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Jacqueline. 💋

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But imagine if you lived in a country where the color of your skin got you killed for driving, jogging, sleeping, yelling, parking, babysitting, sitting in a van, selling CDs, selling cigarettes, opening the door, walking at night, wearing a hoodie at night, holding a toy gun, lying on the ground, being homeless, being in a dark stairwell, holding a cell phone, having a broken taillight, exercising horses, having a bottle of pills, shopping at Walmart, holding a BB gun at Walmart, holding a phone in your own backyard, eating ice cream in your own house, and shopping, you would say, “That is a lawless country.” 

— Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (x)

Apparently Trump has now announced he is ignoring CDC guidelines for school’s reopening and will cut funding from schools that do not reopen normally saying that delaying reopening is a democrat scheme. Remember it’s a crime to not send your child to school if it’s open so children will be forced to go in unless their parents are wealthy enough to stay home to homeschool them.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, again and again: this isn’t about americans being too stubborn to wear masks.This isn’t about ‘American’s are just stupid and selfish’.  Our government is killing us. Don’t call it a suicide. 

i don’t know if guillermo del toro self-identifies as goth but, regardless, the man embodies such a raw spirit of all things goth

did mary shelley self identify as goth? did edgar allen poe? it does not matter. he is right up there with our founding fathers.

Very compelling answer.

The lowest standards make trump supporters feel better.

When the history books are written, let it be known that white, racist, christians destroyed this nation

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This is a video I should have on my phone for every time a Trumpist asks me why I hate the president.  His supporters don’t even know why they’re supporting him.  It’s a fucking cult.

Doesn’t surprise me at this point

Full thread here by @mcmansionhell 

Unionize Target.

Unionize Best Buy.

Unionize WALMART.

I guarentee you the thing Walmart fears most in this world are their workers unionizing. They are royally fucked if that happens. I was subjected to a ton of anti union propaganda while there. I also bet anything that if it did happen, they’ll raise prices, and blame it on the “unreasonable demands of the workers,” to pit the customers against the employees.

We’re forgetting someone. Unionize agricultural workers!

Unionize domestic and childcare workers, they’ve always endured working in extremely atomized, isolated working conditions that leave them uniquely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse!

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UNIONIZE EVERYONE

This is what we can do as Gen Y/Millennials for Gen Z and beyond.

We are stronger together.

I’m back!

I finally got to log back into this! Omg I missed it 🥺

“The barbie franchise enforces gender stereotypes”

Ken is literally a trophy husband to a successful rich beautiful business woman but okay go off I guess

makin this come back around again bc happy birthday barbie u intelligent gorgeous woman

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I saw a documentary on barbie once and it said that in the 50s or 60s when barbie was first made the parents were concerned because she was teaching their daughters that they could have careers instead of just being wives and mothers because she was the first doll that wasn’t a baby doll

The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) are indigenous peoples with an estimated population of about 50,000 people living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene Region (formerly Kaokoland) and on the other side of the Kunene River in Angola. The OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoralist people, culturally distinguishable from the Herero people in northern Namibia and southern Angola, and speak OtjiHimba, a variety of Herero, which belongs to the Bantu family within Niger–Congo. The OvaHimba are considered the last (semi-) nomadic people of Namibia.

The Himba often cover themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment, to cleanse the skin over long periods due to water scarcity and protect themselves from the extremely hot and dry climate of the Kaokoland as well as against mosquito insect bites. The cosmetic mixture, often perfumed with the aromatic resin of the omuzumba shrub, gives their skin and hair plaits a distinctive orange or red-tinge characteristic, as well as texture and style. Otjize is considered foremost a highly desirable aesthetic beauty cosmetic, symbolizing earth’s rich red color and blood the essence of life, and is consistent with the OvaHimba ideal of beauty. The OvaHimba are also accustomed to use wood ash for hair cleansing due to water scarcity.

Hairstyle and jewelry play a significant role among the OvaHimba, it indicates age and social status within their community. An infant or child will generally have his head kept shaven of hair or a small crop of hair on his head crown. This soon is sculptured to one braided hair plait extended to the rear of the head for young boys and young girls have two braided hair plaits extended forward towards the face often parallel to their eyes. This style is called ozondato, the form of wear being determined by the oruzo membership (patrilineal descent group). The style remains during preadolescence until reaching puberty. Some young girls, with exception, may also have one braided hair plait extended forwards, which means they are one of a pair of twins.

OvaHimba girl

OvaHimba girl dancing

OvaHimba boy

OvaHimba girl, one of a set of twins!

OvaHimba children, both boys and girls, removing ticks from goats.

From pubescence, boys continue to have one braided hair plait.

A young man wearing a braid known as ondatu. Namibia. Photo by Nigel Pavitt

Once they reach puberty, OvaHimba girls will have many otjize textured hair plaits, some arranged to veil the girl’s face. 

This girl is going through puberty, a fact made plain by her hairstyle, which has been designed to cover her face and help her avoid male attention. The puffs at the bottom are either goat hair or synthetic.

(In daily practice, the hair plaits are often tied together and held parted back from the face.) 

This girl’s braids are arranged to reveal her face, indicating that she’s ready to be married.

Women who have been married for about a year, or have had a child, wear an ornate headpiece called the Erembe, sculptured from sheepskin, with many streams of braided hair, coloured and put in shape with otjize paste. 

Married women wearing erembe

Unmarried young men continue to wear one braided hair plait extended to the rear of the head. When Himba men marry, they start wearing turbans, which they never take off unless someone in the village dies. After a death, their heads are shaved.  Because the turbans are never removed, things can get a little itchy underneath, so men carry pointed arrow-like instruments to scratch it with.

Married OvaHimba men. #s 1 and 3 wear a scratching implement in their turbans.

Widowed men will remove their cap or head-wrap and expose un-braided hair. 

Himba widower. The habit of using a head-scratching implement is hard to break.

Wow this is the first time I’ve seen a culture where men are required to wear a headdress after marriage.

every single person in this post is absolutely stunning

Nnedi Okorafor’s novella trilogy Binti has a Himba main character. Otijze is even a plot point.