dolgematki:

akhav:

Well while I can’t say I agree with everything you say, your responses have been thought provoking. Aside from my views on the Esperanto movement, I’ll always promote Esperanto as a linguistic tool, because it is in fact easier than most natural languages, for…

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selchieproductions:

bad-dominicana:

cynique:

What’s that, article?

http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=jgspl

You say Iranian women are forced into submission by oppressive Muslim rule? You hold an Orientalist view that Middle Eastern women are forced to live in the home, being oppressed by wearing the veil/hijab/burka while churning out babies and being beaten by their husbands or honor killed by their male family?

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over our massive Iranian female police force armed with sub-machine guns, scaling walls, wielding swords, and shooting out of car windows. 

oh my god

they’re all badasses

/RESPECT

yuuussssssssssss

The idea that we as men need to save any woman at all is the silliest thing patriarchy has made up ever. 

^^^^^^^^

sologatos:

23762

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communistsextips:

You shouldn’t keep liberals for sexual partners, they don’t like getting radical anywhere, this includes the bedroom. 

sinag:

twistedfork:

Tatsuron

Turon has always been my favorite merienda. Even when I’m invited to give a talk, the slide about the “Best Turon is the World” is always part of it. Right now the “Best Turon in the World” (for me) is at Esteban Abada St, parallel to where our studio is.

A month (or more) ago I asked the guys from Photokitchen if they’re game for a collaboration. :) I wanted to design my own Turon with their help. We came up with the Tatsuron, a play on the tatsulok (triangle) and turon. It’s heavily inspired by crepes and the geometric nature of my illustration. :)

Thank you so much Kat, Mylene & Dwight for indulging me in this for-fun project. :)

Love the ingenuity and whimsy of this fun project!

#BEST. #FOODPORN. #EVER.

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tonidorsay:

widdershinsgirl:

watershedplus:

An innovative initiative is taking place in the Philippines to bring sustainable lighting to homes in impoverished communities. Empty plastic bottles are installed in the roof, filled with water and bleach they refract sunlight. These “solar light bulbs” provide light equivalent to a 55watt light bulb.

See how they’re made here. From Visual News

Damn that’s awesome.

that is awesome.

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temporarydust:

Hari Kondabolu - “Where are you from?”

@kinkynerdyasianpoet - watchwatchwatch!

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golden-zephyr:

For centuries, the Roma people — commonly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ — have been marginalized and misunderstood by their European neighbors. A new report by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) sheds light on this age-old human rights issue.

All across the European Union, Roma people fare significantly worse than their non-Roma neighbors, according to the Wednesday report. The trend is clear not only in Eastern European countries, where the majority of Roma people live, but also as far west as Portugal, Spain and France.

The report was based on face-to-face interviews conducted in 11 EU member states: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Spain. Researchers spoke with self-identified Roma people and their nearest non-Roma neighbors to compare standards of living.

The results, said study authors, were “shocking.”

“Of those surveyed in this report, one in three is unemployed, 20 percent are not covered by health insurance, and 90 percent are living below national poverty lines. Although governments and societies have been aware of Roma exclusion and deprivation, the magnitude and the similarity of exclusion patterns across EU Member States is striking and leaves no excuse for delaying swift, effective action to improve the situation.”

Some key facts: Of those surveyed, only half of Roma children attended pre-school or kindergarten. One out of three Roma people between the ages of 35 to 54 reported health problems that limited their daily activities. People have recently gone to bed hungry in 40 percent of Roma households. Half of those surveyed said they had experienced outright discrimination during the past year.

In terms of poverty, the difference between Roma families and their neighbors was most stark in France, Italy and Hungary. Spain and Portugal seem to have done the best job of integrating Roma residents into their societies, though significant inequalities are apparent there as well.

The cultural identity of the Roma people is understood only hazily by outsiders. The so-called gypsies are widely considered shiftless, unmoored and mysterious. But a single stereotype is incapable of characterizing the Roma people all across Europe; in fact, they are as diverse as the myriad countries they inhabit.

The Roma originated in India, but it seems the bulk of their exodus took place centuries ago. In his 2002 book “East European Gypsies,” author Zoltan Barany, a professor of world politics at the University of Texas, wrote that “linguistic evidence suggests that Gypsies originated in the Punjab. They left perhaps as early as the sixth century and probably due to repeated incursions by Islamic warriors.” Since then, the Roma have assimilated, to varying degrees, into several European countries.  

