In The Congo, A Bit Of Whimsy That Can't Be Contained
Photographer Finnbar O'Reilly captures a lighter side of the women of the Congo, where the style (when it comes to hair) is go big, or go home. His beautiful video is after the jump.
Eve Ensler's New Monologue Will Take Your Breath Away
I cried watching Eve Ensler performing her new piece, A Teenage Girl's Guide To Surviving Sex Slavery. She ends it, "No one can take anything from you if you do not give it to them."
Eve Ensler: "Rape Is A Very Cheap Method Of Warfare"
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was arrested in Rwanda on Friday. Nkunda has been accused of encouraging soldiers under his command to use rape as a widespread war strategy.
Loose Lips
Alec Baldwin on his
30 Rock lip-lock with Jennifer Aniston: "It was the greatest day of my life." He's J/K, people, but Baldwin adds, "Whenever you do that with someone, it's so fake. They're getting paid to kiss you and I'm getting paid to kiss her. But she's a doll." • 50 Cent because they made him look like a…
Ashley Judd Is Not Just Another Tinseltown Disaster Tourist
Newsweek writer Christopher Dickey Ashley Judd, who visited eastern Congo about six months ago with , and witnessed the tens of thousands of refugees there. "Goma," says Judd, "is a shithole." Writes Dickey, "the description is perfectly accurate." There are no paved roads, there are giant potholes, there's rubble…
Remember
Dr. Denis Mukwege, the doctor who has helped perform reconstructive surgery on more than 21,000 raped Congolese women since 1998? Even though there is no sign the epidemic will stop, his hospital is losing a significant source of funding: The European Community is cutting its annual grant because officially…
The New York Times Decides Not To Forget About Congo
Jeffrey Gettleman, whose work for the
New York Times about we've , went back again this year armed with and some of the empathy the country needs. also manages to find a small bit of hope in the ability of women to finally tell their stories.What Gettleman finds during this trip, in addition to thousands more…
Ivory Towers
In the past year, poachers in Congo have killed
a fifth of the Savannah elephants in Virguna National Park. In the past ten days alone, Rwandan rebels have killed seven of the elephants in Virunga, along Congo's eastern border with Rwanda and Uganda."We've definitely lost 20 percent of the population this year and…
Florida Outlaws Truck Nuts? • Congo Arrests Cock Snatchers
• Being a tool just got harder: Florida may fine drivers with truck nuts. • EHarmony ditches one-night stand advice after super-prudes protest. • Pervy dude peeps on roommate using teddy bear camera. • Superstitious Congolese police arrest suspected "penis snatchers"; men must find new excuse for small dicks. • Pasha…
"They Said If My Parents Didn't Give Them Money They Would Rape Me"
It was difficult to decide what to clip from last night's television premiere of the film The Greatest Silence, which documents the years-long epidemic of rape in the Congo. There were the dozens of adult victims...the rapists themselves...and of course, filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, who, according to at least one female…
Critics Find The Greatest Silence "Chilling" But "Frustrating"
In 2006, filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson went to the war-torn Congo on her own nickel to make a documentary about rape in the republic formerly known as Zaire. Her film, The Greatest Silence, which premieres tonight on HBO at 10pm, includes interviews with some of the estimated 250,000 women and girls who have been raped by…
"Here At The Hospital, We've Seen Women Who Have Stopped Living"
Anderson Cooper turned up on last night's 60 Minutes with a disturbing report about the Congolese civil war, specifically, the epidemic of violence against women in the form of almost unimaginable rape and torture. (Guns and knives in women's vaginas, people.) Although the epidemic of assaults is old news for some,…
Kate Moss: Not-So-Super Role Model To Schoolgirls
- Is Kate Moss sending a bad message to Britain's schoolgirls? Some teachers think that England's failure to prosecute Kate for her documented cocaine use in 2005 undermined the country's anti-drug efforts. "Teenagers need to see people who have broken the law suffer the consequences,' said Pat Langham, president of…
Short Men More Likely To, Uh, Cruise For Little Boys
- Short men are more likely to be pedophiles, according to a new Canadian study. Maybe they're just looking for someone their own size? Kidding. [NEWS.com.au]
- At least there's one Supreme Court Justice who will stand up for the rights of women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cautioned that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, such a…
In Congo, They Rape Three-Year-Olds
A gruesome new kind of rape is gaining popularity in Congo, and no one knows exactly why.
The latest suspects are a dreadlocked band of shiny tracksuit-wearing Laker fans called the Rastas. And yeah, we'd say it kind of gives us an appreciation for "rapists" like Kobe Bryant, but honestly, these rapes are so horrific…As Always, Oprah Winfrey Is Ruining It For The Rest Of Us
- Women between the ages of 50 and 70 are about to become the richest demographic in the United States, claims writer Marti Barletta. We'd see this as cause for celebration except that the inclusion of Oprah Winfrey probably skewed things a bit! [AdAge]
- Leaders of the Sikh community in Delhi are calling for an end to…
