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Storyville - Defying the Cutting Season

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in Tanzania since 1998. But every year thousands of families still plan to have their daughters cut, an ordeal that could cost them their lives. The ‘Cutting Season’ takes place during the December school holidays.

During this time hundreds of girls are saved from FGM by the police, the government and the work of the Safe House. It is run by Rhobi Samwelly, who was herself a victim of FGM, and now, not only does she valiantly run the safe house but she also works with the local police to rescue and protect girls at risk while arresting the parents and cutters.

But they have a tough and dangerous job and old customs die hard. Men believe that girls must be cut to reduce promiscuity and cut girls command twice the bride price in cows as uncut girls. Girls like Rosie, just 12 years old, have had to make the most difficult choices of their young lives - run away from home, not knowing if they will ever see their families again, or submit to female genital mutilation and child marriage.

These brave and courageous young girls are fighting against a tradition that goes back thousands of years. They are standing up for their human rights and fighting for change in their community.

The Safe House is the one safe place they can escape to.

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You can donate to Rhobi Samwelly NGO in Tanzania here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/safe-house-training-centre-tanzania/

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Apex Legends Character and Environment Concept Artworks

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This thread!

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I got the “i miss you” phone call tonight.

Middle of a cuddle date and he calls because he has the flu and wanted to ‘hear my voice because it always makes him feel better’.

When I texted him, “Can’t pick up right now, kinda busy [his name]. Feel better.”

His response was, “Cool, first names. I’m not worthy of ‘Hun’ anymore? Got it”

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Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

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let it be known that on January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.

She was blacklisted, but she defended every word she said that day.

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SHERO

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Respect Mother Sister

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y'all better put some respect on her name

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“How many times in your life have you been excluded from something important or talked over or ignored because you’re the only woman in the room?”

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One of my favorite stories:

My mom was working as a lawyer when she was pregnant with my twin siblings. Late in her third trimester she had a court date. She asked the judge if it could be postponed due to her pregnancy but he refused saying she was “making a ridiculous excuse.” So she squeezed into the biggest maternity suit she could find and went to the courthouse. When she stood up in front of the judge, 8 months pregnant with twins and clearly in no condition to be standing for an extended period, the blood drained from his face. He tried to backtrack saying she could sit down, but being my mom, she chose to stand and glare at him for the whole damn hearing. He found in her client’s favor.

I’M DEAD

Fun fact: if you know your feline body language, you’ll notice that the lynx is deferring to the housecat. As far as these two are concerned, the housecat is the higher-ranking cat.

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OH MY GOSH

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It’s because the cat is that lynx’s mom

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She was on that episode and a very stupid opportunity presented itself

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Puma rescued from a contact-type zoo can’t be released into the wild, lives as a spoiled house cat (@l_am_puma)

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MEASLES UPDATE 2/23/19

This is unacceptable. Measles is still out there and hurting people. We really should not be seeing measles in this day and age, since medical technology has progressed to the point where we have the luxury of long life. There’s been more of a push than ever to overturn vaccination exemptions, and at this point, they’re needed more than ever.

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This just in: anti-vaxxers don’t get to travel. You don’t get to spread your diseases, especially to places in the world that literally do not have the access to vaccines. You don’t get to turn your children into disease bombs to kill others. You wanna be a disease ridden parasite? Fine (not really but let’s say it is for the sake of argument). But stay at home. Your countries have laws that don’t allow people who don’t have vaccines to enter so don’t even start. If we aren’t allowed to be in your space without our vaccines, you aren’t allowed in ours

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LGBTQ Muslims have and always will exist—we aren’t haram and we aren’t alone.

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