FASCINATING. PROGRESSIVE. RELEVANT. EXCITINGAF. Daily Fail, can you please stop sitting outside our house, it’s dull, for everyone (again, see above) @super73 Hi 🙋♀️ … while we’re on the subject .. How do I turn on the headlight ? 🤪👹 #alwaysridelikeadogwiththewindowdown
Repost from @thomas_sadoski • 10 years. 10 horrifying years of war, torture, war crimes, indescribable inhumanity. 10 years of leaders on all sides, hawk or dove, looking past the absolute horror that has engulfed the lives, THE ACTUAL REAL LIVES OF REAL MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN; 10 years of “forever war” bullshit posturing by keyboard simps from the safety of their climate-controlled pulpit and 10 years of empty saber rattling by preening, self obsessed fake tough guys. 10 years. A whole generation of an extraordinary people with an extraordinary history vanquished. How dare any of us talk about having hope for humanity when we sit and ignore THIS. “There were moments where I wished I could transport the decision-makers to Syria so they could bear witness to the extreme suffering and injustice. We tried to depict it, report it as best we could, as raw as we could, but it seemed not to phase them. Maybe living it for a brief moment would.”. – @arwacnn. ————————————————— “We go back because we will not give in to apathy or indifference and allow that to demoralize us into silence. When the dust settles, there will be a record, one that cannot be altered by the “victors” — if there can even be such a thing in a war like this one. We go back because we have to. We can’t live with ourselves if we don’t.” – @arwacnn
Chatting in me barfroom. @hellhoundvintage
#internationalwomensday 💫
Repost from @florakenney • One of the first pieces of advice I was given to survive as a young girl was to stay in a big group. As I got older, I was advised to ignore catcalling and to not retaliate. When I started to go out, I was advised to bring a coat; not because it was cold, but to not have any attention drawn to my ‘half naked’ body incase ‘men get the wrong impression’. Further advice I have received is to ‘call me when your there,’ pretend you’re on the phone, cover your drink, don’t drink too much just incase, never download a dating app they’re too dangerous, keys between your hands, be polite and never answer back, take the joke, remember to please him, ‘give us a smile,’ the list goes on. It has been intertwined into my mind from as young as I can remember (by society), that it is my responsibility to be safe. Yet we see tragic stories such as Sarah Everard, a women who took every precaution I and every other girl has been taught, yet her life was still taken. As a woman, I live in constant fear of when I will be next; it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Which is scary as fuck, and I am so so tired of living in fear just because of my sex. So when boys turn around to say ‘not all men,’ it hurts. No, it is not all men, but it is all women and always men: 97% of women have been sexually assaulted, 87000 women and girls were killed in 2017, on average 83000 women are raped a year. And then boys feel the need to turn around and apply a victim status onto themselves when they could actually make a change. Every boy who is reading this, please take the time to ask your sister, girlfriend, mum or any girl in your life and they will have a story to tell on sexual assault. I was 9 years old when I was first sexually assaulted: a man came up to me and my dad and said to me ‘you better not wear those shorts again, you are making us men excited.’ I’m surprised my dad didn’t knock him out cold but he was so shocked, and I was in a place of such vulnerability that all I said was ‘thank you.’ My own mum woke up to someone groping her on a plane at 13. I know people who have been raped. Girls who have been forced to do things they aren’t comfortable wi
Hayao Miyazaki . ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼❤️ @thecinegogue
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
Happy Mother’s Day to my village … Could not do any of it without ya’ll ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💥💯 couldn’t chop my dad out … cause ya know … #familybrowsyo
I’m just fkin angry. I’m angry about greed and guns #stopgunviolencenow I’m angry and fkin sad when we live such privileged lives and still fall so short of simple humanity, of empathy, of compassion, of equality, of love… Simple fkin love for our brothers and sisters in this world. #stopasianhate
Repost from @amyschumer • It’s been one year. #sayhernamebreonnataylor
Monday .. Served by @eurekaohara 💥❤️💥❤️
