i love this picture. she’s looks focuseddddddd

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searchingforknowledge:

urbandejavu:

al-monitor: 

“Tired of darkness” from the country’s frequent power outages, a team of teenage girls has developed solar-powered appliances and now sells them across Yemen, writes Nafeesa Syeed for Al-Monitor:

“In Yemen, we have abundant sun,” says Reem Rashed, 16, who works in the company’s human resources section. “We need to exploit solar power because it’s a favorable, free energy and it does no damage to Yemeni society.”

Pictured above: Wafa Al-Rimi, the 16-year-old CEO of the student-run company, Creative Generation in Yemen. 

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

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southasianhistory:

Sarojini Naidu, née Chattopadhyay   (born Feb. 13, 1879, Hyderabad, India—died March 2, 1949, Lucknow), political activist, feminist, poet-writer, and the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed an Indian state governor. She was sometimes called “the Nightingale of India.”

Sarojini was the eldest daughter of Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, a Bengali Brahman who was principal of the Nizam’s College, Hyderabad. She entered the University of Madras at the age of 12 and studied (1895–98) at King’s College, London, and later at Girton College, Cambridge.

After some experience in the suffragist campaign in England, she was drawn to India’s Congress movement and to Mahatma Gandhi’s Noncooperation Movement. In 1924 she traveled in eastern Africa and South Africa in the interest of Indians there and the following year became the first Indian woman president of the National Congress—having been preceded eight years earlier by the English feminist Annie Besant. She toured North America, lecturing on the Congress movement, in 1928–29. Back in India her anti-British activity brought her a number of prison sentences (1930, 1932, and 1942–43). She accompanied Gandhi to London for the inconclusive second session of the Round Table Conference for Indian–British cooperation (1931). Upon the outbreak of World War II she supported the Congress Party’s policies, first of aloofness, then of avowed hindrance to the Allied cause. In 1947 she became governor of the United Provinces (Uttar Pradesh), a post she retained until her death.

Sarojini Naidu also led an active literary life and attracted notable Indian intellectuals to her famous salon in Bombay (Mumbai). Her first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905), was followed by The Bird of Time (1912), and in 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptred Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961). (via)

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deafmuslimpunx:

heavyheavyboots:

Salma Hosseini was a member of the National Youth Team in Kabul, she is a volunteer at the Haidari Club and also the coach for the National Women’s Team in Kabul. 

What’s that you people always say about us before? That we are weak and oppressed? Huh? Fucking say that to my face again. POW!

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deafmuslimpunx:

girljanitor:

“I can lift a boy up.”

-Amna Al Haddad, weightlifter

Fuck yeah.

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deafmuslimpunx:

the-uncensored-she:

Japanese-American human rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama. She cradled Malcolm X’s head as he laid dying.

I just googled her because I hadn’t heard of her before. Badass!!! Thanks for the post :)

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