BOOK: Homebody by Rupi Kaur

My Review: I love this book.
                 I love all this ladies writing's.

Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself – reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.

I dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything I need
already exists in me
there’s no need
to look anywhere else
– home

Pride History

Pride History

Recent News: On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it is illegal for an employer to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The 6-3 ruling adds LGBTQ people to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin and religion. 

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What does LGBTQ stand for: 

L - Lesbian

G - Gay

B - Bisexual

T - Transgender

Q - Queer/ Questioning

Stone Riots a brief history: Very few establishments welcomed gay people in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time Stonewall Inn was owned by mafia, it catered to the poorest and most marginalised people in the community: Butch Lesbians, Effeminate young men, Drag Queens, Male Prostitutes, Transgender people and Homeless Youths. A year after Stonewall on June 28th 1970 the first gay pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The Stonewall Monument was established at the site in 2016.

Lillian Faderman calls the riots the 'Shots heard around the world' saying 'The Stonewall Rebellion was crucial because it sounded the rally for that movement, it became emblem of gay and lesbian power'.

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LGBTQ timeline: 1688 to 2020

• 1688 - 1704 - Kagemachaya a Japanese gay bar first opens in japan
• 1785 - Jeremy Betham is one of the first people to argue for the decriminalization of sodomy in England.
• 1794 - The kingdom of Prussia abolishes the death penalty for sodomy.
• 1794 - Luxemburg decriminalises sodomy
• 1794 - Belgium decriminalises sodomy.
• 1807 - The Duchy of Warsaw is created and re - legalizing same sex sexual intercourse.
• 1835 - The last known execution for homosexuality in Great Briton. James Prall and John Smith are hanged at Newgate after being caught together in private lodgings.
• 1890 - Homosexuality is legalised in the Vatican.
• 1895 - The trail of Oscar Wilde resulted in him being prosecuted under criminal law amendment act 1885 for gross indecency and sentenced to two years in prison.
• 1906 - The first gay American novel with a happy ending Imre is published.
•  1921 -  England attempts to make lesbians illegal for the first time in Britain history fails.
• 1931 - Madchen in uniform is one of the first explicitly lesbian films and the first pro - lesbian film released.
• 1938 - The word gay is used for the first time in film reference to homosexuality in the film Bringing Up The Baby.
• 1941 - Transsexuality was first used in reference to homosexuality and bisexuality.
• 1952 - The male homosexual magazine 'Adonis' is launched with the writer Yukio Mishima as a contributor in Japan.  
• 1972 - Sweden becomes the first country to allow transsexuals to legally change their sex and provide free hormone therapy.
• 1991 - The Red Ribbon was first used as a symbol for HIV/AIDS campaign.

1993 - Brandon Teena was raped and murdered, he was a trans man. 

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•  2001 - Same sex marriage laws came into effect in the Netherlands with joint adoption.
• 2003 - Buffy the vampire slayer showed girlfriends Willow and Tara in bed together (not a sex scene) but a first for its kind for the Network. 

2005 - Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were executed in Iran for allegedly raping a 13 year old boy or for just being gay?? 

(this one doesn't make sense to me so I have posted the official link to see if you can understand it)  Here's the story     

                            

• 2009 - Carol Ann Duffy was chosen as the first openly gay poet laureate in the UK.
• 2012 - Taiwan's first same sex Buddhist wedding was for Fish Huang and her partner You Ya-Ting ❤
• 2013 - Todd Hughes became the first openly gay US Circuit Judge.
• 2014 - The first open transgender woman got married in Malta.
• 2016 - Amanda Nunes become UFCs first openly gay champion.
•  2017 - Queer art show leads Tate 2017 programme
• 2018 - The first time in history of the winter Olympics that male athletes competed in who were openly gay.
• 2019 -  Prince Harry and Megan became the first British royals to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month.
• 2020 - The US Supreme Court ruled a federal law protecting gay, lesbian and transgender employees from work place discrimination. 

There's a million other mile stones that have happened over the years good and bad above are a few that jumped out at me.

What are your most memorable things throughout LGBTQ History?

BOOK: WAR ON WOMEN

WAR ON WOMEN

Feminism has not reached its goal yet. 

