Monster-Raus

Things I think are cool but probably arent.

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Live at club congress, Tucson

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Can A Bath Of Milk And Honey Replace Female Genital Mutilation?

At age 9, Nice Nailantei Leng'ete ran away from home so she wouldn’t have her genitalia cut as part of a coming­-of-­age ceremony.

For her defiance, she was shunned by family and community.

That was 16 years ago. The ritual cutting away of part or all of the external female genitalia continues in force around the world. A new UNICEF report estimates that at least 200 million women alive today have undergone what’s known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

But now there’s a concerted effort to convince communities that Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was right — and that there’s a way to mark a girl’s maturity without cutting.

The new traditions are taking hold in Maasai and Samburu communities in Kenya and Tanzania. After two or three days of preparatory sessions for the girls, the celebration culminates with communal singing and dancing and blessings by the village elders, who pour a mixture of milk and honey and water over the heads of the girls. Goats and cows are slaughtered for specially prepared stews or roasts. Traditional beer is brewed for the men to drink. The young women don multi­colored clothing and decorative beads that dangle from their heads and hang around their necks.

Read the full post here. 

Image: Rebecca Sell

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I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much, but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block  (via abattoirette)

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Photograph of a squirrel that got it’s head stuck in a jack-o-‘lantern carved into a miniature pumpkin in the backyard of Max Ellis, from Teddington, London. (Source)

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The shenanigans have begun.

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#rollerbladebabe #rollininstyle #bladesister #blackandwhite #skatewithme #skatelife

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Nigerian recycling initiative proves it’s not all about hi-tech solutions

In the spirit of focusing on what can be done, Sustainia Award celebrates 10 leading sustainability solutions deployed in 84 countries.

From food, fashion, energy, transportation, education and health, the awards showcased an alternative to the grim future scenarios we are so often presented with and made sustainability tangible to the innovators, investors, consumers and policy makers across sectors and regions.

The 10 projects presented each offered unique solutions to sustainability challenges, but it was the Nigerian initiative Wecyclers that had Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of jury’s vote and took the Sustainia Award 2014.

Wecyclers enables low-income communities to make money on waste piling up in their streets. By deploying a fleet of cargo bicycles to collect and recycle unmanaged waste in Lagos, Wecyclers lets families exchange garbage for consumer goods via an SMS-based point system.

More here.

— d.n.

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#sparklers #summernights #ohjuly #dancing #wherethewildthingsare

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Pretty happy to be working again!

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Iraqi militia folk hero who fights ISIS with a sword. Read it here:

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Equal marriage special celebration from Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi. :)

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. A victory for America!!!

Video via Vine

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I found it! #mongo #mongoipa #portbrewing #hops #indiapaleale #beerisgood