#rafia as parents

[araybiaa]

rafia as parents headcanons

rafe as a girl dad

he’s such a softie. especially when his little girl — whose features are nearly identical to sofia’s — looks up at him with those wide puppy dog eyes and her pouted lower lip, making it damn near impossible to say no to anything that she asks him.

he does these silly little voices whenever he reads bedtime stories. he loves putting on a performance for his little girl and hearing her giggles whenever his voice ascends a few octaves higher than usual as he reads to her.

he makes sure he’s there every night to tuck her in. he doesn’t care if the work day isn’t officially finished. at 7:30 he leaves the office every night, just so he can make it in time to get home to his family.

he watches youtube videos to learn how to braid. it’s complicated at first, but after a few tutorials he test trails a style on sofia and it doesn’t come out too bad. on the mornings where sofia wants to sleep in a bit, he’s the one that gets her dressed. after a while, he perfects her two braided pigtails look.

he loves playing dress up with her. when it comes to his little girl; masculinity doesn’t exist. he allows her to paint his nails, put bows and ribbons in his hair, acts as a stand in mannequin when she wants to put makeup on him.

he makes a habit of taking her on a daddy-daughter date at least once a week. whether it’s to the park, out for ice-cream, to the zoo or aquarium. he cherishes those dates, knowing that he’s making memories with her.

he’s the dad that video tapes and photographs everything. he’s got his own camera that he brings along to all of her recitals and performances.

rafe as a boy dad

he makes sure his son knows that it’s okay to cry. growing up, he was taught to internalize his emotions; that boys didn’t cry. when his son cries, rafe consoles him without hesitation and holds him until the cries subside.

sofia still has to reassure him that he’s doing a good job. he has to be reminded that they’re both still new to this and that it’s okay to not be perfect because they were learning all of this together.

he coaches his son’s baseball team. he loved that his son showed interest in wanting to play the same sport that he played growing up. they have the same number jersey and it brings tears to his eyes seeing #21 and cameron stitched in the back of his son’s jersey like his was.

they go on dad and son dates too. on their first trip, him and barry take his son camping. they teach him how to make s’mores and start a fire. (he cries when his son kisses his cheek and tells him that he was the best dad in the world and thanks him for the best trip ever.)

he’s the dad that hang up every art project. it’s moments and memorabilia all over his office.

he hates when his son cries. it makes rafe emotional seeing him in any kind of pain. he has to stand out in the hall during his doctors appointments because the last time he nearly cursed out the doctor for making him cry when he got his yearly shots.

he’s the fun parent. he doesn’t like having to discipline his son because of how he grew up. but in the important times when he knows that he has to, he steps up. never once leaving sofia alone to bear the brunt of that responsibility.

sofia as a girl mom

she loves having a mini-her. she buys them cute mommy and me sets, and styles their hair the same. she loves when everyone says that it looks as if she birthed herself because of how much they look alike.

she loves cooking with her daughter. when she was younger, she used to always help her mom and abuela in the kitchen and now that she has a daughter of her own, it’s like she’s keeping up that tradition.

just like rafe, she records everything. he likes to joke that she’s like the mom in mean girls during the christmas talent show scene with how she knows every single step of their daughters routine.

she loves being a mom. it fits her. she love everything about it; even though she didn’t have an easy pregnancy she wouldn’t change anything about it.

she thinks it’s funny how her daughter looks exactly like her but has rafe’s strong personality.

she loves what motherhood has taught her about herself as a person. she learned the importance of patience and has appreciated family even more than she’s ever had.

she teaches her spanish. tells her about their heritage and it’s importance. (sofia finds it amazing at how easily she picks up her native tongue.)

sofia as a boy mom

she loves seeing how rafe interacts with him. she knew that during her pregnancy he had doubts about what kind of father he would be; but she loves watching him prove himself wrong with how much he loves and cares for their little boy. he’s a better father than he could’ve ever imagine.

she’s the mom that’s always involved whether it’s her hosting the after game parties at their house, baking goods for the team meetings, her being on board with the pta. she’s always there.

