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Thanks to Kia for filling in yesterday while I was holding signs for J, who was running for our town's school committee (she won!). Here we go...
Top of the Morning
Walmart made it official this morning, announcing that it will pay $16 billion for a 77% stake in Indian e-commerce leader Flipkart. Or, put another way, Amazon just suffered the sort of defeat that is usually reserved for physical retailers.
- Initial confirmation came via SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, during an earnings presentation. The official Walmart press release appeared hours later.
- Word is that all Flipkart investors had the opportunity to sell their entire stake, which SoftBank took advantage of. Backers that are retaining at least some of their position include Accel, Microsoft, Tencent and Tiger Global.
- Walmart's early aggressiveness appears to have been key to its win, although Flipkart also had concerns that an Amazon tie-up could face antitrust scrutiny.
- For Flipkart, this provides the company with a permanent capital structure without sacrificing managerial independence. It still expects to do an IPO — think Walmex 2.0 — but that runway has been significantly extended.
- For India's startup ecosystem, this could be a game changer. Not only in terms of inspiring other prospective entrepreneurs, but also in the sheer amount of cash that Flipkart employees will have to invest in their own startups or in someone else's.
• Something unexpected: Hedge funds have outperformed public equities in 2018, returning 0.39% through the end of April, per industry research firm HFR.
- Why it matters: Hedge funds have lagged public equities for the past decade.
• Trade wars: Lots of chatter about a WSJ report that Toshiba has basically given up on the proposed $18 billion sale of its memory chip to a Bain Capital-led consortium, due to Chinese regulatory hurdles. But don't take it to the bank (at least not quite yet).
For starters, both parties are still wearing their happy faces:
- Toshiba "still intends to close the memory business transaction as soon as possible, and has not made any alternative policy decisions."
- Bain spox: "We continue to work through the normal regulatory process. This process is proceeding and all parties remain strongly committed to closing the transaction as soon as possible."
Second, part of the Chinese delay is said to have been caused by recent bureaucratic reshuffling that included MOFCOM.
Finally, Toshiba and Bain seem caught in trade war crossfire between Washington and Beijing — kind of like Qualcomm/NXP — and there is still a (declining) possibility that cooler heads will prevail.
- Bottom line: This deal isn't healthy, but it still has a pulse.
The BFD
Liberty Global (Nasdaq: LBTYA) has agreed to sell its Germany and Eastern Europe assets to Vodafone (LSE: VOD) for $21.8 billion.
- Why it's the BFD: Because this could kick off the same sort of telecom/media consolidation flurry in Europe that is already underway in the US.
- Bottom line: "Telecoms traditionally made their money though pay TV and mobile plans. But as everything transitions to data-driven services (mobile and wireless internet), scale is much more important." — Sara Fischer, Axios
Venture Capital Deals
🚑 WeDoctor, a Chinese mobile medical scheduling and information company backed by Tenent, raised $500 million at a $5.5 billion valuation co-led by an affiliate of AIA Group (HK: 1299) and NWS Holdings (HK: 0659). http://axios.link/0PaQ
🚑 CStone Pharmaceuticals, a Chinese developer of immune-oncology drugs, raised $260 million in Series B funding. GIC led, and was joined by Sequoia China, Yunfeng Capital, 6 Dimensions Capital, CITIC PE, Taikang Insurance Group, ARCH Venture Partners, Hillhouse Capital, King Star Capital, 3W Partners, AVICT, Terra Mafnum Capital Partners and return backers Oriza Seed Venture Capital , Boyu Capital, and WuXi Healthcare Ventures. http://axios.link/u3C9
• ThoughtSpot, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of "search and AI-driven analytics for the enterprise," raised $145 million in Series D funding. Sapphire Ventures was joined by return backers Lightspeed Ventures, Future Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. http://axios.link/rFTW
• Fuse Universal, a London-based learning management platform, raised $20 million from Eight Roads Ventures. http://axios.link/wuRb
• Gamalon, a Cambridge, Mass.-based AI company focused on understanding customer communications, raised $20 million in Series A funding. Intel Capital led, and was joined by .406 Ventures, Omidyar Technology Ventures and return backers Boston Seed Capital, Felicis Ventures and Rivas Capital. http://axios.link/3BOT
• KeyedIn, a Minneapolis-based provider of cloud ERP and project management software, raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Arrowroot Capital. www.keyedin.com
• SafeBreach, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of cyber breach and attack simulation solutions, raised $15 million in new funding. Draper Nexus led, and was joined by return backers Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and HPE Pathfinder. www.safebreach.com
