University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish “We have the right to be outraged,” left, and “Excellent education and for all!!” Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government that propose private funding for public institutions. (Fernando Vergara)
I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via holdmecloser-tonydanza)
This. THIS. Read it. Now read it again. Now the next time you victim-blame, or rag on women for any of the above, you can kindly pull your lip over your head and swallow.
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robert putnam is a sociologist at harvard who’s quite mainstream. he found about a 50% decline since the 1960s in any form of interaction - visiting a neighbour, going to PTA meetings, joining a bowling league. one reason children watch so much tv is that parent-child interaction has dropped 40%…
Self-taught photographer, Lee Jeffries, self-funded a crusade using social media to disseminate his powerful images and raise awareness and donations for the homeless. See more here.
Mende Nazer is a Sudanese-British author and human rights activist. For eight years, she was a slave in Sudan and in London.
Nazer is from a village in the Nuba mountains. At the age of twelve, she was abducted and sold into slavery in Sudan following a slaving raid on her village. Although her family fled the raiders into the mountains, she became separated from her family and was caught by one of the raiders. For six years, Nazer served an Arab family in Khartoum, where she was forced into hard labour and was subjected to physical and sexual abuse.
Six years into her captivity, Nazer was sent to London to be a household servant to a Sudanese diplomat, Abdel al-Koronky. She was abused and exploited. After three months, with the help of a fellow Sudanese, she managed to escape. She claimed asylum and the Home Office denied her claim, at first. This provoked the rise of a movement in support of her, consisting of individuals and human rights groups, including Anti-Slavery International.
In 2005, the English language edition of her autobiography was published. In 2010, her life story was dramatised in the Channel Four programme I Am Slave, starring Wunmi Mosaku and in the stage play, ‘Slave - A Question of Freedom’, which was based entirely on her story.
Saira Liaquat, 22 yrs, burn victim and survivor, holding an old photograph of herself before she was burned with acid by her husband. Photographed at Saira’s parents’ home in Lahore, Pakistan on February 7, 2009.
A video presentation on families of those killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces is broadcast in Tahrir Square after sundown in Cairo, Egypt on Jan. 25.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians rallied Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, with liberals and Islamists gathering on different sides of Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a reflection of the deep political divides that emerged in the year since the downfall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.
(Nasser Nasser/Associated Press)
The American economy grew at its fastest rate in over a year and half. The Department of Commerce announced Friday that the U.S. gross domestic product grew 2.8 percent between October and December despite continuing turmoil in the global markets. The three-month period was the fastest pace of growth since the second quarter of 2010.
