January 2012
“the only way to master love is to practice love. you don’t need to justify your...”
– don miguel ruiz (via humanphotography)
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quixotess asked: I was thinking of home birth, although I'd also be interested to know what you bring to a hospital birth! Thanks <3
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brookoli asked: <3 & XO & Stuff
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“Our resistance to the planet’s destruction—this resistance is often called...”
– Derrick Jensen (via oniverse)
10 Ways to Love Others →
caitsmeissner:
thelittlesea:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t...
And the Exploitative Oscar goes to… →
b-sama:
Bill Easterly starts the official “Exploiting Africa Academy Awards”:
Following the Academy Award nominations earlier this week, we introduce the Exploiting Africa Academy Award (EAAA) nominations to recognize films who do the best against stiff competition to portray the most insulting and exploitative images of Africans, usually being heroically saved by some white people.
Machine...
In the last 24 hours an orgy of land theft and... →
anonymissexpress:
By Today in Palestine on January 24, 2012 | Tweeted by @anonymiss8
Land Theft & Destruction / Attacks on Protests Against Land Theft / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid / Refugees
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herbal smoking mixes
Let’s finish up the first month of the New Year, and our focused work with the mint family, by making an herbal smoking mix. Any dried mint-family plants you have on hand can be used make a great healing smoke, especially if mixed with some mullein, and perhaps a few other herbs. Smoking can be good for the health of your lungs and your being.
Careful application of hot smoke and burning...
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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dominic Cooper & Thandie Newton... →
fumblingtowardshappiness:
excentricyoruba:
comingonstrong:
mycitylight:
It’s not been documented much abroad, but Nigeria has one of the most vibrant, active film scenes in the world; over the last couple of decades, it’s overtaken the United States to become the nation that produces the second largest quantities of film per year, behind only India. And while the films and stars of...
my daughter (on her own volition) calls the anniversary of jan 25 on tahrir: the fuck you police party
some days i feel like i am doing mothering right… <3
Egypt rallies mark anti-Mubarak uprising... →
dynamicafrica:
Thousands of Egyptians are holding a rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square marking the first anniversary of the uprising which toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Some are celebrating the success of Islamist parties in the first post-Mubarak elections, while others are calling for further political reforms.
The decades-old state of emergency law has been partially lifted to mark the...
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Esoterica: soydulcedeleche: White feminists make... →
soydulcedeleche:
White feminists make me shiver. Why i just seent some shit about the only way to reduce the number of kids born is to empower and educate women. These soulless bitches only care to educate women of color for the purpose of bringing our population numbers down? Fuucccckkkk…
did i mention im going to berlin in like a week?
and ill be in that city of european hipster coldness for two weeks?
yay!
buying warm scarves…
drinking cinammon tea
and writing about things i am grateful for…
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“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”
– E.E. Cummings (via mermish)
“‘Slut’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘yes’....”
– angels-and-angles
this is an amazing quote
(via livelaughawesome)
Not just women, i.e. nonbinary people etc., but yeah. Basically. (via avatarsnowy)
^^ true.
(via theoceanandthesky)
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happy revolution day!
happy january 25. havent been down to tahrir yet, but i can hear the shouts of the crowd from my closed window. cant believe its been a year.
so many of my journalist friends are in town to record the anniversary on tahrir.
and i know that tahrir is packed today, which is not really a fun time for this lil introvert…
but i am feeling happy and free inside today and grateful for what...
“Wael Khalil, Egyptian blogger and activist, told Al Jazeera that “the revolution...”
– Egypt Live Blog | Al Jazeera Blogs
“The decision by Egypt’s military to only partially scrap a decades-old...”
– Egypt Live Blog | Al Jazeera Blogs
“In the latest development, about 3,000 people, who were pardoned by the military...”
– Egypt Live Blog | Al Jazeera Blogs
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herbal smoking mixes...
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“The iconic image of Josephine Baker lighting Paris afire in a banana skirt is...”
– Burlesque performer and historian and creative leader of Brown Girls Burlesque (and, in full disclosure, my burlesque teacher!) Chicava Honeychild gives a mini-history of Black women doing burly-q on Ebony.com.
There’s also an interview with Chicava and Brown Girls Burlesque newcomer (and my...
Bedouin tribesmen storm Egyptian tourist resort →
dynamicafrica:
Bedouin tribesmen have stormed a tourist resort in the Sinai peninsula in an effort to reclaim land – the latest in a string of conflicts between the Egyptian state and local communities emboldened by the revolution.
Egyptian media reports said dozens of gunmen took control of Aqua-Sun, a Red Sea hotel complex boasting 2km of private beaches to the south of Taba, and were...
“I’m not sure exactly the kind of meeting we are going to because some meetings...”
– Chief Darrell McCallum of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation on preparing for a meeting of Canadian Chiefs and the Prime Minister of Canada.
Yeah, that’s right. The government tells us they consult with Natives on national and provincial issues, but really our Chiefs were basically told to sit there...
rain in the desert city and a breakthrough in writing…not a bad night…
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“Elegance here means appreciating things as they are. Things as you are and...”
– Ocean of Dharma | Shambhala Publications Blog - Part 11