He Called It Russell CROW

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

ABSOLUTELY!!!

This. This is important.

Project Unbreakable: 27 Male Survivors Of Sexual Assault Quoting The People Who Attacked Them.

I don't even have words right now...

Atena Farghadani is a 28-year-old Iranian artist. She was recently sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison for drawing a cartoon.

This cartoon, that she posted on her Facebook page last year, depicts members of the Iranian parliament as animals. It was drawn in protest of new legislature in Iran that will restrict access to contraception and criminalise voluntary sterilisation. Atena’s charges include ‘spreading propaganda against the system’ and ‘insulting members of parliament through paintings’.

Last August, 12 members of the elite Revolutionary Guard came to Atena’s house, blindfolded her and took her to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. According to Amnesty International:

“While in prison last year, Atena flattened paper cups to use them as a surface to paint on. When the prison guards realised what she had been doing, they confiscated her paintings and stopped giving her paper cups. When Atena found some cups in the bathroom, she smuggled them into her cell. Soon after, she was beaten by prison guards, when she refused to strip naked for a full body search. Atena says that they knew about her taking the cups because they had installed cameras in the toilet and bathroom facilities – cameras detainees had been told were not operating.”

She was released in November and gave media interviews and posted a video on YouTube detailing her beatings, constant interrogations and humiliating body searches. She was then rearrested possibly in retaliation for speaking out and has been imprisoned ever since. In January, Atena went on a hunger strike to protest the horrible prison conditions. Her health suffered dramatically, and after losing consciousness and suffering a heart attack in February, she was forced to eat again.

The quote used in the comic is taken from the speech Atena gave at her trial. It has been translated into English by the Free Atena Facebook page. You can read the whole thing here.

Time is now against her, she has just two weeks to lodge an appeal. Michael Cavna, comic journalist for The Washington Post, has launched a campaign appealing to artists to help bring awareness to Atena’s case by creating their own artwork in support of Atena and using the hashtag#Draw4Atena. Can a bunch of artists and a hashtag really make a difference and put pressure on the Iranian Government to release Atena? Probably not. But just remember that Atena is currently in prison enduring horrible conditions, and if her appeal isn’t successful, she will be there for another twelve years. FOR DRAWING A CARTOON AND POSTING IT ON FACEBOOK. Don’t we owe it to her to at least try?

Alot worse actually happens out there.. once Being a soldier (which turned me into an activist) showed me..

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“Age is just a number” means senior citizens can still find love.

“Age is just a number” means middle-aged people can still find love.

“Age is just a number” means 30+ people can still find love.

“Age is just a number” is not an excuse to be a pedophile.

Nothing is an excuse to be a pedophile.

So don’t.

Just don’t.

I feel like absolute shit and like I’m doing everything wrong so I’m just gonna… Leave

Just wondering

Y’all know that moment when you just have a real and wholesome laugh, and then you just lay back and sigh and you still have a smile on your face. It’s always a good moment! 

Holy shit...I'm so sorry you had to go through something like that...I hope you're doing well.

I wanted to make my experience into a story so here we go

Idk if you could call this a scary story, a stalker story or a just a regular creep story but imma tell it anyway because the internet seems like the best place to put this.

One thing to know in advance is that my neighbours are a close family friend for they are the parents of my godfather, and their house is split in two and they rent out the front part for what I assume is just for extra money. They only starting doing this a few years ago and so far all the people who rent the place are just there for a few weeks before they move into a proper place, and so far everyone who has been there have been nice people, but some people moved in about 3 years ago and they are still there. The creepy part starts now I guess: so I do a lot of house work and one of the things I used to do a lot was cut the grass, and one day I was mowing the front lawn, which is the part of my neighbours house with the creepy people in it, and I was about half way done when the guy that moved into the house walked out of the house and stared at me before walking behind a tree in the middle of their yard and continued to watch me for about 10 minutes, keep in mind that it was summer and I get hot extremely easily so I was wearing shorts and a tank that you could kinda see my bra through. I finished cutting the grass as fast as I could but my dad owns an old mower so it took a while, and the whole time the guy was watching me and I had no choice but to turn my back to him at some points so idk what he was doing durning that time. I finished that shit as fast as I could, and because of that, the lawn honestly looked pretty bad and when my parents complained I told them what had happened, but around that time I had recently gotten into things like criminal minds and creepy stalker stories so they just brushed it off as my over active imagination. From then on I avoided cutting the grass when the guy was home but I knew that I couldn’t avoid him forever so I’ve ran into him since the first incident which was about 2 years ago. I would sometimes be playing with my dog outside and he would pull up in his car and he would stay in the car doing what I could only assume was watching me, for his windows are so tinted they look black, and he wouldn’t leave his car until I got inside, and since my parents make me stay outside for about 30 minutes a day with my dog, this could last about 15 minutes. I’ve never bothered to tell my parents about any of this because they didn’t believe me the first time, but the other day the people across the street were painting the outside of their house when one for them came over to warn my parents that the guy was hiding behind the tree watching them and they thought that they saw him taking pictures with his phone. My parents finally believed me from when I told him that he was watching me so I guess you could say that I kinda got the last laugh - at least that’s what my friend said. My parents told my actual neighbours who are, again, my godfathers parents, and they informed us that the guy would be moving out soon. All of this kinda had me worried though because my room is such a way that he could see me from his window and I got kinda curious so I got a night vision app, for the lights are hardly ever on even if he is home, and I faced my phone to his window to see if I could catch anything and I didn’t get a good look at it but there was a continuously flashing small light and I can’t help but worry that it’s a camera light. Anyway, I’m just glad that the guy is moving and I hope that I will never see him again.