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thefeministherald · 6 years

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Outrage amongst women in Spain over a court's decision to clear five men of the crime of rape after they performed and filmed non-consensual sex with a teenager has led to an extraordinary outpouring of personal stories of male abuse on social media.

Using the hashtag #cuéntalo (tell it), tens of thousands of women have decided to show their solidarity with the victim in the "wolf pack" case, so called because of the name of the WhatsApp group her attackers used to comment on their sordid acts.

WARNING: You may find some of the accounts in this story disturbing.

Women have detailed instances in which they have suffered unwanted sexual attention or violent abuse from male family members, strangers or teachers and others in positions of authority.

The stories have trickled in to form a flood of anger about what women have had to endure, mostly in silence - until now.

"It was my father and it started before I can remember," wrote Elisa. "Two years old, three? Less? I have just turned 41 and a few months ago I went back into therapy because, even if I think I have, I haven't got over it. Chronic depression, anxiety attacks, nightmares… I never had a partner. Alone I feel safe."

"When I was 12 a stranger masturbated on me on the city bus taking me home. I didn't move. I felt shame, guilt, disgust. I didn't tell anyone until years later. I lived as if it hadn't happened but I didn't wear a skirt again for years. It's the first one I remember."

"I was 13 when my teacher started touching me without my consent and he did it for three months, I was living through a depression and tried suicide, I am telling this because I am not scared anymore."

Famous voices

When the five "wolf pack" men were handed nine-year jail sentences for sexual abuse but acquitted of full-blown rape last Thursday, hundreds of thousands of mainly women protesters thronged the streets of Spanish cities.

Spanish journalist Cristina Fallarás took her cue from the #MeToo movement, posting her own multiple experiences of abuse on Twitter and encouraging other women to #cuéntalo.

"I believe almost all of us have suffered some kind of sexual assault," she wrote.

Some well-known female personalities in Spain have joined their voices to the movement, like Leticia Dolera, an actress and author, who tweeted her experience of being 15 in a quiet street.

"15 years old. A quiet street. A young man throws himself at me from behind and gropes my bum. He whispers: you're lovely. I am speechless. He goes away. He comes back, doing the same but harder grabbing my hips and rubbing himself up against me. I scream. He goes away. Two people look at me. I feel shame."

Victoria Rosell, a judge and former member of Congress for the anti-austerity Podemos party, tweeted fragments of the 12 times she said she had faced abusive situations.

"Among the 12 occasions I remembered yesterday because of Cristina's #cuéntalo, I have an identical one to yours, at the age of 14. In the clubhouse toilet at a village party, opening the door to three men getting naked. 17. I am not telling about the times that I couldn't escape. It's painful to say: I am a judge and I never went to the police."

Ms Rosell has also criticised her colleagues' verdict in the "wolf pack" case.

Two of the three judges decided that actual intimidation had not taken place, even though they recognised that the 18-year-old victim had "frozen" once being surrounded inside a tiny alcove while her hair was pulled and body moved around by her attackers.

"The proven facts of the case are those of a rape," she told Cadena Ser radio after the verdict had been published.

Calls for reform

The Spanish government has promised to revise the framing of the country's rape laws, with opposition parties also supporting the need for reform.

Justice Minister Rafael Catalá took the unusual step of personally criticising the third judge in the case, who issued a minority verdict in favour of acquitting the five of any violent offence, claiming the sex had been consensual.

Mr Catalá said Judge Ricardo González was suffering from a "personal problem" and said it was the responsibility of Spain's judicial watchdog to ensure judges were "in full possession of their faculties".

Hours after the third straight night of protests against the verdict had taken place in Pamplona, a 34-year-old woman suffered a fatal beating in the city of Burgos, leading to the arrest of her 36-year-old former boyfriend.

Some of the #cuéntalo messages focused on what feminist campaigners in Spain have described as a "femicide", after almost 1,000 women have been killed by partners or ex-partners since the government began keeping records of gender violence cases in 2003.

Blogger Alejandra Tuk tweeted about the shocking story of a woman killed in Granada in 1997. Her name was Ana Orantes.

"My husband abuses me. I ask for a divorce. The sentence obliges me to live on the second floor of my attacker's house. I tell my story on TV. He gets annoyed because I report it, he comes round, ties me to a chair and burns me alive. I am telling you because Ana Orantes cannot."

#españa #metoo #cuentalo #spain #feminism

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greybook3 · 2 years

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the-met-art · 7 years

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Funerary Stele with Orant Figure in Architectural Frame, Islamic Art

Medium: Limestone

Rogers Fund, 1910 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446148

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jeniferdlanceau · 7 years

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Clay brick and concrete Mexican house surrounds a cactus tree

Clay bricks that form a pixellated pattern clad this Mexican house, which AS/D Asociación de Diseño has arranged around a cactus tree.