For the white, Western woman, much has changed but the first wave of feminism taken place in many parts of the world it is dangerous for many women to be born.

Every now and then comes threw the Dutch media is a message on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), trafficking, or Indian child brides, but those messages disappear quickly and make little impression. Who knows what FGM is anyway? Details are uncomfortable, but Sue Lloyd-Roberts knows precisely that details make the difference and warns you of them in her book The War Against Women. 

The World Health Organization defines FGM as "any procedure where in a part of or all of the external female genitalia are removed, or any other damage of the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. There are four types according to the organisation. In many cases, the clitoris is maimed or removed and sometimes labia, both inner and outer are cut through. The latter is done to narrow the vaginal opening; anything to make women sexual pleasure possible. Young girls are circumcised, and everything takes place without anaesthesia. Some girls bleed to death after such a cutting party. FGM still exists because of the belief that a girl will not marry if she is not circumcised, she would be unclean or indecent; people value tradition.

That is what we are talking about when we talk about misogyny; tradition. It is maddening, even for Lloyd-Roberts. 

She writes: "I want to scream when I hear him invoke the word "tradition" as an explanation. How many crimes are all over the world against women committed in the name of tradition? Humanity is becoming better informed, globalised, and more educated, you might think, so why do people just refer to outdated and unexplained traditions mock common sense, and even with the law? What is it terribly convenient to carry on traditions to disguise misogyny and even legitimise criminal behaviour."

In Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, the tradition is to treat a woman as property. she is married off as soon as possible because otherwise it costs too much money. According to the law you may not marry girls in India before 18 years old (boys must be at least 21 years), but it happens that girls have been choosen before they are teens. 

Despite the low social status of women, the honour of a family does depend on chastity and unconditional obedience of daughter, sister, and / or spouse. A girl has however already no longer pure as noted by family that someone other than her (future) husband looks at her. In such cases, a girl's life is no longer certain, honour killings will be punished enough not to commit the murder. If the killer is already arrested and prosecuted, he is only a few months in prison and then welcomed home as a hero: the family honour is saved.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts (she died in October 2015 from a rare form of leukaemia) a courageous journalist, from the texts in the war against women show that they undisturbed questions kept asking, and would not be stopping by disgust or anger or dismay. Moreover, she knows how to put every story in context, making it clear to include these women stories because it can be a huge scandal, or because for bureaucratic reasons little or nothing is done.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts appoints in this book frankly what she sees or hears or thinks. Lloyd-Roberts was not necessarily feminist but came after thirty years of film making to the conclusion that women are very often the victims of situations that are maintained by men. How is it possible that women, a group comprising more than half the world's population, still treated as a minority? It is a political issue, suspected Lloyd-Roberts. It is an issue that is still not considered a priority, even in the Western world is misogyny often seen as a luxury problem. 

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Definition

Nelson Mandela

The death of Nelson Mandela has affected an array of people throughout the world. The 95-year-old civil rights leader was more than the face of post-Apartheid South Africa, he was the embodiment of a movement that asked for basic human dignity regardless of colour or creed.

Honoured throughout his life for his works with HIV/AIDS, social justice, and poverty, the Nobel Peace Prize winner also touched many in the world of fashion.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary as well as a politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

In April 1959, militant Africanists dissatisfied with the ANC's united front approach founded the Pan-African Congress (PAC); Mandala's friend Robert Sobukwe was elected president, though Mandela thought the group "immature". Both parties campaigned for an anti-pass campaign in May 1960, in which Africans burned the passes that they were legally obliged to carry. One of the PAC-organised demonstrations was fired upon by police, resulting in the deaths of 69 protesters in the Sharpeville massacre. In solidarity, Mandela publicly burned his pass as rioting broke out across South Africa, leading the government to proclaim martial law. Under the State of Emergency measures, Mandela and other activists were arrested on 30 March, imprisoned without charge in the unsanitary conditions of the Pretoria Local prison, while the ANC and PAC were banned in April. This made it difficult for their lawyers to reach them, and it was agreed that the defence team for the Treason Trial should withdraw in protest. Representing themselves in court, the accused were freed from prison when the state of emergency was lifted in late August. Mandela used his free time to organise an All-In African Conference near Pietermaritzburg, Natal, in March, at which 1,400 anti-apartheid delegates met, agreeing on a stay-at home protest to mark 31 May, the day South Africa became a republic. On 29 March 1961, after a six-year trial, the judges produced a verdict of not guilty, embarrassing the government.

