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• Isma • 20 • Montreal • Gemini •

[sixpenceee]

Wisteria climbing up a home in South Kensington, London. 

[sixpenceee]

This creepy stairwell statue was located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. It’s called Lilith, and was made by Kiki Smith. Smith does very surreal and unnerving art. 

[niallthegun]

[islam-reflections]

“When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

[milklotus]

[kineticpianox]

Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.

[trekmemes-deactivated20220205]

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

[playfulpanthress]

Thank you, my sisters.

[sharratum-deactivated20240320]

Wow. I wish they would teach things like this is school.

[jenniferrpovey]

America in particular (Europe’s slightly better, but not much) only seems to remember Africa exists when it’s being visited by one of the four horsemen. Which is really sad. It’s an entire continent with a rich history, people.

And we all know why, too…

[princessas]

“If you don’t have anything, you have to act like you own everything.”

[islamicrays]

““The intensity of which a woman can feel emotion is a blessing from God, and is not to be looked down upon as a weakness””

— Habib Ali Al-Jifri

[composerinprogress]

[morgan98nicole]

[favorite-aesthetic]

Bunny lover

[ripe]

[tigerleggies-deactivated2019121]

*floop flop*

[myoldblogiwontuseanymore]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaeOCymjoac/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=14lwbxd0dtrs2

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

Spring fairies 💕

[pigmenting]

something i wish i had realized earlier: you can write poems on the same subject more than once. you can write, paint, draw the same thing over and over if you want to. you can spend your whole life making art about oranges. i think i always felt this pressure to get it right the first time like i couldn’t go back and use that inspiration again. but you can. you can go back and revisit it. you can pick up the conversation again and again if you have more to say.

[cybergata]

Life is a Disco Ball!

[maryjblige]

[toogodly]

toogodly

[daddyapo-deactivated20190625]

New rule, non muslims can’t say the word jihad. Until you stop conflating a word that means personal struggle with faith and temptation with terrorism youre just not allowed to say it.

[moody-poet-deactivated20180227]

I’m not a Muslim but I just thought I would reblog this because I think it’s definitely worth listening to.

[daddyapo-deactivated20190625]

It’s totally okay for non muslims to reblog this, and i encourage it. Im just glad you’re listening.

[neuroatypically-speaking]

Oh god, finally someone said it. Every time I see words like “jihadist” I want to scream, but I’m not Muslim, so I wasn’t sure I should say anything. 

Jihad means struggle. It doesn’t mean holy war or anything like it. In fact, there is no word in Islam for holy war, because the nature of Islam does not leave room for holy war. Islam has a juridical system, not a Pope who can just say “Go wage holy war.” Conflating the personal nature of jihad with violence is so very gross and it needs to stop. Period.

[geeko-kat]

Actually, there’s another word non-muslims in the media shouldn’t use:

Allahu Akbar. It’s not a statement of terrorism. It means “god is great”. It’s something we say to praise our lord. It’s what we say when we pray. It’s not a statement of terrorism. Allahu Akbar doesn’t mean terrorism stop using it as one

[liberalautisticqueernerd831-dea]

I would really appreciate it if non Muslims understood this