Binded

Maybe it's me but this article did not take me by surprise in even the slightest way. It almost bored me because like don't we all know this already? I mean don't we hear about this everywhere i must see 200 flipping diet ads a day between internet ads, radio ads, and magazines. Have you looked at the people on fox news they look like freakin barbies. We talk about the class diffrentials in schools, movies, the news, the law ect. We talk about how the media and cultural push has tried to make us feel that "Gay" people were "sick" and needed help and medication. Im not ignorant im aware it's called Heteronomy thinking, It's called the ruling of Religion. Take a philosophy class. It's called pre judgement that you may not even be aware you have. Cartoons are just a 1 millionth of the influences that push a certain agenda, im not ignorant but i also refuse to be cynical i choose a life of being aware but not being submerged. I didn't even have cable in my house for the last six years and i only have it now because it was part of the Verizon bundle but it never goes on. we don't watch the news in our house, we don't go to church, we read books about facts that help us learn about the world. I love people for a living, i always put my heart into everything i do, I work with every orientation and every ethnicity, people with all illnesses and i love them all. I try to rarely wear make up and remember im beautiful the way i am i tell my girls the same daily. I let them dress themselves as long as its reasonable and we don't shop at the F@#%^#%^# stores that are selling short shorts to 7 year olds. We go to Savers and we have fun buying different pieces and making our own outfits.
 It's great because theres no size negative 8 plastic models modeling absolutely impractical clothes. My daughter wont wear a dress without shorts under it because she wants to be able to go on the monkey bars...good for her. I don't know maybe it's me i just didnt think any of what i just read was a secret i kind of felt like "well ya no s#$#". Just don't let it turn you cynical, there's plenty of beauty in life too focusing on this stuff will drive you crazy,
http://mediamatters.org/issues/diversity-discrimination

i thought this was perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw
My lover's got humour
She's the giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody's disapproval
I should've worshiped her sooner

If the heavens ever did speak
She's the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week

'We were born sick,' you heard them say it

My Church offers no absolutes.
She tells me, 'Worship in the bedroom.'
The only heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you—

I was born sick,
But I love it
Command me to be well
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice

Drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful

That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me my deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

No Masters or Kings
When the Ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am Human
Only then I am Clean
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

imagine a world where being gay was the norm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOJgDW0gPI please watch

It Goes Without Saying....LGBT Reflection

This weeks reading "Speaking the Unspeakable" reminded me a lot of S.C.W.A.M.P. The privilege we have without even realizing it, the way we favor one identity more than the other. Why we feel the need to hide the fact that Love is Love is beyond me. It reminded me of my privilege as a heterosexual and how I never have to be concerned about being judged on my orientation. How I can talk about my partner freely without discrimination and how as I look into the future at our wedding I know I wont face scrutiny. These are things people who have different sexual orientations cannot say. It reminded me of the meeting we had at work the other day that lead to this post by my boss...

‪#‎NationalComingOutDay‬! Hopefully one day there'll be no need for this & we'll all just realise ‪#‎LoveIsLove‬

— feeling pride at RI Council of Resource Providers for Children, Youth & Families (RICORP).

 

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My co worker who we all love dearly also happens to be a Lesbian. We never really addressed it though because no one in our office really thought about it I geuss non of us thought of her as different. However, the other day she help an hour workshop on LGBT education and how we can help our youth and all the kids we work with, She educated us on how to be part of the solution.

The Riddle Scale: Attitudes Towards LGBT People

 

The statements reflect the following attitudes:

 

Repulsion: LGBT people are strange, sick, crazy and perverse.

 

Pity: LGBT people are born that way and, therefore, should be pitied.

 

Tolerance: Same-sex attractions and gender non-conforming behaviors are just a phase of development that most people outgrow.

 

Acceptance: One needs to make accommodations for LGBT people’s difference; although they are not as valued as heterosexual, gender-conforming people.

 

Support: The rights of LGBT people should be protected and safeguarded.

 

Admiration: Being a LGBT person in our society takes strength.

