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patgavin

Lexington Market “Catacombs” / Tubb’s Restaurant

N. Greene Street, Baltimore, Md

popularsizes

gahdamnpunk

Men really think that women’s liberation is about whether or not we let them view our bodies lmao

biscuitsarenice

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.

morpheuse-deactivated20210121

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

ramdaughter

can the people in the notes getting mad about the way they talked about circumcision shut up like these are little girls recounting their own traumatic experiences sorry they don’t have the vocabulary you prefer

evolvingessence

beyonce-knowles-carter

❝ Coachella, thank you for allowing me to be the first black woman to headline Coachella. Ain’t that ‘bout a bitch? ❞

When I decided to do Coachella, instead of me pulling out my flower crown, it was more important that I brought our culture to Coachella. There was a four month period of rehearsals with Derek and the band before we started the four months of dance rehearsals. The music and those vocal rehearsals - that’s the heartbeat of the show. I wanted all of these different characters, and I wanted it to feel the way I felt when I went to battle of the bands, because I grew up seeing those shows and that being the highlight of my year. So, I studied my history, I studied my past, and I put every mistake, all of my triumphs of my 22-year career into my two-hour homecoming performance.

HΘMΣCΘMING: A Film by Beyoncé (2019)

xenosagaepisodeone

having a permanent full time job is you thinking to yourself “so this is really the rest of my life huh” as you come home every single day before using your 4 hours of recreational activity to do nothing and then going to bed

left-reminders

epiphanies

“As hard as it has been, to have that last name sometimes and the pain that I have felt, of what it’s meant for other people in my family who have that last name, I am glad I didn’t change it.”

Monica Lewinsky, on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

blackqueerblog

That’s powerful stuff! You can donate or volunteer here

https://friendsofwestside.org/

messybritches

Its not that teachers and principals dont care!! Its literally the school central offices (and most times the city officials) who reprimand schools going outside any agenda they set forth. This principal has support. Ive see principals do this in Baltimore only to have their hands slapped!!!

nateswinehart

You gotta have a plan…

crossed-quills

This is the mist motivational and inspiring thing I’ve seen all goddamn week

moonlight-and-mantles

This is incredible.

anarchapella

Unpopular opinion: straight people using “partner” to refer to their SO actually helps normalize the term so that lgbt folx can use it without automatically outing themselves to strangers. It also helps other straight ppl get comfortable with the fact that strangers aren’t entitled to information about other people’s gender or sexuality.

lesserkiwi-deactivated20180504

Give op their hard-earned notes

krusty-cakes

Tbh I hear “partner” and assume gay, I didn’t know straights used it. Very fair point, OP

queerlybelovedones

I hear ‘partner’ and think ‘gay’ too. A girl at work used it for months and I just went with it. When she would say ‘he’ I even thought maybe he was trans*. Anyways, someone using partner makes me more comfortable and I came out to her. She was just an intelligent straight girl that liked the term and was knowledgeable in human sexuality so definitely someone I should have felt comfortable coming out too. It’s a good sign of a straight person uses it IMO.

imagddisaster-deactivated202009

As a mental health clinician, this is actually my blanket term when discussing any romantic relationship. I agree it normalizes it, but I also think it’s a relatively safe term to use to describe most romantic relationships without making any assumptions about the person’s orientation or identity. I also use the word “partnered” when describing a monogamous relationship status.

mxthermoon

The term “partner” also removes the implied hierarchy of boyfriend/girlfriend vs husband/wife. This is relevant both to non-monogamous people, and unmarried individuals for whom the importance of their relationship isn’t dictated by its legal status.