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Chance the Rappers helps get sleeping bag coats to the homeless
The project, called Warmest Winter, comes from a recent partnership between the rapper and Detroit nonprofit the Empowerment Plan. The initiative aims to bring the coats to Chicago by asking donors to help support the manufacturing of the coats. Each coat costs $100 to “sponsor.” The incredible progress they’ve already made will warm your heart.
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dear 'straight pride' people:
i’ll trade you. you can have the damn parade, and i’ll be safe, accepted in society, and have my basic human rights given to me without question.
Female empowerment shouldn’t be exclusively about sexuality.
Natalie Dormer - TheGuardian.com (via dark-delphine)
A look at arguments against reforms reveals disregard for concerns about brutality and abuse.
“In the simplest terms, there is no war on the police. Violent attacks against police officers remain at historic lows, even though approximately 1,000 people have been killed by the police this year nationwide. In just the past few weeks, videos have been released of problematic fatal police shootings in San Francisco and Chicago.
…a closer look at law enforcement arguments against commonsense reforms like independently investigating police violence, demilitarizing police forces, or ending “for-profit policing” reveals a striking disregard for concerns of just about any sort when it comes to brutality and abuse. What this “debate” has revealed, in fact, is a mainstream policing mindset ready to manufacture fear without evidence and promote the belief that American civil rights and liberties are actually an impediment to public safety. In the end, such law enforcement arguments subvert the very idea that the police are there to serve the community and should be under civilian control.
And that, when you come right down to it, is the logic of the police state.”
I think I can conclusively say I am a lesbian. I feel really at peace with myself again. At least about this. Like regardless if it's a response to trauma or innate, it's how I am. So why deny it? I am who I am, and why is secondary.
It’s a plan that university administrators hope will allow every student to learn the basics of the traditions, history, and modern-day issues of First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
Starting next fall, every undergraduate student at the University of Winnipeg and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., will be required to take a course in indigenous studies.
It’s a plan that university administrators hope will allow every student to learn the basics of the traditions, history, and modern-day issues of First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
Wab Kinew, the associate vice-president of Indigenous Affairs at University of Winnipeg, says it was students who initiated the new requirement. There had been a few incidents of racism on campus and the student association met with the aboriginal student council to brainstorm solutions.
“And what they came up with was that education could play a role in fighting racism – education toward combating ignorance,” Kinew told CTV’s Canada AM from Winnipeg Thursday.
There’s been a lot of positive reaction to the announced change, he said, especially since it comes so soon after the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.
“A lot of people are recognizing that learning about indigenous people is crucial to be an active and engaged citizen in our country,” he said.
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#Sandra Bland RIP. We knew it all along.
EMERGENCY FUND: Please help my friend survive. Over the last year, the rescue of my dear friend Kamelliah (many of you have come to know her online) has been under way. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, she has been subjected to emotional and physical abuse by her family members, leaving her struggling to survive in her current living situation. On top of the pressure for inevitable arranged marriage and the abusive environment, she is a lesbian and ex-Muslim, which if found out, is punishable by death in her home country. This has become a matter of life or death for my dearest friend, and has led her to runaway and seek asylum with us in the United States. What does this mean? A long and troubling journey of law, struggle, and triumph is ahead of her. This campaign seems like it’s aiming high (20,000 USD) but you have to understand that we have to pay for a lawyer, she needs money for rent, she will need money for living essentials like clothes, food, etc. Under the asylum law, she will be rendered unable to work for upwards of 9 months to a year, making her financial situation extremely dire. While we were aiming for December 20th, due to her brother discovering her visa process, she will be landing in the United States November 27th as her life is in more danger now than ever before. We need your help to ensure this bright, beautiful young 21 year old woman can rebuild her life from scratch here in the United States. Please, if you are an ally to any cause whether it be LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, refugee crises or humanitarian aid, please help us. Any amount of money would be greatly appreciated. Please share, please inform, please do anything you can to ensure we meet our goal. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Every share and donation counts. (LINK TO THE YOUCARING DONATION PAGE !!!)
For more about Kamelliah as a person, her struggle, and her hobbies, click this link.
On a fossil-hunting trip with her family, five-year-old Daisy Morris found the remains of a previously undiscovered dinosaur, which is now named Vertidraco daisymorrisae. The new dino is not only a previously unknown species, but an unknown genus, making Daisy’s find a really big deal. It’s a pterosaur — a winged flying dino — about the size of a crow, which lived 115 million years ago.
Hell. Yes. You Go, Daisy Morris.
Naming shit after yourself. A true scientist.
Mice are crucial part of lab research. Everything from their cells and their behavior are dissected in the name of science. Some of the biggest medical breakthroughs owe thanks to mice, but all that may come into question due to a shocking new discovery that threatens to blow apart decades of research.
Mice are more scared of male researchers than of female ones.
It sounds almost too comical to be true, but a new study published in the journal Nature Methods argues that mice’s aversion to men is all too real — and it may have had incalculable impact on past research.
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I’ve been doing a series of comics about men being deceived by makeup.
This is the best comic series I’ve ever seen
like 99% of the time “famous for doing nothing” means “women who were exploited by people they trusted and then tried to make the best of their exploitation”
This is the best description of South Park (and their brand of apathetic conservatism) I ever read.
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#DanielHoltzclaw
36 Rape/Abuse Charges Against a Former Cop Are Disturbing–as Is the Lack of Media Interest
Daniel Holtzclaw is a former Oklahoma City police officer now standing trial on 36 counts, including rape, sexual battery and stalking. Twelve women and one 17-year-old girl have come forward, saying Holtzclaw assaulted them while on patrol. Most of the victims were black, poor and embroiled in the criminal justice system for things like prostitution and drug use—a precarious state Holtzclaw allegedly used to threaten and coerce them.
As the 17-year-old put it in her testimony,
“What am I going to do? Call the cops? He was a cop.”
The alleged crimes are disturbing; so, too, the evident lack of media interest. Outside of Oklahoma, the case has so far garnered little mainstream attention. A Nexis search indicates neither the New York Times nor Washington Posthave printed any original reporting; nor has broadcast network news addressed a story that brings together emergent questions of police violence and rape culture.
The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, which collects data on police, doesn’t track officer arrests, and states aren’t required to collect or share the information about police officers involved so-called sex crimes, including rape.
Holtzclaw evidently selected his victims because he believed no one would care about them. Media shouldn’t prove him right.
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Not only is it rape it is an abuse of power that discredits the whole American #JusticeSystem! I know that there are a lot of other cases helped us to get that #Police is not on our side. But this case is one of those which perfectly characterize American #Police as Thugs on government support.
#DanielHoltzclaw #Cops #PoliceAbuse #PoliceBrutality #BlackLivesMatter
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