 

Appreciation: There is value in diversity. Homophobic attitudes should be confronted.

 

Nurturance: LGBT people are an vital part of society.

 

She talked about her own experience and brought great awareness to the issue. It was on this day that we decided to make out building an official safe space and ordered a safe space kit with banners and everything to put around the building.

 

http://internationalspectrum.umich.edu/life/definitions < great resource

 

It reminded me of Delpit "The silenced Dialogue"  Sexual orientation is the silenced dialogue.

 

From the reading there was a few things that stood out to me. Things I believe whole heartedly but as a Heterosexual do not have to think about this reading brought those issued to light for me,

 

"As Epstein and Johnson (1998) have highlighted, ‘out’ gay and lesbian teachers are threatened with the loss of their credibility, homophobia, adverse media reactions, a loss of privacy, and even (in the past at least) the loss of their jobs. As discussed earlier, teachers’ personal sexual lives are not seen as an appropriate subject in classroom spaces (Epstein and Johnson 1998), despite the fact that heterosexual teachers are implicitly and explicitly ‘out’."

In some of the schools that I visited I was warned about the use of ‘more public’ spaces in the school, such as the playground; about the ways in which both pupils and their parents would become agitated and aggressive towards members of staff. It is also no wonder that some teachers endeavoured to keep their discussions of (homo)sexuality bound to these ‘safe’ spaces, for, as Skeggs (1999) suggests, fear is as significant a factor in people’s use of space as violence itself. Within schools, teachers are often expected to take responsibility for their own safety, and so if visibility (being recognised as LGBT or an ally) is a central means for instigated attack, then invisibility would appear to be the safest option. Indeed, a number of authors have commented on the need for ‘safe’ spaces for LGBT people. Hubbard, in particular, contends that, given the fear of homophobic abuse, the metaphor of the private space of the closet appears to be an ‘appropriate description of the schizophrenic spatial lives that many gays ‘‘not out’’ in public space lead’ (Hubbard 2001, 56).
 Both reminded me of S.C.W.A.M.P both boggle my mind.

 

'I can't seem to understand how someone decided it hiding it, not talking about it, and disregarding all together was the logical thing to do. Welcome to the world of bullying created by an immense lack of education on subjects such as sexual orientation, mental and physical disabilities, Privilege, Culture, and well everything else that REALLY MATTERS 

 

 

Meier, "Why Can't She Remember That?" Arguement

Although i am not a huge fan of just rewriting what was already written i feel strongly about what the Author has written and want to agree with her. Meir argues about how important it is to read to young children. She argue that even more important not how many books you read but what books you read. Children will be much more engaged and interested when the content of the book is relate-able to them.She talks about reading to her audience and bringing the books alive. She gives examples of how a classrooms favorite book can extend into all activities. I loved this article and i couldn't agree more. I think that it is very important to read books that are in the children's interest, I mean would you want to pay attention and read a book you were not interested in?  I've always felt that reading to children was one of the most valuable activities in the world. Through literature your child can learn anything, there is no limit. Through literature your child's social and academic skills can flourish. It can help them spark an interest and find what they are most passionate about.
reading is foundamental<<<<open this link

