“He’s my nephew. I watch him two or three days a week while my sister is at work. Last night we went to see a play and today we’re just running errands. It’s nice to be an uncle because I can enjoy his company without feeling the burden of providing for him. We have a lot of fun. He’s got his own sarcastic sense of humor. He’s very inquisitive. He’s always asking about things. He’ll notice if people on the street are feeling bad, and he’ll point them out. It really forces me to be present.”
to all my beautiful ladies on international womens day
1. love urself
2. love other girls
3. fight the patriarchy4. Don’t be racist
5. Don’t be transphobic
Celebrating International Women’s Day:
Michigan and Mississippi — It’s your turn to vote for real change. Grab your friends and family and go out and join the political revolution. Remember that change cannot take place without political participation. Thank you.
Do you have a message for people who suffer with bipolar disorder?
Oh, yes. You can outlast anything. It’s complicated, it’s a job, but it’s doable. One of the greatest things that happened for me was that psychotic episode. Having survived it, I now know the difference between a problem and an inconvenience. Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It’s a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life. - Carrie Fisher [x]
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Pledge for Parity’ carries a message for all. Women and men are invited to take a firm step to speed up gender equality, and I want to use this day to encourage the governments across the developing world to do what they can to protect a vital and precious group in every society, adolescent girls. In Nigeria, 19% of children are married by the time they reach age 15 years, and 39% by the time they turn 18, while Niger Republic holds the highest figures on the continent, at 39% and 75% respectively.
Last week (March 2), a Nigerian teenager, was reunited with her parents after being abducted, or missing from her parent’s care and custody, for seven months. According to reports, she was snatched from a state in southern Nigeria, while helping her mother who is a street vendor, and was then taken to northern Nigeria, reportedly converted to Islam, and married to her abductor, who was apparently a customer of her mother’s. It’s now reported that she is pregnant, and at only 14 years old, this will affect her health, education, and her emotional and mental development.
Alongside this, there are two other similar cases which have come to the attention of the media. One girl is still separated form her parents. These cases represent a number of Nigerian young girls who find themselves in this unfortunate and desperate predicaments, when in fact, they should be at school, furthering that most significant empowerment factor, their right to education and a brighter future.
Education can protect girls from becoming child brides. A girl who is in school is more likely to be equipped with the knowledge and self-esteem to make choices about who she wants to marry. Parents who remove their children from school do not always sense this importance or do so for economic reasons. More must be done to ensure adolescent girls claim this right to education.
on this women’s day, let me do a shout out to women who aren’t seen as “strong”, who aren’t financially successful, who aren’t easy for the world to handle. disabled women, trans women, women of color, ace and aro women, bi and pan and lesbian women, women who are unemployed, women who have to fight to get through the day. your existence is radical. i love you.
It’s International Women’s Day here now so I want to give a shout out to all my disabled sisters
to the self diagnosed girls and the 10-drug-rounds-a-day girls
to the loud disabled girls and the girls who don’t verbalise
to the girls in recovery and the stimming girls
to the signing girls and the girls in hospital
to the girls in wheelchairs and the little girls
to the girls who stay in bed and the ticcing girls
to every disabled and ill girl
your experiences are valid, your words, however you express them, are important and you are absolutely fantastic
Its that time of year again so once more I extend my unending love to all my disabled sisters around the world, you are amazing and you are irreplaceable
please don’t forget disabled women on international women’s day.
disabled women are 1.5 as likely to be the victim of violent crime and twice as likely to be the victim of rape and sexual assault than non-disabled women. 80% of disabled women have been sexually assaulted, 50% more than ten times. most of these crimes are perpetrated by their family or carers, people they are supposed to be able to trust and people they are dependent on. (source, another)
this dependency means that they cannot open up about their abuse because they need the support and care of their abuser. more than 70% of abuse against disabled women goes unreported. even when disabled women try to talk about their abuse they are dismissed on the basis of their disability more often than not, especially when it comes to developmental disabilities. (source, another)
in many places, including states in america, developmentally disabled people are not allowed to vote. additionally, a large amount of polling sites are completely inaccessible for disabled people. (source, another)
the bodily autonomy of disabled women is consistently violated. for example, disabled women are often sterilized against their will (source).
disabled women are constantly forgotten by feminists and so much feminist activism is inaccessible, and when they try to speak up about this they are accused of making everything about their disability. this is just one example.
disabled women are just as much a part of the feminist movement as ablebodied women and the continued lack of support for them is one of the movement’s biggest failings. remember them today.
Having a sibling is either “we ride together we die together” or “no officer I’ve never seen that person before in my life” there is no in between.
And sometimes which one it is depends on the day