Office by Alex Penny
your name is CHESRA and you have been addicted to HOMESTUCK for a couple of months now. You are also an avid fan of DOCTOR WHO and MERLIN.
You enjoy DRESSING UP AS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. You also enjoy READING BOOKS books, particularly of the YA GENRE.
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sexxxisbeautiful:
TW Discussion of Rape/Violence and Suicide
thedailywhat:
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Calls for the reform of Morocco’s penal code were sparked over the weekend as news spread of a teenage girl who had committed suicide after being compelled to marry her rapist.
In Morocco, a rapist can “opt out” of a prison term by marrying his victim, so long as the victim and their family agree. Despite this clause, many say victims are often strong-armed into marriages they want no part of.
16-year-old Amina Filali’s father, Lahcen, blamed the marriage on pressure from the courts. “The prosecutor advised my daughter to marry,” he told the online news site goud.ma. “He said: ‘Go and make the marriage contract’.”
According to Amina’s mother, the girl complained on more than one occasion that her husband/rapist was beating her, but was advised to be patient. On Saturday, Amina could no longer take the abuse, and made the decision to end her own life by swallowing rat poison.
Moroccan woman, galvanized by Amina’s tragic death, have taken to the streets and launched petitions to demand that criminal law be changed to make it explicit that rapists cannot be allowed to marry their victims.
Moroccan law is known for being relatively female-friendly, compared with the rest of North Africa. Despite this, nearly two-third of all Moroccan women experience violence in their lifetimes, and many attorneys are ignorant of recent pro-women reforms, such as the raising of the marriage age from 15 to 18.
[latimes / blogpost / photo: aljazeera.]
LOOK AT THIS
BROWN WOMEN CAN PROTEST WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE WEST
GASP.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0y00vZRuI1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
TW Discussion of Rape/Violence and Suicide
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Calls for the reform of Morocco’s penal code were sparked over the weekend as news spread of a teenage girl who had committed suicide after being compelled to marry her rapist.
In Morocco, a rapist can “opt out” of a prison term by marrying his victim, so long as the victim and their family agree. Despite this clause, many say victims are often strong-armed into marriages they want no part of.
16-year-old Amina Filali’s father, Lahcen, blamed the marriage on pressure from the courts. “The prosecutor advised my daughter to marry,” he told the online news site goud.ma. “He said: ‘Go and make the marriage contract’.”
According to Amina’s mother, the girl complained on more than one occasion that her husband/rapist was beating her, but was advised to be patient. On Saturday, Amina could no longer take the abuse, and made the decision to end her own life by swallowing rat poison.
Moroccan woman, galvanized by Amina’s tragic death, have taken to the streets and launched petitions to demand that criminal law be changed to make it explicit that rapists cannot be allowed to marry their victims.
Moroccan law is known for being relatively female-friendly, compared with the rest of North Africa. Despite this, nearly two-third of all Moroccan women experience violence in their lifetimes, and many attorneys are ignorant of recent pro-women reforms, such as the raising of the marriage age from 15 to 18.
LOOK AT THIS
BROWN WOMEN CAN PROTEST WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE WEST
GASP.
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Hi, please help us find my friend. NOEMI LAGMAN (21, 4’10, mid-heavy build, morena) a student of Asia Pacific College, Magallanes left her house at Multinational Village, Parañaque yesterday (January 6) around 9am-10am to enroll carrying P33K. She was last seen at the entrance of Multinational Village near Duty Free, Parañaque. Her usual route going to school is from Multinational Village (Parañaque) to Heritage Hotel EDSA (Pasay) and to Asia Pacific College, Magallanes (Makati). I last got a text message from her at 9:41am and it seems she has never reached school (she was not registered at school as enrolled). Her mobile phone couldn’t be reached since last night.
Please reblog, please help. Thank you.
PERSON TO NOTIFY:NOEL LAGMAN (Father) +63921-500-1468
Details taken from her cousin’s FB post. If you have FB, please do help us share the post around too. Thank you so much!
Re-blog and help out!
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malindalo:
dorothy-snarker:
wonderfulwiz:
Yes!
thedailywhat:
Historical Homecoming Kiss of the Day: For the first time in Navy history, a lesbian salior was picked to plant the traditional homecoming kiss on her significant other.
Through a raffle held onboard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta won the right to be the first off the ship when Oak Hill docked in Virginia Beach. As part of a time-honored tradition, the first off the ship gets to share the first kiss with a loved one.
23-year-old Gaeta was greeted by her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, 22, and the two locked lips while the crowd gathered around them cheered.
“It’s something new, that’s for sure,” Gaeta said after the historical smooch. “It’s nice to be able to be myself. It’s been a long time coming.”
Watch the two talk about their special moment below:
[virginian-pilot.]
Swoon, you guys. Seriously, SWOON.
LOVE IT!
D’awwwwwwwwwww. Good story, wish to hear again.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwkmfaDrlH1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Yes!
Historical Homecoming Kiss of the Day: For the first time in Navy history, a lesbian salior was picked to plant the traditional homecoming kiss on her significant other.
Through a raffle held onboard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta won the right to be the first off the ship when Oak Hill docked in Virginia Beach. As part of a time-honored tradition, the first off the ship gets to share the first kiss with a loved one.
23-year-old Gaeta was greeted by her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, 22, and the two locked lips while the crowd gathered around them cheered.
“It’s something new, that’s for sure,” Gaeta said after the historical smooch. “It’s nice to be able to be myself. It’s been a long time coming.”
Watch the two talk about their special moment below:
Swoon, you guys. Seriously, SWOON.
LOVE IT!
D’awwwwwwwwwww. Good story, wish to hear again.
A typhoon has struck the Philippines again. Please help the victims of typhoon Sendong!
- Death toll have been raised to 600 and 200 bodies are still missing. Official says that there are no more chances that the 200 missing is still alive.
- Flash floods with mud have covered Cagayan de Oro during 11:00pm to 1:00 when people are still sound asleep.
- Some died while sleeping. They didn’t even get a chance to save their own lives
- They are really in need of WATER, FOOD, HYGIENE KITS.
- Almost 12,000+ are to spend Christmas in Evacuation Centers without any food to share for their Noche Buena. They even lack for water to Drink.
Our government are asking everyone for donations. It would mean the world to us!
It would be a lot help. Our fellow Filipinos have nowhere to start, no food, no water, no shelter. And they had to cope with the death of their loved ones. Please help. A cent when put together does help a lot! REBLOGGING THIS COULD ACTUALLY DO A LOT!
If you consider donating. Please click the donate button on my sidebar. Thank you so much!
This guy from my church… This WHOLE family drowned. </3 Rest in Paradise.
I’m going to help as soon as I can.
Please my fellow Filipinos and maybe a few concerned others,
please help.
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Send Relief
For other ways to donate kindly go to this site or read my previous reblog. Please share.
Thank you.
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