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Waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . . Waiting for someone to come in Waiting for someone to hold me Waiting for someone to feed me Waiting for someone to change my diaper Waiting . . . Waiting to scrawl, to walk, waiting to talk Waiting to be cuddled Waiting for someone …
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1) Sworn Virgins: Men by Choice in the Balkans By Daphnee Denis “Sworn virgins” (burrneshas in Albanian) are Albanian women who decide to ignore their female identity and live as men in the Balkans. Photographer Jill Peters traveled to Northern Albania to meet and photograph these women. The decision to live as men is more related …
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Sign the petition! SAVE THE SCIENTISTS! News broke last week that the LEGO Ideas Research Institute is considered a “limited edition” item and no more sets will be produced for the sold-out set. Thousands of customers are deeply disappointed by this announcement. We want sets like the LEGO Ideas Research Institute to be a long …
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We need to see more black women on our screens, and a broader view of female sexuality as a whole. Cheeky videos are a symptom, not a cause, of our patriarchal pop culture In the summer when America’s racial wounds are rupturing, and the anger of the disenfranchised boils over from a hashtag into a …
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