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There is only one ending and it's the same no matter what. Check out the official prototype forum for more.
While you can do missions that end with either infected or military bases destroyed for a limited time, you cannot influence what happens at the end of the game.
This IS NOT an RPG. Infamous has moral choices Prototype DOE NOT
Aggieborn's forum posts
When I go to the link: http://forums.vgames.com/forum.jspa?forumID=271 it displays an Activision themed site with the words "Under Construction" "Check back early April"
Well the new updated website debuted early this month, but now it's the latter half of April and the forum hasn't been back.
It stinks because the forum was allowed to send 20 questions to the devs, which got answered fairly quickly. So they allowed us to send another 20 questions. Then the forums shut down :(
I was looking forward to that interaction and feedback from the devs. It was really cool of them to do that. But now the site's gone and I feel lost.
There seemed to be a period since October where they announced the forum would close, but nothing happened for five months. Hopefully, they get the new forum will be up soon(tm).
What about the rest of you, where do you go to talk about Prototype besides giantbomb.com?
This was a great way to introduce a mission. While I have seen better lip-syncing in current-gen system, it isn't a killer. I enjoyed the variety of ways the AI chose to maneuver him while parkouring, definitely not just a bunch of repeated flips.
Also, I noticed the power-wheel during the "warehouse" fight is very similar to the wheel on the new website. but one of those "locked-out" options is not on the site. So here's looking forward to being surprised by a a new power during gameplay.
Hopefully i won't get spoiled
"Havent seen a good batman game since the Genesis."I haven't seen a good one since Batman Forever....I know I know. But I was a little one at the time. Plus, co-op was a blast with my friend.
But I am thrilled with the gritty Batman style that I've been exposed to since waiting for the Dark Knight. I've read a ton of titles that really have redefined the character for me.
Seems like a lot is coming this June. Prototype, Ghostbusters, Batman: Arkham Asylum, inFamous, Damnation, Bionic Commando, etc. Busy month! Especially when E3 is the month before all of this...
"What's all that red stuff coming out of that nice man, daddy?That's just strawberry jam, sweetheart.":D
Hey, I just realized. What other game likes to eat your enemies? PAC-MAN! :D
The comic was released on April 1st. I read it. I'm not sure if it's exclusive to any one country.
You can go to http://www.comicshoplocator.com/ to find one near you.
The first issue, is just the first issue. It doesn't reveal much. Just gets things started.
Here's hoping the series is good.
I believe the Specialist is featured in the comic that just came out on April 1st. The firts of 6 issues. One issue each month until September.
I don't want to spoiler it, but in the flashback to Vietnam there was this Captain who was a bad@ss. I'm curious if he could become the Specialist 40 years later...probably not. But the Specialist's character model looks similar to the guy in the comic. The first issue isn't much just introduces things. but I'm looking forward to Issue #2.


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Karcher 2400HH has no pressure. I tried to remove the spill valve but it won't budge. I ran the motor sevaral times to pop it out, still no luck. I had the water turned on and the pressure hose connected. I see quite a bit of white deposits around the cylinder and on top of the spill valve. Is there any advice on how to proceed from here? Thanks in advance; any assistance would be appreciated.
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Sounds like the unloader valve is gummed up with calcium deposits. That and iron are always issues especially with hard water.
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'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief' Review By GreatCritic
the story of this film goes like this: Percy has dyslexia, and it bothers him. He goes to a school, and one day on a field trip his sub. teacher asks him to walk into a room. He turns into a weird creature, and asks him for the lightning bolt. He finds out Poseidon is his dad, and that the Greek gods think he stole Zeus's weapon, the lightning bolt. So, if Percy and some friends dont return the bolt to Zeus in the next 10 days, Zeus will start war. Then, the adventure begins. Well actually, the stupidness, terrible direction, and effects begin.
the acting here sucks. Logan Lerman is okay, not terrible like the rest of the cast. Whoever plays Annabeth is terrible, and whoever plays Grover is terrible. The worst performance in the film is whoever plays Luke. His acting was laughable at times. Uma Thurman is just plain annoying from what shes in. I liked Pierce Brosnan in this movie. He produced the only good humor.
the direction is terrible. there are too many action scenes (which are all pointless), and the humor just isn't funny. and I hate how he tried to make this movie badass and other stupid sh*t.
the action scenes here are wannabe. They aren't entertaining, they don't use anything inventive, and they play the same music in all of the scenes here. they're also poorly shot, and the visuals are awful.
this movie has a ton of flaws. the pacing is terrible. all of the other aspects suck. also, they put stupid lines in random parts, and most of it doesn't have to do with the movie. Like, "FRENCH CONNECTION!!! BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!! 1971, MAN!!!" That was when they were in the casino. they also in the book are 11 years old, and here they are 15 or something. They skipped the best part in the book as well.
Overall, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief sucks. It's terribly acted, lazily directed, and is heavily flawed otherwise. So do yourself a favor, and skip this sh*t.
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i loved the books and when the movie came witch i had bin wating for i Cried i coudent bleave how crapy it was i went home and read all the books so that i didint kill the dirikter
3 years agoby @Terran-HironsFlag
this movie was good
4 years agoby @Salem6777Flag
@Supes thanks.
@ed yeah, the book was a crap load better lol4 years agoby @TheAbsolutelyPhenomenalCriticFlag
Nice review. I enjoyed this a little more. Maybe a 2.5/5 or 3/5 for myself. Work on capitalization in your beginning paragraphs and you'll be solid. :D
4 years agoby @the-screenwriterFlag
@monkey I'd have to disagree. it was DEFINITELY out of tune with the book, if you read it. I agree with his opinion too. and you cant thumbs down a review because you disagree with them
4 years agoby @Ilikepie202Flag
Not to be mean but percy jackson is pretty cool. It gives a more mythology and it stay tune with the book. Minus Medusa being deadly and hideous, and Percy vs. Ares fight and Hades don't want war and his helm of darkness is missing but it was really good better than Clash of the titans movie I tell you that
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not a bad review
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Getting better man!
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@worth5bucks thanks man
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getting better. keep up the good work :)
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What is under my carpet??
I am a first time home owner and know very little about home improvement stuff. Our house was built in 1930 and is fully carpeted. I am trying to figure out whether its possible that we have hardwood floors under the carpets - but when I pull up the carpets I see what does not appear to be wood at all. It is smooth and hard and grayish-brown. Can anyone tell me what this is? Is there a chance that there are hardwood floors under this?
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Look like particle board to me, but the could be hardwood floors under that. Unfortunatly, they would be a mess from installing the particle board. They will either be full of nail holes or be covered with adhesive or both.
Looks more like masonite to me. Could be anything under it. It is definitely not original.
looks like particle board. the only way to know, is to take one out, but this was not usually installed over hard wood planks, the carpet would of often been installed directly on the hardwood planks. If you do decie to go the 3/4" hard wood way installing new floors, i would not advise installing it directly on the particle board. Floating engineered hard wood would be acceptable to lay over provided it's flat enough.
