The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought and Israel has worked to prevent.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution. (source) (source) (source)
After the vetoed U.N. membership vote, the Palestinian Ambassador, Riyad Mansour, gave an emotional speech demanding Palestinian statehood. Vanessa Frazier, the Security Council President from Malta, can be seen wiping a tear from her eye. (more)
Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on
I remember taking a Human Sexuality Class, where a lot of the students thought it was going to be Sex Ed 2.0 because we saw the syllabus have topics like porn, cultural importance of procreation, and other things that had my peers giggling and expectant.
Only for our teacher to actually teach us consent and how it can go beyond the bedroom/dating, that there are different categories of rape and how the victim/survivor is never at fault, we studied serial predators and read up on how they viewed themselves as not committing actual traumatizing crimes to people/that they truly found themselves innocent after hurting others intentionally, we learned how mechanical and unsexy it is to film porn, that some porn stars are athletes with all the stamina they have, studied porn addictions and how they can rewire the brain with the visuals, we focused on how every sexuality queer or not had to fight for their sexual rights to be humanized (are still fighting to this day), we learned how promiscuity wasn't that big of a deal in ancient times with women and how it didn't "devalue" the woman, we learned about boundaries and how to uphold them, and learned how to make sex less of a taboo so more people can feel comfortable being tested for STDs/STIs on our campus and feel comfortable in their desires and body, we learned that reading erotica is very different from watching it and that they showed porn movies in the movie theaters completed with a strip show or sex show in between film showings.
It was all so informative deconstructing every stigma and myth about sex and by the end of it, most people came out with a new perspective on how they treated sex and shame and factual evidence. It was really teaching us personhood, about honoring your bodily autonomy, and that you can always change your mind even after you said "yes" and your partner should respect your decision. It saddened me that this class was only an elective and not mandatory. A lot of repressed people I took it with felt more confident in their own skin that semester.