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you know what’s one of the best things about being gay?? having gay friends who you can just be really gay with… like not romantic partners or crushes or whatever (which are awesome too) but gay friends who you can just… be unabashedly and enthusiastically yourself with

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@gothclown

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SO MUCH FUN

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fluffball exposed

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Citizens shouldn’t be treated like enemies of the state, on behalf of corporations.  

Photographer @amodernghost

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Nepenthes lingulata and Nepenthes jamban (left to right)

Both species are native to the montane forests of northern Sumatra and are sympatric meaning that they often occur together.

Photo credit:  Alfindra Primaldhi

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long distance relationship

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Kim McCarty (American, b. 1956, Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Black Fuzzy Hair, 2015  Paintings: Watercolors on Paper

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Visit Original Link

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me: frienships sound kinda nice

brain: consider this…………………………………………isolation

me: 

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Every Girl Needs To See This.

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This is my favorite video…I damn near gotta watch this daily

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me: thinks about you literally all day

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Aamito Lagum photographed by Mert Alas & Marcus, W Magazine March 2017  

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The UN Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.

The human rights experts concluded that the country falls far behind most others.

The United States continues to embarrass.

The delegates were appalled by the lack of gender equality in America. They found the U.S. to be lagging far behind international human rights standards in a number of areas, including its 23 percent gender pay gap, maternity leave, affordable child care and the treatment of female migrants in detention centers.

The most telling moment of the trip, the women told reporters on Friday, was when they visited an abortion clinic in Alabama and experienced the hostile political climate around women’s reproductive rights.

“We were harassed. There were two vigilante men waiting to insult us,” said Frances Raday, the delegate from the U.K. The men repeatedly shouted, “You’re murdering children!” at them as soon as they neared the clinic, even though Raday said they are clearly past childbearing age.

“It’s a kind of terrorism,” added Eleonora Zielinska, the delegate from Poland. “To us, it was shocking.”

In most European countries, she explained, abortions are performed at general doctors’ offices and hospitals that offer all kinds of other health services, so there aren’t protesters waiting to heckle the women who enter.

The women discovered during their visit that women in the United States have “missing rights” compared to the rest of the world. For instance, the U.S. is one of three countries in the world that does not guarantee women paid maternity leave. The U.N. suggests that countries guarantee at least 14 weeks of paid parental leave. Some countries go further – Iceland requires five months paid leave for each parent, and an additional two months to be shared between them.

“The lack of accommodation in the workplace to women’s pregnancy, birth and post-natal needs is shocking,” Raday said. “Unthinkable in any society, and certainly one of the richest societies in the world.”

Another main area of concern for the delegation is violence against women – particularly gun violence. Women are 11 times more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in other high-income countries, and most of those murdersare perpetrated by an intimate partner. While the Obama administration has talked a lot about combatting violence against women, its efforts have been frustrated by Congress’ inability to pass new federal gun restrictions.

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While the delegates were shocked by many things they saw in the U.S., perhaps the biggest surprise of their trip, they said, was learning that women in the country don’t seem to know what they’re missing. “So many people really believe that U.S. women are way better off with respect to rights than any woman in the world,” Raday said. “They would say, ‘Prove it! What do you mean other people have paid maternity leave?’”

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The US is so far behind in women’s rights, people don’t even believe that other countries allow Paid. Maternity. Leave. Good lord.

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But “feminism isn’t needed in the first world!”

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Marley Dias, the 12-year-old behind #1000BlackGirlBooks, is writing her own book!

In February 2016, Marley Dias, who was 11 at the time, launched the #1000BlackGirlBooks project, collecting books featuring black girls as the main character. 

Now, after collecting over 8,000 such books, Dias has decided to author a #BlackGirlBook of her own.

On Thursday, Scholastic announced that 12-year-old Dias had signed a deal with the publisher for a book due in Spring 2018. 

According to a press release, the book is a “keep-it-real guide” to helping kids and preteens make their dreams come true.

“Through her smarts and ingenuity, she’s delivered a jolt of inspiration that’s sent an unstoppable shock-wave to kids everywhere who’ve stood up with Marley to shout ‘Yes!’ to the power of positive action,” Scholastic’s vice president and executive editor Andrea Pinkney said.

“In this book, Marley will share her dynamic wisdom with readers everywhere.” Read more

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Nils-Udo (born 1937) is a Bavarian artist who has been creating environmental art since the 1960s when he moved away from painting and the studio and began to work with and in nature.

Even if I work parallel to nature and only intervene with the greatest possible care, a basic internal contradiction remains.

I love Nils Udo very much

[lagonegirl]

Since 2010, every senior class has had 100 percent of their students admitted to college, the school’s website says. The school’s motto is “We Believe,” which serves as a reminder “that Urban Prep students will not fall into the trap of negative stereotypes and low expectations,” the school’s website says.

#BlackExcellence #BlackPride

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Anish kapoor, Stave (Red), 2015