After putting my glasses on, you are right it is particle board. A house built in 1930 would not have had particle board on the floor when it was built. Usually, some one has put it over the original floor to cover roughness or a defect. It could have hard wood underneath, but who knows. I have seen it installed in many old houses to cover up termite damage.
Some kind of fiber board....
Thank you so much for the responses! So for a 1930 house, what else could have been the original subfloor other than hardwoods? Is it possible that they put plywood down back then? Are there any other options? If there are no hardwood floors - is it more likely that the house never had them, or that they were removed at some point along the line? One odd thing about our house is that it was moved to its current location in 1970.. Would that affect the floors at all?
So if it is particle board, is it even worth trying to figure out whether there is hardwood underneath? How do i even get it off? If it was nailed to hardwood floors - Im guessing there is no way to fix multiple nail holes in hardwood? Is it possible there could be a layer inbetween the particle board and the potential hardwood floors? thanks again for all the advice! |
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Life in a day: he took his girl to the ballet;
Friday, February 25, 2011
'Les Sylphides' by Louis MacNeice (1939)
Les Sylphides
Life in a day: he took his girl to the ballet;
Being shortsighted himself could hardly see it –
The white skirts in the grey
Glade and the swell of the music
Lifting the white sails.
Calyx upon calyx, Canterbury bells in the breeze
The flowers on the left mirrored to the flowers on the right
And the naked arms above
The powdered faces moving
Like seaweed in a pool.
Now, he thought, we are floating – ageless, oarless –
Now there is no separation, from now on
You will be wearing white
Satin and a red sash
Under the waltzing trees.
But the music stopped, the dancers took their curtain,
The river had come to a lock – a shuffle of programmes –
And we cannot continue down
Stream unless we are ready
To enter the lock and drop.
So they were married – to be the more together –
And found that they were never again so much together,
Divided by the morning tea,
By the evening paper,
The children and the tradesmen's bills.
Waking at times in the night she found assurance
Due to his regular breathing but wondered whether
It was really worth it and where
The river had flowed away
And where were the white flowers.
After the restrained tenderness of Thomas' 'A Marriage', it's interesting to come to a Louis MacNeice poem like 'Les Sylphides', which again deals with the duration of marriage in a short space. Although MacNeice plays with romantic images ("he took his girl to the ballet") he quickly undermines what is to happen with a classic MacNeice touch, "Being short-sighted himself he could hardly see it". Still the poem then turns this around and makes this short-sightedness act as a kind of impressionistic filter through which the ballet becomes something blurred but beautiful, and the imagination of the man fills in the gaps and invents his own ballet "under the waltzing trees".
But the poem starts with the phase "life in a day" and the end of the romance begins with the phrase, "but the music stopped" and almost by implication, "so they were married". Real life enters and love disappears in the complications of domestic life. I think it is a bit odd that MacNeice shifts the point of view in the last stanza from that of the man/husband to that of his wife. I'm not sure that that change of perspective is really necessary since it was he who had imagined the river and the flowers at the ballet. Maybe, MacNeice also wants to suggest that the "life in a day" applies equally to her, that his disappointment is hers also. But they cannot talk about this, locked as they are in the habit and routine of the separate emotional lives.
'Les Sylphides' is a powerful poem about disappointment. It has the sense of world-weariness that MacNeice was so good at. I think – and this is really why I picked the poem – the use of the third person strategy is very powerful here and not used very often in poetry, especially compared to fiction. They only other poet who I can think of who used it regularly was John Berryman in the Dreamsongs, and Weldon Kees in the poems based around the character, Robinson.
In an obvious sense the third person is a distancing device. But it is precisely because of this that I think it is excellent and astute for handling emotional intense material with a sense of (sometimes) ironic distance. This distance suggests the level of pain, disappointment and finally alienation that MacNeice is after. "Life in a day," when viewed from the end of the poem is quite devastating. This life, this marriage can be summed up in one day in terms of the conceit of the poem itself. It's as if after this, the promise of love slipped away in the routines and habits of a failed marriage - at least as explored between these two people as MacNeice frames it.
The poem also works quite well if shifted to the first person (though the move in perspective in the last stanza would have to be changed). That said, the "he", "she" and "they" make the poem more universal - again through a kind of distancing and at the same time acting as a kind of masking device for the private self. It also gives MacNeice the freedom to move perspective as he does here in the last stanza, though I still wonder about the merits of this. He has established a firm point of view throughout the poem, so it seems strange to move it to another, in terms of the internal logic of the piece. Still, it is a beguiling poem of slow motion jadedness; how lives can slip away as we watch them unfolding before us.
Since reading the poem, I often see how poems I am trying to write might work in the third person. (Or sometime moving from second to third). In general I've found that it's the most personal and self-revealing poems that can appear to open up when I do this and move from something that is maybe too personal to something that is perhaps a poem. Though, like the Kees and Berryman poems mentioned earlier, I'm sure the effect has many uses.
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This is another wonderful poem that will really stay in my mind. I should read more by him.
The way it's described is so visual, and yet that Impressionistic effect you mention does create an atmosphere of romance and the excitement of dating.
It will really hit a nerve with anybody in a relationship, and also strikes those of us who aren't by making us look at relationships in another way.
Having said that, I do value that other type of love that consists of many years of everyday contact (says she, the dedicated singleton - but I do admire long relationships). So after a day or two of thought I did disagree with him for putting the higher value on one type of love. As a description of disappointment it's incredible though.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Features
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 has a 16.1 megapixel CCD sensor and a 10x optical zoom lens, which is a 35mm equivalent of 25-250mm. There is Mega Optical Image Stabilisation to keep shots as sharp as possible, and the SZ3 can shoot full resolution images up to 1.4 fps.The SZ3 has an Intelligent Auto mode which adjusts the camera settings for the detected scene. There are a number of scene modes to choose from, panorama shot mode and creative control. Creative control has a wide range of creative shooting modes, such as high dynamic, dynamic monochrome and impressive art. Portrait shots can be improved using Beauty ReTouch, available in playback.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Handling
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 has a metal body that is lightweight and small enough to carry in your pocket. On the rear is a 2.7 inch LCD screen, which has a 230k dot resolution, which most is standard for cameras in a similar price range.On the top of the camera is the on / off button, shutter release and zoom rocker. On the rear are mode, movie record, playback and delete buttons, as well as a d-pad for cycling through the menu. The menu is access via the button in the centre of the d-pad and the menus are easy to navigate, although there is no direct way to access picture settings (such as ISO and white balance), you have to press menu, then choose rec. The d-pad offers quick access to self-timer, flash and exposure compensation.
Battery life is rated at 250 shots according to CIPA test results, which is decent for a budget camera. We took a number of shots to test the camera's responsiveness, from switch on to first photo, shot to shot, focusing speed etc. We take a number of shots and then use the average to ensure accurate and consistent tests, making it easy to compare with other cameras.
