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Submit your art, music, writing, etc!
Submit your art on my blog to share your work with other people! Specifically art that will help make a difference. Wether it’s about women’s rights, LGBT rights, human rights, etc. All types of art! music, writing, poems, quotes, thoughts, feelings, photography, and so on Your voice can change the world!
In case the world doesn’t know, a huge bomb blast happened in Syria. A suicide bomber attacked the evacuation convoys injuring 68 and killing 128. Where is their support? Why do people only notice situations that affect the white man? Do we not get the same amount of limelight just because we aren’t white? I ask you people, why such hypocrisy? Are we not humans? Pray for Syria and also pray for Marawi! They need as much support as Manchester.
The first Asian nation to do so 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
some good news in this world today
WHOO HOO!! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY IN TAIWAN!!!
Iconic.
Ok but where is this from
Her name’s Marianne, she’s a Samburu woman and the Supalake village chairlady. It’s from The Land of No Men: Inside Kenya’s Women-Only Village and that convo is at 22:16, but the entire video is awesome!
Submit your art, music, writing, etc!
Submit your art on my blog to share your work with other people! Specifically art that will help make a difference. Wether it’s about women’s rights, LGBT rights, human rights, etc. All types of art! music, writing, poems, quotes, thoughts, feelings, photography, and so on Your voice can change the world!
Overhear sexist language? Call it out!
Gender inequality has no place in our world.
Find ideas on how you can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: http://bit.ly/1WMIBe4
You Need People
You have to accept that some people
are not made for deep conversations,
or for holding you together when you’re about to fall apart,
or for keeping you from unzipping your skin,
or for talking you out of suicide,
or for loving you through the worst moments.
Some people are made for shallow exchanges, and ridiculous banter, and nothing more, and that’s okay.
That doesn’t make them horrible people
simply because they aren’t able to handle a storm like you.
It doesn’t make you a bad person because you won’t divulge all the gritty details of your horror show.
It makes you smart.
It doesn’t mean they are not worth keeping in your life.
You just have to figure out who these ones are before you’re disappointed,
and you have to keep them at arm’s length.
You cannot expect everyone in your life to understand,
to be nonjudgmental,
to get it.
But that’s okay, because not everyone was made to impart wisdom,
or wax-poetic,
or speak on politics
and the depravity of society,
or discuss how crucial it is that the stigma of mental illness be abolished.
There are times when you have to get away from all that heaviness.
You have to.
You will need superficial conversation about Kim Kardashian’s arse,
or a debate on the color of The Dress to do that.
You will need those ones,
so don’t go round cutting people off and dropping your friends.
You need people for all your seasons.
You need people or you won’t survive this.
Submit your art, music, writing, etc!
Submit your art on my blog to share your work with other people! Specifically art that will help make a difference. Wether it’s about women’s rights, LGBT rights, human rights, etc. All types of art! music, writing, poems, quotes, thoughts, feelings, photography, and so on Your voice can change the world!
End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change…
The Sustainable Development Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders. It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up?
No! Change starts with you! Every human on earth—even the most indifferent, laziest person among us—is part of the solution. Fortunately, there are some super easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference.
We’ve made it easy for you and compiled just a few of the many things you can do to make an impact.
Have a look: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/
It is Autism Awareness Month!
What is autism? According to Autism Society, Autism spectrum disorder is a complex developmental disability; signs typically appear during early childhood and affect a person’s ability to communicate, and interact with others.
What causes autism? According to Autism Society, There is no known single cause of autism, but increased awareness and early diagnosis/intervention and access to appropriate services/supports lead to significantly improved outcomes.
Why is awareness important? Public understanding and awareness is important to lower bullying, higher the chances of early diagnoses and support, improving employment opportunities. Also by spreading awareness we can challenge stereotypes and misrepresentation in the media.
Here’s Autism Society’s website http://www.autism-society.org/
To help raise awareness to autism we are going to share autism awareness art! Anyone who has any art can submit it to be shared on this blog! Any kind of art!! Music, drawings, photography, writing and so on..
Submit your art, music, writing, etc!
Submit your art on my blog to share your work with other people! Specifically art that will help make a difference. Wether it’s about women’s rights, LGBT rights, human rights, etc. All types of art! music, writing, poems, quotes, thoughts, feelings, photography, and so on Your voice can change the world!
Digital Champions: empowering young people with disabilities
Digital Champions are powerful thinkers, creators, and innovators who are transforming their environment and communities for the better. As individuals or teams, they are addressing difficult questions such as gender, rights, participation and civic engagement, discrimination and poverty.
To commemorate the 10th year anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), we are shining a spotlight on young people with disabilities who are using the Internet and digital technologies in really inspiring ways!
Lavanya Sathasivam, Malaysia
“…please think about disabled children because we are also here. We are in this world. We are playing our role and if we are given opportunities, we have much to contribute to society.”
Read Lavanya’s full profile here.
Rikki Poynter, USA
“Listen to those of us that have lived this life. We are telling you the things that we need and the solution would come a lot easier and faster if our stories were heard. Give deaf folks, blind folks, folks in wheelchairs, etc. a chance. We’re smart as hell and can help you out in many ways.”
Read Rikki’s full profile here.
Michael Curran and James Teh, Australia
“Provide people with the tools to contribute. Everyone has something to offer the world, though they may need a little help at first. But like they say: “It is better to teach a man to fish than it is to feed them to him”.
Read their full profile here.
Lumos, UK-based, with teams in Europe, US, and Haiti
“The voices of children and young people with disabilities–particularly those in orphanages and institutions–have gone unheard for too long. Digital technology offers great opportunities to capture and amplify their voices, helping them to say the things they want to say in the ways they want to say them, and we should help them seize those opportunities.”
Read their full profile here.
Alfonsia Almandoz, Uruguay
“Digital technology allows people with disabilities to find their voice, with their own timing, their preferred medium, and fine tune their message to a specific audience. What is more empowering than sharing your experience and message with the world?”
Read Alfonsia’s full profile here.
Do you know a Digital Champion?
To create an even more diverse pool of stories, we would love to hear from you – whether you are a young person yourself or whether you are familiar with young people whose work aligns with this year’s Digital Champions project focus. In particular, we are seeking to highlight exceptional cases of young people with disabilities around the world who have empowered themselves and others through the use of digital technology.
If you have any further ideas for this project, please do not hesitate to email Sandra Cortesi at digitallyconnected at cyber.harvard.edu.
If you would like to suggest further Digital Champions, please visit.
All illustrations are by Elsa Brown.
Friday’s World Health Day highlights the importance of talking about depression as a vital component of recovery.
Depression affects people of all ages, everywhere in the world.
Fortunately, depression can be prevented and treated.
Get your facts here: http://bit.ly/1lRQfwr
The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon.
