jillianhaney:

that louis jacket

alyibnawi:

Faces and people of the United Arab Emirates.

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 sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”

“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.

“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in: 

“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said. 

Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back. 

“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.

As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.

When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”

“It happens a lot?” I asked.

“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”

“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.

“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”

Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*

Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this. 

I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER. 

socialskills:

“He speaks SO WELL!!!”

jtotheizzoe:

Photography In Space - How It’s Done

Alan Poindexter had the honor of commanding the shuttle Discovery on her final mission, STS-131. NASA takes space photography very seriously, and trains their astronauts to capture informative and inspiring images while in orbit.

If you’ve ever wondered about some the techniques and technology behind capturing those great shuttle and ISS photos, check out Captain Poindexter’s great behind-the-lens post. Little-known fact: If you become an astronaut you apparently get access to prototype Nikon cameras … so study that science, you budding photographers!

When done right, this space photography can be truly inspiring. If you really want to dig in to some astronaut photography, you can’t miss the Crew Earth Observations collection. Truly epic photos and videos (including this eye-popping distorted moonset from the ISS).

(via Luminous-Landscape.com, images copyright NASA)

garconniere:

disparate youth - santigold

currently on repeat.

• Tagged by sirblack and confunded !!
• Tagging- no one b/c everyone I know has already done it/been tagged.

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lastrealindians:

Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated.  Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.

 Vernon Traversie, who is completely blind, said his nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August.  He said they immediately sent him a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery….read the rest:  LAKOTA MAN ACCUSES HOSPITAL OF HEALTHCARE HATE CRIME, By Evelyn Red Lodge

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Danish protester: 'No one would care if a Palestinian was hit with a rifle' →

stay-human:

Andreas Ias says his treatment by Israeli soldier is nothing compared to the systematic violence carried out on Palestinians.

20th April, 2012

Without the video, all Andreas Ias would have to show for his weekend bicycle ride in the Jordan valley would be two stitches and a slightly swollen lower lip – plus a hardening anger about the treatment by Israeli soldiers of Palestinians.

But a few seconds of footage uploaded to YouTube catapulted the 20-year-old Danish activist into the media spotlight, drew statements from the Israeli prime minister, president and chief of staff, led to the disciplining of an Israeli army officer, and prompted debate over the use of video cameras as a weapon of modern warfare.

Nevertheless, Ias – not his real name – is dismayed that in the aftermath of him being struck in the face with a soldier’s rifle, so little attention has focused on what he describes as the routine aggression, harassment and displacement suffered by Palestinian villagers in the area.

“It has been framed in the media as the ‘Danish incident’, as though this is not how the IDF normally act,” he said, swathed in a red keffiyeh in a Ramallah cafe. “But what happened to me is nothing compared to the systematic violence carried out on Palestinians. This is not a single incident, it’s what we see every day. But it’s very difficult to move the focus from me to the issues of the Palestinian struggle in the West Bank.”

While volunteering for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the West Bank over the past six weeks, Ias says he has witnessed “a process of ethnic cleansing that has been going on since the start of the occupation”.

“I’ve seen people whose homes have been demolished in the middle of the night by dozens of soldiers, people who are left with nothing. I’ve seen Bedouin villages without running water or electricity next to Israeli settlements with total control over water resources. I’ve seen people denied their basic human rights and any hope for the future. You can’t experience that without it changing you.”

Last Saturday, a group of 150-200 Palestinians and international activists set off on a bicycle ride through the Jordan valley to visit villages in an act of solidarity. As they reached route 90, the main road running north to south through the valley, they found their way blocked by the Israel Defence Forces.

According to Ias, the soldiers said the cyclists could not proceed “for security reasons”. There was a standoff. “We were very peaceful, singing songs, clapping hands. It was a good, empowering experience, people were happy,” he said.

But as one of the organisers moved forward, Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner, the deputy commander of the Jordan Valley Brigade who was in charge of the operation, removed his rifle. “He obviously wanted us to move back, but he didn’t say anything.”

According to Ias’s account, a Dutch activist was pushed to the ground and a Palestinian man was struck from behind. Then Eisner slammed the base of his rifle into Ias’s face. “I fell to the ground. I was surprised and disoriented. I didn’t feel any pain until later.”

Eisner – who was seen in the video wearing a type of kippah associated with the national-religious settler movement – and his colleagues claimed that the clip uploaded to YouTube was edited to distort the incident and cut out violence by the activists. Ias rejects this, saying the organisers have offered to hand over the unedited footage to the Israeli media to prove there was “no aggression, no attempt to violence, not a single stone picked up”.

Ias was taken to hospital in Jericho for treatment, later rejoined the activists, and “went home feeling it was just another incident in a lot of incidents I have seen in the past few weeks. I didn’t expect it to have any consequences at all.”

But the video was picked up and broadcast by Israeli television on Sunday. By Monday, the video had appeared on countless news websites and the story was running in papers round the world.

On Wednesday, Eisner was dismissed from his post for two years although he has been allowed to remain in the army.

Eisner told colleagues: “I did not expect this to be the decision. I thought they accepted my version of events and understood it. They showed me the door out. I need to digest the decision and then plan my future.”

He said he did not “accept this as a moral failure in any way [but] it could have been a professional mistake to use a weapon in front of the cameras”.

Ias is taking legal advice on the possibility of a civil suit against the officer.

After finishing high school in Aarhus, the young Dane worked in factories and hotels to save money for his trip to the West Bank. He arrived in mid-February, and will leave in three weeks when his tourist visa expires. He attended a two-day workshop in Ramallah to learn about his legal rights as an international activist, non-violent protest and Palestinian culture. He did not plan to spend any time in Israel.

“The ISM differs from other international solidarity groups in that we are willing to try to actively oppose the occupation, rather than just monitor it,” Ias said. “We will use our bodies to intervene, to challenge. So if we see soldiers trying to grab Palestinians at a demo, we will hold on to them to make the arrest difficult.”

But, he added: “I’ve not been presented with one single incident of ISM members being violent. I’ve not seen any statements espousing terrorism. The ISM is founded on principles of non-violence.”

He said the international community had a duty to intervene when wrong was being done. “The colour of my skin and my nationality gives me great privileges. We have to use that to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians.”

The incident triggered wide debate in Israel about activism and the power of the camera. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organisation, has been giving cameras to Palestinians for several years, encouraging them to document the behaviour of Israeli soldiers. The IDF has trained around 100 combat soldiers to use video cameras, partly to identify protesters, partly to counter what they see as activist propaganda, and sometimes to use in internal investigations.

Many commentators have pointed out that the IDF would not have taken action over the incident had it not been filmed and broadcast round the world. But, Ias said, his nationality and skin colour contributed to the attention. “The global media wouldn’t care at all if a Palestinian had been hit in the face with a rifle.”

Read full at The Guardian

itsfullofstars:

Cranking them out tonight…

Other sets in the series:

Our Solar System 1

Our Solar System 2

Deep Space

Early American Manned Spaceflight

- spacedriver