Shutter Response | 0.1 secs | |
Wide - Focus / Shutter Response | 0.2 secs | |
Full zoom - Focus / Shutter Response | 0.4 secs | |
Switch on Time to Taking a Photo | 1.5 secs | |
Shot to Shot without Flash | 2.5 secs | |
Shot to Shot with Flash | 3.0 secs | |
Continuous Shooting - Burst | 0.6 fps | |
Continuous Shooting - High-Speed Burst | 7.9 fps | |
Continuous Shooting - Flash Burst | 1.1 fps |
We struggled to get anywhere near the 1.4 fps in continuous shooting that Panasonic claim the SZ3 is capable of. The high-speed burst and flash burst modes both record at a maximum of 3 megapixels.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Performance
Additional sample photos and product shots are available in the Equipment Database, where you can add your own review, photos and product ratings.Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Sample Photos
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Lens test images
Lens Performance - Image detail is decent enough throughout the zoom range for a budget camera, with purple fringing kept under control as well. The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 5cm, which does allow for a good macro shot.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 ISO test images
ISO Noise Performance - Noise is low at ISO 100 and 200, with a little noise appearing at ISO 400 that causes a slight softening of the images. Image quality really starts to suffer at ISO 800, which becomes even worse at ISO 1600, with a large amount of detail lost at this setting.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 White-balance test images
White Balance Performance - Under the incandescent and fluorescent lights the Auto White Balance (AWB) performs excellently. The incandescent preset produces an image with a slight colour cast under the incandescent lights, there isn't a fluorescent preset available on the SZ3.
Panorama 2 | 1/200 sec | f/9.0 | 4.5 mm | ISO 800
Panorama mode - Panoramic shots have a decent amount of detail and are stitched together well. If bright, sunny conditions, the SZ3 struggled to keep a consistent exposure throughout the panoramas.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Digital filters
Digital Filters - The SZ3 has a number of colour modes to choose from, or you can opt to use the creative control mode to produce unusual and unique shots. We've included a number of examples above.
Video - Below is a video recorded in 720p HD. Quality is good, you can use the zoom during recording, where the focusing keeps up with the zoom and you can't hear the lens movement.
Value For Money
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Verdict
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 offers a decent amount of zoom for a budget camera, that is small enough to carry in your pocket. It's a cheap option for someone wanting a pocketable travel camera, with picture quality suited to sharing on the web, rather than large prints. The SZ3 comes with optical image stabilisation and the creative control mode makes using the camera a lot of fun. You can't expect much for £80, but the Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 certainly offers value for money.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Pros
Decent image quality for a budget cameraCreative control mode for unique pictures
Has optical image stabilisation
Good value for money
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Cons
Lacks a button to give quick access to picture settings such as ISO and white balanceContinuous shooting slower than expected
Inconsistent exposure in panoramas in bright sunlight
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ3 Specifications
Manufacturer | Panasonic | |
Lens | ||
Max Aperture | f/3.1 - f/5.9 | |
35mm equivalent | 25mm - 250mm | |
Optical Zoom | 10x | |
Image Sensor | ||
CCD pixels | 16.1Mp (Megapixels) | |
Pixels (W) | 4608 | |
Pixels (H) | 3456 | |
Sensor Type | CCD | |
Sensor Size | 1/2.33 | |
Sensor Size (width) | 6.16mm | |
Sensor Size (height) | 4.6mm | |
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LCD Monitor | ||
LCD Monitor | 2.7in | |
Screen resolution | 230k | |
Touch Screen | No | |
Focusing | ||
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Shutter speeds longest | 60sec | |
Exp modes |
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Metering |
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ISO sensitivity | 100 - 1600 | |
White balance |
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Exposure Comp | +/-2 | |
Shooting Options | ||
Continuous shooting | 1.4fps | |
Video | ||
Movie mode | Yes | |
Video Resolution |
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Video FPS | 24fps | |
Stereo Sound | No | |
Optical Zoom with Video | Yes | |
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Image Stabilisation | Yes | |
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HDMI | No | |
Wi-Fi | No | |
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Battery Type | Lithium-Ion | |
CIPA Rating | 250 | |
Box Contents | ||
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Weight | 111g | |
Width | 94.8mm | |
Height | 52.8mm | |
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I was only a wee pup in 1989 so I totally don't remember this ridiculously awesome Radio Shack "transportable" phone. My first memory of cell phones were brick-sized, not car battery-sized like this one. But still! It was portable! You could use it in your car! I wonder if we'll look back on the iPhone 5 in 20 years and laugh at how silly we once were for wanting a phone with a 4-inch touchscreen and aluminium case. [YouTube via BuzzFeed]
Will The iPhone 5 Be As Ridiculous As This 1989 Transportable Phone In 20 Years?
monaro_ls @monaro_lsSeptember 22, 2012 1:13 pm
I dont think there will be an iphone in 20 years, due to the amount of complaints coming from the new iphone 5 buyers atm. prolly no apple either.
wdupgeekers @wdupgeekersSeptember 22, 2012 1:26 pm
I doubt that very much Chris and i'd say so do the other 10 million (by the end of the year)iPhone 5 users.
Lets reconvene in 20 years to see who's right.
jackson7598 @jackson7598September 22, 2012 3:01 pm
Chris sounds like one of those people who gleefully pronounced that apple was dead and HTC was about to take over the smartphone world when ANTENNAGATE was more important than air for some Android users.
By the way - do HTC still make smartphones ?
Just asking...As for phones, I would have thought in twenty years most communication would be done through some sort of audio visual implant, or at the very least - something wearable.
Dan GuestSeptember 22, 2012 6:25 pm
I'm with you Chris - as an iPhone user from the 3G to a 4S, I'm certain that I will be avoiding Apple for my next phone - the new one is rubbish! You've got to love apple's ability to make a product 'disposable' and convince people to shell out their cash - great marketing for sure!!!
harrisontoms @harrisontomsSeptember 22, 2012 4:47 pm
I love apple. But honestly, they're not really doing it for me at the moment. The last couple of releases of iOS and iPhones have really just been "sub releases" in my view.
Hence why I jumped ship this morning and went out and bought myself a HTC One X. Mah new babeh.I think it's only a matter of time before a lot of people do the same......
Sean GuestSeptember 22, 2012 5:14 pm
Really, you're unhappy with the level of advancement in Apple's new phone, so you went out and switched to something that, essentially, is merely comparable? (Better in some areas, inferior in others, comes out about even - which, afte rall, is why you feel Apple's have been "sub-releases") I'm not knocking you decision to leave Apple, and the One X is a great phone, but why not wait a bit and get something that's actually better?
harrisontoms @harrisontomsSeptember 23, 2012 12:34 pm
Well when you put it that way it does sound a little odd.
