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MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan wants to raise the age of marriage for women & also install a system where women are required to register at the local police station so that they may be surveilled! Other services include panic buttons and helplines.
#WhatWomenDoNotWant #WhyLoiter
MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan wants to raise the age of marriage for women & also install a system where women are required to register at the local police station so that they may be surveilled! Other services include panic buttons and helplines.
#WhatWomenDoNotWant #WhyLoiter
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This is precisely what we argued against in our book 'Why Loiter' where we pointed out that the discourse of safety with its conditional protection restricts women's mobility denying us access to the public. We demanded that women be recognised as citizens not clients.
This is precisely what we argued against in our book 'Why Loiter' where we pointed out that the discourse of safety with its conditional protection restricts women's mobility denying us access to the public. We demanded that women be recognised as citizens not clients.
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We further argued that what women needed in order to access the public as citizens was the right to take risks without our presence in public being questioned. That is, not that we should never be attacked but if we are attacked we should receive a citizen's right to redress.
We further argued that what women needed in order to access the public as citizens was the right to take risks without our presence in public being questioned. That is, not that we should never be attacked but if we are attacked we should receive a citizen's right to redress.
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No space is completely safe, not even women's homes. In fact statistics suggest that for women their homes are the most dangerous spaces and yet nobody tells women not be be at home. Similarly we demanded that women have a citizen's right to public spaces without surveillance
No space is completely safe, not even women's homes. In fact statistics suggest that for women their homes are the most dangerous spaces and yet nobody tells women not be be at home. Similarly we demanded that women have a citizen's right to public spaces without surveillance
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The right to risk for women means the right to make our own choices, to seek out the public for pleasure, to wander at will & to claim the public as our own. The right to risk recognises women as citizens who do not need to be infantalised by the state.
The right to risk for women means the right to make our own choices, to seek out the public for pleasure, to wander at will & to claim the public as our own. The right to risk recognises women as citizens who do not need to be infantalised by the state.
6/n We argued that in relation to the public, for women, the worst possible outcome was the loss of access to public. To this end we also argued that women could only have unconditional access to the public if all marginal citizens had unconditional access.
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To this end we unequivocally reject the MP CM's suggestion that women need such surveillance thinly disguised as protection. Women will not register at police stations. We will stand and sit in protest whatever our age because it is our choice as citizens.
To this end we unequivocally reject the MP CM's suggestion that women need such surveillance thinly disguised as protection. Women will not register at police stations. We will stand and sit in protest whatever our age because it is our choice as citizens.
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We will marry whom we want. We will marry when we want. We will not marry if we want. Not the state nor the judiciary have the right to dictate what we do & whom we do it with so long as we do not encroach on the rights of others. Women are citizens.We are claiming our rights
We will marry whom we want. We will marry when we want. We will not marry if we want. Not the state nor the judiciary have the right to dictate what we do & whom we do it with so long as we do not encroach on the rights of others. Women are citizens.We are claiming our rights
Our book, Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets published now ONE DECADE ago is a treatise precisely against the kind of regressive restrictive thinking seeking to curtail women's rights enshrined by the MP CM by pretending that women need protection in public space.
