so-treu:

deafmuslimpunx:

theballetblog:

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Love the flesh-colored ballet shoes they’re all wearing.

they dye them. i had to do the same back when i was in an all-Black ballet company as a youth. it’s part of the inherent white supremacy of ballet that you still can’t buy pointe shoes in anything other than pink, for the most part.

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pleatedjeans:

Depression Part 2 by Hyperbole and a Half is the most important thing you’ll read all day.

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If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.  

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.

Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom: 

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

[ I was going to post a long rant about some arrogant white yoga girl who insist people are ignorant for using olive oil to cook and should not eat fish or drink milk or eat cheese because of all sorts of problematic food issues, instead I said, let me focus on those who celebrate food. If you still want to see the link of the article she was waving on her Facebook, there you go. Privileged white people…ugh]

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epitomeofphresh:

Me and my brotha Kuri at graduation…I had to tie his bow tie for him. #honored

this deserves 100k notes and more

i just… this is so fucking beautiful. 

#generationalachievements

home-of-amazons:

{TW: Rape, sexual slavery, rape culture}

fuckyeahsexeducation:

TW: Sexual abuse

Elizabeth Smart became a household name after she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 14 and held in captivity for nine months. She was forced into a polygamous marriage, tethered to a metal cable, and raped daily until she was rescued from her captors nine months later. Smart was recovered while she and her kidnappers were walking down a suburban street, leading many Americans who followed her story on the national news to wonder:Why didn’t she just run away as soon as she was brought outside?

Speaking to an audience at Johns Hopkins about issues of human trafficking and sexual violence, Smart recently offered an answer to that question. She explained that some human trafficking victims don’t run away because they feel worthless after being raped, particularly if they have been raised in conservative cultures that push abstinence-only education and emphasize sexual purity:

Smart said she “felt so dirty and so filthy” after she was raped by her captor, and she understands why someone wouldn’t run “because of that alone.”

Smart spoke at a Johns Hopkins human trafficking forum, saying she was raised in a religious household and recalled a school teacher who spoke once about abstinence and compared sex to chewing gum.

“I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away.’ And that’s how easy it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value,” Smart said. “Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still has no value.”

Now in her mid-twenties, Smart runs a foundation to help educate children about sexual crimes. She now believes that children should grow up learning that “you will always have value and nothing can change that.”

Social psychologists and sexual abuse counselors agree that comprehensive sex education can help prevent sexual crimes. Teaching children about their bodies gives them the tools to describe acts of abuse without feeling as embarrassed or uncomfortable, and it also helps elevate their self-confidence and sense of bodily autonomy. A shame-based approach to genitalia and sexuality, on the other hand, sends kids the message that they can’t discuss or ask questions about any of those issues.

WHY IS THIS THE MOST BASIC EXPLANATION OF SEX EDUCATION: 1. TEACH KIDS TO VALUE THEIR BODY, EVEN IF THEY CHOOSE TO HAVE SEX—THEY WILL MOST LIKELY WAIT TO HAVE SEX, AND THEY WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE SAFE(R) SEX IF THIS IS TAUGHT. 2. DON’T SHAME KIDS INTO THINKING THAT SEX IS INHERENTLY BAD, AND THAT THEY ARE BAD IF THEY DESIRE IT OR HAVE IT. IF YOU DO THAT ALL MODES OF COMMUNICATION IN REGARDS TO SEX WILL SHUT DOWN AND THIS CYLCE OF SLUT-SHAMING WILL REAR ITS UGLY HEAD AND PERPETUATE CONTRADICTORY FEELINGS/BELIEFS ABOUT SEX, THE DESIRE FOR SEX, AND THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO HAVE SEX, yet people (parents, Christians, Conservatives) still believe that comprehensive sex education will foster an environment where all our youth are sex-crazed and engaging in risky behaviors under their roof? Guess what, the youth are ALREADY DOING THIS (well, not sex-crazed but sex is already part of the fabric of this culture and something they will inevitably be exposed to), and this is on years of abstinence-only education which has been taught in such a way to make youth fearful about their natural desires. There is this idea that comprehensive sex education (which includes discussion on abstinence, why someone may choose abstinence—100% safety against STDs and pregnancy, moral and religious reasons….WITHOUT SHAMING YOUTH) will make youth immoral and strip every girl of her virginity. That is not the case. 

When taught comprehensive education youth make smarter decisions regarding sex. Lines of communication are open up with non-judgmental, educated adults (don’t we want our youth to be talking to those people about sex rather than their friend who doesn’t know a thing?) and youth either abstain longer from having sex or make safer decisions. Now, I think comprehensive sex education needs to be supplemented with open discussions at home between parents/caretakers and their children; comprehensive sex education should be modeled in the home along with parent’s own opinions (non-juddgmental) about sex. 

(Source: progressivehumanity, via all-about-male-privilege)

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