But I'm upgrading from iPhone 4, so it's still a step up for me. Would I have liked to wait for something better to come out, yes, but my home button was very faulty (plus the bill went up $20 for being out of contract, weird right?).
I just feel they used to "push the boundaries" for mobiles, but then kinda stopped a few years ago. Once they get their mojo back, I'll be re-boarding the ship! aha
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The Burden of Coming Out
In honor of National Coming Out Day, Keshet will be sharing and celebrating coming out stories throughout the month of October. If you have a story you'd like to share, let us know!
"For National Coming Out Day I'm coming out … as a Keshet blogger!"
Okay, okay, maybe that wasn't a strong opening line. A little too flippant and cute, especially for my first time on here. Alright, let's start again.
"Hi. I'm coming out. I'm a queer, Jewish, non-binary trans man living in the deep deep south who converted through Reform Judaism, though my personal practice leans more Reformodox / Anarcho-Talmudist."
Okay, that didn't go so well either.
So, as you might have been able to tell, this is supposed to be an entry about Coming Out. And I'm going to be perfectly blunt. Yes, I was making light earlier, but coming out is huge. It's massive and scary and integral. It fills you with terror and hope. It briefly throws your whole world off kilter. It is wonderful.
Until it isn't. Until it happens every day because it has too. Until for the 20,000th time someone refuses to believe your gender. It's beautiful until the millionth time someone starts making assumptions about you because you revealed you're a convert. Or the billionth time you come out as queer in straight spaces and gay spaces and everyone—gay and straight—has problems with it. It's magical until no one believes you're disabled because they can't see it. Until you are constantly coming out over and over and over again because the world won't stop making generalizations on who you are based on the minimal information our retinas can absorb.
Coming out is freeing.
And it is a burden.
It is a burden to live under the an identity that isn't yours, to hide yourself for protection and safety. And I think more and more of the world is thankfully beginning to realize that. But its also a burden to have to come out in the first place.
So I issue a challenge. On this National Coming Out Day, support anyone you hear coming out. Support them fully by listening and recognizing the power of that experience, realize how scary it can be to say those words. Wear purple on Spirit Day (October 16th, which is also Oscar Wilde's birthday). Celebrate LGBT History month this October and learn more about the glorious multi-hued beauty that is our community.
But the bigger challenge is this. The rest of the year we need to support people's discovery of themselves and support our continually growing identities beyond that one Coming Out moment, beyond the comfort of the known narratives. We need to stop making assumptions about people's genders and sexual orientations and religions and everything else. We need to let people tell their own stories and not create it for them simply by looking at them. We need to stop over simplifying just how amazing we are, just how complex and complicated humans can be. And one day, maybe there won't have to be a National Coming Out Day. Maybe we can all just be.
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Parashat Ki Tavo: Fine-Tune Your Spiritual Hearing
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, our reflection comes from Maggid Jhos Singer, who shows that standing up as a Jew takes guts and deep self-knowing.
This week's Torah Portion, Ki Tavo, reads like it might have been penned by Jimmy Swaggart
and Charles Bukowski with just a little editing by Stephen King.
It is the original 'Hellfire and Brimstone' rant to which all others pale in comparison. Its images of damnation know no bounds; It is one of those bits o' Bible that has fueled the hateful lust of bigots and fundamentalists for centuries. I would go so far as to call it scriptural porn. It's the stuff that
usually makes folks like me, a genderqueer Berkeley liberal Jew, run screaming from Judaism,
so it's kind of odd to admit that I love this portion. It's scary and exciting and makes me feel like
I'm watching a really weird piece of performance art.
The trick with this portion is staying cool, not reacting to the surface level ugliness and instead tuning into the God in it. When I read it I try to imagine that I'm hearing a song on a static-ravaged transistor radio, I'm standing amidst a huge noisy crowd, I'm getting jostled around, nearby some wild-eyed preacher is raving into a microphone, "Cursed are you sinner, you will burn for Eternity, you are a perversion," people are yelling back, I hold the radio up to my ear straining to hear and little by little the song cuts through the din and a big smile spreads across my face… Welcome to this week's parasha.
In brief, this portion tells us that if we are obedient we will be blessed, with the blessings described in one short paragraph. However, if we are not obedient we will be cursed. The Torah then unloads pages of orgiastic curses that we will endure for our transgressions, laid out in graphic, gory detail. It is grating and provocative, and I don't mean in a nice way. Everything about it is repulsive on the surface. One has to wonder why the Torah would include such ugliness.
But read it carefully, and you will first note that the Torah tells us explicitly that the orators here are not God, but Moses and the Elders: "Moses and the Elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, 'Observe the entire commandment that I command you this day.' " (D'varim 27:1)
Perhaps it is simply that Moses, and his cohorts, are on a proto-Pentecostal roll, taking the law
into their own hands, so to speak. To his credit, even in the midst of this diatribe, Moses manages to sputter out a key spiritual concept. He says that it is God's voice that we should be listening to (28:15), that we must hear the commands that God is giving us (in spite of Moses' interpretation).
Might Moses have been trying to tell us that we have to fine tune our spiritual hearing so that we can know what it is that God wants from us, rather than what other people want from us? Similarly Moses seems to be implying that God speaks to us as individually and if we let someone else do our channeling for us the price we pay will be high. Additionally, in the midst of describing the litany of ills that will befall us if we don't follow Moses's commandments, there is a sweet dose of wisdom slipped in. Moses says, "You will be mocked and starved, diseased and blighted. You will be so bereft and so debased that you will become the supreme example of human depravity to all other peoples, Because you did not serve your Source of Being with gladness and with a full heart when
everything was abundant." (Deuteronomy 28:47)
I experience this line as God getting in a word edgewise.
There is much to learn from this raw scripture. Coming out as homo-, bi-, or trans-sexual takes steel and faith. It takes tuning out the hate mongers and spiritual terrorists, and overriding the din of ignorance and fear to find God's message and lock on. Standing up as a Jew, whose faith and ways have been seen as "queer" since we began, takes guts and deep self-knowing. Queer folk, of every stripe, cannot afford to loose our balance. Is it any wonder then, that the Torah includes an opportunity for us to practice listening to the ugliness of degrading threats while training our ears to hear the personal word that God whispers to each of us? After all, didn't our communal revelation on Sinai begin just like this, in the sound and the fury? So we stay calm, focus our hearts and minds and – "Shema" – we listen.
And there, in the bang-clanking cawing of curses, we hear some of the most loving words of
Torah: "Yea, verily I saith unto you: That you will be destitute, crazed and destroyed if you don't
give your self to gladness when times are good." I hear this line being spoken with love and
compassion, I imagine God cradling my head in Its big soft hands and whispering, "Aww now
pun'kin, why so angry? Look around, you are healthy, loved, smart, blessed and cute as a bug's
ear. Lighten' up and enjoy it baby."
