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this-is-life-actually:

Muslim style bloggers are gaining a ton of fans — and harassers

Nabela Noor, a 24-year-old beauty and lifestyle vlogger, has made a career out of being honest on the internet. Since 2014, she has documented nearly every aspect of her life online, from how to perfect date night makeup to how to deal with online fat shamers to figuring out the best way to repurpose candle jars. She has been open about topics including her marriage and religion, and in turn has accumulated over 167,000 YouTube subscribers and 40,000 Instagram followers.

In March, two months after Noor asked a question at the Republican debate, a slew of Instagram accounts created by Muslim beauty and fashion bloggers were hacked. Australian journalist Jennine Khalik first reported on the attacks via Twitter, noting that on accounts where the usual post involves eyeshadow application tips or selfies of women wearing hijabs, there were Islamophobic memes and videos featuring Trump.

Why Muslim women? Despite blogs like these seeming rather harmless, somehow, to these hackers, they are not.

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In case you still don’t understand why it’s bad to write fiction with a disabled character who is magically “cured”:

therosielord:

Imagine this for a second: you’re a kid in a wheelchair.

It’s pretty isolating. You love reading, but every book you read has a hero who can walk. After a while, you start to get the message: only kids without disabilities are allowed to have adventures. Because of your condition, you’ll never be able to have a story worth reading.

Now imagine you discover a book about a kid in a wheelchair.

It’s fantastic. All of a sudden, there’s someone like you who gets to go on awesome adventures. Maybe your story actually is worth telling after all!

But then the hero gets their greatest wish granted: their legs are fixed and they rise from their wheelchair, healthy and strong.

And there you are, the reader, still stuck in your wheelchair.

Your legs will never be fixed.

You will never be granted that magical wish.

And the character who used to just be like you is now something you can never be. The writer has decided that their story is only worth telling if they end up magically abled.

But you will never end up magically abled. So what does this tell you?

Your story will never be worth telling.

Now do you understand?

kittieology:

Ive been wanting to do this for a while now.. taking a pic of an area and editing it to look like a sunset and night time.. i finally got to do it >.< i wish there was night and day in wow.. would make the worlds so interesting!!