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Orphan's Lament (gouache) It rained on our little smoke tree. I named this painting for the Robbie Basho song!

This will be my postcard print for June. Join my postcard club on Patreon if you'd like this mini print in the mail - link in my pinned post!!

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being communist-critical, or anti-communist, does not automatically make you pro-capitalist. you can be critical of both.

the fact that people think the world and economic systems only exist in restrictive binaries is really fucking bizarre and irritating.

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India among five countries account for half of child marriages

India among five countries account for half of child marriages

Five countries, including India, account for about half of the child marriages in the world, according to a new UNICEF analysis. Apart from India, the other countries that add to child brides are Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Brazil. The analysis  ‘COVID-19: A threat to progress against child marriage’, pointed out that ten million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the…

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Child marriage is common in South Asia, West Africa, and some countries in East and Southern Africa – especially Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia – as well as others in the Middle East, notably Yemen. In some countries – mostly in West Africa, but including Bangladesh and Nepal – about 60% of girls are married by the age of 18, and in at least 28 countries, the proportion is 30%. Although the majority of countries have legislation which prohibits marriage of girls under the age of 16, and some forbid marriage under the age of 18, such laws are frequently ignored: marriages are not registered, customary or religious rules are accepted, with few cases resulting in court proceedings. It is estimated that, globally, 82 million girls now between 10–17 years of age will marry before their 18th birthday. This includes significant numbers of girls married at much younger ages. In Nepal, for example, 7% of girls are married by the time they are 10, and 40% by the age of 15. In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, 40% of girls in rural areas are married by the age of 15, in some cases following abduction and rape in order to avoid bride price.

- Unicef’s World Report on Violence against Children (pag. 81):

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Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.

Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria, has said: “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this.” An Iraqi expert on Islamic law, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, agrees, saying: “There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.”

So does Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent Muslim cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council: “There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”

Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology has declared flatly: “Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.”

These authorities say these things because hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage …

Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.

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The battle to save Bangladesh’s child brides: ‘They marry off girls because they are a burden’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/bangladesh-child-marriage-girl-brides-brac-school-education/

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"white heteropatriarchy" of the shit that is most prevalent in Asian porn... Also, there's so much nonchalance about child rape and child brides in mostly South Asia... Not everything is a "white people only" problem.

taboo kinks like pedophilia/rape/incest are not innate to transfemininity or to queerness or to autism and this current wave of attempts to naturalize them as such is alarming and suspicious

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Arowana Dragon

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once i figure out how to do anatomy and facial expressions and proportion and foreshortening and basic perspective and color theory and composition then youll all be sorry

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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#brbchasingdreams

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Wat Rong Khun - Thailandia

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edit: you can now buy print of this image here https://simonleclerc.threadless.com/

instagram.com/bonjoursimonleclerc

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Bun buns 🐇🥖

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Bed and Breakfast 🐇🛏️🍳

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