Rough week? #Recharge with this thread of stories of triumph — for those helping others, or for justice (occasionally) prevailing. First, catch this image from the Ding Darling Wildlife Reserve in Florida by George Gentry /1 ⤵️
To students and educators at Ireland's prestigious Trinity University, Caitriona Lally wipes the desks and swabs the floors as a janitor. But she also is a novelist, and now has won one of the nation's most prestigious literary honors washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018… /2 #Recharge ⤵️
Get up, stand up: Kamira Trent, right, stood up for the rights of two Spanish-speaking women being harassed by a bigot. The harasser was arrested, and one of the targeted women said "It felt good to see someone who was born here defend us that way." buzzfeednews.com/article/blakem… /3 ⤵️
The copy editor didn't tell anyone about her long-ago rape by a longtime @latimes editor. Not for more than three decades. If Christine Blasey Ford could come forward, Kathy Gosnell, 73, could, too, prompting other staffers to do so latimes.com/local/lanow/la… /4 ⤵️
The school bus had run off the road. Flipped. Burst into flames. 14 yo Edwin Jimenez had managed to get his 11 yo brother out, then noticed 2 girls stuck under seats. “I couldn’t leave them there.” wfaa.com/article/news/m… #Recharge /5 ⤵️
The usual thing would have been stay quiet. Nadia Murad did not. She told the world about how ISIS forced her into sex slavery, & she has campaigned to end wartime sexual violence. Last week, she shared the Nobel Peace Prize. From her autobiography: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… /6 ⤵️
A Philadelphia museum needed tour guides for its Middle East collection. So it hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees. One guide, a former translator for the US military, likes the job so much he sometimes drops by on his day off pri.org/stories/2018-1… /7 ⤵️
One small step: Henrietta Lacks, whose cell line transformed modern science and medicine, will be honored by Johns Hopkins with a new research building in her name baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/10/06/joh… #Recharge /8 ⤵️
That's it for #Recharge this week. Sign up for our weekly newsletter here: motherjones.com/topics/recharg… Have a great week, and enjoy this image of a harvest moon rising over the mountains at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park, via @Interior #Recharge /9 ⤵️
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