I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.
It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.
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Lo dijo hace años Simone de Beauvoir: "no olvidéis jamás que bastara una crisis política, económica , religiosa, para que los derechos de las mujeres vuelvan a ser cuestionados. Estos derechos nunca se dan por adquiridos, debemos permanecer vigilantes toda nuestra vida"
This is Marziyeh a woman from my country Iran. Look at her face. She had acid thrown on her face because her hijab was considered “inappropriate.”
Two things about her story break my heart.
First: for more than a decade, I have watched powerful female politicians from the West visit my country, cover their hair, and tell us they are doing it to “respect Iranian culture.”
Iranian culture didn’t do this to her. Theocracy did.
Compulsory hijab is not our culture. It is the culture of those who use religion to control women. Iranian women have paid with prison, lashes, their eyes, their faces, and sometimes their lives for saying NO to it.
Second: the United Nations elected the Islamic Republic to its Commission on the Status of Women.
Yes. The regime that brutalizes women over their hair was chosen to help oversee women’s rights.
That’s like putting the arsonist on the fire-safety committee.
So that is why I am determined to ate the West to respect women. Not the Islamic Ideology that destroy our lives.
My speech at United Against Gender confers Apartheid in Berlin
L'inizio della Civiltà
Una volta chiesero alla celebre antropologa Margaret Mead quando, secondo lei, fosse iniziata la civiltà.
Il suo interlocutore si aspettava risposte come: “la ruota”, “gli utensili”, “i vasi di terracotta”. Ma lei sorrise e disse qualcosa di inaspettato:
“Quando, in una caverna, fu trovato un femore guarito.”
Silenzio. Perché?
"Nel mondo animale,” spiegò, “una gamba rotta è una condanna a morte. Un animale ferito non può cacciare, né fuggire. È spacciato.
Ma un osso guarito significa che qualcuno si è fermato. Qualcuno si è preso cura di lui, lo ha nutrito, protetto e aspettato. Qualcuno ha avuto compassione.”
E poi concluse:
" L’inizio della civiltà non è una scoperta, ma un gesto. Non una pietra, ma un atto d’amore.”
È questo che ci rende davvero umani:
non ciò che costruiamo, ma come ci siamo accanto
quando qualcuno cade.
(Dal web)
#antropologia
🇺🇦 SHE IS ONLY 21 YEARS OLD. AND RUSSIA HAS STOLEN THREE YEARS OF HER YOUNG LIFE.
Exactly three years ago, on August 20, 2023, Russian security forces stormed the home of Yana Suvorova in occupied Melitopol and took her away. She was just 18 years old.
Her “crime”? Yana refused to accept the Russian occupation of her hometown. She helped run the Telegram community “Melitopol Is Ukraine,” where Ukrainians could share information about life under occupation and where one simple truth continued to be spoken: MELITOPOL IS UKRAINE. 🇺🇦
For that, Russia turned an 18-year-old Ukrainian girl into a supposed “spy” and “terrorist.” Russian authorities accused her of collecting information about Russian forces that allegedly contributed to strikes against FSB and Rosgvardia facilities.
After her detention, pro-Ukrainian Telegram resources in Melitopol were hacked and taken over. Yana disappeared into Russia’s prison system.
On October 23, 2025, a Russian military court sentenced her to FOURTEEN YEARS in a penal colony on charges including “espionage,” involvement in a “terrorist community,” and “terrorism.”
FOURTEEN YEARS. For a young Ukrainian woman seized at 18 years old in her own occupied city.
Today Yana is being held in Detention Center No. 2 in Taganrog. She is now 21.
Think about that. At an age when young people should be studying, falling in love, traveling, building careers and dreaming about their futures, Yana has spent THREE YEARS behind Russian bars.
Three birthdays stolen. Three years stolen. Three years of youth that Russia can never give back.
Today, exactly three years after she was taken from her home, we must make sure her name is not forgotten.
HER NAME IS YANA SUVOROVA.
Say her name. Share her photograph. Tell her story. Remind the world that behind the statistics about Ukrainians held by Russia are REAL HUMAN BEINGS — with parents, friends, dreams and lives waiting for them at home.
Yana, hold on. You have NOT been forgotten. Ukraine remembers you. Ukraine is waiting for you. Ukraine is fighting for you. 🇺🇦
BRING YANA HOME. BRING THEM ALL HOME.
This is not a simple protest. They wear their former uniforms and remind the world who they were, and who they still are.
“I was a doctor.”
“I was a police officer.”
“I was a teacher.”
“I was a university student.”
“I was an athlete.”
“I was a supporter.”
Today, the Taliban have pushed them out of their jobs, education, and public life. Yet these Afghan women members of Women’s Courage Movement continue to raise their voices from a small room in Kabul.
They have lost their freedom, but they have not lost their courage. Their voices must be heard. Where is the UN?
#WomenCourageMovement #FreeAfghanistan