"She lives the poetry she cannot write."- Oscar Wilde
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"I lay in my own bed- E. Grin (via written-in-pen)
and start to wonder why
I have the need
to go home."
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A hero without a cape
Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief - political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.
She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.
So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.
She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.
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Watch: Amber Heard, Gabourey Sidibe, and Freida Pinto just gave the most moving, striking reading of the Stanford rape survivor’s public letter
The essay is powerful even just as words on a page, but having these women read it onstage gives it more of a punch than we remember. Even if you’ve seen it already, or seen it a few times, you owe it to yourself to watch this.
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"If you’re going to walk out of my life, I ask one thing of you. Once you’re gone and you see that I’m doing fine, don’t you dare come back"- @storyofthislife (via storyofthislife)
i genuinely don’t believe there are trump supporters who are good people. if you knowingly support someone who, as president, would make life less safe for women, lgbt+ people, disabled people, people of colour and poor people, you’re not a good person.
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