I have no words. Just watch until the end. You will understand.

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is the best movie about high schoolers ever. As I am watching it here for the umpteenth time yet again, I'm still realizing just how on point it really is. If you haven't seen it. Go watch it. Seriously, drop whatever you are doing and go watch it. Every single second is a point that you are sucked into the film. One of the first true films from a kids point of view.Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Embrace The Magic

Time and time again it seems like people forget about the magic of a book. Not an e-book, kindle, or whatever else has come about in our new age of electronics. I'm talking about the  magic that exists between the words on the pages. Worlds unfold, new ideas begin, and beautiful places are created. Experiencing them is all different for each of us. Up to our own interpretation every page opens a new door. A door to anywhere and everywhere. Holding a new world in our hands, each tattered page and blurred word for repetitious reading starts to become apart of us. Apart of our own story.

Ugandans Both Proud and Brave

 Activists attended Gay Pride events this weekend in Uganda despite the country’s antigay climate, and their bravery earned the admiration of many worldwide.

While the Anti-Homosexuality Bill from David Bahati languishes in Uganda’s Parliament, LGBT activists dared to declare their pride in public events this weekend.

After months of preparation, and despite arrests, Uganda’s gay community concluded all its planned Pride events, including a beach parade, parties and a film festival. All were well attended by a courageous LGBTI community, considering that Uganda is a country that criminalizes homosexual sex acts and seeks legislation to kill its gays for “aggravated homosexuality” with long prison terms for so-called “promotion of homosexuality.”

Adding to the country’s antigay climate, the Ugandan Minister of Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo faces a court clash with gay rights activists for breaking up a legal meeting at a private hotel resort in Entebbe earlier this year. And the government of Uganda was recently embarrassed by unwarranted arrests of foreign visitors at a meeting held at a private resort to discuss human rights issues.

The international community has shown its support for sexual orientation as a human right with examples such as  United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Uganda this past week, when she paid tribute and gave an award to a coalition of human rights defenders for their LGBT advocacy.

The importance of this Pride event cannot be understated. The fact that these brave activists could pull this off in this milieu of persecution is a great victory for the community. Visibility like this notes the ongoing legacy of late activist David Kato, it defies the export of American Evangelical hate, and it helps ensure defeat of the Bahati Bill. It shows leadership for all of Africa, and above all it shows that the LGBT people of Uganda simply refuse to give up their right to exist and to live their natural born sexual orientation.

So in the words of world renowned, award-winning gay activist, Frank Mugisha who proudly attended the weekend Pride: “We did not have a chance to thank the pride organizers, the entire committee and the grand marshal. Thumbs up to you all who made this happen. Next time we begin the march from the police station.”

Everyone is going to..

I wish I could say this is not true, but it is. Every person you let into your life will eventually hurt you or let you down. You just have to find those that it is worth. Not the ones that might be- those that for sure are. People come and go, they are the little pieces that make up who we are. Each teach us a lesson, make an impact, or have a memory. 

remember...

Teenage Years.

1. Keep your friends close and you enemies closer

2. Do what makes you happy, screw everyone else

3. Don't bother with relationships unless they are really special

4. Live with an open mind and an open heart

5. Remember.. people change; it will always get better; dance when you don't know what to do.

6. Music will always save you.

7. Do something daring

8. Think before you speak

9. Listen to you parents, they have been there before

10. Be a good friend and an even better person

11. It is better to be weird than popular

Screw this.

Welcome to modern day media marketing. Every city you travel to, every magazine on the shelf. Why is it this way. Society has created this superior image of the skinny white girl that it is all that people want to be, and that is used to companies advantage. This is the craving of a different life, a different look, being someone you are not. Well, the forgot one thing. Only about 10% of the population looks this way. Why the hell don't we use average sized girls, not a size -3? What happened to what was considered 'sexy' not that long ago. Girls with curves, not ones where their bones stick out and weigh 60 pounds and sit at about 5' 10''.

Why is it now that we cannot even afford to give ourselves a good education, when every job in this millennium requires at least a bachelors degree? People spend their whole lives working trying to pay off this debt that was almost required of them. We are 20 years old. Being able to have a part time job paying minimum wage is going to cost us 30k a year just for tuition.

365 Days For Choice

On September 25th until November 4 2012, there will be a number of protests across North America with the intention of denying individuals with uteruses the right to choose what happens to their bodies. We will be counter protesting to remind these individuals that there is no such thing as "ending abortion" only ending "safe abortions." 

We will be there to show our support and our solidarity with those persons who have made the (often difficult and emotional) decision to make use of the services inside these clinics. We will be there to say that not now or ever will we allow the bullying and shaming by religious individuals, who would seek to limit the rights and the freedoms of others to suit their personal belief systems. Health care and religion have nothing to do with one and other; and to blend them is to start a dangerous precedent where everyone is held to the moral standards of a loud and aggressive few.

We will be there throughout these 40 days, and every other day of the year that they choose to come out, to say that this brand of divisive religious based American politicking is not welcome in Canada, as it is not welcome anywhere. We will be there to oppose those who would seek to emotionally manipulate, shame, and bully women and others with uterus's attempting to access fully legal safe and provincially funded health services. We will be there to say that they can not and will not threaten our right to choose what happens to our bodies, ever. We will be there long after their 40 days is over. We will never stop fighting back those who would take from us our rights to our bodies and our right to choose what happens to those bodies. 

