befrolicious:

Malala Yousafzai

Two years and one day after Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner was shot in the head on a school bus by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize. She is the youngest person ever who has won this prize.

CONGRATULATION MALALA - She is an inspiration to us all !!!

Be Frolicious - Be You

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manasaysay:

rabbrakha:

Parineeti Chopra responds to a male reporter who claims to know nothing about periods (menstrual cycle). [X]

SO IMPORTANT.

I started my period when I was 10 years old. But we didn’t tell my grandma for three years because she subscribed to the “old traditions”, where a woman on her period could not enter the house, not even to bathe. Where she had to sit outside in front of the house (where the whole village could be witness to her shame and isolation) for the entire duration.

My friend started her period unexpectedly while we were at our local temple (in America) for dance class. Asking around if any of the parents had pads (all of them apologized and acted like adults about it), I thought surely the front office has a first aid kit. Don’t they have pads? When we asked, not only did they not have any, when one of the women gave one from her purse, the head secretary told us “There are men who need to use the first-aid kit, ya? So we don’t keep period things there.” Not even ibuprofen (which has so many more uses than period pain).

There are girls in India and Nepal (and other places, but I just read an in-depth piece about the situations in Nepal) who have to go to the “period hut” when their period comes and not leave until its over. They can’t wash and dry their cloth pads in the daylight, so they do it at night when the pads won’t dry properly before their next use, making them vulnerable to infection.

It is incredibly important, especially in India, to break the taboo surrounding periods. Break the secrecy around an event that happens to almost every woman, every month for literally half of her lifetime. Break the hiding, break the cover-up, break the SHAME.

Just break EVERYTHING. So little girls can go to school every day of every month without feeling ashamed. So women can work every day of every month to provide for their families without being glared at. So single fathers can confidently take care of their daughters’ health. So that women can talk about how terrible their period is or isn’t and give each other advice on how to deal with it without looking around to make sure men aren’t listening.
So that Whisper doesn’t have to be called Whisper, it can be called SHOUT. It can be called PROUD. So that we don’t NEED to fucking WHISPER about our bodies and our health.

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tofugoddess:

jayfcuksakes:

christopher1001:

earthandanimals:

onlylolgifs:

Penguins Grieving

I’m crying.

This is like the saddest shit I’ve seen on tumblr since I been here

My heart is hurting

Animals feel pain and loss like us, including the ones you eat. They mourn the family that is taken from them. If you can sympathize with a penguin, you can most definitely sympathize with a cow, pig, or chicken. Go vegan

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mirror:

If women catcalled men (X)

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lamardeuse:

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10.15.14

Jon teaches Bill about white privilege.

You might as well try to teach a tree to tapdance. I think you’d be more successful with the tree.

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whiteguiltconfessionals:

boygeorgemichaelbluth:

glitterlion:

tarynel:

modestmojo:

obenibo:

THIS is White Privilege.

This is the price white people who appropriate blackness pay for committing numerous crimes. They get to be successful actors once they drop this “phase”.

Meanwhile a black person would get the most ridiculous of prison sentences for even one of these.

HE BLINDED A MAN. HE HAS A HATE CRIME UNDER HIS BELT.
And he’s a successful actor.

Y’all need not worry about Justin Bieber. He’ll be just fine.

Unfortunately.

Nah I gotta google this it can’t be

I gotta research this. :’(

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2509542&page=1

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/back-day-marky-marks-rap-sheet-0?page=8

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/back-day-marky-marks-rap-sheet-0?page=6

http://www.modelminority.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=265:mark-wahlbergs-turning-point-&catid=39:hate&Itemid=56

that bus full of kids were black children on their way to a formerly all white school. he was against segregation [integration].

and while attacking that vietnamese man, he called him a vietnamese shit

Fuck wahlberg & his appropriating ass

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gailsimone:

profeminist:

"I’m a cosplayer …. I’m also black. Which is fine by most everyone, until I have the audacity to cosplay a character who isn’t.

I’m aware that to actively engage yourself in such a visual hobby as cosplay, you have to have a thick skin — and I do. I’m cool with people criticizing my choice in fabrics, choice in wigs, choice of pose, whatever. But my skin color is something I can’t change, nor would I if I had the ability. I love the skin I was born in, and I won’t apologize, make excuses or work around it for anyone’s benefit beyond my own.

I’m thankful that the black cosplay community has encouraging blogs like Cosplaying While Black and World of Black Heroes, so now anyone who might be curious about joining in won’t have to worry about feeling out of place, and will also have a reference to see how certain colors, styles and characters look when portrayed by someone who shares similar features.

We have celebrity support as well - Gail Simone, the current writer of DC’s Batgirl has given her stamp of approval to cosplayers of color time and time again — she even told me she liked my Batgirl on Halloween! (And if Gail Simone likes what you’re doing, then everyone else can take a step to the left because GAIL SIMONE.)”

- Chaka Cumberbatch, writing for xoJane

Chaka, you so do not need my stamp of approval, you are amazing in every cosplay you do, you are witty and stylish and gorgeous, you do nothing but honor to every character you portray and I am thrilled to know you.

You are exactly why I love cosplayers.

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ebonybyg:

jjsinterlude:

2damnfeisty:

amazelife:

#mcdonalds is not food

^^^

Reason why I no longer eat there.

At first I was thinking “but McDonald’s burger didn’t go bad”, but then my slow ass got the point.

But then what are we eating?

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cashmerethoughtsss:

The Snoop Dogg/Iggy Azalea beef illuminates the intersectionality burdens that black feminists face when it comes to Hip Hop.

Either we’re forced to excuse Snoop’s misogynistic comments towards Iggy because we’re black, or we’re forced to defend Iggy because we’re women…when they’re both wrong.

And misogyny was never an issue in regards to any black female rappers, but when it’s a white female rapper, the world capes for her.

There’s levels to this.

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