Once again, urging everyone to read Lila Abu-Lughod's most seminal paper, "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?"
The paper, written in context of Afghan women and the need to save them as an excuse to invade Afghanistan, is relevant all these years later.
studying arabic in college is so crazy because the course is so overtly designed for federal agents. why did we learn how to say “i work at the united nations” before “it is sunny today” like 😭😭😭
Watch this interview:
“My parents have been in this house for 75 years and they've had the same insurance AND THESE INSURANCE PEOPLE DECIDED TO CANCEL THEIR FIRE. We're going through this and it just happened and they don't have fire insurance!”
@enggirlfriend I think you can trust them if a woman got it for them ;) got my husband one in our twenties when we got engaged because I think men (and women!) deserve nice things, why does the woman just get a ring!
And he has all of the rest of those things you describe haha :)
In 2015, Apple tried to CRUSH Spotify.
• Threatened to remove them from App Store
• Demanded 30% of all revenue
• Blocked their app updates
But Spotify's response was genius.
Here's how a Swedish startup outsmarted the world's biggest company 🧵
smelling good, remembering people’s names, and wishing people happy birthday on their actual birthday remain undefeated as three of the simplest charisma hacks in life. especially smelling good
Yesterday I learned I can’t talk about my birth trauma because:
- I’m a woman
- It would mean I hate my kids.
- Encourages abortion
- Men have trauma
- It wasn’t actually trauma
one of the surgeons at the hospital I’m at always writes weird things on his cups in the lounge (so he knows it’s his and doesn’t have to waste more styrofoam) and I’ve started taking pictures of them… so here’s a thread
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