June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
‘Qamile Stema, 88, a so-called sworn virgin, scolds relatives for not visiting her often enough.’
IHT, Sworn to virginity and living as men in Albania:
“Pashe Keqi recalls the day nearly sixty years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father’s baggy trousers, armed herself with a hunting rifle and vowed to forsake marriage, children and sex.
Had she been born in Albania today, says the 78-year-old sworn virgin, who made an oath of celibacy in return for the right to live and rule her family as a man, she would choose womanhood.
“Back then, it was better to be a man because, before, a woman and an animal were considered the same thing,” says Keqi, who has a bellowing baritone voice, sits with her legs open wide like a man and relishes downing shots of Raki and smoking cigarettes. “Now, Albanian women have equal rights with men and are even more powerful, and I think today it would be fun to be a woman.”
Sworn virgins became the patriarchs of their families, with all the trappings of male authority, by swearing to remain virgins for the rest of their lives.”
Tags: albania,cross dressing,feminism,sexuality
April 27th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“kids who spend more time watching television also eat more of the calorie-dense, low-nutrient foods advertised on television. “
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Artists from the six FIFA Confederations have contributed their works to the Edition. An open as well as a signed, numbered edition is available.
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“From 1934 towards the end of the sixties, the French Ministry for Tourism employed full-time PR photographers to snap “celebrities” travelling by Air France.”
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“The photographs in The Course Of History are landscapes of the worst killing fields of Europe, of battles that were turning points in our history, defining our future.”
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“Volgens de bond moeten consumenten eerst bij zichzelf te rade gaan wat ze nu hebben, of ze daar tevreden over zijn en dan pas bedenken wat ze eigenlijk nodig denken te hebben.”
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Atelier van Lieshout is kampioen
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“”But under the water where nobody can see it, it’s no longer a German river, at least not in the biological sense. It’s an international river.”"
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