#women led

[onlinesweetheart]

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[worldcitiesday]

Women's Assembly - Reporting and Closing (World Urban Forum 12th Session).

Assembly sessions take place before the official opening of the World Urban Forum and convene key stakeholders from broader segments of society. Assemblies are instrumental in bringing together varied groups and translating their inputs into urban policies.

Watch the Women's Assembly - Reporting and Closing (World Urban Forum 12th Session)!

[reasonsforhope]

Article via Africanews, November 2, 2023

A group of women in central Kenya are on their way to harvest prickly pear that will be turned into biogas.

The cactus is an invasive species which is disturbing the ecosystem.

Its encroachment hinders wildlife navigation as well as reducing grazing areas. Some animals which consume the plant's fruit can suffer from digestive issues due to its small hairs.

Now a women's group in Laikipia County has transformed the problem into a new enterprise. 

We are also able to manage natural resources and that is why we are also coming with an idea of making biogas out of the cactus and also selling fruits and generate income that helps us to educate o-ur children."

The fruits from the cactus are edible if separated from their sharp spines.

The Twala women at Laikipia Permaculture therefore use all parts of the fruit, creating a range of products including jams that are then sold.

"We get the fruit from the women's group. We wash them, we grind them to separate the pearl and the seed," Serah Wangare, a juicer at Laikipia Permaculture explained.

"The seed we put them in the drier which we grind them to get the oil, the oil we give it back to the women's group which they then use to make cosmetics, the shower gel, the body lotion. And (from) the pearl we make the juice and the jam."

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Hot take: I actually think men and women are meant to work together and complement each other and not like,,, dislike each other and be divisive.

[inkskinned]

even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.

they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!

when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.

if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.

at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.

it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.

but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.

and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."

it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.

someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.

more often for me, life was a drowning.

[fully-clothed-denial]

[everlinet]

tiny tiny new update of my art on etsy, link here. please check it out, I did a special limited 10% off so you can grab your favourite piece. btw., the crystals on the handmade frames are little sun catchers, and are perfect for windows! // @everlinet

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I want you whipped into shape!

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[rocksslide]

Pirate Lady Lizzie Shadowlady be upon ye! She's a Captain! She's a Queen! She... kidnapped the prince of Mezalea and now he wants to join her?!

As a part of the @mcytblraufest, here is my Pirate AU featuring Lizzie because I love her. In this ocassion we had a reverse Big Bang! The art inspired This Fic. Go check it out, it's incredible!

close-up because I'm super happy with her! she's so pretty

[worldcitiesday]

Women's Assembly (World Urban Forum 12th Session).

Assembly sessions take place before the official opening of the World Urban Forum and convene key stakeholders from broader segments of society. Assemblies are instrumental in bringing together varied groups and translating their inputs into urban policies.

Watch the Women's Assembly (World Urban Forum 12th Session)!

[sexymira]

🤭😈

[gentlekalita]

His POV seeing a Gentle Domme #gentlekalita

[diemydar1ing]

zeppelin forever ❦

[fully-clothed-denial]

[burningtheroots]

No no no no no no no I‘m DONE.

[sicyonius]

Bark on your leash