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they can help with food, water and a place to sleep tonight
Please guys reblog this. I’m from Greece (thankfully I’m okay) and I can confirm things are horrible for so so many people here. So please spread the word!
Holmes comforting and being kind to his clients :)
TRUE, sorry gomez I never even meant to lump you in with them.
corrective action
be the change you want to see in the world
His name is Onur Albayrak! Here’s the story.
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.
The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.
Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.
“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”
The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.
[Source] – go read the rest!
this guy is a hero.
btw - let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.
child marriage is not an “over there” problem, it happens right here, legally. any one of us might find ourselves called upon to break somebody’s nose if we encounter something like this occurring. we also have a responsibility to support groups and laws trying to end child marriage in this country.
“if labyrinth was in modern day everyone would be so tumblr horny and fandom weird for david bowie” is such a weird thing to say… like… did you see labyrinth… that’s like the whole point of david bowie in the movie. did you see his crotch.
like my MOTHER is vocally horny for david bowie in that movie this isn’t a pennywise the clown situation
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I reblogged this and then clicked the link and I’m going to ask anyone who follows me to please reblog this version, because something EXTREMELY important is in the link:
Her attacker is HIV-positive and she sustained cuts during the attack. She’s currently on antiviral medication in the hope that immediate treatment will keep her from contracting a debilitating lifelong illness. Part of the reason she needs to raise so much money is the cost of these medications–antivirals (as opposed to antiretrovirals, which are “you have it and we’re trying to mitigate it) are mostly experimental.
Just as an example to explain how expensive they are, a few years ago I had the flu and was prescribed the antiviral Tamiflu. It cost me $119–AND I HAD INSURANCE. And that’s for a medication for a relatively straightforward viral infection–imagine the cost for preventing HIV. (I know PrEP is well over $1000.)
This woman desperately needs help because this course of medication could save her life. The other reasons are important, I’m not saying they’re not–but while HIV is not the death sentence it once was, you would MUCH rather not have it than have it.
Oh wow. Reblogging for this update
i am evil and gay. i commune with the rats. i have 17 knives. i don’t have horns yet but i’m working on it.
I’m watching a documentary on Netflix about animals getting prosthetics and this vet just hand sculpted a prosthetic beak for an injured swan and the very first thing it did was use its new beak to bite someone
that is very on-brand for swans
BITCH WE OUT HERE TAKIN OUR
AND DRINKIN THAT UHHHH
Still havent showered but bitch
but what, might we ask, is truly the biggest mood? indicative? imperative? subjunctive? optative?????
yike, the greek goddess of passive distress and mild horror
Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world
- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’
- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction
- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour
- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’
- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc
- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from
- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant
- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white
- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’
- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired
This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American.
This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.
Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.
And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?
(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)
(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)
(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)
(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)
They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.
So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.
Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!
…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.
But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.
For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).
It’s worth understanding that
1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.
2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.
I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.
I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.
Being white is not that cut and dry over here.
And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.
I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing!
About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race. Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.
Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.
Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.
For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.
In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.
Also in Italy people from slavic countries are often victim to xenophobia, people are always ready to see romanians/albanian/russians…etc as culprits for everything, and it’s not unusual to hear someone says “this hairstyle makes you look like an albanian!” or “why are you going out dressed as a romanian” yeah they use slavic people as an insult bc people are led to think that they come here just to steal everything from us. And guess what most of them are white as snowflakes!
I’d like to point out that also italian people have faced discrimination from other european countries. We were, and sadly often still are, always seen as part of the mafia and therefore dangerous, or inferior and poor (y’all can find signs saying pretty nasty stuff online, and i’m leaving this here even tho it’s in Italian), i’ve heard a lady telling his son to stay away from me and my family because we were speaking italian and so we could do “bad things” to him and there were times when in shops we were made feel not welcome because we are italian…..and guess what my family is white.
So please when you are outside the us don’t try to apply your “racial standards” bc they are not valid in europe.
I also wanna remind people that a) pretty much all ppl who now belong in eaatern europe.. Including Greece, were considered unclean not only by Hitler but by americans even up to the 80s…theres actual written documents from american authorities during the cultural colonisation of the 60s and 70s that talk about “Greece is now a devastated poor country ruled wild animals, most of them of turkish descent. We have to go there find outbhow white they are and try to help rebuilt the once great nation once they prove they wre wuite enough theyll be better again.”
Literally saying this
B) Also we face a huge identity crisis just because when we came out of the turkish slavery we werent as pale and western european looking as they had imagine because of their own imagination, racial issues and misconceptions. So they were disapointed
That gave greece a oot of trouble facing Europeanisation, westernisation, colonisation on behalf of specifically, germany, france, england and Russia.
A lot of propaganda happened against Anatolian greeks esp after the slaughter of Asia Minor with british intelligence literally saying about the immigeant songs “let these songs play to the simple folk they are soul degrading and its easier to control them” (a lot of these songs had what theyd call an oriental sound and also talked ahout weed and jail much like the early Blues songs in the US)
This amplified the identity crisis with greek governments ever since truing to paint anything eastern as BAD and EVIL and Uncivil which kept our bad relations with turkey bad and our exclusion of our neighboors in the middle east as lower.
Even now we ve supposed to be fully integrated but we still get called lazy and whatever by the media… And you KNOW this isnt just because of the crisis
But now all books paints us blond with blue eyes literally every movie does the same. If you are not concious of this low key propaganda ypu wont notice but if i show tou paintings od greek artists back in the 60s painting mythological and classical heroes youll see theu are much different looking than today.. Its incredible
Now for us where you come from is more importwnt thab looks too. If yoy are black and you speak with an american accent and dress well you will be treated as the biggest guest.. Ppl will lay donw and let you step on them
If you are Albanian? Bulgarian? Tough luck… Youll be looked down on and if you are Georgian you may even be aaked to “go back to your country” this is a real event i was around when it happened.
People care about country. If you are Chinese or Japanese or Korean you will be treated better than if you are Indonesian or Philippino.. Same as Bulgarians because most ppl from bulgaria and philippines come here to work as house helpers for the rich.
Also some of us consider ourselves white and some of us dont
Theres light haired ppl with darker skin considering themselves just greek not white or poc… Ppl who look middle eastern and think of themselves as white cause they are caucasian… Pale muslims who also consider themselves white because of colour..
Its crazy and these stupud american racial terms not only make it worse and create new problems but also make it hard to fit in labels.
It pisses me off when i see characters from mythologt repainted as “poc” cause some ppl think greeks are not poc enough so our culture need to be modernised according to american standars, completely ignoring how different from each other we look. Its one thing to want to see yourself as these heroes.. That’s totally fine. But dont do it to gain woke points or to make our culture have representation
Think again before calling white privillege on anyone outside of the USA
“but am i mentally ill enough”, i say as i suffer my third breakdown of the week
lmao I’m relatable
(this edit is mine. don’t repost pls.)
me rollerblading into my therapist’s office this week with sunglasses and a piña colada: maurice, you’re not gonna fucking believe this,
