dynamicafrica:

Kenya to open Africa’s first underwater museum

Kenya is on the brink of building Africa’s first underwater museum, which will be dedicated to studying marine life and shipwrecks.

Designs of the proposed museum, which is expected to be open in 2014, have already begun with the help of US architects and a budget for construction costs is being discussed at government level.

“Apart from studying shipwrecks that happened in the Indian Ocean Coast, we will also be studying the marine life that exists [there]… Construction is set to begin soon and it is expected to be fully operational in the next two years,” said Cesar Bita, head of archaeology at the National Museums of Kenya.

Kenya will be one of the few countries in the world to have an underwater museum. The US and the United Kingdom have such facilities as well as China, which has the world’s largest underwater museum. Egypt is carrying out studies to also construct an underwater museum but it has not advanced its initiative like Kenya.

The museum will be located in the shores near the town of Malindi, a popular tourist destination. “Shipwrecks attract a lot of fish which feed on micro-organisms on the wood [of the ships] and they are also a habitat for the fish and several other aquatic species. We will partner with many organisations in the study of marine life,” said Bita.

“The marine life that we aim to study is several species of fish, turtles, and even dolphins because there seems to be a relation between feeding and the shipwrecks,” Bita added.

Human remains from the shipwrecks will also be archived in the museum records.

“Building an underwater museum is a good idea but expensive. It is happening when the government has put at least one percent of its annual budget on scientific research and innovations. Other areas however need to be prioritised, such as the science of development,” said Prof Germano Mwabu from the department of economics at the University of Nairobi.

He said more should be invested in health research such as malaria, which affects millions of people in the country each year.

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I want to explain a little..

thisgingersnapsback:

feministische:

puravida-purelife:

Me and my boyfriend have been seeing each other for about a year now and I recently found out I’m pregnant..

It was the scariest thing of my life.. I was paralyzed with fear. I wish I had the means to keep the baby but I just don’t.. We aren’t ready to be parents and adoption would mean my abusive dad finding out. I fear for both my life and my boyfriends if this were to happen.

So we decided together the only option is to abort the pregnancy. I’m so scared and lost. I have cried for nights about this, don’t think I’m heartless.

Please understand, and help me. The link is on my tumblr. I just don’t have the money.. The abortion will be $500.. There is no funding in my state thanks to Scott walker.

Donate $1 and help me out, I will forever be in gratitude. I love you all.

i dont care what your fucking views are on abortion, if you are going to shame this girl i hope you burn to a nice, even crisp in hell.

donate a dollar or at least send her some nice support. she only has $10 so far.

SIGNAL BOOST

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The more masculine you are the more male privilege you get

blackridiinhood:

coldeyesthatburn:

blackridiinhood:

coldeyesthatburn:

blackridiinhood:

coldeyesthatburn:

Is that how it works for queers?

Idk how it works for queer women and trans men. I think it gets more complicated there. I feel like I’m treated worse when I try to present myself masculinely. :/

With Queer men the more masculine you ar the more of a ” real man” you are. To be feminine and a man is seen as the worst thing you can be. Often you will hear queer men talking about ” just because Im Gay doesnt men I have to act like THAT” They want to be seen as that special snowflake that Queer man who fucks men and can hide in a crowd of heterosexuals. that man who knows about football and doesnt care about fashion or music. They want ” men to act like me”  spewing the same shit that  heterosexuals say telling us we arent men simply for being queer, instead they they we arent men simply for being more feminine.

Straight women who are masculine walk this fine line imo. To be Strong and tough is to be masculine but to be considered a woman you must be soft and  dainty and have Fairy farts. its find and dandy to be more masculine as long as it isnt ” too masculine”. Tom boys have been considered that ” rough ” beauty so straight men find it attractive. its when they Deviate into more masculine waters is when they start getting treated like shit.

I have no idea what you’re talking about in terms of the straight men finding tom boys attractive. In the occasional movie or cartoon (like Legend of Korra), you will find the guy who likes tom boys. But in reality, that is not the case at all. I can speak from experience as a “tomboy.” I often have to hear passive-aggressive rants about how “girls should have long hair.” I’m told my cursing isn’t “lady like.” That the way I think isn’t “womanly enough.”

It’s complicated. But I definitely do not think that masculine women-identified people get any type of “male” privilege. Thus why I say that it becomes more complicated when we include queer women and trans* people. Because the male privilege comes from being seen as “male.” If you are not seen as “male,” then no matter how masculine you get, you’ll never have the privilege. Unless, of course, you are so masculine that you fool those who believe they can identify a man on sight that you are a man in all the senses that are misogynistic and cissexist. I’m having difficulties saying this without being offensive, since I am not trans*, but if a person is perceived as womanly in the sense that she was coded a girl at birth, then she will never have such privilege unless she is able to appear as though she was coded as male at birth.

In short, I think this idea works for queer people designated male gendered at birth; not those of us designated female gendered at birth.

