the wrong end of the telescope

Hate it. Hate it.

Sometimes there is no right way to write about something. Sometimes all you can do is cry your eyes out and manage three paragraphs of nothing and collect links.

For 14valentines Day 7, Domestic Violence.

( don't call them honor killings )

Here is Amnesty's resource page where you can contact US senators and ask them to vote to authorize the Office for Global Women’s Issues at the State Department. Obviously, this is most likely to have effect if US Americans do it. (I did it anyway.)

Here is a link to possible actions you can take at the SKSW Campaign (Stop Killing and Stoning Women).

Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. They work to link together organizations and people all over the world.

Here is the link to the Kurdish Women's Network against these killings, though their website has not been updated in a while.

If you want to pass on the links or reblog this (I've pasted the code for the links below) or support the organizations, that would be good. This should be talked about; this should be something politicians hear about. We as a society have a responsibility to these women, because fuck everything, this isn't the world I signed on to live in.

This should not be happening.

Code for the links:

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8501181.stm">Source</a> <a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=12572">Here</a> is Amnesty's resource page where you can contact US senators and ask them to vote to authorize the Office for Global Women’s Issues at the State Department. Obviously, this is most likely to have effect if US Americans do it. (I did it anyway.) <a href="http://www.stop-killing.org/node/7">Here</a> is a link to possible actions you can take at the SKSW Campaign (Stop Killing and Stoning Women). <a href="http://www.wluml.org/">Women Living Under Muslim Laws</a> is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. They work to link together organizations and people all over the world. <a href="http://www.kwahk.org/">Here</a> is the link to the Kurdish Women's Network against these killings, though their website has not been updated in a while.