There is no such thing as pro life when your denial of safe health services would guarantee the death of those with uterus's who would opt for unsafe abortions, coat hangers, drugs, beatings, or dangerous procedures in back rooms. There is only pro-choice or anti-choice.

I am Human.

Every day you can hear " Oh, Its just a phase they are going through." Most people see being apart of the LGBT community as a 'sin' or wrong in of itself. Hatred and anger are a constant force against the LGBT community. I just want to ask some of you who have this mindset... Why? It is not you that is this way, why should you have any say in weather or not gays have rights to marry or for any other reason. Not everyone is like you. We are all different. Some people were born this way, some find out later in life. If being gay is a choice... when did you choose to be straight? Stop all the crap. It is not your life you choose to live, let others live how they are happy. Keep your opinions to yourself, or get rid of them all together.

Nobody Cares Unless Your Pretty Or Dead.

Bullying is a huge problem in today society. Especially with teenagers. This morning I logged into Facebook to  hear about yet another girl that committed suicide. All day today I keep seeing all of these posts about Amanda Todd. Yes, it is horrible that she went this way.. no one should. However, I see a slight problem. All of you are " so heartbroken", and "torn up" over her death now. Well, as I see none of you particularly gave a shit before, why now? This girl's death will be a big thing for about 2 days, and then everyone will forget about her. Thats how i always goes. I don't know who shes is or where she from, but someone- anyone could have just simply reached out and saved that girl. One person could have made the difference. Now- she has all the support she would ever need, Guess what guys? Its too late. You want to help stop bullying? Stop all of a sudden caring after its too late. Maybe learn to do something before it reaches this. I promise you it will make more of a difference than your stupid Facebook posts about how you want to change the world- actually do it.

Dares For August/September

I hope someone at least thinks about doing these dares... even just a little. If anyone is- here ya go!

DARES FOR AUGUST 
1.  Make a stranger smile.
2. Be Happy with who you are and where you have been
3. Love with all of your heart and soul
4. Stand up for yourself 
5. Be heard and make a stand about something you believe in
6. Be there for someone during a hard time
7. Live like today is your last day
8. Be as Happy as a bird with a french fry on a summer day
9. Spend time with your best friend
10. Unplug for a day- No phone, no computer, No electronics
11. Read a BOOK. Not a nook or a kindle.. Get a BOOK.
12. Become someone else for a day- dress up, fake a name,maybe even fake an accent.
13. Be brave... do something crazy.

Dont Hate What You Dont Understand

Don't hate what you don't understand. Take the leap and try to understand. Everyone is different from each other. We all behave in different ways. Learn it. Preach It. Live By It. We are who we are.

Society Killed The Teenager.

SOCIETY KILLED THE TEENAGER.  Yep, that says it all. I just recently went to my little brothers science fair at the Junior High School. All around me I saw little 30 year old women. These girls are 13 years old... they are supposed to be  wearing unmatching clothes that are way to big,  pigtails, and not caring whether they look good- just having a good time with their friends. Well apparently not, these girls are not even girls anymore. Perhaps clones of a barbie ? Spray tans, bleached hair,  nails done, wearing fancy clothes and heels, and walking around with their boyfriends. Since when do year olds have boyfriends and I-phones ?! I suppose I got lost in the translation it was okay to give us every luxury we could ever want and let us look and feel way beyond their age just because it apparently the 'trendy' way to do it. Is there really such thing as a teenager anymore? All of the ads, the culture, social networking, the hate, and the trends.. they destroy what little of human individuality we have. Deemed by society it is okay for todays teenager to be a barbie doll by the age of 14, to drink, to do drugs, to have sex,  just do whatever and get whatever they please. Society is killing us.. literally and metaphorically. There is hardly any responsibility or respect towards adults or anyone for that matter, it is not expected nor demanded. 

Society Kills Us.

Why is it that girls are starving themselves to fit the terms of what society has deemed 'beautiful' ? Why cant we be the way they are? Why are we never skinny enough? Pretty enough? Popular enough? Why? I simply do not understand how we can let others that think they are so important decide what is beautiful or not. It is never good enough.I am a in High School- I'm the one that knows it best. Today's ociety doesn't care what is in the inside, its what is in the picture. That picture.. It kills. Suicide. Anorexia. Bulimia. Self-mutilation. All just to be 'pretty'. It destroys-it wrecks the mind. Does anybody out there understand that? Stop with the judgement. stop with the destruction of the people around you. Take a look around for the day, your just like them. A individually different and equally beautiful human being. Flaws and all, society is wrong. We arent skinny, fat, ugly, pretty,gross,gorgeous, or any thing that we propose upon humanity. We are human. Not dolls.

All We Wish For

In reality, everyone asks 'How are you?' But its  it with sincerity? No. I just ask of all of you, show some compassion once and a while, actually mean what you say, say it with meaning and reason, because you could be someones last hope that maybe this world isn't totally filled with totally indifferent beings. We all crave for someone to sincerely ask , but do we? No. Lets stop the craving...Please, just give it a try.

You Know Its True.