Indeed, the LGBT community has survived, and even thrived, in some part because we know
how to party and be glad. We know how to show up with bells on and bring color and music
into the world. Every community that has instituted a Pride Parade was initially met with
resistance. The megaphoning morality meisters have shown up again and again, bellowing out
their messages of loathing and disgust — but they have never been able to drown out Sylvester z''l, or Sister Sledge or Barbra or Judy z''l, who have told us in whispers in the dark: Come on get up and dance because somewhere over the rainbow we are a family of the luckiest people in the world. We have listened to them and we have danced and we have been glad and we have known that we are not cursed, but so very blessed.
Rebbe Nachman of Bratzlav said, "Mitzvah g'dolah l'hiyot b'simcha tamid." (It's a great mitzvah to insist on gladness.) As this week's teaching reminds us, we must practice being glad when there is something to be glad about. We cannot take a single blessing for granted, peh peh peh, lest the challenges and difficulties of being our true Self become overwhelming. We must be astute enough to know who God created us to be, no matter what the imperfect human authorities in our lives would say about it. Even great human leaders sometimes try to scare us into submitting to their ideas of who we should be. But remember: God relies on each one of us to manifest in this world our own unique aspect of It. Be brave, choose life, choose blessing. Tune out the static, listen hard and I'm sure you will hear a still small voice boldly singing "Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh"— "I am what I am" (Exodus 3:14/Jerry Herman by way of Gloria Gaynor).
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Tel Aviv Pride Through My Eyes
Shaily Hakiman attended Tel Aviv's Pride celebration earlier this summer. Today on our blog, she reflects on the experience. To see more from Tel Aviv Pride, check out Shaily's video on YouTube!
When I say Tel Aviv Pride, I don't just mean the gay street gets wild, I mean the whole place.
The entire city takes a breather to celebrate. People from all over the world fly in, just to be in town for it. At the start of the festivities, many service agencies and groups came together in Gan Meir to share resources with the community.
It was powerful seeing a group that serve people who are LGBT and Orthodox. I also got to meet with the group for the ever increasing population of LGBT English speaking olim (people who immigrate to Israel).
After we started marching I saw a group of older Australian gentleman smiling as they waved their flag, a bear pride flag, a woman from Russia holding the flag for the Straight Alliance for LGBT Equality St. Petersburg, Trans* alliance, Israeli flags, rainbow kippahs, and flags for peace. These groups all chose to come and coordinate themselves to be here on this day. If you want to be at the table to celebrate, you can. Whatever your cause, Pride was a place that welcomed all of it.
At Tel Aviv Pride, there is a stage performance before the crowd starts marching. Prior to the show, a few strangers and I decided to dance, progressively building a crowd around us. Two of us even started to coordinate moves. My dance partner later told me that he was from Russia… I can't even imagine what his experience is like in Russia. Could he wear his short shorts that he donned that day? Could he wild dance to Spice Girls performing in drag? I don't know. But what I do know, regardless of his experiences, Tel Aviv Pride was a day for fun and a day to be one's self in all our glory.
This was an experience for everyone. The day ended with a massive concert and party with infinite food trucks, "shoppertunities," and activities for all ages. Families even had a designated play area. I really enjoyed that it wasn't one main event like a parade, but a series of opportunities for people of all interests to enjoy themselves. I have gone twice to Tel Aviv Pride, and hope to find opportunities to go again in the future. I invite you to join me.
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I Am Not Proud of What Was Done to Me, But I Am Proud of Who I Am
Earlier this month we heard from Jordan Dashow about how having pride in his queer identity meant having pride in his Jewish queer identity. Now Jordan reflects on being a survivor of sexual assault—and how that experience further defines his identity as a proud LGBTQ Jew.
(Trigger warning: This post discusses issues related to sexual violence.)
It is April 2, 2014, over three-and-a-half years after I publicly came out as gay on Facebook. I am in a classroom at Tufts University, not paying as much attention to the professor as I should be, as I contemplate what I had drafted moments before I left for class. My heart is racing. I am staring at my computer screen, full of white and blue pixels, as my hand hovers over my laptop's touchpad. It feels like the last few years have all been leading up to this moment. I know people will notice. I know they will talk about it. I question whether I should restrict my post so no one on my limited profile—most of the adults I'm friends with—can see it. I hesitate, yet I make my decision. I click the blue button that says "post." My status, a call for people to attend "It Happens Here" at Tufts, begins: "3.5 years ago I was sexually assaulted at Tufts University."
Coming out as a survivor of sexual violence has been a difficult process, and in some ways it has been even more difficult than coming out as queer. Whereas our heteronormative society teaches queer people that there is something wrong with us, our society which is steeped in rape culture—a culture that excuses, normalizes, and at times even condones rape—teaches survivors that not only is the sexual assault partially our fault but that we should hide our identities. For me, knowing who I could confide in about my experiences as a survivor was even more difficult than figuring out who I could confide in about my sexuality.
So do I take pride in my identity as a survivor? It seems like an odd question to ask, especially considering the physically, emotionally and psychologically violent experience that comes with that identity. Yet, it is an important question. Too often survivors, like queer individuals, are expected to remain silent about this part of their identity. And I refuse to be silent.
So yes, I am proud. I am not proud of what was done to me, but I am proud of who I am. I am proud of how I have turned my experience into a tool for advocacy. I am proud that in a society that tells me I should shun this identity, I have found a way to embrace it. To own it. To not be ashamed by it. Because, ultimately, even our negative experiences inform who we are.
As I said in my last post, taking pride in your identity is when you no longer only reveal that identity when it is unavoidable but freely offer up that information because you have nothing to be ashamed of. And when it comes to being a survivor, we shouldn't be the ones who are ashamed. Our assailants should be.
But why even talk about this? It may seem odd to be discussing my identity as a survivor in a post about Jewish queer pride but for me, it could not be any more appropriate. I am writing this post in May, a month after Sexual Assault Awareness Month, although it will be posted during LGBT month. For me, those two months are inextricably linked.
At the end of the day, our identities do not exist in a vacuum. My queer identity is shaped by my identity as a Jewish survivor. My Jewish identity is shaped by my identity as a queer survivor. And my identity as a survivor is shaped by my identity as a queer Jew. I cannot separate these identities from each other nor can I separate them from any of my other identities. The fact of the matter is, I cannot truly have pride in my Jewish queer identity if I do not take pride in my identity as a survivor as well.
So let this LGBTQ Pride month not just be an opportunity for us to take pride in our LGBTQ identities; let it be an opportunity to take pride in all of our oppressed identities. You do not need to love the experiences that gave you those identities or resulted from those identities; however, I do strongly believe that we need to have pride in ourselves, and that is only possible once we reject the stigmas society has put on our oppressed identities and have taken ownership of them for ourselves. So let this LGBTQ Pride month be an opportunity to recognize that all of our identities inform our queer identity, and let's take pride in that. Because that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Sexual Assault Resources:
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Organization Members are LGBT anti-violence organizations across the country. This list includes organizations listed by state, alphabetically, with support for survivors of sexual assault, partner abuse, and hate violence.
