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i was so lucky to visit the Bolivian salt flats at Uyuni this past week.
maybe bc of El Nino, but an unusual snowfall created a mirror effect, something usually only seen in other months.

this photo was taken near sunset.
hard to believe this dreamy, surreal image is of a landscape. i am posting a version with a person in it... some of the other pics look like abstract paintings

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going to a desert Bolivia — film, 2005

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South America is being battered by catastrophic floods, snow and mudslides. The Andes region of Chile, Peru and Bolivia have all been badly hit. Peru's president has declared a state of emergency as experts warn that up to 1.2 million people could be affected.

#CimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #Chile #Peru #Bolivia

rocks Bolivia — film, 2005

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They applied on 12 October 2022.

Then: a registry that said no, a long administrative grind, two constitutional injunctions, and three years and ten months of being told their family was not the kind the state writes down. On Friday, in Santa Cruz, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha were recorded as married. Banzer announced it on Facebook the next day the way you'd announce a birthday.

Article 63 still defines marriage as a woman and a man. This was won case by case, not by statute. It is a crack in a wall.

David Aruquipa, whose own union was the 2020 ruling that made this possible, refused to let last week be called a beginning. He called it a continuity.

#Bolivia #MatrimonioIgualitario #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #TransRights #Solidarity #QueerHistory #Journalism #Photography #DailyGathering

The old-fashioned dog

A dog dressed in an Ekeko, the Andean god of abundance, costume takes part in a parade on the feast day of San Roque, when Bolivians take to the streets to honor their pets by having them blessed during Sunday mass, competing in early-morning dog-and-owner races and ending the day with costume parades, in La Paz, Bolivia, August 16. REUTERS/Claudia Morales

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#rituals
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They applied on 12 October 2022.

Then: a registry that said no, a long administrative grind, two constitutional injunctions, and three years and ten months of being told their family was not the kind the state writes down. On Friday, in Santa Cruz, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha were recorded as married. Banzer announced it on Facebook the next day the way you'd announce a birthday.

Article 63 still defines marriage as a woman and a man. This was won case by case, not by statute. It is a crack in a wall.

David Aruquipa, whose own union was the 2020 ruling that made this possible, refused to let last week be called a beginning. He called it a continuity.

#Bolivia #MatrimonioIgualitario #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #TransRights #Solidarity #QueerHistory #Journalism #Photography #DailyGathering