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Tape art near the Fan Zone at Wellington Harbour. Oct 1 2011
The Real Jess
That's me. I go to school. I play rugby. I like stuff.
jwilton at uvic dot ca
On October 1st we flew (way too early in the morning) from Nelson to Wellington. We went to pick up our tickets for the game the next day and were told that there was a fan event with a few All Blacks. Unfortunately, somehow I managed to forget our camera in Nelson (boo!) though we werent actually supposed to be taking pictures at this event anyway. Mark managed to get a few (crappy) pictures with his iphone though. Anyway, you might not be able to tell but it was Brad Thorn(4), Colin Slade (10) and Andrew Hore(2). We got them to sign our tickets. (Michelle, I still have yours… not sure which one was yours though?)
September 29 2011
Mark and I woke up to the sounds of a car pulling up to our campsite: Phil had gotten off work early and came back out to Ruby bay to meet us. He was even kind enough to help Michelle take her tent down… while she was still in it!
We also saw a crazy trailer someone had made to look like a house (actually, we saw a few of these on our trip) and played on the flying fox before heading home.
For elves or tooth fairies: cheerios dipped in chocolate, then sprinkles, confectioners’ sugar or cheerios rolled in cinnamon sugar.
I’m a sucker for clever ideas.
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For Jessica. Hope you’re having some lovely adventures.
I am! I’m even starting to post about some of them! (finally!)
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.”
Katt (aka angels-and-angles)
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“To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (via app1ejuice)
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I’m pro-choice because the personhood of a embryo/fetus is irrelevant: no person has the right to impose themselves on another’s body.
I’m pro-choice because without the right and ability to say no, we lack the ability to say yes.
I’m pro-choice because every child should have the right to be a chosen child, whether or not their conception was intended.
I’m pro-choice because parenthood is way too damned hard for anyone to be forced into it.
I’m pro-choice because people with uteruses are, y’know, people, and capable of making their own decisions.
I’m pro-choice because there’s no way to ban abortion without upping the death rate of women.
I’m pro-choice because intended or not (and I’d argue it mostly is), the outcomes of abortion bans are misogynist and reify patriarchy.
I’m pro-choice because I refuse to tell you what to do with your body, and I wish the same right extended to me.
I’m pro-choice because banning abortion doesn’t help recognize the personhood of children, it removes the personhood of people with uteruses.
”— excerpted from Raising My Boychick, a blog on parenting (via oceanevolution)
I’m certain I’ve reblogged this before but holy shit does this hit the nail on the head.(via navybluecigarettes)
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“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about Benedict Arnold, the first traitor in America, but I’ve never heard—until I went onto the [National Women’s History Museum] Web site—about Deborah Sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. She was 21 years old in the Revolutionary War. She enlisted on the American side under a man’s name, wore boys’ clothing, was cut with a British saber across her forehead, and took a musket ball in her thigh.’ She’s a good storyteller, with a warm, urgent voice. ‘And her compatriots carried her six miles to the doctor’s, and he stitched up her head and she wouldn’t let him take her pants off—because he would discover she was a woman!’ So did she die of her wound? ‘No—she was very good with her needle, so she cut the musket ball out and sewed her own leg up and served another eighteen months. In 1783 she was discharged, went home and had three children.’ Sampson was granted £34 by the state of Massachusetts for exhibiting ‘an extraordinary instance of feminine heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful, gallant soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of her sex unsuspected and unblemished.’ Amazing story. ‘And I am 60 years old and I learn this story,’ says Streep. ‘I should have learned that story in the fourth grade. Because it helps you as a child to know that it is not just Paul Revere riding a horse and calling, ‘The British are coming, the British are coming.’ It’s not just Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and the battles won, it’s the bravery of all these people that are undiscovered, unknown.’”
“Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue (via marxisforbros)
What up, lay-deeeezzzz
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“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.” Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice - Yahoo! News (via nedhepburn)
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.” Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice - Yahoo! News (via nedhepburn)
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