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US scientists say Haiti, Dominican Republic could be entering period of powerful quakes
we really don’t need this shit.. You know what Haitian people learned form the earthquake .. nothing nothing at all.. some are still building in at risk areas , the very same way . paraseismic construction , right .. nope no one is respecting this …
now this. has me shook as fuck.
My family barely survived that quake in Haiti wtf…this is terrifying.
i really hope this isn’t true
nope. this is pretty accurate. i met a seismologist when i was in haiti. he told me that the 2010 earthquake only release about 90% of the pressure. there will definitely be more earthquakes. what this article should do is push for earthquake resistant structures. there is a haitian man who has this company on the island that is aware of this and is building accordingly. some pretty awesome stuff happening there.
(Source: mujerinterrumpida)
(Source: daughterofzami)
Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’
What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.
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J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure.
He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women.
Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.
Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way.
Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.
Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.
Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.You guys should really google him.
(if you click the link, I did it for you)
fucking hell I just nearly got sick.
tumblrs tuaght me so much
I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting.
This is just
apallingBut guys, we’re just supposed to get over it, right?
If love be a day
Let hate be the last minute of the previous day
Let indifference be the last moment before noon
Compassion being the highest point of sun
Rising as kindness in twilight hour;
Light might be your sweet smiling sleeping face
Light might be the space between us, facilitating communion
Light might be another set of hours with which to hold you more
Light might be much more than dawn
Light might be
If love be a day
Let the moment our spirits recognized each other be called illumination
Be afternoon reservations birthed out of wounds we were too scard to heal otherwise
Let evening find us open sunset blushed sky waiting for dancing stars from the chaos of our movement
Let it be sacred
This repose, this sigh of long stretch of reaching towards something like rest
Something like retiring the fight for what it was worth
Something like…you feel like home
Like…this be how it goes after all this work
If love be a day
Let darkness fall and turn the world down low
If love be a day
Let us end the way we started: from the infinite possibilities that light might be
If love be a day
Let night be making it.
* “If love be a day” is a line from an e.e cummings poem
my favorite thing about you is your honesty
the true self seems to emerge on two occasions
when it is by itself
and when it is effortlessly comfortable among others
thank you for making your bed here