The Mezquites house is located in the city of San Miguel de Allende, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

The Mexican studio designed the home as a series of volumes to accommodate the existing cactus tree in the middle of the site. One of the corners is also recessed to accommodate a mesquite tree, one of six on the property.

"The conceptual criteria of the house is to preserve these natural elements through a series of courtyards where the house interweaves around them generating a strong interior exterior relationship," said the architects.

Similarly, a mesquite tree also served as the focal point for a Mexican home by BAG Arquitectura.

Clay bricks that clad the upper walls of the residence are stack-bonded, and protrude at different lengths to create a pixellated effect. The lower walls are made up of board-marked concrete or painted white.

The courtyard separates the main living areas in the house from the artist's studio, which is elevated above the ground to create a covered outdoor space leading to the back garden.

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The kitchen and dining room are located on the ground floor, in the block on the other side. The space is open to the living room, which features large expanses of glazing that open to the courtyard.

A concrete staircase leads up to a studio and two bedrooms on the upper floor. Large windows at each landing provide views to the garden and the trees.

On the first floor, a narrow sunbathing deck overlooks the courtyard.

Other houses in Mexico include a home made of white masonry blocks by Intersticial Arquitectura, and a run-down art-deco building that was renovated by Zeller & Moye.

Mesquite tree serves as focal point for Mexican home by BAG Arquitectura

Photography is by Rafael Gamo Fassi.

Project credits:

Architecture: AS/D Asociación de Diseño Project team: Paola Morales Orantes + Fernando Velasco RiveraTorres Collaborators: Raquel Chillon Landeros, Eduardo Rivero Fragoso and Eduardo Valencia Orozco Construction: VQZ Arquitectura + AS/D Structural engineering: Ing César Pérez Carvajal

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artistthingstosay · 8 years

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Custom Framed Lyrics Quote Drake lyrics 0 to 100 Squad home decor gift office desk decor ornate rap lyrics friendship quote best friend gift

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pagan-stitches · 4 years

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From Mary B. Kelly’s “Goddess Embroideries of Easter Europe”:

Berehinia and Birds

In numberless rituals and tales, Berehinia is know by her association with birds. As sky creatures, birds in ancient cultures were symbols of the divine soul. The goddess, too, was supposed to live in the sky, or to come from the sky; some of the earliest examples of goddesses are coupled with the bird motifs.

The myth of the fire bird is a very ancient Russian tale, and this bird, in embroideries is often shown in company with the goddess. The most frequent version is a crowned fire bird wit huge erect wings and tail, spread like a peacocks’s. In spring embroideries the bird appears holding in its beak a golden ring symbol of the sun or carrying the sun to the earth. Another spring embroidery shows girls with birds in their hands. This records the ritual of early spring when girls made birds of bread and carried them to the mountains or hills. The sun was supposed to eat the bread offerings and have the strength to reappear ( @graveyarddirt – another cross continental ritual??)

There is evidence that birds themselves were sacrificed to the goddess in the tenth entury. Later versions of the custom substituted bread birds for the sacrifice. There can be little doubt however, that birds were the most common familiar of the goddess as she is so often show with birds either perching near her or in her hands. In many versions birds are substituted for her hands; the orant position with upraised birds is one of the characteristic poses of the goddess.

Because the soul was supposed to fly to heaven, birds represented the soul of the dead person. Ritual towels, embroidered with birds symbolizing the ancestors were hung from an upstairs window to attract to the soul to return home. These towels are sometimes embroidered with the symbols of the grave marker as well (I may have to incorporate this in my Samhain rituals.)

Birds were also especially important in marriage rituals. The swan and mate, or the cock and hen were paired with the married couple and on their wedding day the newly married ate swan or cock. The bird symbolized happy marriage and fertility; sometimes the embroidered bird bears a small child in its stomach. During the marriage rituals the bride-groom often received the gift of a cock which was eaten as part of the festivities. The cock brought light and happiness to the household. On ritual wedding towels, the groom hold up the cock, symbol of his masculinity.

Cups were made in the shape of birds and were given to couples on their marriage day. These archaic vessels can still be seen in Russia today. It is said that whoever breaks the bird cup breaks up the marriage. Most of the cups were therefore made from wood to render this event unlikely,.

On ritual wedding towels, one can often see the so-called “Temple of Love" in which the married couple are shown beneath a canopy. Invariably the man holds up a large bird. In some versions of this motif the couple is joined by the figure of the goddess in the center, who touches each spouse with her hands in blessing.

Two-headed birds were also associated with the goddess, though later, they became the symbol for the imperial power of the Czar and were show crowned. The two-headed bird frequently frames a composition in which the goddess is within the body of the bird as in a shrine. These two-headed birds are usually strong, powerful, falcon-like motifs with spread wings and tails.

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