Random fun fact: Brazil has around 2,500 airports.

Random fun fact: Brazil has around 2,500 airports.

blacklgbtdeservetolive: We Want This Trend To Be...

blacklgbtdeservetolive:

We Want This Trend To Be Inclusive.

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• Allies should boost and support those trending. 

Every minority group shares oppression and discrimination. 

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• We welcome any and all tweets about what media representation means to you. 
• We welcome any and all tweets about real life discriminatory experiences and its intersection with media representation. 
• We welcome any and all tweets about how “everybody but us” describes your feelings towards lack of democracy, your freedom, your equality, and your happiness. 

Art imitates life. 

Life imitates art. 

While we want this trend to be inclusive, we also want one major thing to be kept in mind. 

This account started because OITNB killed Poussey Washington. They said they killed Poussey to teach white people a lesson about police brutality. We chose the imagery in our poster to underline the specific pain and fears that Black and Black LGBT people experience everyday of their life. 

As a Black LGBT account, this trend will have tweets about police brutality, experiences with the police, experiences that are unique to us, what Poussey meant to us and why representation matters to us. Please keep this in mind as you tweet and support those who tweet about their experience. 

indigenous-caribbean: Indigenous Movement Stops Construction of...

indigenous-caribbean:

Indigenous Movement Stops Construction of Brazilian Mega-Dam

In a historic victory, one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous Nation has managed to suspend construction of a mega-dam that threatened to submerge their home. The Brazilian Indigenous agency FUNAI finally demarcated the territory of the Munduruku People, providing the legal basis to suspend construction of the São Luiz de Tapajós dam.

These 700 square miles of land – known as Sawre Muybu – are now legally recognized as the traditional territory of the Munduruku and protected under the Brazilian constitution, which grants Indigenous people the right to free, prior, and informed consent before the government can use their land.

The Munduruku have been fighting for this right since 1975, standing up to a government more interested inquestionably “green” energy and expansion than in protecting Indigenous communities. In 2013, FUNAI actually conducted research confirming the status of Sawre Muybu as Munduruku territory, but failed to publish it due to government pressure. In response the Munduruku began the process of “auto-demarcating” their land, setting up signs and trenches to mark off their territory. They organized meetings, wrote letters, built alliances and staged occupations. Over the years they refined their strategy and took lessons from the fight against the Belo Monte mega-dam, which also wiped out species and displaced thousands of Indigenous Peoples.

Women played an important role in this struggle, as they often do in movements for land rights and against resource extraction. In 2015, Maria Leusa Kaba traveled to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference to receive the UN Equator Prize for the Munduruku’s campaign to self-demarcate their land.

“We the Munduruku People are going in the reverse direction the Europeans went 500 years ago, to tell the world that we will resist until the last man the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Tapajós River,” Kaba said.

This comes as Brazil is in political crisis and has begun the process of impeaching its president. The win to stop the damming of the Tapajós could be short-lived if the conservative, business-friendly politicians leading the impeachment process gain power and roll back land rights.

But the Munduruku have promised that they will never stop fighting for Sawre Muybu and today, I salute their hard-won victory.

Brazil Is Confronting an Epidemic of Anti-Gay Violence

Brazil Is Confronting an Epidemic of Anti-Gay Violence:

leuchtendewesen:

“While Americans have fiercely debated how to respond to the massacre last month at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Brazilians have been confronting their own epidemic of anti-gay violence — one that, by some counts, has earned Brazil the ignominious ranking of the world’s deadliest place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.”

Stay safe guys. :( 

Libraries Around the World: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This is the Jataí, a bee native to Brazil. Like all bees native to Brazil, she has no stinger and...

paddysnuffles: I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as...

paddysnuffles:

I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as ‘baby goats’.”

I wonder if it maybe started for a similar reason to why Brazilian moms call their kids their “little calf” (bezerrinho).

The mindset behind “little calf” being that the sound children make when calling for their mom (and the tone they do it in) sounds just like a calf calling for its mother (”Mããããããe…”)