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Op-ed: The Fearless Pearl of Africa
Op-ed: The Fearless Pearl of Africa
Writer and photographer David Robinson on how a trans Ugandan embarked on a journey to embrace herself and change the world.
Denver David Robinson
www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/02/02/op-ed-fearless-pearl-africa
4 Women Wore Hijabs For A Day To See What Life's Like For Some Muslim Women
4 Women Wore Hijabs For A Day To See What Life's Like For Some Muslim Women
If you are a woman who chooses to wear a hijab, do people treat you differently? Does the experience impact the way you feel about yourself? In a new Buzzfeed video, four female staffers — who don’t normally wear the head covering — try to answer those questions.
The traditional Muslim headscarf is sometimes viewed as oppressive and sexist in Western cultures. “I feel like it’s an American thing that if you see a woman with a hijab it’s like a symbol of oppression,” one woman said at the beginning of the video. By the end, however, the four women concluded that as long as a woman makes a personal choice to wear the hijab, no one has a right to judge that decision.
The women in the video spoke with Edina Lekovic, the director of policy and programming of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, to learn what the hijab stands for and how to put it on correctly. Lekovic also shared her personal experiences with the headscarf, telling the four women that the first time she wore her hijab a woman came up to her and said, “Honey you’re in America now, you don’t have to wear that here.”
Not knowing how people would react, all of the women who participated in the video were nervous to wear the hijab in public. Each of them received some stares and one reported that she was “patted down extra” at the airport. One of the women even shared a moment with another woman wearing a hijab, saying that she “recognized and smiled back at me. Like saying ‘OK sister, we’re on the same mission.’ We had this kind of female connection. It was very sweet.”
Towards the end of the video, one of the women perfectly summed up the conclusion all four of them reached: “As a woman you should be able to wear whatever you want, and if [a hijab is] what you want to wear that’s what you should wear.”
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More And More Men Are Refusing To Masturbate And Here’s Why
More And More Men Are Refusing To Masturbate And Here’s Why
It all started back in 2011 when a mysterious thread titled “When men don’t masturbate for seven days, their testosterone levels increase by 45.7%” emerged on Reddit.
The post was published by a group called NoFap, which challenges people to abstain from watching porn, having sex, or masturbating in an effort to “seize control of your sexuality and turn it into superpowers.” The thread then challenged readers to see how long they could go without pleasuring themselves, with participants being called “NoFappers” or “Fapstranourts.”
According to NoFap’s website, by abstaining from carnal behavior, a person can recover from “porn-induced sexual dysfunction” as well as enjoy heightened self-control, more hard-drive space, more free time, and an improved attitude.
The whole thing is supposed to be a joke. (Or at least we think so.) But more and more men seem to be taking it seriously, according to the blog Neon Nettle.
“First I thought ‘well this is a great way to get laid, because I’m like a girl magnet now,’ but then it just became ‘whatever… that’s not why I do this,’” Reddit user T_nyDubs writes. “Don’t get me wrong, I love getting laid, but primary motivation is me and fixing myself in my relationship with the world, not just some part of it.”
Reddit user killajoy714 claims that refraining from pleasuring himself has given him “insane confidence,” writing: “don’t give a f**k about what others think about you, easy to maintain eye contact, more respect from guys, more attention from girls, more strength and endurance in the gym, feel extremely happy and positive, brain is more efficient, less retrieval failure, clearer/brighter face and skin (cold showers and getting some sun), more productive, more energy, increased desire to study and learn, willpower increases significantly, easy to get rid of negative influences, and a deeper voice.”
One guy went so far as to post a six-minute video on YouTube gushing about how amazing the experience of not masturbating has been for him.
But according to Neon Nettle, the practice of “nofapping” is nothing new. In fact, records show the practice dating all the way back to antiquity, when athletes in ancient Greece abstained from sex before a big game, believing that sperm provided an added boost of strength necessary to win.
Napoleon Hill’s internationally bestselling self-help book Think and Grow Rich labels the practice of “nofapping” as “sex transmutation.” The theory behind it is that by not releasing one’s sexual energies through regular means (i.e. masturbation, sex, etc.), those same energies find alternative, more productive routes of escaping the body (i.e. projects at work, artistic endeavors, relationships, etc.).
Neon Nettle also cites the website Yourbrainonporn.com, an online resource that explores the relationship between x-rated videos and the human brain. The website suggests that watching too much hanky panky on your computer can lead to a slew of long-term health problems, including your brain being “rewired.”
What do you think? Could you go seven days without masturbating? And do you think your sexual energies would find other ways of escaping your body? Sound off in the comments section below.
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NOM Backs Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Unlawful Crusade Against 'Judicial Tyranny' on Gay Marriage: AUDIO
NOM Backs Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Unlawful Crusade Against 'Judicial Tyranny' on Gay Marriage: AUDIO
On Friday, National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown expressed his unwavering support for Alabama Court Justice Roy Moore’s unlawful campaign to convince his state to defy a federal court ruling overturning the state ban on same-sex marriage.
Right Wing Watch reports on what Brown wrote to his supporters:
We need to stand up to this kind of bullying whenever we encounter it, but especially when it comes dressed up in the robes of the state authority. Indeed, then we shouldn’t call it merely bullying at all, but assign it the true name it deserves: tyranny. […]
Marriage Supporter, this is the kind of principled stand we need more of our public officials to take—and we need to take such a stand ourselves, too. […]
And as we work, let’s remember that we’re not alone in this fight! Lately, I have had a few opportunities to meet with marriage leaders throughout the globe, such as at the recent Vatican Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman. The experiences of these countries make it clear that we have a global fight to preserve marriage, and that the biggest threats to marriage are unfortunately coming from the West — led by the United States (and the lawless actions of President Obama) but also including some countries in western Europe.
