Audre Lorde’s “The masters tools will never bring down the masters house” gotta be one of the most misquoted and misapplied quotes of all time.🧵 (1/16)First and foremost, Audre Lorde was a self avowed communist. She spent time in the Soviet Union and wrote an essay about it. She was a feminist but her analysis…
The history of Haifa’s gay community is long and fascinating, yet despite its importance on both the local and national level, it has largely remained concealed. In the study of queer history in Israel, as a field addressing the plight of sexual and gender minorities, it is the history of Tel Aviv that has most…
June 30 (Openly) – Lebanon’s interior minister has been criticised by activists after he told security forces to crack down on LGBTQ+ events during Pride month and said such gatherings would spread “sexual perversion” and run against the country’s religious values.Rights groups have responded with derision and anger to minister Bassam Mawlawi’s message, published by…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIBxx9QT6a8[/embed] The future for women and girls in Afghanistan remains uncertain after a Taliban-convened grand assembly of religious elders ended without any changes to a ban on girls attending high school.More than 3,500 clerics and scholars joined the “Loya Jirga” that began on June 30 and concluded with an endorsement of the Taliban government. But…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgO25FTwfRI[/embed] Well this time I decided to investigate the Manosphere. The cult mentality of Red Pill think, how they monetise it, the narrative they are selling to their followers, and how this can result in some young men being funnelled into the alt-right pipeline.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v54QUCqw2PY[/embed] Jal Saheli or “Friends of Water” is a group of around 1,000 women dedicated to rehabilitating drought-stricken villages in the Bundelkhand region of central India. Members have been building dams, ponds and embankments to collect and store monsoon rains, which account for about 75 per cent of the nation’s annual rainfall. Since its founding…
Sumaiyya Evans loves the studio apartment she’s lived in for a few months. On a blistering sunny day when temperatures in downtown reached 90 degrees, it’s a comfortable 77 degrees and breezy in the Venice neighborhood, a 15-minute walk from the beach. Source: ‘I’m Worth It’: How An Unhoused Woman Learned To Live Out Loud…
YOU’RE A GUEST HEREand you’ve had your voice for over 400 YEARS!This HERE… is OVER Source: Facebook
Alex S. Vitale has had a busy week. The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American policing and police brutality, have been called on a lot since mass protests sprang up nationwide in the wake of the police killings of George…
I never use the term “White Ally” when I talk with family and friends. That’s because I detest it. A little twang of dissonance echoes every time it comes my way. My rage is not directed at the name, but its attending mentality. And the sobriquet itself implicates one of the most insidious sleights-of-hand in…
