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Originally a blog for my 'bewildering' experiences as an international, it has since evolved into... something else. Though not entirely. The point is, when I say 'stupid foreigner', I only sometimes mean myself.
For the curious: left home (Philippines) for two and a half years in Italia (there was a time when I snobbily thought I was abbastanza Milanese); then went on to college in the grand ole US of A (East Coast). Currently I go back and forth between Rhode Island and Manila.
Umoja (dir. Elizabeth Tadic) tells the story of a group of Samburu women who get tired of men’s shit and start their own women-only community (as in if a man shows up and talks that macho bullshit they kindly suggest that he get the fuck out, sometimes with sticks). Saw this tonight at the Artivist Film Festival, and it was awesome.
(Pssst, notice how they didn’t need Western feminists to tell them how to liberate themselves.)
i remember this from a few year ago .. to freaking awesome
YASS.
(via cosmopolitan-fascist)