• Life House, a new "lifestyle boutique hotel" concept, raised $10 million in new funding from Global Founders Capital, Comcast Ventures and Trinity Ventures. It also secured $30 million in real estate funding led by Henley Investments. www.life-house.com
• Rootility, an Israeli developer of root-focused plant breeding methods, raised $10 million in Series C funding co-led by an ADM Capital affiliate, Middleland Capital and GreenSoil Investments. http://axios.link/VkdE
🚑 Murj, a Santa Cruz, Calif.-based developer of implantable cardiac devices, raised $8.5 million in new VC funding. Longitude Capital led, and was joined by return backer True Ventures. www.murj.com
⛽ Axiom Energy, a Richmond, Calif.-based provider of energy storage solutions for grocery stores and cold storage facilities , raised $7.6 million in new Series A funding. GXP Investments and Shell Ventures co-led, and were joined by WorldQuant Ventures, SV Tech Ventures and Meson Capital. www.axiomenergy.com
🚑 Luna DNA, a San Diego-based "community-owned" genomic and medical research database, raised $4 million from backers like Illumina Ventures and Arch Venture Partners. http://axios.link/6zo6
• Ample Foods, a San Francisco-based maker of "drinkable superfood meals," raised $2 million in new funding led by Slow Ventures. http://axios.link/qTw4
Private Equity Deals
• Baring Private Equity Asia and PAI Partners have agreed to acquire World Freight Co. International, a cargo freight capacity manager, from Greenbriar Equity Group. http://axios.link/k6iN
• Lantern Capital has received U.S. bankruptcy court approval for its purchase of The Weinstein Co., but its unclear if any capital is being set aside for litigation settlements. http://axios.link/WvpQ
🚑 Simplura, a Lynbrook, N.Y.-based portfolio company of One Equity Partners, has acquired Keystone In-Home Care, a Lancaster, Penn.-based provider of in-residence care for senior and disabled patients.
• TPG Capital is in talks to acquire a minority stake in cosmetics company Anastasia Beverly Hills at a valuation just south of $3 billion (including debt), per Reuters. http://axios.link/O3OH
Public Offerings
🚑 Ascletis, a Chinese developer of oncology drugs, has filed for a Hong Kong IPO. It's the first biotech to do so under the recently-relaxed listing rule, and has raised arund $155 million in VC funding from firms like C-Bridge Capital and Goldman Sachs. http://axios.link/LiPX
🚑 Autolus Therapeutics, a British immune-oncology company, filed for a $100 million IPO. It plans to trade on the Nasdaq (AUTL), with Goldman Sachs as lead underwriter. Shareholders in the pre-revenue company include Syncona (40.6% pre-IPO stake), Woodford Investment Management (26.4%) and Arix Bioscience (9.1%). http://axios.link/XLgm
• Avast, a British anti-virus software maker owned by CVC Capital Partners, has cut its proposed IPO range from 250-320 pence per share to 250-270. It still could represent the largest-ever UK tech IPO. http://axios.link/hb3K
🚑 Evelo Biosciences, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of monoclonal microbials for treating inflammatory diseases, raised $85 million in its IPO. The pre-revenue company priced 5.3 million shares at $16 (middle of range), for a fully-diluted market value of $563 million. It will trade on the Nasdaq (EVLO), while Morgan Stanley was lead underwriter. It has raised over $170 million in VC funding from Flagship Pioneering, GV, Celgene, Alexandria Venture Investments and the Mayo Clinic. www.evelobio.com
• Meili, a Chinese e-commerce site for women's fashion, is prepping a $500 million U.S. IPO for later this year, per Reuters. Morgan Stanley would serve as lead underwriter, with Credit Suisse and China Renaissance also participating. VC backers include Vision Capital. http://axios.link/8ZZs
• Pluralsight, a Farmington, Utah-based professional learning platform, set its IPO terms to 20.7 million shares at $10-$12. It would have a fully-diluted value of around $1.5 billion, were it to price in the middle. The company a $100 million IPO. The company reports a $97 million net loss on $168 million in revenue for 2017, and plans to trade on the Nasdaq (PS) with Morgan Stanley as lead underwriter. . Pluralsight has raised over $230 million in VC funding from firms like Insight Venture Partners, Iconiq Capital and Felicis Ventures. http://axios.link/dL7j
• Springer Nature, the BC Partners-backed publisher of magazines Nature and Scientific American, has scrapped a $3.2 billion Frankfurt IPO due to weak demand. http://axios.link/EIQi
• U.S. Express Enterprises, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based mid-sized trucking company, filed for a $100 million IPO. It plans to trade on the NYSE (USX), with BofA Merrill Lynch as lead underwriter. The company reports nearly a $4 million net loss on over $1.55 billion in revenue for 2017. www.usxpress.com
Liquidity Events
• Recruit Holdings (Tokyo: 6098) has agreed to buy Glassdoor, a Mill Valley, Calif.-based employer information platform, for $1.2 billion in cash, per Bloomberg. Glassdoor raised around $200 million in VC funding, most recently at an $860 million post-money valuation, from firms like Battery Ventures, T. Rowe Price, CapitalG, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tiger Global. http://axios.link/G1bq
• SK Telecom and Macquarie have agreed to acquire ADT Caps, a South Korean security systems provider, from The Carlyle Group for around $2.76 billion.
