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Rallah Baker, from the Biri-Gubba-Juru and Yugerra people, will be Australia’s first Aboriginal Opthamologist. This is a huge achievement in a country where there are only 204 Indigenous doctors, and only 22 specialists currently in training.

Australia’s First Nation communities status regarding eye health is bleak. They are 12x more likely to suffer blinding cataracts, with Australia remaining the only developed nation where trachoma exists- in 60% of remote First Nation communities. This is exacerbated by some First Nations members having a distrust of White doctors (and rightly so) and a continued lack of funding by government in First Nation Health programs (much of the slack is taken up by NGOs like the Fred Hollows Foundation). Having an Indigenous face, like Rallah Baker, on the other side of the table is a huge boon. (X)

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Dolce Gabbana ss14 + hair colors | inspired by (+)

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Salome dances her dance of the seven veils, The men all eye her like wolves on the hunt, this beautiful girl finally undressing for them. Finally they can see her exactly as they want to. The first veil drops. In 2007, Kim Kardashian’s ex-boyfriend released their sex tape against her will. Kim Kardashian, rather than hide in shame Used the publicity to promote her own career. Salome moves like a dream half-remembered. Salome dances like a siren song. All the men ache to see the hot sugar of her hip bones. The second veil drops. In 2014, Kim Kardashian walks down the aisle As the whole world watches. If only all of us were so successful in our revenge. If only all of us stood in our Louboutin heels on the backs of the men who betray us, surveying the world we created for ourselves. The third veil drops. Kim Kardashian knows exactly what you think of her. She presses the cloth tighter against her skin Her smile is a promise she never intends to keep We can almost see all of her. Salome shows us her body but never her eyes. The fourth veil is dropping. The four things most recently tweeted at Kim Kardashian were @KimKardashian Suck My Dick @Kim Kardashian Can I Meet Kanye? @KimKardashian Please Fuck Me @KimKardashian I Love You. I Love You. Women are told to keep their legs shut. Women are told to keep their mouths shut. Some women are kept silent for so long, They become experts in the silent theft of power. The fifth veil has dropped. Kim Kardashian made $12 million dollars this year Yesterday, uncountable men in their miserable jobs, told their miserable friends that Kim was a “dumb whore” Kim Kardashian will never learn their names. The sixth veil has dropped. The seventh veil has dropped. And Salome sat beside King Herod. And he swore unto her “Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give to thee unto the half of my kingdom” And she smiled, and said “Bring me the head of John The Baptist. Punish the man who hurt me”

Clementine von Radics (via clambistro)

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Nicki Minaj speaking on why she hired Vlogger Beat Face Honey as her personal makeup artist

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Literally my only complaint about this is that they haven't changed the breed of dog (well also, an Australian called "Chuck"?)

Those are the Hansens – Chuck and Herc. Australian Aboriginal pilots, a father and son team. They’ve got Striker Eureka, the fastest jaeger in the world, first and last of the Mark V’s.

with Rowan McNamara as Chuck & Aaron Pedersen as Herc

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I don’t need feminism because I like it when a man opens the door for me to enter a room. And then leave it again. And enter. And leave. And… enter. No wait, leave, definitely leave. Wait, I mean enter…

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Confused Cats Against Feminism is a project of We Hunted the Mammoth:The New Misogyny, tracked and mocked.

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and here’s Jesus clearly handling the ball. yellow card

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Literal LOLs courtesy of legend boss @pennymodra’s glossary of artistic terms in the @niteart printed companion. #artmelbourne

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I want it all.

RAMI KADI Un Souffle d’Orient Collection

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Yes I will have some mushrooms with my industrial quantities of cheese (and polenta). #whatafriendwehaveincheeses

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Ottolenghi has an answer for you if you're thinking about buying half a kilo of taleggio cheese. #whatafriendwehaveincheeses

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Dahomey’s Warrior Women

Speaking of West Africa, the Dahomey Warrior Women involves a fascinating history that spans nearly 200 years. It was during this time that the elite squad of female warriors fought and died for the border rights and inter-tribal issues in the ancient kingdom of Dahomey.

These women, who outranked their male counterparts, were given far more privileges, including the ability to  come and go from the palaces as they pleased (unlike the men). They were so revered for their warrior prowess, The Smithsonian explains, that men were taught to keep their distance:

“Recruiting women into the Dahomean army was not especially difficult, despite the requirement to climb thorn hedges and risk life and limb in battle. Most West African women lived lives of forced drudgery. Gezo’s female troops lived in his compound and were kept well supplied with tobacco, alcohol and slaves – as many as 50 to each warrior, according to the noted traveler Sir Richard Burton, who visited Dahomey in the 1860s. And “when amazons walked out of the palace,” notes Alpern, “they were preceded by a slave girl carrying a bell. The sound told every male to get out of their path, retire a certain distance, and look the other way.” To even touch these women meant death.”

Yet as colonialist ambitions grew in the region, the Dahomey female warriors eventually grew sparse. Fierce combat missions to crush the independent kingdom eventually succeeded, and in the 1940s, it is said that the last of the female warriors died.

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Lady Mermaid Takes A Day On The Coast

My hair and this bathing suit are a match made in mermaid heaven.

NOT FOR PORN, BBW, FETISH OR WHATEVER BLOGS. I don’t care what nomenclature you have for your blog. If you post a lot of explicit content, don’t reblog me. I think I’ve made myself clear.

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oh god, why am I so much more sensitive than everybody else ? why do I feel things so much more acutely than them, and understand so much more. I bet I’m the first person who’s ever felt as rotten as this. could it be that I’m going to grow up to be a great poet and thinker, and all those other wankers in my class are going to have to work in factories or go on the dole? yes, I think it could.

Rick’s Teen Anguish Poem - Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book (via genuinecheerleader)

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Battle between Sunda and Upsasunda (Mahabarata). Style of Banteay Srei, early Angkor Period. c. 967. Pediment from the west porch of the eastern gopura of the third wall of the Banteay Srei temple. Photographer: Michel Urtado / Thierry Ollivier. Musée Guimet. 

The Ganguli English translation of the Mahābhārata is the only complete one in the public domain. It is available for reading on Sacred Texts in English and Sanskrit. 

This pediment depicts a scene from the Mahābhārata, one of the two great Sanskrit epics, and the longest epic poem in the world, at almost 100,000 stanzas. The book, Ancient Indian Literature: An Anthology, v. 2 describes the Mahabharata:

As a unique literary phenomenon, the Mahābhārata is myth (purāna), legend (itihāsa), poem (kāvya), and much more, for it comprises material from several branches of knowledge including philosophy, law, ethics, statecraft, warfare, history, and ethnology in its structure which revolves around the feud between two branches of a royal family and the circumstances leading to a catastrophic war. Even if it is argued that the Mahābhārata is purely mythical and that the incidents narrated in the epic have no basis in actual history, is must be admitted that the epic is appealing for its humaneness and universality, as a comment on the human condition with all its richness, complexity, and subtlety.