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"Always a special kind of hell dressing to venture to public spaces in warm months. Always a multi-part hysteria of what clothing will allow me reprieve from pigs posing as men. The pain-staking preparation of gauging what kind of day I’ll have based on how a drape of a skirt or dress frames my body. Imagining and preparing for the violation of my space and safety. It’s draining….how a simple outfit may be the difference between a shitty public experience or a shittier public experience."

#street harassment #sexual harassment #violence against women

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"One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape, according to the Justice Department. Their rate of sexual assault is more than twice the national average. And no place, women’s advocates say, is more dangerous than Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service"

For Native American Women, Scourge of Rape, Rare Justice [NY Times]

#rape #native american women #alaska #sexual assault

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-Taken in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Do you think this ad would ever fly in mainland USA? Nope. But why not?

#breastfeeding #nursing #WIC #new mothers #childbirth

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-Click on the image for court documents for

Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case (CNN)

#florida woman sentenced to 20 years #warning shot #stand your ground

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-From Nita Hubbard: My sister is good with the sentimental cards—me not so much. Lol. But my mother cried real tears with this one cuz she laughed so hard. She had me laughing too :)

This one is just TOO GREAT!

#mother's day #mother's day cards #some ecards #hilarious cards

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Notes U.S. Ranks Last for Breastfeeding in Entire Industrial World

Save the Children’s report ‘State of the World’s Mothers’ says the U.S. has the least favorable environment for breastfeeding in the entire industrial world. They calculated a score for each of 36 industrialized countries based on maternity leave laws, rights to nursing break at work and other policy features. They cite Niger as the worst country in the world to be a mother. Their key findings: Children in an alarming number of countries are not getting adequate nutrition during their first 1,000 days, child malnutrition is widespread and it is limiting the future success of millions of children and their countries. Also, economic growth is not enough to fight malnutrition.

Breastfeeding Rank

1. Norway

2. Slovenia

3. Sweden

4. Luxembourg

5. Austria

6. Lithuania

7. Latvia

8. Czech Rep.

9. Netherlands

10. Germany

11. Estonia

12. Poland

13. Portugal

14. France

15. Belgium

16. Ireland

17. Italy

18. Switzerland

19. New Zealand

20. Cyprus

21. Denmark

22. Greece

23. Slovak Rep.

24. Spain

25. UK

26. Finland

27. Israel

28. Japan

29. Hungary

30. Liechtenstein

31. Canada

32. Iceland

33. Monaco

34. Australia

35. Malta

36. USA

Welp, my case for running off to France to raise my brood strengthens.

(Source: venusgenus.com)

#save the children #state of motherhood #least favorable environment for breastfeeding #breastfeeding #maternity #baby #maternity leave #childbirth

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Notes Crooked Purple Rain!: HONY Piece

bad-dominicana:

madamethursday:

[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]

staghunts:

“This one is very serious, guys:

I came upon these two on the…