Pippa Passes, John Butler Yeats
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The English Beat - I Confess
by songiheart
Sign the Petition - United States Embassy in Cairo: Stop the Torture of African Refugees in the Sinai Desert
From the Change.org website
Every month, approximately 2,000 African refugees cross the border into Israel, fleeing persecution in their home countries. To date, 50,000 Africa refugees reside in Israel seeking asylum. En route, these refugees are subjugated to extreme torture and abuse by Bedouin smugglers, their “guides” across the Sinai Desert and over the Israeli-Egyptian border. Everyday Eritrean and Sudanese refugees in the Sinai are electrocuted, branded with hot irons, chained together, starved, and women endure systematic and brutal rape. Recently, human rights NGOs have documented disturbing new developments: the organ theft of those who cannot afford to pay their way out of the camps and the kidnapping of refugees from their homes by Bedouins in Eritrea and Sudan.
This petition calls for the United States government to put pressure on the Egyptian government to stop the trafficking of refugees at the Suez Canal before they turn into torture victims. The Egyptian government must confront the corruption within its army that enables the Bedouin to smuggle the refugees through seven military checkpoints. As citizens of the United States, we advocate on behalf of these African refugees and ask that the United States government use its influence to stop extortion, trafficking, and torture in the Sinai.
A Penis And A Dress: Why The Gender Binary Needs To Go Away
We’re getting closer in Western thought to at least allowing our children to re-identify when the labels we’ve placed on them don’t match their own self-identification, but we continue to fail at backing the conversation up to the point in time when we looked at our little embryo via ultrasound and decided whether we wanted to know the gender. Who cares what color we paint the nursery walls? We should reinvent our society so that our children can express themselves freely without the constraints of gender. Until we get rid of “male” and “female” as pillars of personhood, we will never see a solution to the discrimination waged against those who do not fit cleanly into the existing and limiting categories.
by sociolab
by flickr.com
"Black and minority ethnic women are poorer, less healthy, less educated and significantly worse represented in the corridors of power than both white women and the rest of the UK population, according to research published today."
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Ethnic minority women face ‘massive inequalities’ | UK news | The Guardian
Anyone surprised by this? No? Didn’t think so. But notice that paragraph: they fair worse than white women.
Again, this is why feminism doesn’t do much for WoC.
(via biyuti)
by Guardian
by monsieur-j