she loves how much of rafe’s in him. he has the same azure colored eyes and smile as him. he’s just as sensitive too — always seeking her out whenever he gets overstimulated and needs her to comfort him to calm him down.

she’s protective over him. her maternal instincts are always heightened whenever it comes to him because she knows how shy and reserved he is.

she likes to cook with him. (it’s more so of him taste testing the food rather than actually helping, but she loves the company nonetheless.)

she familiarizes herself with his favorite cartoons and comics; she could listen to him talk about his interests and hobbies for hours.

she’s the mom that lets him sleep with them even when she and rafe both agree that he’s at an age where he should be sleeping in his own bed. she tries to be strong, but the moment she hears him call out her name or open her eyes and sees him standing at her bedside with his stuffy against his chest and his wide eyes looking pleadingly at her, she gives in.

[rafiakhalid]

(via A strong bond that turns you weak is LOVE)

[cuntleone]

looking through my edits folder on tiktok and seeing a rafia edit… god please bring back my parents together i miss them so much my shayla come back to me rafia

[foxwitchaine]

The named characters in Phaluverie.

Rowena Trevor - twisted from Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. She is a second-year in Phaluverie. Growing up, Rowena wasn't shown much love by either parent, both of whom preferred her brother. While she does suffer from crippling depression as a result, she's found a solid support network. Her best friend is Rafia.

Pippa Leigh - twisted from Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. She is a first-year in Phaluverie. A new member of the Spelldrive team, Pippa has a talent for making the strangest friends. Highly energetic and friendly, Pippa is easy to befriend. But good luck keeping her attention for more than a few minutes.

[gatheringbones]

[“Historically, our law enforcement and criminal legal systems have fixated on fundamentally white-supremacist notions of protecting the virtue and innocence of white women and girls, primarily as justification for enacting horrifying acts of violence upon non-white, non-citizen men. Simultaneously, police and the prison system have always regarded women and girls of color with skepticism and hostility.

The VAWA was enacted within a context and legacy of women of color and especially Black and brown women experiencing such prevalent state and police violence in their communities that seeking help from law enforcement isn’t an option. In this sense, the law embodies white feminism. As author and activist Rafia Zakaria notes on the very first page of her 2021 book Against White Feminism, white feminists aren’t defined by their race but by their refusal “to consider the role that whiteness and the racial privilege attached to it have played . . . in universalizing white feminist concerns, agendas and beliefs as being those of all feminists.” It’s an ideology that universalizes white women as all women, and consequently harms women and femmes of color through the carceral “solutions” that it asserts will protect (white) women. Per the 2012 Rights4Girls study “The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline,” 76 percent of incarcerated survivors in the Oregon prison system experienced sexual assault by the age of thirteen and are predominantly women and girls of color.11 The same study found criminalization and incarceration of those who had experienced early sexual traumas often stemmed from being unable to access crucial resources and supports to cope with their trauma.

In many communities, lack of resources for victims is a direct result of overinvestment in policing and incarceration. White women–led survivor justice movements exist in sharp contrast with historically Black women–led reproductive justice advocacy, which has always recognized how criminalization and incarceration are inherently anti-feminist. From policing the pregnancy outcomes and self-managed abortions of women of color, to the prevalence of Black families and families of color being torn apart by the prison system (one in nine Black children has an incarcerated parent, compared with one in twenty-eight white children), abolition is requisite to reproductive justice—and consequently, survivor justice.”]

kylie cheung, from survivor injustice: state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy, 2023

[hardynwa]

Zamfara Community Releases Names Of 85 Children, Women, Others Abducted By Terrorists

