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Maya Angelou’s “Hey Black Child” Recited By 3 Year Old Girl

AMAZING 3-yr old Pe’Tehn Raighn-Kem can read, write and pay tribute to one of the most renowned writers of all time. She memorized author Maya Angelou’s poem “Hey Black Child” in just a week and recited the poem to an audience during the Chicago daytime talk show Windy City LIVE.

#BlackExcellence

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My favorite thing about Biology and Science? It’s fallible. From doing this comic, I actually discovered that this theory hypothesised in 1995 (https://www.nature.com/articles/373425a0) may be out of date (http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/10/1819). Photo taken on my Canon 80D with Tamron G2150-600 in pretty poor back lighting!

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REPRESENTATION MATTERS.

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The racist practice of mispronouncing names

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Hasan Minhaj’s segment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show is a powerful teaching moment

“My biggest pet peeve is when people don’t take the time to learn how to pronounce other people’s names, which is why I appreciated a recent segment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show from comedian Hasan Minhaj.

Just a few seconds in, DeGeneres mispronounces his name, and Minhaj corrects her — making the audience laugh along the way. The moment teaches viewers why it’s so important to spend the time and effort to avoid mispronunciations.

“If you can pronounce Ansel Elgort, you can pronounce Hasan Minhaj,” he says.

Later on, he jokes that he uses the name Timothée Chalamet for his Starbucks orders.”

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The other day a man came to install my internet in my new house and he told me about his wife. He said her name fast and then said “she usually goes by Mia though” and I thought about this post and wondered if the reason she went by Mia was because of the pronunciation thing. He said people thought his wife’s name was difficult. I asked him to repeat it literally one time, and then I said it. It wasn’t difficult. And then I got mad that I was right, because people shouldn’t have to change their names for the sake of others. I told him “people just need to try harder,” and his face lit up and he said “exactly!” And I think it made his day. This post genuinely helped me in real life make a positive change. A little effort goes a long way

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Today marks the Vernal Equinox or first day of Spring. It also marks the first day of a new series for Gone into Rapture, called Nature’s Call. Nature’s Call is a comic series that will be inspired by life that I have personally photographed, with the aim of giving it a voice. To start us off, here’s a remake of an oldie.

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For the record, an Otter’s faeces are called a spraint, and their above ground resting place is called a couch. You can see this one I photographed chillin’ on it above. He’s just missing a few beers!

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Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

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YAAAAEEESSSSSSS

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You know what I like, and feel is so important? That he doesn’t say “Men thinks those are THEIR positions”. He says “We think those are OUR positions.”

As a male feminist, he still doesn’t exclude himself from the group of men.