{"id":753,"date":"2012-12-29T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/29\/what-one-23-year-old-taught-us\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:27:54","slug":"what-one-23-year-old-taught-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/12\/29\/what-one-23-year-old-taught-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What one 23-year-old taught us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/3899688526\/what-one-23-year-old-taught-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/living\/rip-what-one-23-year-old-taught-us-572276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/7fBzDk47Ug2oqqFyVyMsSjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>In all the stories about the 23-year old rape victim as braveheart, it\u2019s worth remembering this. She had no intention to be a braveheart. She was not planning to be an activist or a symbol. She just wanted to go home.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/living\/rip-what-one-23-year-old-taught-us-572276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on firstpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesIn all the stories about the 23-year old rape victim as braveheart, it\u2019s worth remembering this. She had no intention to be a braveheart. She was not planning to be an activist or a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/12\/29\/what-one-23-year-old-taught-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/12\/25\/we-are-nothing-but-machines-to-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":753,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;We Are Nothing But Machines to Them&#8217; | Immigration &amp; Labor | The Investigative Fund","author":"aslam","date":"December 25, 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In one of the sweatshops that make clothes for brands like Gap and Walmart\u2026 On the morning of Oct. 13, Taslima Aktar arrived at the gates of a Bangladeshi factory called Windy Apparels, in the industrial suburb of Ashulia, where she had been employed as a sewing operator for a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Bangladesh\"","block_context":{"text":"Bangladesh","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/bangladesh\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1552,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/18\/poet-jailed-in-protests-claims-she-was-beaten-by\/","url_meta":{"origin":753,"position":1},"title":"Poet jailed in protests claims she was beaten by Bahraini royal","author":"aslam","date":"July 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesA female member of the al-Khalifa royal family in Bahrain has been accused of repeatedly beating the 20-year-old student poet Ayat al-Gormezi when she was in prison accused of reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest rally criticising the monarchy.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1714,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/02\/08\/bangladeshi-rape-victim-flogged-to-death\/","url_meta":{"origin":753,"position":2},"title":"Bangladeshi Rape Victim Flogged To Death","author":"aslam","date":"February 8, 2011","format":"link","excerpt":"rightsandhumanity: Hena Begum, a 14-year-old old Bangladeshi girl, was publicly flogged recently in Shariatpur, 35 miles outside of the capital, Dhaka\u00a0after being accused of having an affair with her 40-year-old old married cousin. 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