SaharaReproters had reported how the terrorists kidnapped at least 80 children on Friday morning during a fresh operation in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The Wanzamai community in Zamfara State's Tsafe Local Government Area has compiled a list of the 85 people kidnapped by suspected terrorists on Friday. Although the victims' ages were not specified, it was learnt that they included women and children. SaharaReproters had reported how the terrorists kidnapped at least 80 children on Friday morning during a fresh operation in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. This was confirmed to BBC Hausa by the parents of the victims who revealed that the children were between the ages of 12 and 17. They added that the victims were in the bush fetching firewood at about 8:00 a.m. when the terrorists rounded them up and marched them away into the forest. A parent who said her 15-year-old son was abducted spoke to the BBC Hausa service about the attack and expressed concern about the children in captivity. “We are worried because we don’t know the condition of our children in captivity,” she said. A journalist who covers insecurity in Northern Nigeria for foreign media, Yusuf Anka posted on Twitter, ��At least 85 people, including teenagers and older men and women, were abducted by armed bandits loyal to Ado Aleru in the communities of Wanzamai, Kucheri, and Yankara in the border areas between Zamfara and Katsina States on thursday. “This incident comes after the Nigerian military succeeded in killing four bandits loyal to Aleru who were looking after his herds in Magazu areas.” The list of names of the 85 victims reads as follows: - Nana Ash Ala - Abdullahi Ado Nabu Zuwa - Suleman Yahnya Sacintayi - Fauziyah Salisu - Rabi Umaru D/Sokoto - Yahuza Ali Sokoto - Safara’u Ibrahim - Yasin Ibn Mai - Hawawu Usman - Farida Usman - Nana Zayyanu 12 Jamila Zayyanu - Hassan Muntari - Suleiman Muntari - Rukayya Babariro Buzu - Hassan Babariro Buzu - Usaina Babairo Buzu - Bashariya Shehu - Maryam Shehu - Bilki Hamisu - Nawara Ahsiru - Musa Dargoma - Khalifa Sule - Mustafa Alfa - Najibu Mani - Yargoma Ayye - Jabiru Nayaro - Asma’u Nayaro - Hadiza Nayaro - Sherifa Isihu - Yayyah Isihu - Usman Mai Kiyo - Hassi Mai Kiyo - Murja - Abba Muhaka - Malan Alasan - Semia Allaramma - Umma Alh Yau - Murshida Ibrahim - Kabiru Mustafa - Nusaiba Mustafa - Sanmillu Sani - Maryam Muntari - Ibrahim Naamaikoto - Fati Sani - Ibrahim Isabi - Rukaya Hamza - Zaharau Abdulkadir - Mustafa Abdulkadir - Wasila Dayya bi dabu - Fati Dayya bi dabu - Khadija Dayya bi dabu - Rabiatu Dayya bi dabu - Sabila Monsura - Aadi Mustapha - Zainab Midahiru - Mustapha - Yusuf Bashar - Ado - Nafisa - Lawisa - Ssabila - Umar Mustapha Naket - Ashiru Isahu - Fauziya Salisu - Rafia Sigaga - Saila Sigaga - Nana Hamida - Usaifa Hamida - Mairo Abdullaihi - Yahaya Alaranma - Abdulrahaman Yahuza - Nafisa - Ziyara - Wasila - Farida - Zakiya - Hawararkura Halidu - Shamsiya - Nana - Aminu - Sai Fullahi - Dan Adadi - Nasiru - Yusuf Read the full article

[thebellekeys]

10 books to read if you loved Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria

[lesbianslovebts]

My 2022 Reading List

I've been trying to do some more reading this year. It's been hard to read for the past 4 years because college burned me out, I've struggled adjusting to a full-time phone job (while being autistic, mind you), and then the pandemic happened. I'm not quite where I want to be yet, but I've done a lot better this year. Here are the books I have read, am reading, and plan to read this year.

