Nujood Ali was ten when she fled her abusive, much older husband and took a taxi to the courthouse in Sanaa, Yemen. The girl’s courageous act—and the landmark legal battle that ensued—turned her into an international heroine for women’s rights. Now divorced, she is back home with her family and attending school again.
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STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually Assaulted
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New York-based organization and co-author of the study, says the issue of domestic and sexual abuse in the black community is rarely discussed and that a sixty percent rate should be a wake-up call to black women.
“A similar study which was conducted by The Black Women’s Health Imperative seven years ago found that that number was about 40 percent,” Tanis says. “So that means there is an increase and we need to stop neglecting that issue.”
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Hostages of child prostitution: Las Vegas social worker Marisela Quintero tries to help girls who have all but sold their souls to pimps. Some run even when offered a way out. Others wind up dead.
Photo: A 17-year-old girl reads a Danielle Steel novel in her cell at the Clark County Detention Center for juveniles. “My quota — I had to at least make between $500 and $800 dollars a day. If I didn’t, I had to stay out until I did,” she said. Credit: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
this world we live in…
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Amanda Conner And Jan Duursema Create Female Superheroes For Nike
Where do you find the most female superheroes created by women today? In advertising for Nike, it seems. Amanda Conner and Jan Duursema have been hired by the trainers brand to design a bunch of advertising materials for their new campaign Make Yourself: A Super Power, demonstrating the abilities of certain clothing from the Nike range for the Winter training season, in the manner of superhero costumes. Expect to see Amanda and Jan’s work in the most unusual of places. And hopefully in a comic book or two along the road, as well.
I am in love with all of these. And if you click through the link, there’s an awesome layout of sports bras by Amanda that made me giggle— at last, a comics artist who knows what a sports bra is!
I LOVE IT.
sadfsafsaf this is amazing
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Shockingly powerful ad for eating disorders. I am also very, very impressed with the creative team that came up with this. Very cogent method to get a message across. Plus, using a Sigur Ros song makes this even better.
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swan lake
Prague 1970. Illustrated by Ludmila Jiřincová.
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“Fuck Flattering” as in who cares whether or not my clothes are flattering my figure? I mean, I like figure-flattering clothes, if I’m being honest, and I don’t think those girls aren’t flattering their figures.
Fuck Flattering as in enough with the body policing nonsense that insists that fatter people wear “slimming” colors and styles to create the illusion that they are skinnier than they really are.
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Tricky ft. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Girls
with Anthony on vocals and John on guitar