Mandela died of a lung infection on 5 December 2013 at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg. He was 95 years of age and surrounded by his family. His death was announced by President Jacob Zuma. On 6 December Zuma announced a national mourning period of ten days, with the main event being an official memorial service to be held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on 10 December 2013. Mandala's body will lie in state from 11 to 13 December at the Union Buildings in Pretoria and a state funeral will be held on 15 December 2013 in Qunu.



Kirsten stewart

So i am not a great fan of her acting but i am a fan of her style here are few outfits i like.

Another one for the Ladies

It was early and a young girl stopped to get petrol, she filled up her tank and walked into the store to pay, The cashier told her

 "Don't pay for your petrol yet walk around the store a while and act as if your picking up some other stuff to buy, a man has just got into the back of your car. I have called the police they are on there way".

When the police arrived they found the man on the back seat of the car and asked him what he was doing he replied he was joining a gang and his initiation was to kidnap a woman and bring her back to the gang to be raped by every member of the gang, if the woman was still alive by the time they where finished with her then they would let her go.

According to the police a new gang is forming originating from London.

The scary part is because the guy didnt have a weapon on him the police could only charge him for trespassing. He is back on the street and free to try again.

I am learning to drive myself and this just made me think the police have let out a few ways for a woman to keep her self safe. 

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BOOKS: Bite of the mango.

Over the past 2 days i have been reading a book called "Bite of the mango" by Mariatu Kamara 

I just can put it down i love it so much i stayed up most of the night last night reading it this young ladies story is incredible.

What the book is about: 

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu lived peacefully surrounded by her family and friends. Rumours of the rebel attacks we no more than a distant worry. But the twelve year old set out for a neighbouring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence the cut off both her hands.

Here is a link to the book if anyone is interested in buying it or reading it the site is called Green Metropolis you sell and buy books and you can also choose to donate money to different charities bite of the mango

The book has many different front covers but the all tell the same story.

There a few lines in this book that cought in my chest

"Don't look back Mariatu. If you look back you will live your life with regrets and what-could-have-been's. Always look forward.

Kay

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Capricorn

Capricorn - The Goat
December 22 – January 19
Capricorn's are also philosophical signs and are highly intelligent too. They apply their knowledge to practical matters, and strive to maintain stability and order. They are good organizers, and they achieve their goals by purposeful, systematic means. They are very intuitive, although they don't share this trait with others freely. They do not deal well with opposition or criticism but a healthy Capricorn will often shrug off negative comments towards their character. They are patient and persevering – they know they can accomplish any task as long as they follow a their plan step-by-step. Capricorn's have broad shoulders, and typically take on other's problems with aplomb. Ironically, they rarely share their own problems and tend to go through bouts of inner gloom after a spell of dwelling on these problems.

Moon in Capricorn:
To those who don't know you well, you appear as cool as the moon. In control, self-disciplined and dignified, you are often mistaken as unfeeling. You're extremely productive, capable and thorough. This means you make everything you do look easy, which can also put people off. They have no idea beneath your cool exterior you are pragmatically planning the next five moves in your strategy to accomplish your goals. And accomplish goals is a forte. A unique mixture of patience, willingness and dogged determination usually insures victory. You're also remarkably dependable; others naturally seek you out for guidance and advice. Your special ability to stay collected under pressure makes you a fantastic leader. You also win respect from your peers easily because you don't just talk the talk (you rarely boast), you actually walk the walk. You prove your value through consistent action. People really look up to you for that, and admire your integrity.

Carnation - Capricorn flower
"Simplicity is its own reward."
December 22 – January 21
Those with the carnation flower sign are beautifully adept at putting things in order, and organizing. You are strong willed and determined for others to see your point of view. You are a natural leader, and others look to you to lean on. You can be driven and determined and this makes you a strong personality. You are no stranger to hard work, and you like to get things done your way. You like security, particularly if you are building a comfort zone with your own two hands.