Fiction:

"Black Water Sister" by Zen Cho

"The Good Son" by You-Jeong Jeong

"The Only Child" by Mi-Ae Seo

(will read) "The Chosen and the Beautiful" by Nghi Vo

(will read) "Grotesque" by Natsuo Kirino

Nonfiction:

"The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains" by Choo WaiHong

"Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha's Life, Teachings, and Practices" by Joan Duncan Oliver

"The Buddha: An Alternative Narrative of His Life and Teaching" by Mukunda Rao

"We're Not Broken" by Eric Garcia

(need to finish) "Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity" edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu

"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Frederik Engels

"Hood Feminism" by Mikki Kendall

"The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

"A Queer History of the United States" by Michael Bronski

(will read) "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption" by Rafia Zakaria

(will read) "The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism" by Kyla Schuller

(will read) "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity" by Steve Silberman

Other:

"Japanese Stories for Language Learners: ショートストーリーで学ぶ日本語, Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English" by Anne McNulty and Eriko Sato

"Korean Stories for Language Learners: 언어 학습자를 위한 한국 전래동화, Traditional Folktales in Korean and English" by Julie Damron and Eunsun You

"Read Real Japanese: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors" edited by Janet Ashby

[rf-times]

Hi I've been reading your asks about this whole imperialism thing and i have to admit that im really ignorant about it. Honestly even if i ask someone, either my parents, or by searching on google I wouldn't get it. Do you have any books i can read more about it? I know this is a dumb ask but i hate staying ignorant and uneducated on this topic.

Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria is a great resource

[brooklynmuseum]

Mini Art Lesson  Tuesday, April 14, 2020

For this week's Mini Art Lesson, we take inspiration from Judith Scott's sculptural work, Untitled (1994). Let's get creative by looking at shapes, and the different ways we can make them! The step-by-step instructions below teach children ages 2–6 how to use found objects and materials to make art and ways for ages 7+ to make new shapes and forms with a paper mache project!

FOR AGES 2–6:  LET’S PLAY 

Step 1: Judith Scott often made her sculptures using found or everyday objects. Take a look at the sculpture with your child and identify materials that you recognizes. 

Step 2: Create a song to the common tune of Frère Jacques about the materials you identified. Here’s a song that Tamar MacKay, Lead Educator and Family Programs Coordinator, created:

What are you made of? What are you made of? Work of art, work of art. Yarn and paper towels, Yarn and paper towels, And found objects. And found objects.

And, check out Tayler Milburn’s version below:

Step 3: Now, it’s your turn to create an artwork! Gather five objects that would work well together. Here, our friends Mariko and Sol use play dough, string, pipe cleaners, and paper, but you can use whatever you have!

Step 4: Experiment with different ways to use your materials! Work with your child to describe the texture, size, and shape of each material. Now put your items together to make a stand-alone sculpture. 

Thanks to Mariko and Sol for their help on this!

FOR AGES 7+: LET’S CREATE

Judith Scott was a master of form, so today we’ll explore creating forms of our own. 

Step 1: Look at the shapes that make up this sculpture. Then, start with a base shape. Senior Instructor Noé Gaytán is using a balloon, but you can build something out of cardboard, wire, or other household materials. 

Step 2: Create paper mache paste by mixing 1 part flour and 1 part water. Then, cut up strips of fabric or paper, and then drip them in the mix to cover your base.

Step 3: Let’s add some texture! Once your base is covered, make shapes with your extra stripes and add them to your sculpture with more paper mache mix. How many different shapes can you come up with?

Step 4: Let your paper cache sculpture dry for at least 24 hours. Then, use materials like yarn, string, or rafia to test out different binding techniques—just like Scott!

How would you describe the unique form you have created?

FOR TEACHERS, CAREGIVERS, AND PARENTS Access a free teaching guide for Judith Scott’s work, featuring questions for viewing and other great activities and lessons.

We’ll be back next Tuesday with another Mini Art Lesson! In the meantime, let us know what your like to see or learn!