Repost from @sonjarasula • I am not okay. A mass shooting killed numerous women last night in Atlanta. Numerous Asian women. As an Asian American and a woman – already exhausted from, well, my entire life and last year – I am tired, frustrated and sickened. • if you are not aware of the insane rise in violence towards Asians, almost 4000 anti-Asian crimes last year with multiple murders for example, you need to broaden your network just as you did last year for BLM. Where is your solidarity and empathy now? I’m asking for your help. Many don’t have Asian friends and/or follow many Asian people, change that now. • Asian women have been continually sexualized and fetishized, this needs to stop now! We are not your exotic playthings. • Asian women have also been and continue to be the butt of jokes, how many times have you heard “me love you long time”? • There is a massive misconception around AAPI folks — we are not crazy rich and we are not doing okay. the fact is 1 in 4 Asian Americans lives below the poverty line and Harvard Business Review recently released that Asians are the LEAST likely BIPOC in the workplace to be promoted. The PERCEPTION is that Asians are managers and successful, but the reality is we are not. • a HUGE part of the AAPI community (esp older generations) has a language barrier and so doesn’t report crimes, talk about being a victim, which further adds to a misunderstanding that everything is fine • classism and misogyny and colonialism run DEEP, it’s not just racism at work here. The only way forward is for ALL marginalized communities to come together, stop letting history divide us all and come together as one majority to move forward. So please educate yourself on the heartbreaking details and help us to #stopasianhate – which currently only has 35k mentions though the community has been tirelessly talking about this spread of hate for months now. Follow @nextshark, donate to @gofundme’s AAPI fundraiser (added to my profile link), diversify your feed and make an effort to follow more AAPI folks here. That’s all I have now. I’m exhausted, I need sleep.
@thelabellefoundation He grew. A lot. #yetibongo ❤️❤️❤️
Repost from @chooselove • Meet Yassin. He was just two years old when the uprising in Syria started. He dreams of his old life. Today and for the rest of this week, we will bring you stories of children living in Syrian displacement camps. Children who have only ever known war. Yassin is twelve years old. He loves rabbits and reading and when he grows up he wants to be a doctor. He says “I love and I miss my village and my house in Idlib, and all the friends I can’t see anymore.” —— If you can, please stand with the heroic groups working to provide emergency relief, healthcare and education to displaced Syrian families. Every donation will make a huge impact to the lives of people who have already been through so much – click the link in our bio
Repost from @chooselove • Meet Maryam. She’s ten years old and has only ever known war. The conflict in Syria started ten years ago – today and for the rest of this week, we will bring you stories of children living in Syrian displacement camps. Ordinary kids who dream of peace, something they have never known. Maryam lives with her family in a camp near Aleppo. She loves drawing and when she grows up she wants to be an architect. She still dreams of her house in Idlib. “My dream is to not live in a tent anymore. I want to go back to my house. I want the war and bombing to end, and for all the people to love each other.” ——– Nearly ten years after the uprising in Syria, 6.7 million people, including over 2.5 million children, are displaced within the country and a further 6.6 million people have fled. Syria remains the world’s largest refugee crisis. Behind those incomprehensible numbers are individual people, just like Maryam, and just like you. ——- If you can, please stand with the heroic groups working to provide emergency relief, healthcare and education to displaced Syrian families. Every donation will make a huge impact to the lives of people who have already been through so much – click the link in our bio.
Repost from @chooselove • Meet Reem. She’s three years old and lives with her family in a camp near Aleppo, Syria. She wanted to introduce herself to you – this is what she said: My favourite thing to do is play football. My favourite colour is red. My favourite thing in the whole world is toys. My favourite animal is cats! I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up… Behind the headlines, statistics and political rhetoric about Syria, there are people just like Reem. People just like you. ——— Thank you so much to our friends @inddoctorsasso for chatting to Reem for us. IDA are an incredible Syrian medical organisation providing healthcare and medical assistance to people in Syria. We’re in awe of their work.
Please see link in BIO. @chooselove doing what they do, supporting innovative , committed ,on the ground organizations doing their incredible work… IF you can give … Thankyou, if you can’t, give them a follow and support, Thankyou ❤️❤️❤️ #chooseloveoverfear