“To all the girls whose thighs touch, with stretchmarks laid like gold across their backside, with bellies too full for any inadequate hands, thank goddess for your abundance.”
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- Kim Crosby, http://queergiftedblack.tumblr.com/
Yes, Kim! Just….yes! I feel fortunate to know and love you. You inspire me every damn day! xo alana
(via femmefatalist)
“If rural women had equal access to productive resources, agricultural yields would rise and hunger would decline.”
-Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the opening of the 56th two-week session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which got under way at UN Headquarters today.
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Yes…..tell them to cross the Atlantic and give these Yankees a run for their money.
Mikey J & The UK Female Allstars - Rock The Mic
And y’all stand by Nicki Minaj, White Girl Mob and Iggy Azalea????
PUHLEASE!
Get your mind right and get into THIS!
I keep on telling people to open your ears and discover UK artist for yourself instead of waiting for the Adeles and Estelles to come to you but NOOOOOOOOOO, you don’t want to listen.
A Dot, Baby Blue, Lioness, RoxXxan, Mz Bratt, and Lady Leshurr are giving these men folk out here….FROM ALL OVER….a run for their money. Open your eyes and ears and take notice people! This is where it’s at!
Now I just need my favorite American female emcees (don’t bother bitches I previously named) showing up. I’m looking for my Jean Grae, Boog Brown, Mae Day, Persia, Lyric Jones etc to link up and make a video.
Don’t you just love it?
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The Huffington Post reported that Ava Duvernay became the first black woman to win ‘best director’ at Sundance Film Festival Sunday. Her film, Middle of Nowhere is the second full-length feature for the director.
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Arab Spring activists awarded Europe's Sakharov prize
Five Arab Spring activists have won the European Parliament’s Sakharov prize for freedom of thought.
The laureates include Mohamed Bouazizi of Tunisia, whose death in January helped to kickstart the Arab Spring.
He set himself alight last December in protest at his treatment by the authorities under the rule of deposed President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
The prize, named after Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, carries an award of 50,000 euros (£43,463).
Other laureates included Egypt’s Asmaa Mahfouz, a founder of the 6 April youth movement; Libyan dissident Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Senussi; and two Syrians who are part of the current uprising in their country, lawyer Razan Zeitouneh and cartoonist Ali Farzat.
Ms Mahfouz’s online call to freedom, viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, helped inspire the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square which led to the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
She was arrested on charges of defaming the military rulers who took power following Mr Mubarak’s departure, but the charges were later dropped after protests.
Mr Senussi spent 31 years in prison for opposing Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Zeitouneh is one of the leaders of the committees behind the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Mr Farzat is a renowned Syrian cartoonist who was badly beaten by security forces in August, in an assault which broke both his hands.
The Sakharov prize has been awarded by the European Parliament since 1988 to individuals or organisations that have made a significant contribution to the struggle for human rights and democracy.
Past winners include South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, and former UN chief Kofi Annan.
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Trio of Liberian, Yemeni Women
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women’s rights advocate Tawakkul Karman.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee made the announcement Friday in Oslo, saying the three women will split the coveted award for “their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights.”
Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland praised the work of the three recipients, saying that “we cannot achieve lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men.”
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 72, became Africa’s first democratically elected female president in 2005. The Nobel Committee praised the Liberian leader for her efforts to secure peace, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women.In an exclusive VOA interview with James Butty, Sirleaf said she is humbled by the award. She said it is an award for all the Liberian people, given what they’ve gone through - 13 years of civil war, the peace process, and democratic elections.
The Liberian leader, in a close re-election campaign leading up to Tuesday’s voting, said the Nobel is recognition of “many years of struggle for justice, peace and promotion of development” in her country. She said “credit goes to the Liberian people.”
Thirty-nine year-old Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, helped to end her country’s civil war by encouraging Christian and Muslim women to participate in a series of sit-ins and non-violent demonstrations. In 2002, Gbowee mobilized Liberian women to participate in a “sex strike” until the violence ended.
She said the award is “a Nobel for African women,” adding that there is “no way that anyone can minimize our role anymore.”Meanwhile, 32-year-old activist and journalist Tawakkul Karman was praised for playing a “leading part in the struggle for women’s rights and for democracy and peace” in Yemen. A leading “Arab Spring” activist in her country, Karman told reporters after winning the prize that she dedicated it to the “youth of the revolution in Yemen,” saying it was a victory in her country’s uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The committee said it hopes the prize will help bring an end to the “suppression of women that still occurs in many countries.”
The three women will share an award of nearly $1.5 million, which they will receive at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10.
Last year, the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident writer and activist Liu Xiaobo, angering the Chinese government. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for what China says is “subverting state power.”
Past winners include U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009, former Vice President Al Gore in 2007 and former President Jimmy Carter in 2002. The 2001 prize was split between the United Nations and then Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The prize was created by Swedish scientist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
This breaks my heart, but I’m happy they are fighting. I pray they never stop!
THE RAPE OF THE SAMBURU WOMEN
For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya.During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers.
Yet, despite documentation of their claims, a three-year internal investigation by the Royal Military Police (RMP) cleared all soldiers of wrongdoing.Meanwhile, the victims have been shamed and outcast in their communities, many to the point of exile.
In the mid-1990s, Beatrice Chili responded to this situation by establishing the village of Senchen, a self-sufficient community run entirely by women. There, women build homes, weave textiles, gather and grow food, and raise children. This short film visits the brave women of Senchen, who speak candidly about their suffering and talk passionately about their demands for justice.
Watch the film to hear their stories and to find out how you can offer your support.
Meet Rose Mpendo… She is a survivor of the Congo genocide from 1998. This lovely woman standing before me, watched her husband be dragged out of their home and beaten to death. She was then was jailed in a “death camp” along with her 8 kids for 16 months. For what reason one might ask? Because her nose and neck were long… these physical characteristics are how they identified a Tutsi. She spent 16 months without a single piece of clothing, soap, and barely any food. During this time she was also pregnant with twins. Despite the hatred and pain in her heart caused by her neighbors, she refused to give up….. This meant she had to learn how to forgive. She even named her twins after the high ranking officers who murdered her husband. The SAME men who brutally killed the man she loved and the father of her children.
She realized she couldn’t move on with her life unless she forgave these men. Anyway, she was finally rescued and brought to the US, where she now lives in Arizona with her 10 children. I want her story to not only enlighten people about the horrible fate that women in the DRC area still face, but also show what faith and forgiveness can do. She could have given up, she could have succumbed. She made a conscious decision to fight…for her twins, for her kids, for her life. No better story than that.
Spending the past two days with this woman has been an honor and a great lessen in forgiveness… If she could forgive her perpetrators, there is no way I should EVER hold on to anything. Life is too short and we have too much to do!!
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