“Britney Spears has no impact today”
a whole festival in 2025 going into collective meltdown at the first notes of ...Baby One More Time
that’s not nostalgia. that’s legacy.
I bought and read Alison Botha's book, and cried tears. One thing that stayed with me, was how, as she pushed her intestines in her stomach and tightened them with her jean jacket, fighting to survive, she managed to write the names of her attackers on the sand, because they kept mentioning each other's names during the attack. That is how the attackers were found and arrested.
She also drew a ❤️ on the sand, and wrote "I love you Mum", for her Mother to at least be left with a beautiful memory of her. 🥰
I subsequently invited her to our Women's Day celebrations event in 2009 when I was working for the South African Civil Aviation Authority. There was no dry eye in the room that day. 😥❤️
A great motivational speaker, a survivor, a symbol of strength of the human spirit. She allowed us to take a closer look at the wound on her neck, which was amazingly barely noticeable. Another miracle was that she was able to have a baby tears later, despite the trauma of stab wounds on her abdomen. I hope she's well and thriving where she is. 🙏🏽💖
Crazy to realize that she was Taylor Swift level famous during this time and was doing all this. Appearing on morning news to debate LGBT rights, AIDS crisis, Wars and womens right. We don’t see celebs doing that anymore.
In 1948, James Peterson was lobotomized for being gay. His parents committed him after discovering his love for another man. The asylum labeled it "sexual perversion" and "treated" him with a transorbital lobotomy-ice picks hammered above his eye sockets into his frontal lobe. It took just 15 minutes, but it erased his vibrant, artistic spirit forever. The doctor assured his parents: "Your son's perversion is corrected." What returned was an empty shell. no desires, no passions, not even for life. Entry wounds above his eyes, a vacant stare where intelligence once shone.
The doctor notes: "Patient calm, no deviant interests. Success." But that "calm" was brain damage; the "success" was personality murder. James never painted, laughed, or loved again. He lived 46 more years in a group home, a hollow routine without preferences or joy, dying in 1994 at 74. His parents visited once, saw the void they'd created, and never came back. To them, a son who was nothing beat one who was gay. This event wasn't isolated. Churches offered their own brutal
"treatments" to "fix" homosexuality. In the 1970's, Brigham Young University (BYU), tied to the Mormon Church, subjected gay students to electroshock aversion therapy—zapping them while showing same-sex images, conditioning pain with desire.
Other faiths pushed exorcisms to cast out "demons," or intense prayer sessions claiming to pray away the gay, often leading to self-harm or suicide. These weren't cures; they were trauma disguised as salvation.
We've come far-conversion therapy is banned in many places, and love is increasingly celebrated. But remember James and countless others: their stories fuel our fight for dignity. No one should be "treated" for being themselves.
Remember when #Madonna was only 35 in 1993 and was already been written off as “Grandma” and past it etc..also this was pre Ray of Light/Music etc..#SmashHits#MadonnaFans
Jeffrey Epstein’s accuser, Virginia Giuffre, has died of “suicide”.
She previously posted: “I am making it publicy known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP- If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quiteted”
This is Wendy Williams conservator Sabrina Morrissey.
Sabrina has been successfully sued in the past for ‘conspiring to perpetuate a baseless guardianship’. The victim was awarded $5.5 million.
Wendy spoke out today about the abuse she’s currently experiencing. #FreeWendy
In 30 to 40 years all of you will be thanking Madonna because Katy, Gaga, Beyonce, Taylor will get no shade or hate for just doing what they want when they are 60+