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Published on July 13, 2019 by LIBERATUM

Portrait du philosophe Bernard Henri LÈvy ‡ Paris le 21/03/2018 Photo Jean-Christophe Marmara / Le Figaro

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O festival cultural multidisciplinar global celebrando a diversidade e a inclusão e trazendo as maiores figuras e ícones culturais do mundo para colaborar com os agentes de mudança mais talentosos e artistas inovadores do Brasil para um programa original e inspirador dedicado a assuntos importantes que afetam o Brasil e nosso planeta.

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SALVADOR. A CIDADE FOI ESCOLHIDA POR SER A PRIMEIRA CAPITAL DO BRASIL, CIDADE DA MÚSICA PELA UNESCO, BERÇO DA CULTURA PRETA, CENTRO DE REVOLUÇÃO, AFROEMPREENDEDORISMO, MÚSICA, MODA, TEATRO, DANÇA E ARTE.

O festival cultural multidisciplinar global celebrando a diversidade e a inclusão e trazendo as maiores figuras e ícones culturais do mundo para colaborar com os agentes de mudança mais talentosos e artistas inovadores do Brasil para um programa original e inspirador dedicado a assuntos importantes que afetam o Brasil e nosso planeta.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐔

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 𝐈𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Photographer 📸 @rafael.avcioglu 👦🏽👦🏻 @walexprnc @kubawachadlo Producer: @hedgehogsvsfoxes

𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍

𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑

Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work.

Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.
- Maya Angelou

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𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈 𝐆𝐀𝐘 𝐋𝐀𝐖 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐈𝐕 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐗 𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀

A global LGBTQ+ asylum charity has recorded a huge rise in LGBTQ+ people from Uganda asking for help in fleeing the country.

Rainbow Railroad says the rise is “directly related” to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which doubles down on the criminalisation of same-sex activity while introducing a new crime of “aggravated homosexuality”. Defined as sex with a minor, having sex while HIV positive or incest, it carries a death sentence.

The bill originally made it illegal to simply identify as LGBTQ+, but this clause was removed as parliament reconsidered the bill this week.

Rainbow Railroad has received more than 468 requests for help from LGBTQ+ Ugandans in 2023 so far. That represents a “sharp increase from previous years”, the organisation told PinkNews.

Speaking to PinkNews, Kimahli Powell, executive director of Rainbow Railroad, said: “There were already disturbing signs that Uganda was targeting the LGBTQI+ community before the bill was introduced, including the shutdown of civil society organisations like Sexual Minorities Uganda – but the spike is directly related to the bill’s passage.”

Notably, 56 per cent of those seeking assistance are trans or non-binary.

This points to a “larger backlash and targeting of trans persons” by the “anti-gender movement”, Powell says.

“We’re deeply concerned around the vulnerability of trans people who will be severely persecuted if and when this bill is signed into law,” he added.

Swift action is necessary, Powell says. He is urging governments around the world to do what they can to provide support to LGBTQ+ Ugandans who are forced to flee. - PinkNews

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From today until a month from now , you’ll be able to purchase a print from 10 image makers who have donated their work in aid of raising funds for the aid of the organization @hashtagwhatnext in Uganda, amidst the recent law passed imposing the death penalty for homosexuality.

𝐋𝐎𝐈𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐘

𝐋𝐎𝐈𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
- Pema Chodron

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐍

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too - Vincent Van Gogh

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🤍🤎💚💙💛🧡❤️💜 愛 Amor. حب

🤍🤎💚💙💛🧡❤️💜 愛 Amor. حب L’Amour. 사랑 Love. ভালবাসা Amore. प्यार 爱

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald

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𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
- Maya Angelou,

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𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
- Maya Angelou

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐔

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐔𝐒

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

- Socrates

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒 Love yourse

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.- Lucille Ball

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐆

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

We’re all just walking each other home.
- Ram Das

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𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐃𝐀𝐘

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi

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𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐓

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
- Rumi

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𝐄𝐈𝐃 𝐌𝐔𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐊 Awaken

𝐄𝐈𝐃 𝐌𝐔𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐊

Awakening to faith is not a one-time event, but a continuously unfolding reality. The journey of faith is not a race, but a marathon of love that each person walks at a different pace.

God does not love you just because of who you are; He loves you because love is who He is. So never stop praying. Even when the pain is too much to bear, even when you have broken a thousand promises, even if all that comes out is a silent whisper that only God can hear. No matter what storms you are facing, no matter how bad you mess up, no matter how painful life becomes, the door to prayer is always open for you. After all, as Imam Ali said, “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Love. It is the reason there is something instead of nothing. It is from the soil of love that all of existence blossoms into being.
- A. Helwa

Photographer 📸 @badarapreira

𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅

𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

I’m a Berlin born, Brussels raised, gender fluid, queer photographer that currently resides and creates in New York City. So far, my path in photography has taken me through play, trauma, uprooting, coming out, identification and spirituality and has taught me precious lessons about visual representation of marginalized groups, gender expression and the fragility of social constructs.

Through my work, I look for an intricate connection with each of my subjects. I explore social and personal topics such as sexuality, tokenism and identity with the aims to guide my audience’s perspective and awaken awareness within their personal perception. Through this, I hope to not only evoke the observation of a subject but the deeply personal involvement of the observer.

With my work I fill the gap of visual representation of the diversity within our society. It gives individuals and marginalized social groups non-tokenistic and ethical material for self-recognition and true equality. - @sophiekietzmann

Photographer 📸 @sophiekietzmann

𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓

Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity.

Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends.

Keep me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point.

Grant me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains -- they increase with the increasing years and my inclination to recount them is also increasing.

I will not ask thee for improved memory, only for a little more humility and less self-assurance when my own memory doesn't agree with that of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong.

Keep me reasonably gentle. I do not have the ambition to become a saint -- it is so hard to live with some of them -- but a harsh old person is one of the devil's masterpieces.

Make me sympathetic without being sentimental, helpful but not bossy. Let me discover merits where I had not expected them, and talents in people whom I had not thought to possess any. And, Lord, give me the grace to tell them so.

Amen

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