It’s probably not good that I try to mostly go to the stores that have the self-checkout option…

It’s probably not good that I try to mostly go to the stores that have the self-checkout option…

dyellowpandah:

This is Millicent Gaika. She is a 30-year-old South African woman who was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours.
Why was she battered and rape? She is victim of a practice called corrective rape, a term that describes the process of men raping women who claim to be lesbians until they have been turned straight. Such a practice is particularly popular in South Africa, and of course, homosexuality cannot be ‘cured,’ and Millicent is not the first woman who was victimized. The most vicious form of torture a woman can experience in South Africa for being a lesbian is having her genitals mutliated by sharp objects. 24 out of 25 men who are accused of doing such crimes walk free. More than 500 corrective rapes are reported each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade.
There is a petition that is aiming to expose these crimes in South Africa. The mission is to get police to be more responsive to the corrective rapes and charge reasonable fines to the men performing these rapes. Sign the petition here. It only takes a name and an address. That’s all. Please sign it.
And I’m not usually the person to say it, but please reblog this. Please get the message out there that this is happening out there in the world. Please.

dyellowpandah:

This is Millicent Gaika. She is a 30-year-old South African woman who was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours.

Why was she battered and rape? She is victim of a practice called corrective rape, a term that describes the process of men raping women who claim to be lesbians until they have been turned straight. Such a practice is particularly popular in South Africa, and of course, homosexuality cannot be ‘cured,’ and Millicent is not the first woman who was victimized. The most vicious form of torture a woman can experience in South Africa for being a lesbian is having her genitals mutliated by sharp objects. 24 out of 25 men who are accused of doing such crimes walk free. More than 500 corrective rapes are reported each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade.

There is a petition that is aiming to expose these crimes in South Africa. The mission is to get police to be more responsive to the corrective rapes and charge reasonable fines to the men performing these rapes. Sign the petition here. It only takes a name and an address. That’s all. Please sign it.

And I’m not usually the person to say it, but please reblog this. Please get the message out there that this is happening out there in the world. Please.

(Source: deadpandahh)

YESSSSSSS
natatrongoop:

REPRESENT BITCHES! Nothing cooler than being an Irish Jew. Tramp stamp potential? Methinks yes. 

YESSSSSSS

natatrongoop:

REPRESENT BITCHES! Nothing cooler than being an Irish Jew. Tramp stamp potential? Methinks yes. 

I enjoy this.

I enjoy this.

I think this is beautiful (The Class—Philip Glass)

fairytalesandfrills:

Norman Rockwell “Crackers in Bed” 1921

fairytalesandfrills:

Norman Rockwell “Crackers in Bed” 1921

You may say I’m a dreamer.
But I’m not.

You may say I’m a dreamer.

But I’m not.

(Source: fntboyblue)

Ohhh how I wanted one of these

Ohhh how I wanted one of these

She sat for more than an hour, sobbing, working her way through the pages, coloring in the whites of people’s eyes, their teeth, the spaces between paragraphs, the frames around ads. She was sobbing because she could see that she would never be done; her whole life would be used up in the hopeless, endless task of amending this single lapse in taste. She would grow old, and there would still be white sheets, white walls, her own white hair.