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Patton Oswalt | A CLOSED LETTER TO MYSELF ABOUT THIEVERY, HECKLING AND RAPE JOKES

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:29:59 -0400

Patton Oswalt | A CLOSED LETTER TO MYSELF ABOUT THIEVERY, HECKLING AND RAPE JOKES

Lest We Forget, Brown Kids Absolutely Deserve More Brown Superheroes

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:15:05 -0400

Lest We Forget, Brown Kids Absolutely Deserve More Brown Superheroes

A Father’s Day Tribute from a Daddy’s Girl to the Man Who Raised Her to be a Feminist (Even if Unintentionally)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:40:58 -0400

A Father’s Day Tribute from a Daddy’s Girl to the Man Who Raised Her to be a Feminist (Even if Unintentionally)

AfroLatina Student Midwife Fund

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:59:56 -0400

AfroLatina Student Midwife Fund :

splash-the-cat:

queennubian:

ynannarising:

My name is Ynanna Djehuty, also known as Carmen Mojica. I am reaching out to you today to ask for your help on my journey to become a midwife. I have just been accepted to Maternidad La Luz, a midwifery school and birth clinic in El Paso, Texas. I am overjoyed and overwhelmed with excitement as I prepare for my studies to begin in September. I need help securing donations, grants and scholarships for my tuition, books, room and board.

I am an Afro-Dominicana born and raised in the Bronx. I am a certified birth doula and artist. I am a member of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC). The focus of my work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina Identity. I utilize my experience as a birth doula to raise awareness on maternal and infant health for women, highlighting the disparities in the healthcare system in the United States for women of color. Becoming licensed as a midwife is my direct and physical contribution to ensuring future generations are born into peace and calm environments.Midwifery is my calling. I see a huge need for compassionate, woman-centered care for women of the African Diaspora and am stepping up to serve my community. I have been particularly interested in being trained in a bilingual environment so that I may use my native Spanish language to assist women who otherwise would not have access to compassionate midwifery care. Women who are native Spanish speakers often are not truly listened to and in turn are not completely informed during their birth process. My presence in the global community is essential to adding to the number of Spanish-speaking midwives.

As a student, I will be serving a mostly Spanish-speaking population of Mexican and Mexican American women. Attending Maternidad La Luz would allow me to be licensed as a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) by the end of 2014. I have chosen this particular path to midwifery because I am interested in providing birthing women of color with a option of care that is mother-centered. I have dreams of opening up my own birth clinic in the future, and studying at a birth center such as Maternidad La Luz is excellent training for this endeavor. I am currently fundraising on my own via the link I’ve enclosed as well as reaching out to individual people and organizations like you to reach my goal by this September. Your support is a large contribution to reducing the perils women of color are facing currently in the world. Thank you for your time. Be blessed!

Fundraising Campaign: http://www.gofundme.com/thesewatersrundeep

*SIGNAL BOOST PLEASE!!!*

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Women-centered midwifery care is something desperately needed in the increasingly doctor-disease-intervention centered culture of US maternity care, especially for women of color.

With Current Budget, NASA Will Never Get to Mars

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:59:49 -0400

With Current Budget, NASA Will Never Get to Mars

Apple updates Siri to help those considering suicide to get help | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:59:39 -0400

Apple updates Siri to help those considering suicide to get help | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:49:05 -0400

Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her:

blackfoxx:

searchingforknowledge:

racismschool:

This teacher needs to be terminated immediately….at LEAST.

This bitch needs physical violence. LOTS OF IT.

but notice how they humanize the teacher by constantly calling her frustrated. Notice how they put her frustration on the same level as the violence enacted upon this little girl. Lets talk about how deeply an act of violence it is to cut off and throw away a little black girl’s hair to the laughter of the classroom. Or about how the teacher shows the little girl that her mother has no power and cant do anything to protect her by asking “What are you going to tell your mother?” And about how cutting her hair was just as much a message to her mother for sending her child to school with a hairstyle that she deems disruptive and frustrating. And how as a teacher, if you dont have constructive ways of discipline that dont involve terrorizing children then you are unfit for the job. but o she is frustrated and is receiving a small fine as opposed to being fired. Lets talk about what would happen if you terrorized and cut some white child’s hair in a school district with some means, whose parents have a higher property tax….