The Network/La Red hotline provides emotional support, information and safety planning for lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and/or transgender (LGBQ/T) folks, as well as folks in SM/kink and polyamorous communities who are being abused or have been abused by a partner. They also offer information and support to friends, family or co-workers on the issue of domestic violence in LGBQ/T communities. You don't have to leave or want to leave your relationship to get support. The hotline is available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to midnight, Saturday from 1-6 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to midnight. Call 617-742-4911 (voice) or 617-227-4911 (TTY).
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: Find "live help for sexual assault victims and their friends and families" at the RAINN national sexual assault online helpline. It is free, confidential, and secure.
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Looking Forward and Looking Back: On Friendships and Transitions
When Jordyn & Becky first met, they were just starting college. Jordyn had dredlocks. Becky's time was split between the Engineering Department and the Crew Team. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were still dating. And, Becky's preferred pronouns were "she" and "her." Now, 13 years later, all of those things have changed. But their friendship hasn't. They sat down to talk about their friendship, life, and gender.
Jordyn: I think an important qualifier about our friendship is that it's one of those fantastic ones where we can (and have) gone months without talking—but we can always pick it back up pretty seamlessly. And, while that's great for the sake of knowing we're always out there for each other, it does mean that we've missed big moments in each other's lives. Like, for instance, when you started identifying as gender queer and trans.
Becky: That is an important thing about our relationship. And that's true. When we first met I identified as a lesbian. It wasn't really until I started Rabbinical School six years ago that I started to really explore ideas of gender. It was a gradual transition, starting with the way I had my haircut and what clothes I wore, eventually getting to the way I played around with and used pronouns.
Jordyn: I remember a few years ago being part of an email thread where someone said something—in reference to you—along the lines of "and he is going to…" I had to stop and check in. I wanted to be on the right page. Wondering whether or not I was going to support you, or accept you, or be there for you wasn't the question, it was more making sure I wasn't messing up with my language.
Becky: And language is really hard. We aren't socialized to have control over our pronouns; having a conversation about language is a two-step process—first, discussing how we teach language and how we can chose the language we use, and second, taking that step to choose an appropriate pronoun.
Jordyn: And, I've messed it up—far more than once…which is really hard for me. It's hard as an ally, it's hard as your friend, and it's hard because I know using the wrong pronoun is being disrespectful and unsupportive. But sometimes it's that force of habit that makes things challenging.
Becky: We've definitely had conversations where you've started by saying "I don't want to mess this up, but…." And, look, as long as you (or anyone) are learning and trying, that's what I ask for. I don't necessarily want to have a 15 minute conversation with someone about how they feel guilty each time they mess up my pronoun. Most importantly, we have to trust each other, and trust that our friendship is strong enough that one misused pronoun isn't going to destroy it.
Jordyn: Still, I don't want to put you in a position where you're forced to constantly be a teacher.
Becky: But, I'm going to be a rabbi—being out there as a teacher is a role I've stepped into for myself. I don't ever want to close the conversation about pronouns, or being queer. That being said, it can be exhausting.
Jordyn: Do you have advice, maybe with your rabbi hat on?
Becky: In thinking about being compassionate with someone about getting my pronouns correct, the biblical concept of "lifnei iver" comes to mind.
Jordyn: Meaning?
Becky: Leviticus 19:14 says: "You shall not curse a deaf person. You shall not place a stumbling block before a blind person, and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord." As a person who identifies as trans and genderqueer and whose pronoun (intentionally) creates dissonance with my name, I try and remember that those whom I am encountering may be going through their own two-step process. First, they may be deaf towards the issues of gender and gender identity. I might be the first trans* person they meet. Rashi teaches that though the deaf person is specifically named, we can extend this verse to all those who are alive. I cannot curse someone because of their lack of knowledge. Similarly, withholding my pronoun or not correcting someone is putting a stumbling block in front of them. In the other direction, the person learning about gender or my preferred pronoun needs to acknowledge the stumbling blocks that exist in front of them. They need to know that they will stumble, and that unlike the blind person the Torah refers to, they need not be willfully blind.
Interested in learning more? Check out Becky's interview with Jennie Roffman, a board member at Congregation Kehillath Israel, reflecting on Joy Ladin's Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, or some of Keshet's Trans* resources.
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Hanukkah Gift Guide for Jewish Rainbow Pride
This gift guide is specially tailored to lovers of rainbow pride, Judaism, and the lucky individuals who live the intersection of both. We've got everything from silly to serious. Take a look!
You should also check out our Hanukkah Basics Shopping Guide, "Shalom, Y'all!" Southern & Jewish Gift Guide, and our Hanukkah Gift Guide for your Favorite Camp Kid.
Hail your rainbow pride every time you walk through the door with this beautiful Metal and Glass Rainbow Mezuzah ($39.99).
Say it loud and say it proud in this I Love Jewish Girls T-Shirt ($29.50). Don't worry, there's an I Love Jewish Boys one, too!
The Purim Superhero ($7.16) is a children's book about Purim that just happens to feature a two-dad family. We love how unremarkable that fact of little Nate's life is. Oh, and it's a really cute story involving an alien costume.
Sport your pride with this LGBT pendant, Rainbow Ray Star of David Necklace ($15.99). Makes a great gift.
Following an ancient tradition, Torah Queeries ($23.40) brings together some of the world's leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a queer lens. This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism.
Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires ($12.50) gives voice to genderqueer Jewish women tell the stories of their coming out or being closeted, living double lives or struggling to maintain an integrated "single life" in relationship to traditional Judaism.
A Queer and Pleasant Danger ($13.13) tells the true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves 12 years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Kate Bornstein.
Milk ($6.79) is a biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk–the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.
We hope these picks help you narrow down your gift search for yourself, your family, and your friends!
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Rosh HaShanah: Sanctifying Our In-Betweens
Rabbi Reuben Zellman delivered this D'var Torah on Erev Rosh HaShanah in 2006 at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco. Seven years later, his words remain relevant and meaningful.
Gut yontef, L'shanah Tovah, Shabbat Shalom!
Before I begin, I want to offer my deepest thanks to all of my beloved Sha'ar Zahav community for the opportunity to be here with you this year. It is a privilege and a joy, and at this time of year I am especially grateful to God and to all of you.
We stand here tonight without knowing quite where we are. Or more precisely, we don't know quite when we are. Shabbat has come in; the sun is just gone over the horizon. During this evening's service light gives way to dark, and the old year and the new year meet. We cannot ever pinpoint the exact moment when the old year disappears forever. But we know that there is a time at sundown when it is no longer the past year and it is not yet the year to come. It is old and new, both and neither one, at the same time. For fleeting minutes on the evening of Rosh Hashanah, time and certainty are suspended, and we who have come to pray are lifted up into twilight and its mystery. Continue reading
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Parashat Balak: Something Queer in the Vineyards
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each week we will bring you regular essays examining these portions from a queer perspective, drawn from the Torah Queeries online collection, which was inspired by the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This week, Andrew Ramer considers the "queer" power of talking animals, and the blessings and curses they can bear.