Moore, meanwhile, was interviewed by the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios on Friday and talked about the similarities he sees between the gay marriage issue and Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson – in that all three are instances of where the courts were in the wrong both morally and constitutionally.
Later in the interview, Rios asked Moore what he would say to Christians who are upset that he’s breaking the law by defying the federal courts. Moore replied “This is not against the law, this is for the law.”
Listen to Moore’s interview, AFTER THE JUMP…
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Thinking Critically About Diversity: A Focus on LGBT Philanthropy
Thinking Critically About Diversity: A Focus on LGBT Philanthropy
Workshop Speakers: Ken Aucoin, CFRE, Nancy Horvath, Carol Seidman, MSW, CFRE, Rupen Seoni, Sharon Shelton. Nov. 24, 2014.
Sometimes Help Can Be Written In Their Hands
Diane Warren Calls Out Rita Ora For Not Supporting 'Grateful'
Diane Warren Calls Out Rita Ora For Not Supporting 'Grateful'
No one was more surprised to see Diane Warren listed among this year’s Best Original Song nominees than Diane Warren herself.
“I’m still shocked,” Warren, who was nominated for writing “Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights,” told HuffPost Entertainment. “This year there was Coldplay, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Jennifer Lawrence sang a song, Imagine Dragons, Patti Smith — and I’m leaving off 50 others. There were so many people this year.”
Warren has seven career nominations now, but this year marks her first since “There You’ll Be” from 2001’s “Pearl Harbor.”
“I do so many songs for movies. I always get disappointed. A few years ago, I won the Golden Globe for ‘You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me’ from ‘Burlesque,’ and I didn’t even get nominated at the Oscars. It was the one time in my life I was probably a front-runner,” Warren said. “This time I said I was going to have no hope. No one saw the movie. It came and went in a weekend. But people loved it. It had 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It had so much emotion. It was better a bunch of the Oscar movies. It’s a great movie.”
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, “Beyond the Lights” was one of the year’s most underseen gems. Critics raved about the project — we placed it on the HuffPost Entertainment list of 2014’s best movies — but the film was scuttled away almost as quickly as it came out. Relativity Media, which released “Beyond the Lights,” didn’t send out awards screeners. Warren herself had to pay for trade ads promoting her work. (“I said I’m going to bet on myself. I might not have any shot whatsoever, but I will always bet on myself,” she said. “I’m good bet.”) Even Rita Ora, who sings “Grateful,” has largely ignored the song’s existence.
“Gina, the director, wanted Rita to do it,” Warren said. “Had I known there wouldn’t be a lot of support, had I known she would have only tweeted about it once … you know? She sang it great, but it’s a little frustrating.”
Ora will perform “Grateful” at the Oscars on Feb. 22, but beyond a few tweets — one congratulating Warren for the Oscar nomination — she’s remained largely silent about the track. (Over the last month, her Twitter feed has heavily promoted “Doing It,” a collaboration she did with Charli XCX, instead.)
According to Warren, both she and Prince-Bythewood have contacted Ora personally about recording a video for “Grateful.” They received no response.
“I have to be really honest, I don’t want to be a jerk or anything, but had I known about this lack of support, there are other artists I’m working with that — if it had been up to me — I would have gone with,” Warren said. “She sang it great! But, come on. How on Earth are you not wanting to [promote it] … I don’t get it. Everybody around me, we’re all shocked. How can … just … you know?”
A representative for Ora did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The singer, however, did provide a statement to Yahoo! Movies:
I’m so thankful to be have been able to participate in a piece of Diane Warren’s lyrical genius. I am incredibly ‘grateful’ that I will have the opportunity to perform at the Oscars thanks to her work, and I’m so glad that I’ll be able to share it with a wider audience on February 22.”
Prince-Bythewood was not immediately available for comment.
Warren has written some of the most iconic pop songs from the last 30 years, including Oscar nominees “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing.” She said that with the right awareness campaign, “Grateful” could have been just as big.
“What all these other songs have in common, and what this should have in common with them, is that they were mass appeal hits,” Warren said. “I could see that maybe you don’t put it out as a single before the nomination, but when you’re going to sing it to millions of people … really? No video, no nothing. Really?”
But despite the rocky rollout, Warren couldn’t be happier with her work or the film itself. “I love the song,” she said. “I love the point of view where it’s coming from. I need to listen to my own words. It’s such a great, positive message. Everybody who hears it really loves it, which is why it got nominated.”
And while “Grateful” sits as an underdog contender behind favorites like “Glory” from “Selma” and “Everything Is Awesome!!!” from “The LEGO Movie,” Warren isn’t ready to chalk up another defeat.
“The little teeny song from the little teeny movie. My seventh nomination after losing six times. Who knows?” she said. “It could go all the way. Literally, everything is so against it. All these people are doing videos and going out. You know what? I’m a scrappy little fighter. My song’s a scrappy little fighter.”
First gay tour of Auschwitz announced
First gay tour of Auschwitz announced
Israeli travel group Hebro Travel will visit WWII concentration camp in August
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/first-gay-tour-auschwitz-announced020215
