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Juli Anne and Gwen Singer
Fuckdolls are better in pairs
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Josephine Holloway
She established one of the first African American Girl Scout troop in 1942 after trying for years to start a troop. In 1944, she was hired by the Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council (in Nashville,TN) to act as a field adviser for all the African American Girl Scout troops. She remained in that position until she retired in 1963. In 1951, integration started for the Girl Scouts of Cumberland Valley. Holloway’s office was moved to the Councils building. In 1962, integration officially started when the council got rid of its “Negro district”.
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NOVEMBER 28 - JEANESHA BOU
Recently nominated for the 2015 International Children’s Peace Prize alongside Afghanistan’s Aziza Rahim Zada and Liberia’s Abraham Keita, 17 year-old Puerto Rican activist Jeanesha Bou has become a vocal opponent of human trafficking, hoping to prevent future victims and eradicate this form of modern-day slavery.
Bou’s efforts began around 14 years-old, when she began organizing workshops and other activities to raise awareness of human trafficking, particularly targeted toward youths and children in her community. As part of the It’s About Trafficking project of the Ricky Martin Foundation, she has worked with immigrants from the Dominican Republic in a project that combines literacy programs with education about human trafficking.
For her next big step, Bou aims to produce an educational documentary to prevent future victims, focusing on the most vulnerable population in Puerto Rico - children and youths searching for the ‘American Dream’.
Watch a short video about Bou’s work below:
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#DYK March 12 is Girl Scout Day?
This photograph shows mostly uniformed Girl Scouts and their flags. On the back is written “Troop Leader Connie Levenson Holding Flag Rosenbush Front Row Nancy Patz Blaustein Louise Zornski Gomphert - - Ann Fisher Barhaul.” Jewish girs have been active in the Girl Scouts since its founding in 1912. Har Sinai Congregation Collection, JMM 2012.108.406.
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Meet the ‘Radical Brownies’ - Girl Scouts for the modern age
January 25, 2015
Not all girl scouts are concerned with peddling shortbread cookies. There’s one troop of young girls in Oakland that discusses matters of racial inequality and wear brown berets in an homage to radical civil rights groups.
The girls, ages 8-12, are part of the “Radical Brownies,” an edgier, younger version of the Girl Scouts, where girls earn badges for completing workshops on social protests, and a beauty workshop that celebrate racial diversity.
Radical Brownies is dedicated to providing young girls of color relevant life experiences, explains the group’s co-founder Anayvette Martinez.
Martinez, a community organizer, created the Radical Brownies with Marilyn Hollinquest because “there aren’t enough spaces [for young girls of color] in our society.” The Radical Brownies of Oakland launched last month and already includes 12 girls. All the members are girls of color or mixed-race. The Radical Brownies are not affiliated with the Girl Scouts of the USA.
The founders say once the program expands to multiple chapters the organization will be open to everybody, but the program will always remain focused on young girls of color.
In the Radical Brownies, girls learn about social justice movements such the Black Panthers and the Chicano group Brown Berets. They wear their brown berets in homage to those two groups. But they also study how Disney princesses define girls’ image of beauty, and how that can affect self-image.
The Radical Brownies have their own badge system, including one for “Radical Beauty” and an “LGBT ally” badge. The girls also earned a “Black Lives Matter” badge after learning about police accountability and attending a civil rights march in Oakland.
“I think it’s never too early to have these conversations with young people,” Martinez told Fusion.
“Children are more aware than we think; it’s important to not shelter children from real issues that we’re living,” she said. “It’s especially important for young girls of color to feel empowered.”
The troop is ready to attend more protest and will soon launch a fundraising campaign on their Facebook page to raise money for a banner and a megaphone.
This is the best piece of news I’ve read in a very long time.
I’ll make sure to post again when their fundraising campaign starts so we can get these fierce grrls the tools they need to dismantle the white supremacist heteropatriarchy! Fists up!
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A commission made for a client via DeviantArt. The background and artstyle is primarily based off Scooby Doo and Guess Who? and the “Guest Starring” meme as you can see here.
These 3 original characters (OCs) belong to their respective owner, but the artwork’s made by yours truly! Enjoy!
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October 24, 1970 Goodwill Industries of Minneapolis hopes to collect more than 150,000 bags of used clothing in Minneapolis and suburbs on 1970 “Share Your Clothes Day” Sunday. The YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other volunteers have passed out bags and will help collect them. Pictured, Mrs. Wallace Lilja received Goodwill bags from Girl Scouts, left to right, Shari Jones, 13; Sue Findell, 12; Marnie Lilja, 13, Mrs. Lilja’s daughter; Sus'an Held, 14. Charles Bjorgen, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Happy 110th birthday to the Girl Scouts! Many decades after its founding in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia, the Girls Scouts is a vibrant national organization serving millions of girls around the country. In total, more than 50 million women in American were a part of the Girl Scouts during their childhoods, showing the tremendous impact the organization has had on empowering generations of girls.
Many of the Girl Scouts of the past and present have been inspired by the Girl Scouts Law to “make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.” The Girl Scouts pictured here were a part of an effort during World War I to collect peach pits and other fruit stones. The pits were burned to produce charcoal which was used in the gas mask filters of Allied troops; gas masks became essential for troops on the Western Front after the Germans began using poisonous gases against Allied soldiers. Peach pit drives became popular across the country with Girl Scout troop being among the largest collectors.
If your Mighty Girl is interested in joining the Girl Scouts, visit https://www.girlscouts.org/en/get-involved.html⚜
Due to issues at my previous camp I will not be returning. But I am excited that I will be at a new camp this summer as the Special Activities Director
March 12th 1912: The Girl Scouts founded
On this day in 1912, the Girl Guides - who would later become the Girl Scouts of the USA - were founded. The organisation was founded by Juliette Gordon Low, after she met the founder of Scouting - Robert Baden-Powell. The first Girl Scout meeting took place on March 12th in Savannah, Georgia, with 18 girls attending; there are now over 3.2 million members. Low wanted to give America and the world “something for the girls” and aimed to encourage girls to become active citizens and to develop their full potential. They soon became an important group in the USA, with Martin Luther King Jr describing the Girl Scouts as “a force for desegregation” in the 1950s and 1960s.
“I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!”
- Juliette Low at the first Girl Scout meeting
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Victory Gardens–for family and country. Hopscotch has been supplanted by a new and serious game for these Girl Scouts–it’s called Plant the Victory Garden. Like thousands of other school-age youngsters, Pat Nelson, Doris Laclair and Barbara Redford, all of San Francisco, are enthusiastic participants in the nation-wide Food for Victory campaign. Doris seems to be jumping the gun slightly, but at this stage cookies are more palatable than embryonic cabbages.
Photo by Ann Rosener, 1943
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Four Girl Scouts of Troop 15 in Emporia, Kansas Making Schoolbag with Supplies for “Schoolmates Overseas” in France.
If you would like to donate school supplies to needy children, check out Operation Backpack andBack-to-School Brigade.
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