Jun 15 2012
Women Reps in Michigan barred from speaking, one for “vagina” mention. Two women serving in the state House have been barred from participating in floor debates for one day. The sanction is a punishment for things they said during a debate on anti-abortion legislation. State Representatives Lisa Brown and Barb Byrum are both Democrats. Brown …
Jun 15 2012
Alexander Aan is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in Indonesia for saying ‘God doesn’t exist.’ We live in an insane world where we get exiled, we get banned, we get burned, we get sentenced to death,sentenced to life in prison,sentenced to years in prison if we tell the simple truth, ‘God doesn’t exist.’ The …
Jun 11 2012
Kalighat Painting, “Woman Striking Man With Broom,” Calcutta, India, 1875 Kalighat Painting, Role changed. Man is nursing his wife. Calcutta, India. 1875 These are famous Kalighat paintings. Once upon a time women did not have the right to get an education. Male-dominated world prevented women from becoming educated. Women in Bengal got the right to …
May 22 2012
For ages, nobody drew Muhammad. Artists freely drew the Virgin Mary, Jesus the Christ, Gautama the Buddha, Hindu gods and goddesses, and whoever else that they liked. But Muhammad, fanatics have objected to his being drawn even though Muslim artists drew him in the Middle Ages. Recently someone broke the rule. A Danish cartoonist drew …
Apr 20 2012
[Dwikhandito ( The life divided), the third part of my autobiography has been banned in Bangladesh since 2003. The book was also banned in West Bengal, India in 2003 but Kolkata high court lifted the ban on the book in 2005. The book is now free but heavily censored. The readers are still not …
Apr 15 2012
“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody …
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