Posted by Tamar MacKay and Noé Gaytán

Judith Scott (American, 1943-2005). Untitled, 1994. Fiber and found objects. Brooklyn Museum, Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund, 2015.30. © Estate of Judith Scott (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, Benjamin Blackweller)

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Support FG in winning war against drug abuse - FOMWAN appeals to parents, others

Support FG in winning war against drug abuse – FOMWAN appeals to parents, others

Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) has appealed to the federal government to put measures in place to prevent sale and consumption of hard drugs and substances across the country. The association noted that this necessary in order for the government to win the war against drug abuse. National President of the association, Alhaja Rafia Idowu Sanni made these disclosures…

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[diariodocarioca]

Saiba o que pode reduzir à resposta imune a vacina contra Covid-19

Um novo estudo italiano publicado realizado com 248 profissionais de saúde que receberam duas doses da vacina BNT162b2 de RNAm, desenvolvida pelas empresas BioNTech e Pfizer, demonstrou que a resposta imune dos pacientes com obesidade, idosos e do sexo masculino à vacina pode ser reduzida.

No estudo, 99,5% dos participantes desenvolveram uma resposta imunitária humoral após a segunda dose da vacina, entretanto, a robustez da resposta variou de acordo com o índice de massa corporal (IMC), idade e sexo. Dos 248 pacientes, 158 eram mulheres (63,7%) e 90 eram homens (36,3%).

Os resultados do estudo demonstraram uma forte correlação entre os níveis de IMC e os títulos de anticorpos, tendo em vista que a resposta humoral foi mais eficiente no grupo com peso abaixo do normal e normal do que no grupo com sobrepeso e obesidade.

No contexto atual, a obesidade e o sobrepeso merecem uma atenção especial, uma vez que esta aumenta a morbimortalidade em pacientes com COVID-19.

A obesidade é uma epidemia mundial em expansão em países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento, por isso a questão da eficácia das vacinas COVID-19 em pacientes com obesidade é fundamental para a saúde mundial. O estado de inflamação crônica constante nos pacientes com sobrepeso e obesidade pode reduzir as respostas imunológicas, incluindo as respostas mediadas por células T, que são as respostas do nosso sistema imunológico, capazes de matar diretamente, como células infectadas pelo Sars Cov-2.

O infográfico abaixo ilustra de forma resumida a maneira que a obesidade pode reduzir as respostas imunológicas:

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Como a obesidade pode reduzir a resposta imune à vacina Covid-19Reprodução/Reprodução

Como evidências já demonstraram que pacientes com obesidade apresentam respostas imunes reduzidas às vacinas contra influenza, hepatite B e raiva em comparação com os pacientes magros, o planejamento de um programa de vacinação eficaz nesse subgrupo é fundamental, uma vez que ter uma população vacinada não é sinônimo de ter uma população imune, especialmente em um país com alta incidência de obesidade.

Embora mais estudos sejam realizados, esses dados podem ser de suma importância para o desenvolvimento de estratégias de vacinação para COVID-19, particularmente em pacientes idosos, obesos e/ou portadores de doenças crônicas como diabetes, câncer e doenças cardiovasculares.

Referências:

1.Pellini, R., Venuti, A., Pimpinelli, F., Abril, E., Blandino, G., & Campo, F. et al. (2021). OBESITY MAY HAMPER SARS-CoV-2 VACCINE IMMUNOGENICITY. doi: 10.1101/2021.02.24.21251664

2. https://portugues.medscape.com/verartigo/6506091 Medscape . Serfaty FM.

3. Obesity and COVID-19: what makes obese host so vulnerable? Sameer Mohammad, Rafia Aziz, Saeed Al Mahri, Shuja Shafi Malik,Esraa Haji, Altaf Husain Khan, Tanvir Saleem Khatlani & Abderrezak Bouchama Immunity & Ageing volume 18, Article number: 1 (2021)

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[timespakistan]

