We asked Meryl Streep what the biggest lesson she has learned in her illustrious career. Here is what she told us. (@theacademy)
Meryl is not fucking around
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Hawa Abdi: Why she kicks ass
- She is a Somali doctor and human rights activist.
- She specialises in gynaecology.
- She founded DHAF Foundation which is one of the largest internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Somalia.
- She won a scholarship to study gynaecological medicine in Ukraine when she was 17.
- After finishing her studies Dr. Abdi returned to Somalia and opened her own clinic on the outskirts of Mogadishu in 1983, focusing on the treatment of women from rural areas.
- Since 1991, when the Somali government collapsed and the Somali Civil War began, famine struck, and aid groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty.
- She turned her 1300 acres of farmland into a camp that has numbered up to 90,000 displaced people.
- In 2010, she was kidnapped by radical insurgents, who also destroyed much of her hospital, just because she’s a woman. She, along with media pressure, convinced the rebels to let her go, and she demanded and received a written apology.
- During the 2011 East Africa drought and the famine, Dr. Abdi’s camp helped feed over 100,000 individuals across 17,000 families, of which over 68,000 were children and 26,000 women.
- Glamour magazine named Dr. Abdi and her two daughters “Women of the Year” (2010).
- In 2012, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also recipient of the Social Humanitarian Award from Black Girls Rock! and the John Jay Medal for Justice.
“without us you wouldn’t have any rights!" without you we wouldn’t have to fight for them
Always this. Always.
"Remember that men gave women the right to vote!”
And remember that men should never have been at such a social and political advantage as to be able to literally give and take away rights from groups of people.
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steppauseturnpausepivotstepstep:
People really don’t believe Ancient Egyptians were ethnically African?
They referred to themselves, not as ”Egyptians” (a Greek term) , but as ”Kemmui’’, meaning, ”the blacks”.
The country itself they called, Kemet, or black nation.
‘Kem’ is the term for black in the ancient Egyptian language. It is represented in hieroglyphs by a stick charred at both ends.”
“km.t, the name of Ancient Egypt in Egyptian; Egypt (Coptic: Kemi)
r n km.t, the native term for the Egyptian language
(Ref: The Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Vols 1&2, E.A. Budge, Dover.)
Note: words inside brackets are the determinatives or word classifiers along with their English meanings.
Kem, kame, kmi, kmem, kmom = to be black
Kememu = Black people (Ancient Egyptians) in both Ancient and modern Egyptian (Kmemou).
Kem [khet][wood] = extremely black, jet-black
Kemet = any black thing. Note: “t” is silent - pronounced Kemé
Kemet [nu][community, settlement, nation] = Black nation = Ancient Egypt.
Kemet [Romé][people] = Black people. Ancient Egyptians.
Kemit [Shoit][books] = Black books, Ancient Egyptian literature.
Kem wer [miri][large body of water] = The Great Black sea (The Red sea). This sea is neither black nor red, this is in reference to which nation, Black or Red, at a particular time, controlled this body of water.
Kemi fer = Black double house; seat of government. Note: by reference to Wolof again, we know that to make a plural of per or house, the “p” becomes an “f” or fer. Thus fero=great houses (double), it is not pero as Budge writes.
In Ancient Egyptian, the ordinary adjective always follows the noun it modifies, whereas a sanctified adjective usually comes before its noun. The sanctified adjectives are:
Kem — Black
Suten - Royal
Nter —- Holy, Sacred
Examples:
Kem ti = Black image, sacred image : ti oubash = white image
Kem ho = Black face/title of a god : ho oubash = white face
Kem ta = Black land, holy land : Ta deshret = Red land (also; Ta Sett)
This rule does not apply when Black is used as a noun-adjective of nationality:
Hompt Kemet = copper of Black; Egyptian copper : Hompt Sett = copper of the Red nations; Asiatic copper
Ro in Kemet (page 416a) = speech of Black; mute ro n Kemet = word of the mouth of Black; the Egyptian language
Kemet Deshret = Black and Red; good and evil; fertile and barren, etc.; Duality
Deshretu (page 554a,b) = red ones, red devils. Used also to refer to the Namu and Tamhu; not a complimentary label.
African Origins:
The following Ancient Egyptian words acknowledge the origins of Pharaonic Egyptian civilization;
Khentu Hon Nefer (page 554a) = founders of the Excellent Order. Budge: “peoples and tribes of Nubia and the Egyptian Sudan.” For “Hon” see page 586b.
Hon Nefer (page 1024b) = Excellent Order
Kenus (page1024b) = mighty; brave (from Kenu, page 772a)
Ta Khent (page 1051b/page 554b) = land of the beginning.
Eau (page 952b/page 17b) = the old country
Ancient Egyptian’s Worldview:
The Egyptian’s view of the world was the exact opposite of the current Western one. To the Egyptian, the top of the world was in the south (upper) towards the African interior, the bottom (lower) towards the north, hence upper and lower Egypt; upper and lower Syria.”
"Oh yes, the black soil business.
Most scholars outside the modern western cover-up establishment have rejected the false interpretation some have given to Kemet, ostensibly alluding the term Kemet to the alleged ”black soil” of Egypt. There’s nothing in the term, outside the imagination of western myth-makers, to suggest the Egyptians referred to the color of the soil or sand, rather than the people, in naming their country. Our position is consistent with the testimony of the ancient Greek writers, eyewitnesses who unanimously described the Egyptians as a black people, closely related to the ”Ethiopians”.”
And white Hollywood casts white actors and gives them tans.
*internal sobbing*
i will never not reblog this. i know too many people who for real dont think Egypt is a part of Africa.
*passes the fuck out*
(via iandafrica)
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