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Australian Artist Says Drawing Of Serena Williams Isn’t Racist: “The World Has Just Gone Crazy”

The Australian newspaper that released the controversial image of #SerenaWilliams as an enraged baby is defending its artist’s work. Racist, insensitive, sexist and overall inappropriate is what many are calling cartoonist #MarkKnight after he released his exaggerated depiction of Williams losing the U.S. Open on Saturday. Williams was fined $17,000 for …

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Australian Man Who Donated Blood Every Week For 60 Years Saved Over 2 Million At-Risk Babies

—blogged by @lovelikejhoney An 81-year-old Australian man, James Harrison, retires as a blood donor after providing more than three million doses of blood to at-risk pregnant women. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Harrison’s blood has unique antibodies that have been used to create an injection called Anti-D, which helps fight against rhesus disease—a …

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