I'm Actually Quite Shocked To See Pillow Pets Still In Business But It Makes Me So Happy Because It Makes

one of my favorite ecofeminism/black feminism reads is definitely The Green Belt Movement by Wangari Maathai, it's an inspiring story of encouraging people to help their country improve the environment with new ideas for the rest of the world to have hope in

there's only one book left on Amazon but you can buy used ones there!

Don't let them tell you your activism isn't changing anything.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Men treat women and nature exactly the same. Both have the ability to create life. When men won’t interfere, both have the ability to self-regulate. Some women choose to have children, some won’t. Human populations won’t grow unsustainably when women have agency. Nature, too, has it’s own ways of maintaining balance.

Men treat both women and nature as their property, as something to use for their purposes. Men will strip a woman of her rights and use her and make her birth children for him until she dies. Men will strip nature of her rights and use her and plant monocrops and use artificial fertilizers until the land is barren and ecosystems collapse.

The male fantasy of never ending growth drives both actions, as does the male failure to consider other beings experiencing anything at all. Women and nature, we exist only for his purposes.

Wangarĩ Muta Maathai

The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Wangarĩ Muta Maathai, Ph.D. (1940-2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist.

Born in Ihithe, the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, Maathai studied at boarding schools and was rated first in her class. East African colonialism was ending around the same time as her high school, and Maathai was one of 300 Kenyans selected to study in the United States in the Airlift Africa program for college.

She received a bachelor's in biology with minors in chemistry and German, and then a master's in biology. She would receive her Ph.D. in veterinary anatomy from the University of Nairobi.

In 1977, Maathai started the 'Green Belt Movement', a grassroots-based NGO focused on environmental conservation, under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya. The Green Belt Movement is a holistically-minded one, and it believes that equality for women, economic development, and justice are parts of environmental justice rather than obstacles.

Since the Green Belt Movement started, over 51 million trees have been planted and over 30,000 women have been trained in environmental-related trades.

Maathai was an elected member of the Parliament of Kenya, the 1984 winner of the Right Livelihood Award, an author of several books, and a winner of both the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006)

please do your part to end this genocide. please do your part to end this occupation. please don’t stop speaking up. palestine is no longer trending on here and i can see a steady decline in people interacting with posts as well.

please don’t forget that this isn’t a trend. these are people’s lives. this is about their rights. their freedom.

please keep speaking up. please remind everyone that it’s not over. that isn’t not the new normal. that this isn’t something we should just accept

this is unacceptable. please speak up against it. 10569 killed not counting the missing people under the rubble is a huge number. heck, even 569 would be huge. this is genocide. please speak up. please voice out.

donations are not helping them right now. but your voices will. your voices will amplify the voices of the palestinians being shut down by biased western media and propaganda. please keep speaking up on their behalf.

ways you can help

UPDATE ON THE SITUATION

SECOND UPDATE

more breaking news

More Pre-Raphaelite Lesbians!

Lamia and the Soldier, John William Waterhouse, 1905

& Psyche Opening the Golden Box, John William Waterhouse, 1903

Her name was Samiya and she was brutally stabbed in the neck and chest before she was taken to a New York hospital with her sister Sanyia (who had been stabbed in the arm), where she did not survive her injuries from her neck and chest. These sisters were just at a store, and this predator FOLLOWED them after he was rejected and attacked them. He waited for them -and he's still not caught. This is just absolutely horrifying.

Misogyny fuels violence against women -and this very clear epidemic is killing young girls and women.

I cannot imagine the degree of entitlement you think you have to anyone's time and bodies- that anyone could hold that much disdain for rejection, and is okay with exerting power, control, and violence upon another person because YOUR ego is bruised. Fuck toxic masculinity and dismantle the patriarchy until it burns to the ground because I'm so sick of seeing this.

I wish all the best to the family and loved ones of Samiya. This young teenager should still be here. And I hope the man who did this gets apprehended and faces endless misery and misfortune in his lifetime.

from @ rabid_raviv on x.com

Feminism that does not include trans people is not a form of feminism that will be able to enact positive change. It will only continue to reinforce the systems that hold us down.

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