January 2011
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Just found out I’ve been accepted as part of my school’s delegation to CUQSC! So excited!
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“I’ll let you read about these dudes in the readings.” (Re:...”
– Personality Psych prof
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Normalization
I volunteer at a place that provides a listening ear for LGBTQ youth, and the other day I was thinking about how a lot of the issues these youth are concerned about can be grouped into two categories. 1. People who are scared of coming out because their peers/family/religion, etc. might not be supportive of them (to put it lightly, as some of them face ostracism or being kicked out); 2....
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Catholic Schools: A Rude Awakening
The Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) recently banned Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) because they go against Catholic ideology. In an article in Xtra!, the board’s chairperson justified this ban by adding, “We don’t have Nazi groups either.” I’m sorry – DID SHE JUST COMPARE QUEERS TO NAZIS???
However, it is not that sentence in particular with which I take issue but rather...
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“Some may blackly (angrily) accuse me of trying to blacken (defame) the English...”
– Robert. B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via a-n-a-r-c-h-a)
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"We don't have Nazi groups either" →
I’m sorry…did queers just get compared to Nazis??? #notcool
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In movies:
y-u-no-yunho:
mycompromise:
When humans die:
When animals die:
When Dobby dies:
When it seems as though a bunch of plastic toys are going to die:
THAT’S MEEEEEEEEEE
So. True. Toy Story 3 was SO SAD. And I think I’ll be crying all over the place during HP7-II
