Did plastic straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think.
Plastic straws used to be “environment enemy number one.” Source: Did plastic straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think.
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Camp des filles leaders de Ouidah: L’ONG Femme et Développement promeut le leadership féminin
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ubOdQ8ng0&ab_channel=AZTVB%C3%A9nin[/embed] “La 5ème édition du camp des filles leaders est lancée ce mardi 8 Août 2023 et prendra fin le 11 Août prochain. Cette initiative de l’ONG Femme Développement, permet aux jeunes filles sélectionnées dans les lycées et collèges de Ouidah, d’être outillées la santé sexuelle et reproductive, mais également sur le leadership féminin. En…
HHS Innovation Challenge to Prevent Human Trafficking Among Women and Girls | Challenge.Gov
OWH is creating a national competition to identify existing innovative programs that address human trafficking prevention (e.g., at the primary, secondary, and/or tertiary levels) among women and girls in the United States. The goal of this competition is to identify and award existing programs that demonstrate effectiveness in preventing human trafficking and/or improving health outcomes…
Former Minister Admits to Murder of Detroit Trans Woman Kelly Stough
A former minister in Michigan pleaded guilty to the 2018 murder of Black transgender woman Kelly Stough, who was active in the local Detroit ballroom scene, authorities announced.Albert Weathers, 50, a former pastor at the Logos Church in Detroit, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a felony firearm count in the case of Stough, 36,…
A Midwife is like a Mother by USAID publications – Exposure
During her personalized check-ups, Adama encourages women to receive their COVID-19 vaccine. If a woman refuses, Adama takes down her information and follows up by phone. Often, these women are amazed that Adama takes the time to call at all. If the patient still declines, Adama continues to follow up, sometimes even visiting patients at…
NIMH » 2023 James S. Jackson Award Winner Announced
2023 James S. Jackson Award Winner Announced (National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH))
NIMH announces that Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., M.A., has been selected as the 2023 James S. Jackson Memorial Award winner.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is pleased to announce that Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., M.A., has been selected as the 2023 James S. Jackson Memorial Award winner. The NIMH James S. Jackson Memorial Award was established in 2021 to honor outstanding researchers who have demonstrated exceptional individual achievement and leadership in mental health disparities…
We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education – Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday, 2023
This article offers sociological reflections on race and neurodiversity in UK higher education (UKHE). Using dialogical knowledge production and collaborative autoethnography, the authors discuss their lived experiences of navigating the politics of neurodiversity and neurotypical hegemony in UKHE as Black sociologists. The central argument explores how race and neurotypical hegemony overexposes Black neurodiverse scholars to…
Winnipeg: A daughter’s quest to find her mother’s remains
Police believe the remains of four indigenous women murdered by a serial killer were dumped in a landfill. But officials have yet to recover their bodies, leaving it up to the victims’ family members to keep the search alive, reports Brandi Morin. Source: Winnipeg: A daughter’s quest to find her mother’s remains
Why I carried my baby in a tikinagan – Today’s Parent
As I tied, I whispered prayers, surrounding her, protecting her. I imagined the generations of Indigenous mothers before me who similarly laced babies up in mossbags with love and prayers, knowing that colonialism could never take our traditional child-rearing and kinship practices away. I picked my daughter up, supporting her back and head, and placed…
Uganda’s nondiscrimination assurances won’t protect queer people from prosecution – Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News
I was part of a Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International team that investigated violence and discrimination in the wake of the Anti-Homosexuality Act. We found that LGBTIQ people were facing arbitrary arrests, police abuse and extortion, loss of employment, evictions, homelessness, forced displacement, violence and denial of health services. The organization Sexual Minorities Uganda,…
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Camp des filles leaders de Ouidah: L’ONG Femme et Développement promeut le leadership féminin
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ubOdQ8ng0&ab_channel=AZTVB%C3%A9nin[/embed] “La 5ème édition du camp des filles leaders est lancée ce mardi 8 Août 2023 et prendra fin le 11 Août prochain. Cette initiative de l’ONG Femme Développement, permet aux jeunes filles sélectionnées dans les lycées et collèges de Ouidah, d’être outillées la santé sexuelle et reproductive, mais également sur le leadership féminin. En…
HHS Innovation Challenge to Prevent Human Trafficking Among Women and Girls | Challenge.Gov
OWH is creating a national competition to identify existing innovative programs that address human trafficking prevention (e.g., at the primary, secondary, and/or tertiary levels) among women and girls in the United States. The goal of this competition is to identify and award existing programs that demonstrate effectiveness in preventing human trafficking and/or improving health outcomes…
Former Minister Admits to Murder of Detroit Trans Woman Kelly Stough
A former minister in Michigan pleaded guilty to the 2018 murder of Black transgender woman Kelly Stough, who was active in the local Detroit ballroom scene, authorities announced.Albert Weathers, 50, a former pastor at the Logos Church in Detroit, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a felony firearm count in the case of Stough, 36,…
A Midwife is like a Mother by USAID publications – Exposure
During her personalized check-ups, Adama encourages women to receive their COVID-19 vaccine. If a woman refuses, Adama takes down her information and follows up by phone. Often, these women are amazed that Adama takes the time to call at all. If the patient still declines, Adama continues to follow up, sometimes even visiting patients at…
NIMH » 2023 James S. Jackson Award Winner Announced
NIMH announces that Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., M.A., has been selected as the 2023 James S. Jackson Memorial Award winner.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is pleased to announce that Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., M.A., has been selected as the 2023 James S. Jackson Memorial Award winner. The NIMH James S. Jackson Memorial Award was established in 2021 to honor outstanding researchers who have demonstrated exceptional individual achievement and leadership in mental health disparities…
We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education – Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday, 2023
This article offers sociological reflections on race and neurodiversity in UK higher education (UKHE). Using dialogical knowledge production and collaborative autoethnography, the authors discuss their lived experiences of navigating the politics of neurodiversity and neurotypical hegemony in UKHE as Black sociologists. The central argument explores how race and neurotypical hegemony overexposes Black neurodiverse scholars to…
Winnipeg: A daughter’s quest to find her mother’s remains
Police believe the remains of four indigenous women murdered by a serial killer were dumped in a landfill. But officials have yet to recover their bodies, leaving it up to the victims’ family members to keep the search alive, reports Brandi Morin. Source: Winnipeg: A daughter’s quest to find her mother’s remains
Why I carried my baby in a tikinagan – Today’s Parent
As I tied, I whispered prayers, surrounding her, protecting her. I imagined the generations of Indigenous mothers before me who similarly laced babies up in mossbags with love and prayers, knowing that colonialism could never take our traditional child-rearing and kinship practices away. I picked my daughter up, supporting her back and head, and placed…
Uganda’s nondiscrimination assurances won’t protect queer people from prosecution – Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News
I was part of a Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International team that investigated violence and discrimination in the wake of the Anti-Homosexuality Act. We found that LGBTIQ people were facing arbitrary arrests, police abuse and extortion, loss of employment, evictions, homelessness, forced displacement, violence and denial of health services. The organization Sexual Minorities Uganda,…