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Have you heard about the coercive, insensitive, and inaccurate “crisis pregnancy counseling” that some anti-choice organisations…
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Taken at a demo in Cambridge on 15/12/2012 raising awareness about bogus pregnancy advice centres. More info here - http://feministactioncambridge.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/press-release-cambridgeshire-pregnancy-advice-centres-misleading-women/
Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Nigeria who invented a urine-powered generator.
How’s this for an innovative startup: four Nigerian girls — the eldest of whom is just fifteen years old — have worked together to invent a generator that’s powered by urine. The group presented their creation at this year’s Maker Faire Africa, and it’s so freaking brilliant it makes me want travel back in time and punch 15-year-old me right in the solar plexus.
The Next Web lays out how it works:
- Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which cracks the urea into nitrogen, water, and hydrogen.
- The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
- The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
- This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.Here’s hoping these girls can get the funding they need to take this idea to new heights. Even if they don’t, we’ve got a feeling they’re going places.
Read more over at The Next Web.
The violations started small. I was 12, fairly tall with brand new boobs. My mother wouldn’t let me buy “real bras” for a long time. It didn’t occur to me that was weird until boys in my class started advising me to “stop wearing sports bras” because I was looking a little “saggy.”
It was a…
This post is heart-breaking, but I think it really reinforces the message of the quote below about the importance of safe spaces (be they women-only or no).
Okay men, you know how shows say that every time you step into the ocean you’re stepping into the sharks’ territory and it’s their domain? And you know how you’re safe from sharks when you step out of the water?
Now try this: Mens’ space is the ocean. But the difference in this metaphor is that the entire world is the ocean, and women can’t get out of the water. There’s barely a life raft to be seen and if we want our own space we have to build our own island from the ocean floor fucking up.
And also, the men are constantly attacking the rafts with harpoons and kicking down the sand back into the water and trying to make their own life rafts in response, even though it’s entirely unnecessary because they already have the whole damn ocean as their space.
| — | Tumblr commentary on this post about women’s need to create safe spaces (via thefemcritique) |
| — | Kelley Temple, National Union of Students UK Women’s Officer (via feministkitsch) |
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The best part? HALF of the moderators are women!
Crowley will be the first female in over 20 years to moderate a presidential debate. ABC News’ Carole Simpson, who served as moderator of a 1992 debate between Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot, was the last woman to do so.
Earlier this year, three high school students from Montclair, N.J., launched a petition calling for the commission to select a female moderator for at least one of the three 2012 presidential debates.Young fems kicking ass! great work.
The author of this quote, Chally Kacelnik, has requested that this is not reblogged without attribution to her. The original source is here - http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/on-claiming-to-be-a-stupid-man-who-doesnt-know-anything/
