This is why you bundle a baby like a snug little burrito in a receiving blanket. Babies are used to being confined, being comforted by womb walls pressing in on them. You suddenly give them stretching room and THEY ARE GOING TO FREAK OUT WHAT IS THIS WHAT IS GOING ON HELP HELP HELP ohhh hey I can’t stretch out again and I’m warm. Never mind; I’m chill.
^^^^ 1000% true!! Worked like magic with both my kids. Shushing works for the same reason - it sounds like the heart-beating-blood-rushing noise of the womb.
College Freshman Stabbed to Death After Seeing Three Young Women Being Groped and Stepping in to Help
With final exams on the horizon, Donnell Marcus Phelps was all set to finish his freshman year at Fort Valley State University in Georgia.
The 19-year-old from Marshallville had been studying agricultural engineering technology but also found time to manage the university’s tennis team.
And help those in need.
Late Tuesday afternoon he witnessed a man harassing three young ladies. The man was touching these girls in a very inappropriate way, so he decided to step in. However, he was forced to bring fists to a knife fight.
An autopsy showed Phelps was stabbed four times in the upper torso with a pocket knife with a 3.5-inch blade.
“Words cannot describe the pain that we all feel in the Fort Valley State community,” university President Paul Jones said at news conference, offering condolences to Phelps’ family, friends, students and the entire community.
Johnson described Phelps as selfless: “He always gave us hugs, and he’d always check up on us,” she added to the Telegraph.
Donnell Phelps died a hero. His Mom did an incredible job raising an amazing person. God bless this young man for his sacrificial act of bravery. His life matters.
Only 19 years old and died protecting women in a day and age when people will literally be bystanders & shut an eye to someone else being harmed. Beyond brave and this is so heart breaking.
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Powerful Message: So today Usher & Nas & Bibi Bourelly released a new protest song called “Chains (Don’t Look Away)” on TIDAL and an interactive experience has been added making sure you don’t look away. - “Whilst racial injustice keeps killing, society keeps looking away”
Hundreds of people gathered at Thomas Paine Plaza on Oct. 10 for Philadelphia’s fifth annual Trans* March
By Betsey Piette
The rally across from City Hall was followed by a march through city streets that received broad and very positive support, with several people honking car horns or joining along the route.
Popular chants heard along the march included “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Transphobia’s got to go!” and “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”
Organizers of Philadelphia’s Trans* March called the event a “revolutionary movement … accepting to people of all gender identities, expressions and experiences.”
Evident in this year’s demonstration was the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement that arose in response to the murder of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014. BLM has forcefully pointed out that the brutal, racist murders of people of color happen across a range of gender identity. Several signs carried the message that “Black Trans Lives Matter.”
The event took on particular significance in the wake of the murder of 22-year-old Kiesha Jenkins, a Black transgender woman. Jenkins was on her way home early in the morning of Oct. 6, when she was brutally beaten by five or six men, and then shot twice in the back as she lay on the ground. While Philadelphia police are trying to portray this as a “robbery gone wrong,” the Jenkins family insists it was a hate crime. Members of her family joined in the demonstration.
Jenkins is the 20th transgender person murdered in the U.S. in 2015 and the 18th transgender person of color.
The Philadelphia Coalition for Racial, Economic and Legal Justice, which participated in the march, brought signs demanding justice for Jenkins. REAL Justice organizer Erica Mines, speaking at the concluding rally after the march, read the names of transgendered individuals killed as the crowd responded, “Say their name,” after each one.
Rally organizer Deja Alvarez noted: “This community does not face disproportionate poverty, violence, death by suicide and murder only when one of us makes the news. We face these threats 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.” (Philly.com, Oct. 11)
