[In April,] seventeen year old Dua Khalil was pulled into a crowd of young men, some of them (the instigators) family, who then kicked and stoned her to death. This is an example of the breath-taking oxymoron “honor killing”, in which a family member (almost always female) is murdered for some religious or ethical transgression. Dua Khalil, who was of the Yazidi faith, had been seen in the company of a Sunni Muslim, and possibly suspected of having married him or converted. That she was torturously murdered for this is not, in fact, a particularly uncommon story. But now you can watch the action up close on CNN. Because as the girl was on the ground trying to get up, her face nothing but red, the few in the group of more than twenty men who were not busy kicking her and hurling stones at her were filming the event with their camera-phones.
- Joss Whedon, on Whedonesque.com
This was just a small excerpt of a much longer post by Joss, who was outraged by the larger epidemic of brutality towards women worldwide – an epidemic for which this incident was just one of countless symptoms.
This shirt is my way of standing up an being counted among those who refuse to accept this situation as an acceptable status quo. Dua can not speak for herself, so we who can, must. I may be a man, but I am Dua Khalil.
I have priced these shirts and buttons $5 above the base cost. I will not be making any profit on these. All $5 of that markup will be donated to Equality Now, a global organization that works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure.
If this makes the shirt too expensive for you, e-mail me, and I will sell you one at-cost, or at whatever markup you can afford.
Many thanks to Dale Koontz for her inspiration on this important project.
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