Delpit Argument

 Honestly,
   I found Delpit hard to read and hard to understand. What i did get out of it and correct me if im wrong, was a very narrow minded point of view. What i read and very simply stated was that Delpit feels that our white teachers are not culturally sensitive to colored culture and that we are not sensitive to their language either. I was actually offended when the author depicted black language with a southern accent, i'm sorry but really? I have never heard of a colored person in Rhode Island speak in such a way. I understood clearly the relevance in the tiny village in Alaska those people are for the most part secluded and have developed their own common language makes sense. To say, however, that in all of America we should teach in two different languages one with a southern accent apparently is just nonsense. I am pretty confident in saying that very few Americans speak fluent and correct formal English. English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, and its variations depend I believe more on where in the country or what country you live. Americans living in the southern part tend to have a more what we call southern accent that is not based on color. Northerners well we have are own twist on the language and have our own fun words like "Wicked" and "Bubbler". I also disagree with her way of using the teacher and Joeys conversation as if white people were the only people to make a language. colored people have created and abundance of complex intelligent languages and i wouldn't attempt to change them i wouldn't learn them and then accuse them of not being culturally sensitive if i didn't learn them correctly. If you wanted to be even broader than just America how about the 6,500 http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/many-spoken-languages.html other spoken languages around the world, do we alter all of them based on color do we say there should be a black Japanese? How far do you go with that argument?
 On the way to adress your students I agree with Delpit that the way you instruct can be confusing to children depending on rules with in the home. I however disagree with again what i saw as her being narrow minded; that colored children on learn in a direct way. I think that all children listen and follow instruction diffrently based on how they are talked to within the home i don't think this just applies to colored children. What i do believe is that the best way to handle and correct this is to educate teacher's, and then educate them some more. I think awareness and understanding will allow for teachers to instruct in a way that is best for her audience. I jsut don't agree with these writing's maybe it's me...I see things so much broader than that. If we are learning to be accepting and diverse don't write about how white people don't know how teach colered children because than someone can easily write about how colored teachers don't know how to teach whit kids and honestly what makes one argument better than the other? Write instead an article about how to better educate our teachers on diversity, how to make them more culturally aware. Please comment however you feel because maybe im reading into this wrong and it's just me i honestly am not sure.

Kozol

When i was reading the chapter from Amazing Grace it reminded me a lot of the first few chapters in this book Kozol wrote too.

 Slums of America  

Although most Americans remain willfully ignorant to it there are slums in America. Recently i took a business trip to Philadelphia it was my first time to a big city. I remember admiring how every building looked like art, there was city sweepers, and everything was so clean. I had wanted to visit Philly's main DCYF building to get a sense of the programs they had for youth in care and how they implemented them so i jumped on the subway. Somewhere along the lines i took a wrong turn and when i got off the subway and walked up to ground level i was stunned. It was like the people here didn't exist as if, they had been completely forgotten about. I mean just a few blocks away i was beautiful, well kept, and bustling...what makes that side more important than this side? I was still in Philadelphia. The reading reminded me of this trip how one side of the city seemed so worthy and the other worthy of nothing. Honestly im still incredibly confused by the whole thing because when you have a city that is flourishing as well as Philly which holds hundreds of   massive conferences and brings in millions of dollars you would think some of that money would overflow and help the lesser fortunate parts of the state grow. I would love to meet the man who made the decision on where the street sweepers can go I'd love to ask him how he decided at what parts of Philly are worthy of being clean and which parts are not. 

This reading also reminded me of the days i lived with my best friend in Manton projects, RI. Bianca and I had become the best of friends after sharing a room in a local children's shelter and often we would run away and stay at her home in the projects. As a young white girl from Exeter i was definitely out of my comfort zone. When i was reading the chapter last night the feelings i felt i realized were not coming primarily from the reading but from my lived experience. Living in Manton i had grew accustomed to a whole new culture and although i first felt so afraid i left feeling like i belonged everything became "normal". There was cockroaches literally everywhere, trash on the streets, babies crying, and the violence....I can't even begin. When i was reading and the mother kept saying " What else can i say?" there is something that living in those condition does to people like they feel trapped. I get very angry when people mantain the attitude "Well why don't they just move out?" if only it was that easy. The youth that i was surrounded by literally lived in survival mode constantly there was fear of being "jumped", fear of the men, the dark. Those youth knew so much more about things they should have never had too. I could go on for days so.....

Anyways, in my personal opinion there is absolutely no need for "ghettos". To me they just emphasize how bad America segregates class and that's despicable. I feel like when a city has met it its needs the extra funding should go to the other cities. For example  Newport has successfully financially supported its city after a yearly  income of  1.2 million but it made 2.1 million take some of that overhead and help fix up providence. Why couldn't that work??.. Think of the benefits to that, Having "Ghettos benefits NOBODY. It's a fact that it generates high drug use, illness, and disease..and of course it does. You live in those conditions and tell me how you feel, how much hope you have, 

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