HERE ARE EIGHT STORIES OF ASTOUNDING WOMEN

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A collection of incredible stories for #InternationalWomensDay


Alika Kinan

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When she was a teen, Kinan was trafficked to work at a brothel. For 20 years she worked, expected to have sex w 15 to 20 men a day.

She went on to become the first Argentine woman to sue her traffickers and the state.


Malebogo Malefhe

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This is Malebogo Malefhe from Botswana. Her boyfriend shot her in 2009. The incident nearly cost Malefhe her life. Since then, she has devoted herself to fighting gender-based violence and teaching women that when men hurt them, it’s not their fault.


Man Kaur

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Man Kaur is 101 years old and a world record holder in her age group. She is now training for the Asia Pacific Masters Games in Malaysia next September. She only started running at age 93!


Edna Kiplagat

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This mom of 5, who lives on a farm with her family in Kenya, won the Boston Marathon. “It’s not hard,” she says of balancing being a mom and an athlete. “It’s about organizing yourself.”


Zainabu Hamayaji

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How far would you go to save your children? Zainabu Hamayaji in Nigeria pretended she was crazy to protect her 10 children from being taken away or harmed by Boko Haram. She messed up her hair and rolled around in trash. And the ruse worked.


Eqbal Dauqan

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Meet Eqbal Dauqan, a Yemeni refugee who didn’t let war deter her from being a scientist. After the bombings began in her town, she had to stop her research. Then one day, after months in hiding, she had an idea: Maybe science could get her out of the war.


Chenai Mathabire

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“Nursing is often looked down upon, and people just think you are there to be the maid of the doctor or do the dirty work. But teachers made me realize that nurses have a big role to play,” says Chenai Mathabire. Her work is helping to save the lives of HIV-positive patients who contract TB.


Manal al-Sharif

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Manal al-Sharif’s path to activism began in 2011, when she defied Saudi authorities by filming herself driving a car. “For me the right to drive is not only about moving from A to B; it’s a way to emancipate women,” she says.


We’re not done recognizing incredible women. 

We are listening for YOUR nominations of awesome women who we should profile.

We’re looking for activists, scientists, researchers, or anyone else who has overcome incredible obstacles.

Submit your nominee here.

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is there ever that one celebrity that no matter what mood youre in, if you feel like crap you just see a picture of them and you just smile and think “thank you for existing” because they have made your day brighter even if you don’t really know them 

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This is the correct answer. Did you know that when she finds out a studio has asked an actress to lose weight she contacts them and yells at them?

I did not know that, but I do remember an interview where she said she keeps her Oscar in her downstairs loo, because that’s the one her guests use, so they can just go use the loo and don’t have to ask if they can hold her Oscar. Plus then they’ve got the mirror so they can practice their acceptance speeches.

This woman is a Gift

Comfort {Daenerys Targaryen x Sister!Reader}

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@legendsaresooftenwarnings requested “Or a Targaryen!reader x Dany Targaryen reader after khal drogo dies and they comfort each other?”

Incest warning!

{Sorry this is a bit short! It’s been sitting in my drafts for a few months, and I tried to make it longer, but found I couldn’t do much without losing the heart of the story. Hope you enjoy! <3}


She caressed her sister’s cheek fondly, tracing the prominence of her cheekbone with her slender thumb. “Are you ready?” 

Daenerys thought for a minute, before nodding softly. 

“You’re so strong.” It was a phrase she often repeated, spoken with revere and affection she still did not understand. Y/N had known for years that when Danaerys began to bleed, Viserys would find her a suitor. But the dust had barely settled over his grave when another loss struck them, the loss of Daenerys’ husband: Khal Drogo. Though Y/N had never much cared for the savage horse-lord, she cared for her sister and supported her while she grieved. 

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guillermo del toro really knows what women want 

namely: giant robots, tom hiddleston, sexy fish men, and death to fascists  

……not ……necessarily…… at the same time…… unless the next hellboy movie pulls out all the stops 

I think mainly Guillermo del Toro knows what Guillermo del Toro wants, and is pleasantly surprised when it turns out other people want that too.

I’ll take it 

Australian birds have weaponized fire because what we really need now is something else to make us afraid

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“The concept of fire-foraging birds is well established. Raptors on at least four continents have been observed for decades on the edge of big flames, waiting out scurrying rodents and reptiles or picking through their barbecued remains.

“What’s new, at least in the academic literature, is the idea that birds might be intentionally spreading fires themselves. If true, the finding suggests that birds, like humans, have learned to use fire as a tool and as a weapon.

“Gosford, a lawyer turned ethno-ornithologist (he studies the relationship between aboriginal peoples and birds), has been chasing the arson hawk story for years. ‘My interest was first piqued by a report in a book published in 1964 by an Aboriginal man called Phillip Roberts in the Roper River area in the Northern Territory, that gave an account of a thing that he’d seen in the bush, a bird picking up a stick from a fire front and carrying it and dropping it on to unburnt grass,’ he told ABC.”

I regret to inform you all that Prometheus is at it again.

Welp all we’ve had a good run as dominant species but looks like we’re on the way out now. 

I have to say, of all the ways I thought I would go out, kneeling before out new raptor overlords beats some of the other options.

Jurassic Revenge; The dinosaurs are back, and now they have fire. 

Australian birds have weaponized fire because what we really need now is something else to make us afraid

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I had to pee really bad and o forgot that I had just sliced jalapeño peppers and the chef is looking nice at me weird because I’m pouring milk on a rag and running to the bathroom

My dick has been on fire for over an hour

I told my chef what happened and he was like “you only make that mistake about fourteen times”

He tells me this story about this time he had gotten out of a chili class in which he had been cutting habenjero peppers all class and he goes back to his dorm and starts finger blasting his girlfriend and she stars SCREECHING.

She he fukin SPRINTS to the dorm prep kitchen and gets a gallon of heavy cream and runs back to the room. He starts pouring this shit all over her Cooze right, and she’s like shoveling cream into her hole. And he’s freaking out. Like he’s so sure that this chick is don’t with him forever.

So they deal with this thing and the cream works and he’s like massaging it into her pussy for like a half an hour because you have to constantly soak it to nullify the habenjero oils or whatever. And she gets INTO IT.

She fucking CUMS

And my chef tells me this stupid ass story and looks me in the eye and says to me

“Nothing says I love you like a gallon of heavy cream in her pussy”

And I think that’s the best sentence I’ve ever heard in my entire life.

Yes good story but WHY IS IT IN LIKE 8 DIFFERENT PARTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT PARAGRAPHS ARE.

ITS THIS. YOU COULD HAVE DONE THIS.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE AT WORK AND CANT POST EVERYTHING AT ONE TIME FUCK OFF