For Muslim communities across the United Kingdom, March was a particularly frightening month.
Muslim homes and nonprofits began receiving letters declaring April 3rd “Punish a Muslim Day” in Britain. The letter detailed specific acts of violenc…
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Women are sharing their side profile selfies to show noses of all sizes are beautiful
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A woman is encouraging others to share selfies of their side profiles to embrace their big noses.
Freelance journalist Radhika Sanghani created the #SideProfileSelfie campaign in a bid to celebrate larger noses, which she feels lack representation in the entertainment and fashion industries.
Sanghani told Mashable that she hated her nose for years, but recently she’s begun to alter her “perceptions of beauty” and is growing to “love” her nose.
“It’s been so freeing to not hide from side profile photos anymore and to actually just like my face,” says Sanghani. “So what I really want is for women to share their own #sideprofileselfie and start to celebrate their noses.” Read more…
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Gina Martin was watching The Killers perform at a British music festival over the summer, when two guys kept hitting on her, and wouldn’t take no for an answer. What happened next made her launch a campaign to change the law.
“Then, I saw one of them looking at a picture of my crotch on their phone. They had done it to get back at me for turning them down,” Martin says.
Martin, 25, had just experienced “upskirting”—the practice of taking secret photos or videos under a person’s clothing without consent in an attempt to capture an image of their crotch area, underwear, and genitals. And, as Martin later learned, this practise is not legally classed as a sexual offence under UK law. Read more…
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