This world is a mess and I just...need to rule it.

[feministism]

[pebblysand]

Brian Laundrie remains innocent until proven guilty. However, what is most upsetting in the Gabby Petito case isn’t that she died (which is upsetting), it’s that this happens to women, every fucking day, of every fucking year, and that it is so engrained in our psyches that we’re inclined to believe he did it without proof or trial because we’ve seen it before. It happens to blonde, pretty, white women, to ugly women, to young women, to old women, to black women, to poor women, to rich women because domestic abuse is scattered across every fucking inch of our society. Because men kill women. And, this isn’t a “US case”, it’s an across the world case. And, now, people look at the guy who drove her van back to his parents’ house while she was lying dead in a ditch and say: “of course, it’s him” not because he’s been convicted in a trial but because statistically, it is him.

And that’s the most upsetting thing in this case, the existence of that statistic.

[happyhomemaker29]

Up to a few years ago, the US was one of the ten dangerous places for women to live. This was as of 2018. I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t changed that much since.

“The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey asked about 550 experts in women’s issues which of the 193 United Nations member states they considered most dangerous on a range of issues, with India topping the list followed by Afghanistan and Syria.

The United States came 10th overall, but ranked joint third with Syria when respondents were asked where women most risked sexual violence, harassment and coercion into sex, and sixth regarding non-sexual violence such as domestic and mental abuse.

Experts, advocates and survivors said a rising awareness of assault against women pegged to the #Metoo movement, the country’s outsized role on the world stage and a tolerance of violence added to the perception of danger in the United States.”

Exclusive: U.S. among 10 most dangerous countries for women amid #MeToo campaign - poll

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States was named as the only Western nation among the 10 most dangerous countries for wom

[madam-o]

Hey, how about this. Let's all care about Gabby Petito's murder and do what we can to get justice for her and her family, then we use that anger to care about all the abuse and murder that happens and isn't reported on the news because it seems commonplace, and then we actually put some effort and money into changing the system so it isn't so easy to abuse and murder a vulnerable person and get away with it.

[femmenickmiller]

I believe all women mourn for the women who have been murdered by husbands boyfriends etc.

We all know women who have been abused by spouses and loved ones, some of us have been that woman.

So many women go missing, never to be found.

It’s heartbreaking that this is such a prevalent issue today across the world.

My heart goes out to Gabby and the countless women like her, the ones who haven’t been found and the ones who have. You didn’t deserve this.

[happyhomemaker29]

I was one of those women. I got out. My heart goes out to those still trying to escape.

[progressivepower]

[saywhat-politics]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[fluffygif]

Adorable & darling

[laurens-german]

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a sinner. It doesn’t matter if you’re a saint. Nobody wins, so what’s the point?”

LUCIFER (2016-2021)

[laurens-german]

MJ, PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) dir. Jon Watts

[forever-memes]

It aint much but it’s honest work

[houseofnadeen]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Can confirm.

[samsbarnes]

shang-chi and the legend of the ten rings +letterboxd reviews

[monsieur-j]

Fendi Couture Fall 2017 Runway Details

[shopluu]

green tulle long prom dress

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[wedding-affair]

Zuhair Murad | Bridal Spring 2022

[news-queue]

Native American tribes enforce mask mandates regardless of state bans

As sovereign nations, Indigenous groups are using their authority to make their own rules to protect students and teachers

Native American tribes across the handful of US states with bans on school mask mandates have asserted their powers as sovereign nations to defy the orders, with many also implementing their own testing and vaccine directives for tens of thousands of students and faculty in schools on their reservations as Covid-19 cases surge. Under the US constitution, federally recognized tribes, such as the Navajo Nation and the Cherokee Nation, have self-governing authority, and so have been able to implement mask mandates despite the statewide bans. Jason Dropik, board president of the National Indian Education Association and the head of the Indian community school in Wisconsin, said the majority of Native communities he had heard from in states with these bans have implemented mask mandates. The reasoning, he explained, often had to do with the fact that Indigenous Americans have had to deal with a disproportionately high death toll from Covid. According to an analysis released in February, one in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic started – a greater proportion of any other demographic in the country. “When we have loss, and we have it every year, even outside of a pandemic, but when you increase that amount of loss, there are ways of being that just don’t continue to be taught, and that can be lost completely,” said Dropik.

“It’s not solely a matter of someone’s life, which is in and of itself hugely impactful, but also those ways of being, cultural traditions, language and work that also sometimes pass with our Native speakers.” State leaders in Oklahoma, Utah, Arizona, Iowa and South Carolina have implemented bans on mask mandates in schools. The education department’s civil rights enforcement arm announced on Monday that it had launched investigations into the five states to determine whether their ban on mask mandates is discriminatory against students with disabilities.

Leaders in Florida, Texas and Arkansas have also added bans, but due to legal challenges, they either are not being enforced or have been blocked completely. The Navajo Nation, the country’s largest tribe, reaffirmed a mask mandate at the beginning of August for the 133 schools with students from preschool to 12th grade, on its reservation, covering more than 27,000 square miles in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Read More