Imagine telling Black twitter to be respectful of the death of the woman who inherited the legacy of an empire that contributed to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Please be fr 💀
Literacy 📚 = Opportunity 🎓
All women & girls have the right to learn how to read and write, yet in many countries, they continue to be left behind.
On Thursday's #LiteracyDay & every day, @UN_Women works to ensure equitable education for all. https://t.co/VTlJkIPx6u
Once I wrote about the Latina pay gap for a publication and later found out I was paid $100 less than the publication usually pays for opinion pieces. They paid me, a Latina, less than they pay my white peers, for an article about how Latinas make less than white people.
#Women & girls are at the forefront of change, accelerating #socialjustice, #genderequality & #sustainability worldwide. Yet harmful social norms & structural discrimination continue to restrict their activism & #humanrights. How can their voices be heard? https://t.co/Dwcz2NX7pi
Countries with less gender equality, of which skewed sex ratios are an indicator, are associated with poor economic performance. Gender imbalances are also thought to lead to more crime https://t.co/XrmGdAsibx
I am once again screaming into the void that if you use au*ible for audiobooks, you are throwing your money away libraries use a service called Libby that has the same content FOR FREE, all you need is a library card.
Diversity is a strength, not a threat.
Yet, racism is a problem in every part of the world.
@UNHumanRights explains how we can all #StandUp4HumanRights and speak out to #FightRacism & intolerance: https://t.co/Ijz1XWpOD8