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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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If youâre still eating animals, do you ever stop to consider how their body parts ended up on your plate?
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Artist Creates Miniature Sculptures of the Gritty Urban Architecture in Taiwan
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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Itâs not about being a âgood feministâ
Nicki and Taylorâs little spat is a great example for how people always miss the point when racism and feminism collide. Nicki pointing out racist undertones and the reasons she got snubbed for the VMAs isnât âpitting woman against each otherâ.  Because being black ALONG with being a woman gives you an entire different experience when it comes to sexism and oppression. But Taylor and a lot of white feminists wonât ever get it. Just like they didnât get it with Amandla and Kylie Jenner. Any time a black woman opens her mouth about anything sheâs ââbitterâ and a âbad feminist. Such bullshit.Â

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This would never happen to a white woman.
AÂ Virginia mother who placed a recording device in her 9-year-old daughterâs backpack to help prove to school officials that she was being bullied has been charged by police with a felony.
Local news station WAVY reports that Norfolk resident Sarah Sims grew fed up with her local elementary schoolâs failure to take action to prevent her daughter from being bullied. To put the schoolâs feet to the fire, she planted a recorder in her daughterâs backpack to show them direct evidence that she was a victim of a bullying campaign.
However, when the school found the recorder and then moved her daughter to a different classroom.
What surprised her even more, says tells WAVY, is that she was subsequently charged with a felony.Specifically, WAVY says police charged Sims with âuse of device to intercept oral communication and misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor,â which could carry up to five years in prison.
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1) Little Black girls are two to five times more likely to be suspended from school that white girls. (https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-05-09/black-girls-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-suspended-in-every-state) Claims of bullying are taken less seriously from kids you believe are already problem children.Â
2) Black girls are perceived as older and less innocent than white girls and that disparity in perception begins as early as five years old. (http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/health/black-girls-adultification-racial-bias-study/index.html) So your Black daughter should be able to take care of herself better than her white counterparts if sheâs indeed being bullied.Â
3) Black people are assumed to be less trustworthy than white people. (http://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7710.full) Therefore, a white child who reports bullying is more likely to be taken at their word. The same is true for the parents who report bullying to the school.Â
4) Black people are more likely to be punished and more severely. (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/unequal-sentences-for-blacks-and-whites.html) At every level of the criminal justice system, thereâs a disparity between white consequences and Black consequences and in any given situation, thereâs a higher probability of someone seeking legal recourse against a Black person than a white one.Â
5) White women get to be protected and coddled and Black women do not. I donât need a link for that because we all have eyes and ears.
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A male colleague was making fun of the #metoo movement a few days ago, and many more (Iâm one of 5 women in a department of 200 men) joined in. So I raised my voice and said I was glad women were speaking up about sexual harassment and assault and that I hoped that everyone who perpetuated this toxic behavior got taken down.
âYeah but itâs a trend now, lots of them are just saying it for their 15 minutes of fame.â He then continued to say that he didnât know anyone who had been harassed or any man who had done it.
I asked him if he had a daughter. He did. I asked him how old she was. She was was 17. I told him Iâd bet my rent money that his daughter had experienced sexual harassment.Â
âThatâs impossible.âÂ
âDid you ask her?âÂ
âNo.âÂ
âWell then, do it.â
The next day, he came in the office with five bouquets of flowers for all the women in our department, including me. He publicly apologized for making fun of sexual harassment and for making our lives harder by doing so. He said that he simply hadnât known how widespread it was. Apparently, his daughter deals with it very regularly. She hadnât told him because of the way he spoke about assault cases that were on the news. She thought heâd think less of her if sheâd mention it. It was her idea that he should make a public announcement. He said he felt like a bad father.Â
I said:Â âYou were. Same goes for everyone who laughed with you. Be better, now you know better. And educate other men that still think the same way you did yesterday. And next time someone tells you about an experience they have, donât automatically assume that because you havenât seen it, itâs not true. That kind of willful ignorance is why we still deal with this shit.â
He also offered to pay my rent as that was part of the bet, but I told him Iâd rather have him put effort in being a person his daughter and wife could be proud of.Â
In conversation the other day my mom stopped and asked my dad about what percentage of women he thought had experienced sexual harassment. He said about 20-30% maybe. My mom told him that both of us had been harassed multiple times at work (same goes for both of her sisters) and that she had actually been assaulted by a groper on a public bus. I have never seen anyoneâs face go slack so quickly before as he realized that literally every woman in his family had experienced this. And while Iâm glad he believed us and has changed his view on that subject I still canât shake the frustration, the anger, that it required being sat down and spoonfed these incidents that we didnât particularly wanted to relive. This is something that women have been saying for years, but men just never listen. Not even when theyâre forced to sit in mandatory harassment in the workplace training seminars.