The American Heritage Dictionary says this of Queer:
1. Deviating from the expected or normal; strange; a queer situation.
2. Odd or unconventional, as in behavior; eccentric.
3. Of questionable character or nature, suspicious.
All of this could describe the talking she-ass who appears in this week's parasha: unexpected, unconventional, of questionable nature. Parrots and myna birds can mimic human speech. Chimps and gorillas have been taught to sign in human languages. King Solomon was said to be able to understand the languages of the animals. But a talking she-ass is something else all together. Continue reading
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Five Things That Make Us Go Ummm
In the course of our work to create and nurture welcoming, inclusive, Jewish communities, we have the privilege of working with incredibly diverse people, institutions, and communities. And yet, over the years of doing this work, we've come across a few different messages and responses time and time again. We've collected five common things we hear from well-intentioned communities trying to be welcoming, but who aren't sure where or why to begin. If you see yourself in any of these, don't fret! We've all been there, or somewhere similar, before. Below each common message is some of our thinking about how to deal with this situation in your community, and we'd love to hear from you if you have other ideas, or additional questions!
1. "We don't have a need for this kind of training; we don't have any gay or trans people in our community."
There are LGBTQ people, our families, and our friends in Jewish communities of every denomination, affiliation, size, political persuasion, and in every state and province of North America. (Abroad, too!) Living in a world that repeatedly tells us to be less than our full selves, a world marred by homophobia and transphobia, many of us learn to search for the subtle clues and indicators that it is safe for us to come out. If we don't see them, we may stay silent about who we are – or who our family members and loved ones are – or we may simply leave in search of another, safer community. Often, when communities are proactive about creating welcoming, inclusive safe environments for LGBTQ Jews and our allies, we show up in unexpected places! (Like next to you in services, at your neighbor's house for a shiva call, in your son's Hebrew High class, and on the bimah.)
2. "We already have a lesbian on staff/in the congregation/on a committee/who came to an event once – so we're already welcoming!"
It can be easy to see one LGBTQ person joining your community, or taking on leadership, and mark it as a harbinger of successful inclusion work. And it's probably true that you're doing some things right! But it's important not to tokenize the one or two out LGBTQ people in your community. Tokenization is when we expect people of a particular identity to be the only folks speaking about, raising issues related to, or advocating for the needs of people who share their identity. Queer people shouldn't be the only people carrying the flag of LGBTQ inclusion in your community. Because sometimes that flag gets heavy, and they might need to set it down, or hand it off to someone else. It can be exhausting to constantly advocate for yourself and your needs, and if you're doing all of that work on your own, it's easy to burn out. So while it's important to make sure that LGBTQ people are connected to, involved in, and informing the work your community is doing for LGBTQ inclusion, also be sure to check in and see if it's what they want to be doing, and be diligent about working to recruit other allies who care about LGBTQ issues to help out, as well.
3. "It's fine to be gay here, we just expect people not to make a big deal about it."
Try substituting "Jewish" in for "gay" in the above sentence. "It's fine to be Jewish here, we just expect people not to make a big deal about it." Hearing that would probably rub most Jews – and hopefully most of our allies – the wrong way! Does that mean we can't talk about Hanukkah? Does it mean we aren't allowed to daven mincha if we can't find a secluded, hidden space? Does that mean we shouldn't be too loud, or serve too much food, or have a nose that is bigger than yours, or in any other way too closely jive with your painful, damaging stereotypes about who Jews are and what we do?
What we hear when we hear phrases like that is that the people saying them are less interested in actually seeing and understanding the complex shapes and diverse realities of our lives as LGBTQ people than they are in appearing inclusive and welcoming to a disinterested outsider. How should we judge what it means to "make a big deal about it"? Often this kind of language is used to police our behavior so as to limit the risk that we discomfit others in the community by being our full selves. This means that we have to second-guess our rights to an authentic gender presentation, public displays of affection, talking about our partners and families, naming our identities, or otherwise ever giving hint to the full realities of our lives. This equation often gives a great deal of weight to the comfort and ease of straight people in a community, and is largely missing a consideration of the inherent risks in living in a homophobic and heteronormative environment – namely pain, fear, rejection, isolation, shame, and both emotional and physical violence.
4. "Well, we don't talk about sex here/with the kids at this age, so I don't think this discussion would be appropriate."
Queer people's lives are about more than sex, and to talk about LGBQ* people doesn't necessarily mean talking about sex at all. The perception that LGBQ people are always talking about sex when we talk about our identities is usually rooted in heteronormativity, and an inability to see LGBQ people as vibrantly complex human beings seeking meaningful connections and relationships in many of the same varied ways that straight people do.
Sometimes people ask: "Well then, how do you describe being gay to a nine year old?" Probably if you asked everyone at Keshet, you'd get a different answer, but here's one possible conversation you could have:
Adult: You know how your parents really love each other, and how they really love you?
Kid: Yeah!
Adult: They probably like to show you and tell you that they love you, and that they love each other, all the time, right?
Kid: Yeah! Sometimes my dad puts me on his shoulders so I can touch the trees because I love trees and he loves me! And my ima kisses my knees when I fall down and sings me songs at night because she loves me! Sometimes they kiss each other and cook dinner for each other because they love each other.
Adult: That's so great! Isn't it awesome to show the people we love that we love them? You know, as you grow up, you'll probably love a lot of people, which is really nice! Some people find one person that they fall in love with for the rest of their lives, which is pretty exciting for them.
Kid: That sounds neat.
Adult: Yeah, it is. Have you heard the word gay before? Sometimes boys fall in love with boys, and sometimes girls fall in love with girls and when that happens, they might call themselves gay. It's a word that people use to describe themselves if they love people of the same gender. Also, sometimes people fall in love with people regardless of their gender. What's most important is that people who love each other are kind and caring toward each other, like your parents are to each other and to you.
There's lots of ways to talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people without talking about sex, when we remember that our sexual orientation can describe the orientation of our mental, emotional, and physical attractions to people.
But also, LGBTQ people do have sex, and that's a totally normal part of human sexuality. So when you are having conversations about sex (with adolescents, teens, or adults), it's really important that LGBQ people's experiences, needs, and sexual health is included and reflected. There are a lot of excellent resources and tools our there for LGBTQ comprehensive sex-education. Here are a few to start with:
- Sacred Choices, the Union for Reform Judaism's sex-ed curriculum
- Planned Parenthood has a very large list of comprehensive sexual education curricula and resources, available here.
- Our Whole Lives sex-ed curriculum, developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
5. "Well, we don't let the boys wear the Esther costume on Purim because they're just preschoolers, it would confuse the other students and we don't want them to be bullied."