nitanahkohe: Northern women sewing for North American moccasin...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:45:50 -0400

nitanahkohe:

Northern women sewing for North American moccasin project: 600 moccasin tops being sewn in memory of missing, murdered indigenous women

Women from across the North are stitching up a storm to prepare for a massive art project. They are part of a group that’s making more than 600 pairs of moccasin tops in memory of Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women. The beaded works will be displayed as part of a travelling art installation project called Walking with our Sisters. Each pair of moccasins symbolizes the unfinished life of a missing or murdered woman.

Métis artist Christi Belcourt started the project. She said so far, more than 200 pairs have come in. “I’m always emotionally moved when a new pair comes in because I realize that one pair represents a women or a girl,” said Belcourt. “People are really putting their love in the work. You can feel it when you hold it in your hand.” The moccasin tops will be shown in a winding path on gallery floors. The first exhibition of the moccasin tops will open in Haida Gwaii in B.C. on Aug. 20.

Tell the U.S. government what you think about human spaceflight

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:45:12 -0400

Tell the U.S. government what you think about human spaceflight

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: May Is the Cruelest Month

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:44:30 -0400

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: May Is the Cruelest Month

Keeping sunscreen cool | Be It Ever So Humble

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:18 -0400

Keeping sunscreen cool | Be It Ever So Humble

Please pass this along. Help me find the perfect home for Peter...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:17:49 -0400

Please pass this along. Help me find the perfect home for Peter Pan.

(via Peter Pan - daily dose of dogs (aka cats with your coffee))

House votes to allow indefinite military detention of Americans

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:16:09 -0400

House votes to allow indefinite military detention of Americans:

The U.S. House of Representatives voted again Thursday to allow the indefinite military detention of Americans, blocking an amendment that would have barred the possibility.

IRIN Africa | Tanzanian high-risk groups denied HIV services

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:16:00 -0400

IRIN Africa | Tanzanian high-risk groups denied HIV services

Nothing Can Stop Brazil’s Vinegar Revolt, Not Even FIFA · Global Voices

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:15:46 -0400

Nothing Can Stop Brazil’s Vinegar Revolt, Not Even FIFA · Global Voices

Making Light: Sneewittchen

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:38:33 -0400

Making Light: Sneewittchen:

Disney has gone on a trademarking kick lately. …

U.S. Armed Forces Officials Confirm: Women Will Serve as Army Rangers, SEALs, and Marine Infantry | The Mary Sue

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:06:38 -0400

U.S. Armed Forces Officials Confirm: Women Will Serve as Army Rangers, SEALs, and Marine Infantry | The Mary Sue

bitchwhoyoukiddin: pbs-food: We kqedscience: Whole Foods...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:18:13 -0400

bitchwhoyoukiddin:

pbs-food:

We kqedscience:

Whole Foods Shows Customers the Bleak Future of Produce Without Bees

“The decline in bee populations has been all the buzz lately, which led Whole Foods Market to team up with the Xerces Society to show us what a world—or at least, produce section—without bees would look like. The University Heights, Rhode Island store removed all foods that are reliant upon the important pollinators, and it leaves a pretty slim selection; 52% of the produce department’s offerings would be pulled from shelves without bees around to help.”

(via inhabitat)

True! Also, it pretty frightening. The Bill - as some of you may know - is a beekeeper and lost 80% of his hives last year. That’s after losing all but three (he usually has between 30-40 at any given time) of his hives last year. So. Heads up there.

Official: LEGO is Making a Mars Curiosity Rover Set | The Mary Sue

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:01 -0400

Official: LEGO is Making a Mars Curiosity Rover Set | The Mary Sue

A Monetary Dilemma: Detroit’s Fiscal Crisis and the Detroit Institute of Arts

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:41:22 -0400

A Monetary Dilemma: Detroit’s Fiscal Crisis and the Detroit Institute of Arts