Tag: Girl

Parable of the Brown Girl The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color


Free Download Khristi Lauren Adams, "Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color"
English | ISBN: 1506455689 | 2020 | 200 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The stories of girls of color are often overlooked, unseen, and ignored rather than valued and heard. In Parable of the Brown Girl, minister and youth advocate Khristi Lauren Adams introduces readers to the resilience, struggle, and hope held within these stories. Instead of relegating these young women of color to the margins, Adams brings their stories front and center where they belong. By sharing encounters she’s had with girls of color that revealed profound cultural and theological truths, Adams magnifies the struggles, dreams, wisdom, and dignity of these voices. Thought-provoking and inspirational, Parable of the Brown Girl is a powerful example of how God uses the narratives we most often ignore to teach us the most important lessons in life. It’s time to pay attention.

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A Different Kind of Daughter The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight


Free Download WAZIR MARIA TOORPAK, "A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight"
English | 2016 | pages: 326 | ISBN: 1509800816, 1509800786 | EPUB | 14,2 mb
Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan’s violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram-un-Islamic-forbidden-and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country’s fierce battle over women’s rights.

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‘White Girl Bleed A Lot’ The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It


Free Download ‘White Girl Bleed A Lot’: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It By Colin Flaherty
2013 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1938067061 | EPUB | 4 MB
Racial violence is back. So are the people who ignore it, condone it and even deny it.White Girl Bleed a Lot:The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it was written for the deniers: Reporters and public officials and others who deny black mob violence has reached epidemic levels.Denial is not an option any more. Many of these cases are now on YouTube.And for the first time,readers will be able to scan QR codes to follow the black mob violence on video as they read about it in the book.For the first time, readers will be able to see the huge difference between what big city newspapers say is happening. And what the videos show is really happening.The new edition of White Girl Bleed a Lot documents more than 500 cases of black mob violence in more than 100 cities around the country. Many in 2013. And how the local and national media ignore, excuse and even condone it.Writing in National Review, Thomas Sowell said:"Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities."The new edition of White Girl Bleed a Lot documents black mob violence in the bigger cities, such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, St. Louis.But also in places where the frequency and intensity of racial violence is not as well known: Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Peoria, Springfield, Greensboro, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Champaign, Madison and many more.Readers learn about "Beat Whitey Night" at a Midwest state fair.Or how a Chicago Police Chief blamed the violence on Sarah Palin and the Pilgrims. Or how Oprah Winfrey gave $1 million to a Philadelphia charter school, only to see its students on video assaulting a white person shortly thereafter.Or how gays and Asians and women are particular targets.And how one congressman and former mayor said his city should not crack down on the violence because that will "just make a lot of black kids angry."And how newspaper editors and reporters say they will not report racial violence.And how some people fight back.Anthony Cumia, of the Opie and Anthony Showcalled White Girl Bleed a Lot a "Great Book." As did national talk show host Jesse Lee Peterson. The San Francisco Examiner gave it 5 Stars. More reviews at WhiteGirlBleedaLot.com Alex Jones of Infowars.com said it was "Brilliant. I could not put it down."Colin Flaherty has won more than 50 awards for journalism, many from the Society of Professional Journalists. His story about a black man unjustly convicted of trying to kill his wife girl friend resulted in his release from state prison and was featured on NPR, the Los Angeles Times and Court TV.

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Rebel Girl My Life as a Feminist Punk [Audiobook]


Free Download Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT1B2TF8 | 2024 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Kathleen Hanna
Narrator: Kathleen Hanna

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya" are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? InRebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows. As Hanna makes clear, being in a punk "girl band" in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.

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Lotus Girl My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America [Audiobook]


Free Download Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRZCFCRF | 2024 | 12 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 369 MB
Author: Helen Tworkov
Narrator: Helen Tworkov

The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties and their legacy, this intimate self-portrait depicts Tworkov’s search for a true home as she interacts with renowned artists and spiritual luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Joseph Goldstein, Bernie Glassman, Charles Mingus, Elizabeth Murray, and Richard Serra. Interweaving experience, research, and revelation, Helen Tworkov explores the relationship between Buddhist wisdom and American values, presenting a wholly unique look at the developing landscape of Buddhism in the West. Lotus Girl offers insight not only into Tworkov’s own search for the truth but also into the ways each of us can better understand and transform ourselves.

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