Poverty, inadequate govt measures decreasing public college enrolment in Karachi Forty-eight per cent of the students in Karachi who passed their matriculation examinations last year were unable to continue their education, according to the statistics of the Sindh E-Centralised College Admission Programme (Seccap) and the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK). Owing to the unavailability of seats, especially due to the success rate of over 99 per cent in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) annual exams, 91,173 students could not get an admission in college. According to educators, child rights activists and economists, poverty is one of the major reasons that is decreasing college enrolment, while the government also has not taken adequate measures to curb the other factors. Admission stats According to the statistics, 112,372 students were declared passed in the SSC annual exams 2018 held under the BSEK. The success rate of the science group was 63 per cent, while that of the general group was 62.5 per cent. Over 81 per cent (91,453) of the students were granted admission in public colleges, but the remaining 20,919 (19 per cent) were not considered for admission or they had not applied for it. The following year, 161,882 science group students took the matric exams and 68.5 per cent of them passed, while 20,468 general group students attempted the exams and 64 per cent of them passed. Of the total 124,081 students who cleared their matric exams, 88,575 (over 71 per cent) were granted admission to different public colleges through Seccap, but 35,506 (29 per cent) could not get in a college. In 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the BSEK issued the results without conducting the SSC exams. Therefore, the passing percentage last year was 99.8 per cent for the science group and 99.5 per cent for the general group. In the ongoing academic year, 99,593 (over 52 per cent) of the 190,766 passed students have been enrolled in government colleges. But the unavailability of seats has deprived the remaining 91,173 (48 per cent) students of getting an admission. This shows that since 2018, around 35 per cent of the students could not continue their education after passing their SSC exams. And, according to the statistics, among those students, the number of females was more than that of males. Reasons Educators and child rights activists listed poverty, child marriages, rigid family boundaries, poor academic results, pursuing professional and vocational courses, location of colleges, transportation and additional academic expenses as the major factors for decreasing college enrolment. But for female students, they named family restrictions, poverty and child marriages as the main reasons that force them to discontinue their education after secondary school. Poverty Rana Asif Habib, who works for the well-being of street children, is of the view that poverty is one of the major reasons that is decreasing college enrolment. He said that low-income families living in underdeveloped areas, slums and suburban localities force their children into labour. He pointed out that some families staying in makeshift houses even involve their children in begging. Habib said that in the past three years Pakistan has observed massive waves of inflation, due to which majority of the working-class parents have been unable to send their kids to college. “They simply can’t afford the hefty fees and other expenses.” Child marriages Habib pointed out that rigid family boundaries and child marriages also result in students discontinuing their education after matric, saying that in traditional families, parents restrict their children, especially females, from going out. He said they prefer to arrange marriages for their daughters instead of educating them. In some cases, he added, heavy responsibilities fall upon the shoulders of minor boys, who ultimately discontinue their education. According to the Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of over 1,500 civil society organisations, 18 per cent of the girls in Pakistan are married before their 18th birthday and four per cent before the age of 15. Locations of colleges Nadeem Hussain, who is an education economist and policy commentator, said that challenges such as poverty, locations of colleges, unsatisfactory academic arrangements and additional financial expenses are the root causes of declining enrolment. He explained that the transportation system in Karachi is pathetic, saying that over the years the number of buses in the city has fallen from 35,000 to 8,000. He also said that students used to be charged half the fare, but those buses have gradually disappeared, while no alternative transport has been provided. So, he added, families, particularly those with conservative backgrounds, usually do not allow their female members to travel far for college. Additional expenses Hussain pointed out that parents and students do not rely only on what is taught in colleges, saying that they believe they would also need to study at tuition centres for additional academic support to ensure good results. He said that since most colleges are unable to perform up to par, those from low-income backgrounds see an admission leading to additional expenses, and so discontinue their education. Family boundaries Hussain also pointed out that thousands of families have moved to the city but they have been living according to their own traditions. He said that in such families, very few females even study up to matric. He explained that this is why tribal, societal, traditional and other conservative norms have also been decreasing college enrolment. As far as child marriages are concerned, he said that they curtail female education 100 per cent. Possibilities Directorate of Inspection & Registration of Private Institutions Sindh Registrar Rafia Javed rejected the idea that a large number of students discontinue their education after matric. She pointed out that thousands of students apply for admission in private high schools and colleges, as well as in technical education institutes and vocational training centres. She also pointed out that several thousand students take the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) exams as external candidates every year. So, she explained, many of the students considered to have discontinued their education are external candidates or enrolled at other institutions of learning. Rafia said that at present, some 20 higher secondary schools and colleges are running across the city, while 17 institutes are imparting technical education and vocational training. But scholar Asim Bashir Khan, who has done a lot of work on preparing government reports on education, disagrees with Rafia’s view. He said that SSC is not a prerequisite for getting an admission for vocational training or short courses. Moreover, he added, hardly three or four per cent of the total number of students who do not get an admission in a public college make their way into any of the rest of the institutes. Khan said that the number of students taking the HSSC exams as external candidates does not exceed 5,000, while the Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) conducts exams for all districts of the province. So, he explained, the statistics of the students who do not get an admission in a public college cannot be compared those of the SBTE and the HSSC external exams held under the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi. https://timespakistan.com/poverty-inadequate-govt-measures-decreasing-public-college-enrolment-in-karachi/11916/

