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If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.  

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom: 

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

I just love how proud they look. It fills my heart with joy.

grandma food is the best food

this is my favorite thing ever and BLESS THEM for including an Argentine woman. Our abuelitas can COOK.

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25/02/13 @ 06:17pm
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"Guys on Reddit are very typically coming from STEM fields - a lot of engineers, a lot of programmers. I really think the complete lack of basic understanding of social justice on Reddit, the lack of understanding of how past oppression continues to exert force on the present, is reflective of a larger failure of a good humanities education. It’s reflective of the increasing early specialization we require of college and even high school kids. Their STEM curriculums don’t require much of a humanities or social science foundation, so they grow up completely unarmed with the tools required to think critically about society, and totally unaware of how social structures shape everyone’s lives - and it’s especially invisible to them as mostly white, middle-class, straight males."

“Why is Reddit so Anti-Women?” Fascinating (and highly sensical) approach here, underscoring what gets lost when education (policy) is viewed as strictly the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields (the globally profitable/innovation-driven ones) at the expense of social/cultural education. (via marathonpacks)

Yup.

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AND reinforcing the overall White maleness of STEM fields. Vicious cycle, that.

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12/02/13 @ 12:32pm
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There are currently 35 states that have ratified the ERA and legal analysis suggests we may need just three more states for women to have equal rights under our Constitution. We ask you to support our efforts nationwide, particularly in the states that have not yet ratified the ERA: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, N. Carolina, Oklahoma, S. Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. We also ask you to place your full support behind Congressional legislation to eliminate deadlines on the original 1972 ERA. It is time our Constitution protects the rights of women, and women need and deserve active participation in ERA advocacy from the White House.

The petition has reached the number it needs, but it’s awesome to show your support nonetheless. A wonderful way to support women’s rights in the United States. 

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10/01/13 @ 03:17pm
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albinwonderland:

typette:

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fuckmegentlywithawinonaryder:

Omg you need to WATCH THIS TED TALK RIGHT NOW

It’s (almost entierly non-problematic) feminist: yes

It talks about social ques given to children through kid’s movies and the whole Magical Quest trope: yes

It talks about raising boys to respect women in a way that’s not just chilvarly: yes

It’s written by a man: yes

Watch, listen and learn, because this guy knows what he’s talking about. It’s important to teach the right lessons to both girls and boys.

This is fantastic, funny, and extremely true. Both girls and boys need to learn together that they’re equal, not just “girls can be powerful” and “boys can be powerful”. take a sec to watch this, dashboard!

A great watch. Share with your friends.

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silkpanties:

sailorswayze:

AM I RIGHT LADIES

oh man

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q-bert:

did you know females don’t have to be tough to be a good character

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07/11/12 @ 01:08am
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apio:

TAMMY BALDWIN, the Senator-Elect from Wisconsin, will become the first openly gay person ever elected to Senate. MAZIE HIRONO, the Senator-Elect from Hawaii, will become the first Asian-American woman in Senate. TAMMY DUCKWORTH, the Representative-Elect for Illinois, will become the first disabled female veteran elected to the House of Reps. (she lost both her legs in the Iraq War).

Tonight is one for the history books.

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wecanspooky:

leftyaoi:

also i think that a lot of people misinterpret the term “strong female character”

strong doesn’t mean independent or anything like that. it means a character of significance who operates autonomously in a story rather than being a cog in a plot or subplot wheel

it means strong in terms of literary merit, not in terms of personality or anything like that

#and strong female character definitely #DEFINITELY #DEF I N IT ELY #doesn’t mean good or moral female character

princess-protectionprogram:

when fic completely erases every single female character from it

I read quite an interesting article about how men fear that they will be judged/rejected by a woman, while woman fear that they will be killed by a man. i didn't think much about it until i was walking alone one night and a guy was walking towards me and i become instantly guarded and scared. i think it is rather disgusting that females have become scared to just go walking (not to say some males aren't) but it is more found in females. ◤
Anonymous

It actually makes me super frustrated that I feel so worried about it. That I get anxious about sexual assault just for the simple act of going walking at night with no one else around.

I shouldn’t have to feel that way. But I do, and I know that other people do, and it just really sucks.

andthenisay:

Every time I see a post by a Nice Guy, it’s always the same story. “I was friends with a woman, and I had feelings for her, and instead of returning my feelings, she ran off with a string of hot skeezy assholes and left me to sit on the sidelines.”

