tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68857498181734794842024-03-05T18:37:10.052-08:00The Next Top Beauty Model Of American, Germany and IndonesiaThe show takes the form of a modeling competition whose winners typically receive a contract with a major modeling agency and a cover shoot and fashion photo spread in a fashion magazineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736009893839164762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885749818173479484.post-28711644287445108882008-12-28T12:03:00.000-08:002011-02-06T13:40:16.665-08:00Eve Ensler and VDay<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7DmK8etNdQg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7DmK8etNdQg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video interview 27 August 07</span><br /></div><br />Eve Ensler, the author of <span style="font-style:italic;">The Vagina Monologues</span>, is campaigning for an end to violence against women and girls. Her <a href="http://newsite.vday.org/">VDAY website</a> is calling on people (women, presumably) to host a 2009 V-Day event in their college, high school or community.<br /><br />Here is an excerpt from the message Ensler posted on her website in September. Posting it here seems like a good way to raise awareness of a situation that hasn't gone away this year and is bound to extend into the next and beyond, if nothing is done to stop it.<br /><br /><a href="http://newsite.vday.org/node/1095"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breaking the Silence in Bukavu</span></a><br /><br /><p>I urge you to read everything you can about the DRC (<a href="http://newsite.vday.org/drcongo/resources">please see our resources page</a>). I urge you to fight with all your heart and to find your connection to the women of the DRC as you have found your connection to the women of New Orleans and Iraq and Juarez and Afghanistan, and the other places V-Day brings us. It is in our connection and solidarity that we will find our freedom and power. The Congo is the heart of Africa and Africa is, in many ways, the heart of the world. What happens to the women here affects the flow of life throughout the planet. When we find the way (and we will) to end the violence here we will have created a template and a vision that can be transferred and used everywhere. </p> <p>I encourage you to break the silence as the women in Goma and Bukavu have done. Remember that the shame of being raped is not ours, but that of the perpetrators. Remember that when we speak the truth, we free everyone to do the same.</p> <p>You are always with me.</p> <p>With V-Love,</p> <p>Eve</p> <p>September, 2008<br />Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885749818173479484.post-69411310296449273202007-03-28T05:35:00.000-07:002011-02-06T13:40:46.018-08:00Women (and girls) must be warriors<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/370000/images/_371944_abduction300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/370000/images/_371944_abduction300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:78%;" >Aberash faces exile from her village and cannot see her family</span></div> <blockquote></blockquote><br />I was just reading a horrific BBC News story about a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6498641.stm">21-year-old Ethiopian woman whose stalker disfigured her face with sulphuric acid</a> and found a link to this story from 1999 on the same page. Somewhat heartening, though bittersweet:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BBC News June 18, 1999</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Ethiopia: Revenge of the abducted bride</span><br />Charlotte Metcalfe, director of the BBC programme 'Schoolgirl killer' tells the story of Aberash Bekele, a young Ethiopian women on trial for murder after killing the man who abducted and raped her.<br /><br />Read more here:<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/371944.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/371944.stm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0