January 2011
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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller, Sexus (via liquidnight)
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the...”
– Einstein, “The World As I See It”
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Brenda Namigadde has been granted a temporary... →
The U.K. high court will now hold an appeal hearing to decide whether Brenda Namigadde will be granted asylum or deported.
Sign the petition to support Ms Namigadde here.
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath
“We’re not attacking women who fit the standard, we’re attacking the fact that...”
– chauvinistsushi
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Stop the Deportation of Brenda Namigadde →
“In Uganda, I have nobody there. If I am sent back, I’ll be tortured, maybe killed. It’s very dangerous for me.”
Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan woman living in the UK, faces deportation within the next 24 hours. Because of her sexual orientation, returning to Uganda would put her life at risk; only a day ago, prominant gay activist David Kato was murdered in his own...
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We're too quick to use "mental illness" as an... →
The fact that mental illness is so often used to explain violent acts despite the evidence to the contrary almost certainly flows from how such cases are handled in the media. Numerous studies show that crimes by people with psychiatric problems are over-reported, usually with gross inaccuracies that give a false impression of risk. With this constant misrepresentation, it’s not surprising...
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Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. …
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with...
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin
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“If I had a nickel for every time I read a study about how men are programmed (by...”
– ‘Liberals are from Mars, Conservatives are from Uranus’, by Shakesville’s eastsidekate
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With the phenomenal support of 107,053 people from... →
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Please reblog to get the word out. And please, please, please sign this. It takes two seconds to enter in your information that could save many women’s lives.
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“So, why do you write these strong women characters?
Because equality is not a...”
– Joss Whedon, Equality Now
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