Here is a thing I’ve hardly ever heard a woman say: “You know, I was friends with this guy and he just kept dating all these other hot, slutty chicks instead of realizing that I was standing right there. All guys are insensitive and unfeeling assholes, and I’m too good for them.” And I don’t think that women don’t say that because that never happens. It does happen. It’s happened to me. I’ve been friends with guys and had feelings for them that they didn’t return. It happens to everyone.

But here’s the difference: instead of thinking that there is something wrong with the guy we’re pining/lusting after and that he might be a dickhead (which may well be true), women are taught from a very early age (in a way that men are absolutely not) that the problem is internal. “Five Ways to Make Him Notice You.” “Are You Sending Off the Right Signals?” “Wow Him in Ten Words or Less.” Women are absolutely INUNDATED with the message that male attention is something that we must earn and then fight to keep, and if this is true, then I think I realize your problem, Nice Guy.

Men are not inherently deserving of female attention.

Let me repeat that for you, just in case you missed it.

Men are not inherently deserving of female attention. And similarly, women do not always WANT male attention. Women OFTEN do not want male attention. If your advances are unwelcome, that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with you. (Though to be honest, you seem like a dick.) I know the media has convinced you it’s true, Nice Guy, but women do not constantly crave male approval and validation.

I was out with my family one night and a male friend of mine was trying and failing to get the twist-off cap off a bottle of beer, and when I reached over and unscrewed it for him (because he is an idiot), my aunts and mother all looked at me with a certain level of concern in their eyes and said, “That’s not something you’d do if you were out at a bar, is it? Or with someone you were dating?”

…

Firstly, as I’ve mentioned, I do not spend all of my time hoping that the guy across from me is going to want to fuck me. Secondly, anyone who is intimidated enough by me unscrewing his beer is not really someone I feel the need to spend an extended amount of time with. And thirdly, if unscrewing his beer is a dealbreaker, there’s a whole shitload of things about me I guarantee he isn’t going to like. But I think maybe you’ve been secretly hanging out with my older female relatives, Nice Guy, because they seem to think (as you do) that I am trying to please you all the time.

Spoiler alert: I am not. 

There’s a certain level of women’s behavior that is always expected to be performative, to be for the benefit of others; specifically, to be for the benefit of men. But I have never heard a guy internalize his romantic frustration in the way that women are taught and encouraged to do. And that’s so gross to me, the notion that women are inherently wanting and men are inherently deserving. It’s gross to me, Nice Guy, that you are comfortable enough with your misogynistic, bullshit entitlement to utter it out loud, where people can hear you, and that you would expect me to give any kind of shits about whether or not I’ve hurt your feelings.

It’s gross to me, Nice Guy. You’re gross to me, Nice Guy. And that’s just one of the many, many reason why I will not fuck you.

There are all sorts of wonderful, lovely and nice guys in the world. And then there are the Nice Guys, and those really aren’t the same thing at all.

This is an extremely thoughtful and straightforward description of something that’s way too prevalent. 

Oh, you angel. Okay, so this is just me being whiny and about social acceptance in a way. Well, society has a negative view of plastic surgery even though tons of people get it. And I happened to get it for a good reason: I didn't have a mammary gland in one breast. So, I essentially had an A cup and a DD. So, I had the surgery to get them both DD. And now I'm confident and happy! But, I have this fear of people judging me because one of them "isn't real". And I just would like your opinion. :) ◤
Anonymous

Hey, nonners. <3

I absolutely think that whatever makes you most comfortable with your own body is the most important thing in this situation. You were in a position where, for legitimate medical reasons, you felt uncomfortable enough in your own body that you had a serious procedure done. And I couldn’t be more delighted that you’re confident and happy now!! People who judge you for getting that surgery done can go fuck themselves: they don’t know what it was like for you before, and they’re in absolutely no position to judge you for doing something that’s made you so much happier.

Plus, I’m fairly certain that a lot of women in your situation would consider going down the same path, and that’s totally fine. I know that for myself personally, the one situation that comes to mind where I would consider getting plastic surgery on my breasts would be if I were to hypothetically lose one to cancer. Some women would chose to do that, some wouldn’t. And that’s okay.

In the end? It’s your body. Anyone who tries to shame you or make you feel bad about what you do with your own body should probably fuck right off. 

Because instantly alienating a huge chunk of your demographic through offensive humour is the best way to sell soda pop. (x)

Laci Green in “Men & Femininity.” (x)