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A mini project done on Lakota Identity with some fellow students at Oglala Lakota College.

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This link is a wonderful illustration about how one mother, a survivor of sexual assault, chooses to teach her child about consent.

From the article: 

“… your body is yours and yours alone. You get to choose who is able to see it and touch it.”

“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me.” - Written by the rape victim of Brock Turner.

IN DEFENCE OF NOT CARING ABOUT ANYTHING, @aranrhod  (via i-burn-i-pine-i-perish)

Love this.

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P. L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins

Born on this day, 9th August 1899

P.L. Travers author of Mary Poppins was born Helen Lyndon Goff, in Queensland, Australia on August 9th, 1899. She wrote Mary Poppins  in 1934, which was later released as a Disney film in 1964.

Mary Poppins was Travers’ first literary success. A sequel, Mary Poppins Comes Back, followed in 1935, then Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1944) and Mary Poppins in the Park (1952). Mary Poppins and the House Next Door was published in 1989.

Travers had a difficult childhood with an alcoholic father named Travers Robert Goff whose first name she adopted as her pseudonym for a lifetime of writing. After his death in 1907 the family moved to Bowral, New South Wales, and Travers had to take on adult responsibilities as the oldest child. She later moved to England where she settled and in 1933, while recovering from a serious illness at her home, Travers began relating stories about Mary Poppins to children, similar to the storytelling which she had earlier entertained her siblings.

 “Travers had always believed in the intermingling of myth and fairy tale in life. She saw the child hidden in man and strenuously rejected the notion of ‘literature for children’.”  (Biography in Austlit - available to NSW residents with a valid Library card)

P L Travers received the OBE in 1977 for services to literature, and died in 1996.

The State Library of New South Wales holds original manuscripts, photographs and oral recordings, including, P L Travers papers, lectures and talks, plus Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back / coloured illustrations by Mary Shephard.

If I have, through my work, sought to change perceptions about Africa, I have done so purely as one who sees a lot to celebrate, and not as one who lives in denial of our challenges.

I’m still perplexed that the single most important dream of an educated African, quite often, is to become a carbon copy of someone else.

Africans, especially we the ones in leadership of any kind, must come to terms with this simple truth:

“YOU WILL NEVER FIND A COPY THAT IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE ORIGINAL”.

Why do you insist on being a good copy of someone else when you have everything it takes to stand out as an original?

The cities of Africa are plagued with buildings that were originally designed to suit colder climates but whose designs were blindly copied and built in the tropics. We surround ourselves with concrete and glass, totally blocking out air and light, then we spend the little electricity we have, to power air conditioners and light bulbs. What is wrong with us?

I know what is wrong with us:

Colonialism told us everything African is bad; even though the perpetrators of those lies actively looted and continue to loot as much of Africa as they can grab; yet we believe them.

The bigger crime isn’t that they robbed us, but that we continue to celebrate the intellectual and cultural genocide that colonialism is, as though it was the best thing that ever happened to us. It isn’t.

“Carved from Pearls”