Children begin to hear and absorb cultural messages about appropriate gender roles at a very young age, and they simultaneously express gender variance at a very young age. It can be easy to presume that other children will react the way many adults in our world react to seeing gender variance: with fear, hostility, ridicule, or violence. And yet, when we model a response to gender diversity that is safe, encouraging, and accepting, children follow suit.
One of the most powerful messages an adult can send to a young person is that they have the safety and security to take risks, including taking a risk with their gender. Gender play and exploration is a very natural and healthy part of a young child's life and growth. While many children who experiment with gender at a young age never express a gender variant identity, for those children who eventually grow into a gender identity that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth, early messages of acceptance can be profoundly empowering
What would it take for your community to be safe enough for young people to take risks with their gender? What could happen if the next time Josh reaches for the Esther costume, instead of being told "remember Josh, boys dress up as Mordechai or King A," Josh was instead told "remember Josh, it's important to share. We only have one Esther costume, and Rachel, Zach, and Ariel all want to dress up as Esther too"?
*There are a lot of intersections in inclusion work between issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, but they aren't identical. When it comes to sex, and assumptions about people based on whom we think they have sex with and how they have that sex, we're often talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people. Some lesbian, gay, bi, and queer people are also trans, but those are two distinct facets of their identities. In responding to this fear of talking about sex when we talk about gay people, we focused on issues of homophobia, and the stigmas facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people's experiences with sex. So we've left off the T in our acronym for this response. Not because trans people don't matter – but in fact the opposite, because it's important not to conflate gender diversity with sexual orientation, or transphobia with homophobia. When we do that, trans people's experiences get lost and collapsed into homophobia, and we all lose out.
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Joy Ladin's Door of Life
Talking to Joy Ladin is like speaking with your favorite professor from college — the one who wove words in a way that was simply magical, who would drop bits of wisdom into a conversation that you wouldn't even notice until days later, when you remember them suddenly. She is clearly an incredible teacher.
And that makes sense, because Joy is that professor for plenty of students at the Stern College for Women, part of New York's Yeshiva University. Joy made headlines in 2007 when she became the first out transgender professor at an Orthodox institution.
She is the David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Yeshiva University. And lucky for us, she also joined Keshet's board this spring. You can see Joy speak at a number of upcoming engagements, including at the Yale Hillel on September 11, 2012. (Exact time and location will soon be posted here.)
Through the Door of Life is a remarkable, soul-baring memoir. You chose a title that immediately lets people know that your story is a Jewish one. For anyone who hasn't read your book yet, can you explain briefly how Judaism structured your "journey between genders"?
I grew up as a trans kid in hiding, but I also grew up as what my rabbi, Jill Hammer, calls a "feral Jew." I was very drawn to Judaism, but my family wasn't religious. It was very freeing, actually. I didn't have anyone else's version of Judaism to push against, so I could make it up as I went along, and not feel like I was bound to those Bronze Age laws.
It was the portrayal of God in the Torah that really grabbed me. God is an alien — in the sci-fi sense — and I felt like an alien. God has trouble communicating, and is very lonely, and has no real body and that's how I felt, as a kid. So much of holiness is about how people relate to one another. The core of Judaism is this longing for contact with humanity despite all of the obstacles that our bodies put in the way.
In a profound way, Judaism gave me a language to express my longing to relate to other people.
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Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242
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This is one of my favorite things about SMS. *When* the data arrive, they arrive intact.
I got my first cell phone about one year ago. I know, I know, but I really don't need one for normal communications. I just need it to place emergency calls. However (and since my prepaid arrangement allows free incoming texts), I was curious about this whole "texting" thing (which I would probably never use with another person), so decided to figure out just what is really happening. I discovered that most USA cell carriers have a text to email gateway.
Since the text messages are essentially email, I first decided to hack up a Python script that would alert me via text of any inclement weather. A simple NOAA weather data gatherer, parser, and sender to my SMS to email gateway has saved my ass numerous times. Really. And for a $10 TracPhone, that's not too bad. Of course this is not on par with doing surgery, but I thought it was pretty cool. I didn't stop there, though.
Since my carrier *does* in fact have a text to sms gateway, the communication can go two ways. Is it possible to create an *unsecure* remote shell so that I can give my home computer commands while away? Why not..? And so friends, in brief, text messages *do* in fact have use other than LOLing ur BFF, and doing remote surgery... You can monitor your torrents, and fetch new ones, kick your pesky friend off your wireless connection, write a new cron job, the possibilities are arbitrary... Just don't let anyone use your phone...
Not so long ago, there was a story about a pilot who was guided into landing by an air-traffic controller through a series of text messages after all the plane's electrical systems failed [gizmodo.com].
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Ostrich runner
I listen to Science Fridays on NPR on my long Friday drive.
Runners are wicked smaht.
on the contrary! runners are dumbasses....and then they take it straight to the bike.
i was hoping to find some cool new tunes in here i haven't heard...stuff with a beat...oontz, oontz or head banging shi.... stuff so i can further my education in dumbassery.
get your ass on the bike and set a bunch of movies to play, that will do you some good.
Bloomberg Podcasts!
There was a point in my life when I ran. Now, I just run.
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The Diary of a Once-ran.
+1 to This American Life. I usually run with music but when I want to make sure I slow down, I'll listen to that podcast. I never know if I'll find myself laughing, crying, inspired, angry... They have some really interesting topics.
Edited to add: For example, I can remember the run where I listened to the Ghost of Bobby Dunbar. I was riveted. Fascinating story.
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SO true, I for one am proud of this girl for speaking up. It is hard for a teenager to find the courage to speak up. I hope she will keep her head high and find comfort in knowing that she may have helped other girls who may not have had the strength that she did. As a victim of sexual assault myself, I kept quiet. Leave this child alone and let her heal. OTHER GIRLS ARE WATCHING HOW WE REACT TO THIS- wondering if they should keep their mouth shut or not. »
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Physician Search Results
Hospital: Swedish Medical Center
Your search has returned 1109 physician(s).
Disclaimer: Search Results are provided in random order. If you would like to sort alphabetically by last name, please click the link below.
Physician | Specialties |
Aaronson, Steven , M.D. | |
Abarca, Monica L, M.D. |
Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery Obstetrics, High Risk Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Infertility |
Abdel-Azeem, Ashraf A, M.D. |
Pediatrics Newborn Medicine |
Abel, Rolf L, M.D. |
Psychiatry |
Abman, Carolyn F, M.D. |
Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Obstetrics, High Risk Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery |
Abramson, Simeon D, M.D. |
Diagnostic Radiology |
Acharya-Leon, Radhika C, D.O. |
Hematology & Oncology Breast Cancer |
Acheff, Nancy Jo, C.N.M. |
Midwifery |
Acosta, Juan C, M.D. |
Internal Medicine Hospitalist |
Adair, Olivia V, M.D. |
Cardiology |


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