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There are also issus of citizenship. As we saw earlier this year Western countries such as the UK have refused to take back women who left the country to go siriya and join IS.The most well known of these women was Shamima Begum who appealed to the UK government to permit here and here new born son to return to the UK so she could be refused to take here back. Saying that she should return to Bangladesh, a country from which here parents had migrated and that she had never than 40 countries are at this point refusing to take back women or even young children who are being held at the camp. When all this lawlessness and uncertainty and the world,s turn towards treating all such women and children as" contaminated",it is perhaps inevitable that these former _IS women would turn back to the ideology that brought them to Syria and to IS in the first place.Amid the brutality of camp life,where murders and beatings supposedly occur every day,some order_even repressive order_my seem like a panacea against the otherwise existing lawlessness. The creation of the "Matriarchal caliphate" seems to have little to do with matters of actual religious dogma such as the fact that a femail"Caliph" is against the views of many Islamic scholars. Instead in the desert on the border, is the sort of women _led movement that would otherwise never exists, the lack of service provision and security and the unwillingness of home countries seem to have precipitated the creation of this all women, religiously inspired domain and the so_called ordination of the first women caliph.with it has come the brash and oppressive order typical of neojihadist movements_but repressive and cruel order,galvanized by fear and terror,may,for those held in the camp,be better than no order at all.(Thanks for Rafia Zakaria and ANOOP). Dears mothers day ,days our world wide and Indian woumans Inside life soul ,how change in the world,truth,belief,help and love life starting and understand to our families. so any family strengths and respected one making to still,real life meaning understanding to our dears. (at Mumbai, Maharashtra) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QWNmCHVp_/?igshid=688xmrehlkin

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Shrine

Whether on purpose or by simple accident, they have left only three things that I have found.  The first was a camera, French, from sometime in the era of the Second World War or slightly before.  This was left by Rafia.

  The next to come was directly sent to my house, a blue letter.  With a faux return address and a name of simply “Grimm”, it was found in my mailbox by my parents who thankfully did not read the contents.  While it contained absolutely nothing of importance or anything that could even possibly be considered scandalous, it would have broken the spell.  Now, this wasn’t, and still isn’t, a normal spell by any stretch.  But only one that could be broken by another’s eyes.  The letter itself spoke about nothing in particular, but rather just meandered across the sky blue paper.  No lines were used or thoughts clearly spoken, many a laugh that particular musing has brought, but it serves to ease my pain of heart in the mornings and afternoons when he cannot be with me.  It keeps me at least partially sane and has many times curbed my wrath before I hurt someone or thing.  It stands upon my shelf along with the camera and a few other odds and ends.  

  The final thing was a ring.  It was of simple design, just a sapphire flower with emerald leaves crowned in gold.  While the ring itself was just fake jewelry, it was more valuable to me than anything money could buy.  After a dream personally directed by him, Rafia left the ring on my pillow.  While my family and friends noticed that I constantly wore the ring, they didn’t know its worth to me nor where I got it.  I don’t think they ever will.  The reason that particular ring cannot ever be replaced is because that was the ring I was proposed to with.  The exact ring from my dream was on my pillow the next morning.  I think that was the exact moment I knew that I wasn’t just imagining things.  I think that was the moment that he was born to me.