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destinyrush
Happy Pride Month! 🌈
destinyrush
Edit: an anon said that “Game Face” is actually about Fallon Fox, a transgender woman.
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We are the daughters
of men who warned us about the news
and the missing girls on the milk carton
and the sharp edge of the world.
They begged us to be careful. To be safe.
Then told our brothers to go out and play.
Pocket-sized Feminism by Blythe Baird (via omnipresentfeminist)
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destinyrush
A hero without a cape
Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief - political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.
She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.
So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.
She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.
desiremyblack
(via TumbleOn)
bitterbitchclubpresident
Theresa Kachindamoto
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that ‘unless you love yourself, no one else will love you’ …The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (via podencos)
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Privileged people who say they want marginalized people to educate them don’t really want to be educated. In my experience, people who want to be educated will seek out the information they want, without putting the onus on you.
When privileged people say they want to be educated, what they really want is for you to say no, so they can complain that if you really wanted change, you’d change them. I guarantee that even if you say yes, they will completely disregard everything you say and act like its your fault for somehow failing to change a mind that wasn’t ever going to change.
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year- old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us—that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.
Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey (via hivernants)
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Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
“Why would you watch women’s sports, the players are terrible–”
(X)
timetogoblackandgold
No man has ever scored a midfield goal in the World Cup Finals
soloontherocks
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patricksass
People say the British are nice and polite but I think they’re forgetting that we once hated a British Prime Minister so much that upon her death the entire country got “Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead” to Number 2 in the charts the British may not be as forward as some other countries but holy shit can we fuck you up
hijabby
I’m pretty sure every colonized country already knows that yall evil as fuck but whatever
omggurneet
This is so embarrassing
magnolia-noire
“people think the British are so nice and polite ”
LIE AGAIN MARY
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Ahmed Mohamed says his family was forced to move to Qatar after his arrest.
On Monday, according to NBC News, Mohamed filed a lawsuit against his former principal Daniel Cummings at MacArthur High School, Irving Independent School District and the city of Irving, Texas for violating his civil rights as a young black Muslim student.
In addition, as reported by the LA Times, the lawsuit also states that the high-profile arrest resulted in numerous death threats sent to the family that eventually pressured them into leaving the U.S..
Irving School District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver defended the school in a statement.
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Source: mic.com
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me: *sees a white boy* *locks my car doors*
white boy: *breathing on window* lol but wut would u do if i was in there with u
USA Basketball’s unironic love of Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” is easily the most compelling storyline of the 2016 Olympics.
Melo’s silent anguish at the end tho…
irisvwest
HE APOLOGIZED TO HER ON ESPN. He was all “I love that song. It was just so early. I was so tired. I really do love that song. I’m sorry Vanessa”
And she tweeted at him “I understand. They did a good job though”
I’m sorry, but this made my whole goddamn day.
I don’t expect Rowling to be an expert on half a millennia of North American history. I don’t need her to be either. I don’t require the name of the Brazilian school to still love Harry Potter. I especially don’t want an impoverished, lazy vision of Africa on its behalf either. I am okay with a British woman writing just about Britain. And now, as these ambitious but utter failures in imagination and research cast shadows over her initial achievement, the seven books of the Harry Potter series, it’s all the more sad and stark to me that Rowling failed there too–in writing about Britons of color, in writing about queer witches and wizards, in writing about witch birth control (still waiting for the memo on that, Jo). As Harry Potter grows, its power weakens: with each new expansion, a constriction; with each new detail, an impoverishment; with each new revelation, a falsehood. The revisions Rowling now imposes on her series do not make sense. They are lazy and dumb and actually straight-up racist. It’s the racism of your well-meaning rich and liberal aunt, but it’s still racism.
Source: bkmag.com
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When you think about kids in middle school who have attendance problems, it can be easy to blame the parents (or the kids themselves), shake your head, and throw up your hands at a problem that is too big to be fixable. But what if all some of these kids need are clean clothes to wear to school? Whirlpool has taken on what could be dismissed as a minor issue and seen tremendous results.
Last year Whirlpool created the Whirlpool Care Counts Program and donated seventeen pairs of washers and dryers to school districts in St. Louis and in Fairfield, California. The schools then invited kids with attendance problems to bring in their laundry to be cleaned while they were in class.
The results were astounding: over 90% of participating students increased their attendance that year, at-risk students attended almost two more weeks of school, and each student got approximately 50 loads of laundry done at school. This year, Whirlpool will expand the program to twenty more schools in five more districts.
More at the link.
blackraincloud
Yes!!!! This thing!!!
My mom’s high school is able to keep so many homeless and struggling kids in school because they have showers and washing machines!
But middle/elementary schools just don’t have the same facilities.
If our middle school kids had locker room showers, laundry service, and TRANSPORTATION…dear god, I wanna cry just thinking about it!
Kids (especially girls) COULD ACTUALLY COME TO SCHOOL!
YASSSS FOR SERVING THE NEEDS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS!!!!!
YES!!!!
Source: scarymommy.com
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The 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar, and of the expected one billion viewers worldwide awaiting the first kickoff, I will not be one. By the end of the opening ceremonies in 2022, thousands of migrant workers will have died in the process of preparing for the WC. One of these labourers is Ganesh Bishkawarma, a 16 year old boy from Nepal.
“How does a 16 year old boy experience cardiac arrest? A better question: what kind of abuse must a healthy 16 year old boy undergo to die of cardiac arrest? What must be done to him? How many hours must he work under the excruciating heat? How many vital, necessary things must be kept from him?…”
zanabism
If you do read the article, please sign the petition at the very bottom of the page!
Source: outsidermag.co