I should have clarified in the original post that I was speaking about Cis queer men such as myself, I cant speak on how a masculine Identity affects DFAB folks. I was originally speaking about queer men who ID as more Masculine being more valued than those that ID as more Feminine. as someone who kinda swings back and forth on that scale. I notice a HUGE difference in how Im treated when im more masculine Verses when m more effeminate.

What I said about “tomboys”  Didnt come across the way I meant it in my head lol. shutting up about that now 

Haha. Don’t worry about that. I just saw “queers,” and since I’m queer was like, “I’m queer…but this does not apply to me or queer women at all.” Haha. But yeah, I think the issue in terms of Cis queer men deals heavily in misogyny. Because for straight men, as well, being seen as “feminine” is bad. :/

that was my question in another post I made. Is it considered misogyny when its a man doing it to another man? or just a product of a misogynist society with the role of “women” being played by more feminine men? Ive seen plenty of posts talking about male privilege and how it affects queer men on tumblr, but I have to wonder do feminine men still receive the same level of  privilege that more masculine men receive or are they seen as “faux Women” and receive Less or none of that privilege? if being a man means being masculine and feminine men arent really seen as men do they still receive the benefits of male privilege

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“I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.”

- An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)

this is why all the rhetoric surrounding the troops and the wars really grates on me. Because what the fuck did Afghanistan have to do with American freedom? What did Iraq have to do with American freedom? The last war fought on American soil was the War of 1812 (or about 200 years ago). That was the last war to really deal with a threat to America. An argument for WWII can be made, based on Pearl Harbor and what would have happened if Hitler hadn’t lost. But it gets iffy. WWI can’t really be justified, but at extends to all countries involved, not just the US.

But after WWII, all US wars have been abroad and they haven’t been for American freedom. The threats are all abstract. Communism. Terrorism. No one is attacking our way of life because they don’t have to. Instead, they can see back and watch as well fall apart from the inside. Our civil liberties are shrinking. Corporations control too much of the government. The Patriot Act is a far greater threat to the American way of life than any terrorist.

And the reason this bullshit rhetoric exists is because it’s easier to believe this than the truth. Because if they didn’t die for our freedom, then what did they die for anyway?

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The more masculine you are the more male privilege you get

blackridiinhood:

coldeyesthatburn:

blackridiinhood:

coldeyesthatburn:

Is that how it works for queers?

Idk how it works for queer women and trans men. I think it gets more complicated there. I feel like I’m treated worse when I try to present myself masculinely. :/

With Queer men the more masculine you ar the more of a ” real man” you are. To be feminine and a man is seen as the worst thing you can be. Often you will hear queer men talking about ” just because Im Gay doesnt men I have to act like THAT” They want to be seen as that special snowflake that Queer man who fucks men and can hide in a crowd of heterosexuals. that man who knows about football and doesnt care about fashion or music. They want ” men to act like me”  spewing the same shit that  heterosexuals say telling us we arent men simply for being queer, instead they they we arent men simply for being more feminine.

Straight women who are masculine walk this fine line imo. To be Strong and tough is to be masculine but to be considered a woman you must be soft and  dainty and have Fairy farts. its find and dandy to be more masculine as long as it isnt ” too masculine”. Tom boys have been considered that ” rough ” beauty so straight men find it attractive. its when they Deviate into more masculine waters is when they start getting treated like shit.

I have no idea what you’re talking about in terms of the straight men finding tom boys attractive. In the occasional movie or cartoon (like Legend of Korra), you will find the guy who likes tom boys. But in reality, that is not the case at all. I can speak from experience as a “tomboy.” I often have to hear passive-aggressive rants about how “girls should have long hair.” I’m told my cursing isn’t “lady like.” That the way I think isn’t “womanly enough.”

It’s complicated. But I definitely do not think that masculine women-identified people get any type of “male” privilege. Thus why I say that it becomes more complicated when we include queer women and trans* people. Because the male privilege comes from being seen as “male.” If you are not seen as “male,” then no matter how masculine you get, you’ll never have the privilege. Unless, of course, you are so masculine that you fool those who believe they can identify a man on sight that you are a man in all the senses that are misogynistic and cissexist. I’m having difficulties saying this without being offensive, since I am not trans*, but if a person is perceived as womanly in the sense that she was coded a girl at birth, then she will never have such privilege unless she is able to appear as though she was coded as male at birth.

In short, I think this idea works for queer people designated male gendered at birth; not those of us designated female gendered at birth.

I should have clarified in the original post that I was speaking about Cis queer men such as myself, I cant speak on how a masculine Identity affects DFAB folks. I was originally speaking about queer men who ID as more Masculine being more valued than those that ID as more Feminine. as someone who kinda swings back and forth on that scale. I notice a HUGE difference in how Im treated when im more masculine Verses when m more effeminate.

What I said about “tomboys”  Didnt come across the way I meant it in my head lol. shutting up about that now 

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