LITSatMHC Feb 17
The designer of the original @Apple icons is a women's college grad #DayofFacts #librariesrespond @mtholyoke
http://ow.ly/TTBJ3094V2R 0 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
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MHC LITS @LITSatMHC Feb 17
@mtholyoke has welcomed int'l students since 1839 #DayOfFacts #librariesrespond
0 replies 5 retweets 12 likes
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MHC LITS @LITSatMHC Feb 17
Frances Perkins @mt