Contrary to popular belief, many Roma do not roam. Barany writes that the majority of the ‘Gypsies’ in Eastern Europe are settled. Except for the necessary shifts that went hand-in-hand with poverty and homelessness, large numbers of Roma established a homestead wherever they were able.

Today there are at least 12 million Roma living in Europe, with the bulk residing in Eastern Europe. In Bulgaria and Romania, they account for at least 10 percent of the population. 

After centuries of sprawl, separate Roma groups have adapted to their home countries so that they no longer constitute a homogenous group. Some have dark features; others have light skin and blond hair. Some speak Romani, while others speak the lingua franca of their home country. Some are Catholic, some are Muslim, and some are Orthodox Christians.

But the Roma are still collectively identifiable as outsiders, unified by their shared marginalization. For centuries, widespread discrimination was a constant barrier to their gainful integration into society.

The situation has improved somewhat during the past decade, due in large part to the enlargement of theEuropean Union. Prior to the accession of several Eastern and Central European countries in 2004 and 2007, the EU set out criteria that included a demonstrated respect for minorities.

“The situation of minorities such as the Roma is therefore being taken into consideration in assessing the capacity of candidate countries to become members of the European Union,” said a 2003 EU brochure.

While EU accession criteria increased awareness and motivated candidate countries to put some constructive measures into place, Wednesday’s FRA report indicates there is still a long way to go for Europe’s Roma populations. The authors write that this study represents a first step; the ultimate goal is to implement an effective plan of action, as soon as possible.

“The information in this report is sobering. It should thus prompt Member States, the EU institutions and bodies, international organizations and civil society to make Roma integration a reality.” 

Source: International Business Times

PROBLEM: Women’s bare bodies are on display in billboards, movie posters, and many other kinds of ads. Though plenty of studies have looked at the ramifications of this pervasive sexual objectification, it’s unclear if we see near-naked people as human beings or if we really do view them as mere objects.

METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing a swimsuit or underwear, one by one on a computer screen. Since pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem, some of the photos were presented right side up and others upside down. After each picture, there was a second of black screen before each participant was shown two images and was asked to choose the one that matched the one he or she had just seen.

RESULTS: The male and female subjects matched the photos similarly. They recognized right-side-up men better than upside-down men, suggesting that they saw the sexualized men as persons. On the contrary, the women in underwear weren’t any harder to recognize when they appeared upside down, indicating that the sexy women were consistently identified as objects.

CONCLUSION: People objectify women in sexualized photos, but not men.

SOURCE: The full study, “Integrating Sexual Objectification With Object Versus Person Recognition: The Sexualized-Body-Inversion Hypothesis,” is published in the journal Psychological Science.

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tranqualizer:

incenses:

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. ” Frida Kahlo

girl, werk.

bad-dominicana:

im a firm believer that children are born w a perfectly intact sense of autonomy, because ive come across too many babies who know all too well when someones fuckin up w their personal space. that is innate…and we strip and stamp it out of them. we collectively *work* to take it away and make them feel powerless.

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surfdog2000:

fistfullofoxes:

wildcat2030:

Manila is one of the world’s five dirtiest cities, but graffiti? That’s not a problem. It’s not that people don’t paint on the walls in the hyper-polluted Philippines capital, because they do. But they do it with a paint that actually eats smog out of the air. The catalytic paint, called Boysen KNOxOUT, reacts with light and water vapor to filter out nitrogen oxides. An environmental scientist interviewed in this BBC video says it can scrub out 20 percent of polluting nitrogen. Manila is deploying the paint in the form of massive murals, which are both beautiful and, because of their size, effective. Eleven square feet of paint-covered surface can absorb as much pollution as a full-grown tree, and these murals are close to 11 THOUSAND square feet. If we could get this stuff into the hands of street artists and taggers, it would be like having an army of energetic teenagers planting trees all over the city all day, every day. (via Super-polluted city tries to clean itself with smog-eating paint | Grist)

To think, we could make life better through technology and art.

HOLY SHIT, THIS IS REALLY COOL

This needs to be EVERYWHERE.

suck on this, “eco-friendly” US cities.

creativenothing:

Students in Quebec were asked to send the cops the route of their march. Here is what they replied with.

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a-bayani:

[NOTE: i do not agree with some of the content below, specifically the paragraph on bakla acceptance in the philippines, but wanted to preserve the original writing. it is important to recognize the very real violence our kapatid face and it is dangerous and inaccurate to imply that widespread…

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