Life gotten #solange #werq
(Yves) Saint Laurent Pre-Fall 2013
Hey, young lover
I have no idea how the existence of this song/video eluded me for all these years.
"Personal diarists are not only comforted by recording and sharing their experience, Humphreys says, but they are empowered by claiming their own narrative. She suspects it was for this reason that so many 19th-century women kept journals — in the hopes that they and their families would be remembered. Her point takes on contemporary significance when she points out that Twitter is more popular among African-American and Hispanic youths than among whites."
From “Diaries, the original social media: How our obsession with documenting (and sharing) our own lives is nothing new” by Catherine O’Donovan.
Lively up yourself - RIP Bob Marley #jamaica #music #1love
The drum solo though.
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First, the issue of rape and sexual violence is not removed from Nigeria’s broader socio-economic issues but is a part of it. Studies have shown that rape is more prevalent where women have relatively low economic autonomy.
This means that Nigeria’s rising poverty rate of over 61 percent (and women make up a large proportion of the poor), would aid the further entrenchment of sexual violence in Nigerian society.
Moreover, it is becoming impossible to divorce Nigeria’s culture of corruption from its culture of sexual violence and this is true of all Nigerian institutions.
Within Nigeria’s corrupt educational system, women’s sexual autonomy is daily trampled upon by administrators, instructors and by students themselves.
Within the criminal justice system, women are at risk by a legal system that continues to sanction marital rape; that fails to effectively prosecute sexual violence against women; and by political and legal representatives that readily blame the victims of rape.
"Why Should You be Angry at Nigeria’s Culture of Rape? by Ijeoma Ekoh. Read more.
Lagos Polo Club, March 2012.
"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"
Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via streetetiquette)
(Source: violentwavesofemotion, via streetetiquette)
Trailer for ‘76. Directed by Izu Ojukwu
Six years after the civil war, a young officer from the middle belt gets entangled in a romantic relationship with a young lady from the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their budding romance was almost ruptured with the daunting task of military posting. Now heavily pregnant, her world came crumbling when news of her husband’s involvement in a botched coup attempt hit the headlines.
MUST watch this!
“Mr Nigga” by Mos Def/Yasiin Bey #irony #michaeljackson #woodyallen #smh
