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Despite pleas, missing SC boy falls by wayside
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Despite detectives’ pleas to national media, the disappearance of an 18-month-old black boy with the wide smile has yet to grab the widespread attention given to other missing children’s cases. Some advocates say the reason why may be as simple as the toddler’s gender — and his race.
From the still-unsolved slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey more than 15 years ago to the disappearance and killing of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, the public has watched with rapt attention as many cases involving young children unfolded, often over many months. Yet Amir Jennings, the little boy who hasn’t been seen since he was captured on surveillance video with his mother in South Carolina nearly a year ago, has registered as scarcely a blip on the nation’s consciousness.
“Media has always leaned toward the cute little kids,” said Monica Caison of the Wilmington, N.C.-based CUE Center for Missing Persons. “And unfortunately, a lot of times they think cute little kids are white.”
The transgender pride flag is raised for the first time in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood to mark International Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20.
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Colin asks the same question we’ve been wondering for years.
we just want to emote 'til we're dead: important
Have you ever thought “Man, I feel impossibly shitty and I don’t know why”?
Run through this checklist before you do anything else.
- What have I eaten in the last 24 hours? Is it enough? If not, go and eat some food, you butt.
- …
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We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân
When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, it was the Wampanoag of Southern Massachusetts who met them. They are credited in history books with helping the settlers survive in their new surroundings. Yet beyond the Thanksgiving narrative, their story, like the stories of Native people across the continent, is rarely told.
“We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân” is a new film that documents the incredible effort of the Wampanoag cultural revival through language. Beginning in the 1990s, the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Assonet, and Herring Pond Wampanoag communities initiated the Wopanaak Language Reclamation Project after uncovering a trove of documents from the sixteenth century. The documents were written in their native language, which hasn’t been spoken in over a century and a half.
The documentary follows Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag social worker, and her work to arm her community with the tools and skills to reclaim their mother tongue. A graduate of MIT’s renowned linguistics program and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant, she is also the proud mother of a six-year-old daughter, the first native Wopanaak speaker in seven generations.
“We Still Live Here” is a success story in progress, the story of a dedicated community of learners and teachers breathing new life into the words of their ancestors.
This documentary is available in full on iTunes and Amazon.
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The Universe, Vying for Dominance: An angering trend
Please, please, read and reblog this. It’s very important.
I have quite a few friends who I’m happy to know, and some of these people are transgender. In a conversation with one of my friends, who is very active in the trans community, he alerted me to…
Maybe someone shod also mention that those cosplayers who have binders that they’ve grown out of or otherwise don’t use can also donate to those organizations…. Just saying.