I miss my Chicana Feminist class. I miss going to listen to powerful women activists and studying women who made sure they were heard. I miss my wonderful professor who is a small looking fragile woman but very powerful activist and feminist.
Nobody’s going to save you.
No one’s going to cut you down
cut the thorns thick around you.
No one’s going to storm
the castle walls
nor kiss awake your birth,
climb down your hair,
nor mount you onto the white steed.There is no one who
will feed the yearning.
Face it. You will have
to do, do it yourself.-excerpt from “Letting Go” by Gloria Anzaldúa.
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Dear Charles Taylor, I wish you a painful death. I wish you burn in hell. I wish for the souls of children you made soldiers destroy your mind. I wish you not a moment of peace as you spend the rest of your life in jail. I wish for the souls of all the women who were raped come at night to cry to you in pain. I wish you years of mental illness. Please, hear voices and talk to ghosts. I wish for the souls of men you destroyed disturb you always. I wish for your family to curse you, for your family to be destroyed even more. I wish you a slow and painful death. May you rot in earth and hell. May the devil accept your soul with delight. You and your kind are a disgrace to humankind. Sierra Leone, keep healing. Amen.
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Her mother asked if she wanted to take a photo. She responded with frantic nodding.
TEDx: Find African stories: Moky Makura -
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At least fifty countries in Africa are at peace and “700 million people are living relatively prosperous lives,” says Moky Makura. Yet most of the news and stories that come from the continent only reflect war and poverty. At TEDxEuston, she exposes the barriers that are blocking positive stories…
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An African immigrant and her child at the entrance of the Hospital Delafontaine’s Emergency Room, Paris suburb, Saint Denis, France, 2004.
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An African immigrant and her child at the entrance of the Hospital Delafontaine’s Emergency Room, Paris suburb, Saint Denis, France, 2004.
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Powerful.
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Nothing as beautiful as happiness!!! :)
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Max De Pree (via tylerknott)
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A woman and her child from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan wait outside of the Yida refugee camp registration center in Yida, South Sudan, on April 25, 2012. After an initial attack by SPLA-N rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboring Yida to escape the fighting and retaliatory airstrikes by Khartoum. OHANESIAN/AFP/GettyImages
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