Violência Contra a Mulher

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A Maria da Penha é uma mulher merecedora desse sorriso leve. Afinal, ela teve uma vida marcada pela violência, e sabemos o quanto é difícil sorrir diantedessa realidade”

Marii Freire.

Quando comecei escrever sobre violência, isso ainda na faculdade, a Maria foi esse ícone de grande inspiração pra mim. Claro, ela é para o mundo, mas de fato, a Maria da Penha, acaba sendo um norte no tange a luta contra o Feminicídio e a Violência Contra a Mulher.

Eu li a história dela, vi muitos de seus vídeos e fala para compreender melhor algumas coisas que não eram claras pra mim. Então, como dito anteriormente, eu abracei a violência contra a mulher como causa maior, ainda na faculdade, que foi ali o período quando escrevia textos comuns sobre violência e publicava no Facebook. Os amigos mais antigos de Facebook, sabem exatamente dessa minha predileção por escrever textos…

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Interior Department announces new initiative to restore bison population – UPI.com

“The American bison is inextricably intertwined with Indigenous culture, grassland ecology and American history,” Deb Haaland, secretary of the Department of the Interior, said in a statement. “New historic funding from the Inflation Reduction Act will help support the Department’s efforts to restore this iconic species and integrate Indigenous Knowledge into our shared stewardship goals.” Source: Interior Department announces new initiative to restore bison population – UPI.com

What is CARE, the anti-abortion lobby group that launched Kate Forbes’s political career? | openDemocracy

openDemocracy revealed this week that Forbes’s first job in the Scottish Parliament had been funded by Christian Action, Research and Education (CARE), known for its opposition to abortion, sex education and LGBTIQ+ rights. The findings have put a spotlight on the group, which claims it has placed more than 300 interns trained to take a “biblical approach” to political issues into MPs offices.

Source: What is CARE, the anti-abortion lobby group that launched Kate Forbes’s political career? | openDemocracy

India and Argentina: what do they have to do with each other?

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Goodness, I hope my incredible ennui isn’t infectious. I’m still getting over a bad cold. While I’m technically well and I’ve been able to make significant inroads on the eventual podcast of my novel-in-progress, Flamenco & the Sitting Cat, my brain hurts, probably due to an ongoing hacking cough that just now caused a stranger to jump.

And maybe it also has to do with an earlier yet still recent bittersweet trip to my mothers homeland of Argentina?

And maybe it has to do with all the vaccines my husband and I had to take before our recent visit to India?

Okay, okay — I’ll address each of those one-by-one: 1. Enough said about the cold. 2. I haven’t processed the Argentina trip thoroughly enough to…

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