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Nahui Ollin
MarĂa del Carmen MondragĂłn Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin (b. Tacubaya, today Mexico City, July 8, 1893 â d. Mexico City, January 23, 1978) was a Mexican artistâs model, painter and poet.
Carmen MondragĂłn was the fifth of eight children of General Manuel MondragĂłn, Secretario de Guerra y Marina in 1913 and inventor of the MondragĂłn rifle. Her mother was Mercedes Valseca. Carmen MondragĂłn received a privileged education in Mexico, and afterwards from 1897 to 1905 in France, learning to speak French fluently. The professional activities of General MondragĂłn, who specialized in artillery design, led the family to Spain in 1905, where she met cadet Manuel RodrĂguez Lozano, whom she married on August 6, 1913. Although General MondragĂłn went into exile to Belgium after the occurrences of the Decena TrĂĄgica, Carmen MondragĂłn moved to Paris with her husband, where they met Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Cocteau. Afterwards they moved to San SebastiĂĄn, Spain, where Carmenâs brother Manuel ran a photo studio. In San SebastiĂĄn, both started painting.
In 1921 both returned to Mexico, where they went separate ways. Whether they were ever divorced is unknown. Carmen MondragĂłn turned towards the artistsâ scene of Mexico City, got contacts with JosĂŠ Vasconcelos and Xavier Villaurrutia, and was interested in the Teatro Ulises movement. She had multiple sexual affairs. Her beauty is described as mesmerizing and erotic, and she was apparently the first woman in Catholic Mexico who wore a miniskirt. She became model of several notable painters and photographers, among others posing for some of Diego Riveraâs murals, for Tina Modotti, Antonio GarduĂąo, Roberto Montenegro, MatĂas Santoyo, Edward Weston and in 1928 for IgnĂĄcio Rosas at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.[3] Especially her nudes became famous. When a former French teacher of her recognized her pictures, he published A dix ans sur mon pupitre (From my desk, at 10 years old), a book of 1924, which describes the 10-year-old pupil Carmen MondragĂłn within his teacherâs sight. Carmen MondragĂłn had an intense love relationship with Gerald Murillo, also known as Dr Atl, who named her âNahui Olinâ, a symbol of Aztec renewal meaning âfour movementâ, the symbol of earthquakes. They lived together in the former La Merced Cloister. At this time she wrote her poems Ăptica cerebral, poemas dinĂĄmicos (1922) and Calinement je suis dedans (1923), finished several naĂŻve paintings, and composed. As intensely as the love relationship began, it ended equally quickly in the mid-1920s. Later she denied it completely. After having several further affairs, she stepped out of public life in the 1940s.
Carmen MondragĂłn is considered one of the talented and revolutionary women who formed the 1920s and 1930s in Mexico by activism and creativity, like Guadalupe MarĂn, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Tina Modotti, Lupe VĂŠlez and MarĂa Izquierdo. Her popularity was due more to her beauty than to her artistic and literary work. She herself described her work as intuitive. All her self-portraits show oversized, green eyes, but her eyes seem highlighted also in paintings by other artists. Many of her works are undated.
Her works were exhibited in the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago in 2007, in an exhibition titled A Woman Beyond Time/Nahui Olin: una mujer fuera del tiempo.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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As thanksgiving approaches and many of you will be feasting with your families, i just want to take the time to remind yall that the food you eat is planted and picked by exploited people of color. So I encourage yall to donate to any of these organizations that work with farmworkers and their families:
Donate to food chain workers allianceÂ
https://t.co/okIpzNoyEv
Donate to United farm workers
https://t.co/HwgXdH4l7w
Donate to farmworker justice
https://t.co/O14KKMg7KE
Donate/give supplies to migrant Farmworkers Assistance FundÂ
https://t.co/ePbmNBVLMP
Donate to center for Farmworker families
https://t.co/IReMpiEaq1
Donate to campaign for Migrant worker justiceÂ
https://t.co/f2TV0Jqzd1
Donate to brandworkers
https://t.co/NhTNsUrbBw
Donate to CIW
https://t.co/uH5bUUGqwg
AND THERE IS ONE I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT DOES SUCH AN AMAZING JOB WITH THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS
The National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association
https://www.nmshsa.com/contact-us/make-a-donation/
âThe bridge to Rikers Island is called the Bridge of Pain. Youâre on this bus. You see the city behind you. And in front of you, you see nothing but four walls. I was sent there for a year when I was nineteen years old. My friends and I got caught stealing copper pipes from a construction site. All of us grew up together. I thought they had my back. But none of them came to see me in prison. I had zero visits. Nobody put money in my account. So I havenât talked to any of those guys since I got out. I work two jobs now. I stay out of trouble. Iâm trying not to be a negative person anymore. I still have anger problems. I think itâs because there was so much yelling and violence in my house growing up. But whenever I feel the anger coming on, I just close my eyes and rub my ears. My baby brothers used to rub my ears when I was growing up. When things got bad in the houseâ it always used to calm me down.â

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I write you awfully dull letters darling, because I get tired and sort of emptied out. And all I have to tell you that I can write is that I love you.
Ernest Hemingway, From a letter dated August 1965
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