More M&A
• Patrick Drahi says that he won't sell the struggling French unit of Altice NV, despite reported interest from Bouygues. http://axios.link/YT2L
• Albert Frere has sold his 6.6% stake in Burberry Group (LSE: BBRY) for nearly $700 million, sending the company's shares down to a four-month low. http://axios.link/vPSE
• Keystone Foods, the Pennsylvania supplier of Chicken McNuggets to McDonald's, has received takeover interest from Tyson Foods, Cargill and Fosun International, per Bloomberg. Keystone's Brazilian owner, Marfrig, could fetch more than $3 billion in a sale. http://axios.link/0inW
⛽ Total (Paris: FP) will sell its Haiti retail business, including 92 gas stations, to a regional consortium called Bandari Corp. http://axios.link/fByz
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Allianz Capital Partners are anchor investors for the first private infrastructure investment trust in India. It's called IndInfravit, and initially will acquire five operational toll roads.
• EQT Partners raised $800 million for its third Asia mid-market buyout fund. http://axios.link/GL1T
• Female Founders Fund has closed its second fund with $27 million. www.femalefoundersfund.com
🚑 Linden has closed its fourth healthcare-focused private equity fund with $1.5 billion. www.lindenllc.com
It's Personnel
• David Ashcroft (ex-Cerberus) joined J.F. Lehman as a managing director of portfolio operations. www.jflpartners.com
• John Hood, chair of the Rhodes Trust, has joined the board of directors for The Blackstone Group. www.blackstone.com
• Jorge Ramirez, former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and an ex-AFL-CIO official, has joined GCM Grosvenor as a managing director and head of labor strategies for its Labor Impact Infrastructure business.
• Peter Scheman has left Goldman Sachs to join Jefferies as co-head of Americas industrials investment banking, per Reuters. http://axios.link/Tw3b
Final Numbers
- More from PitchBook: "We believe much of this valuation expansion has been caused by the buildup of dry powder and general availability of capital to high-growth companies, which has given these companies pricing power in negotiations with investors."


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I'm not (by any account) always the best teacher. I do all right - ry (and sometimes even succeed), but I have a few personal characteristics that sometimes work against me. First, I have a certain, shall we say, lack of interpersonal skills and an occasional inability to pick up on cues (insert joke about faculty member with mild Asberger's here). In addition, I have a tendency to become a bit sarcastic under stress, and that never plays well in the classroom.
But, much like the palace eunuch, even if I can't replicate it while it's happening all around me, I know it when I see it.
I saw it today when I came across Joe Ben Hoyle's website. He's an accounting professor at the University of Richmond, and I've mentioned him previously here, where he was profiled in UR's alumni magazine.
It turns out he has a website with some good teaching material. One of the links is to a set of short (1-2 pages each) essays on teaching and another is to his blog. Both are well worth reading. Go over the blog when you have time, but do yourself a favor, and download the essays (they're in one document) now. I almost guarantee you'll get something out of it.
The finance classroom meets the outside world (and vice-versa). Back away slowly from the computer with your hands up and your mind open, and with luck nobody gets hurt.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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Watching TV 'causes guilty feeling'
Want to de-stress after a long day at work? The answer isn't to sit down and enjoy your favourite show or play a video game.
Scientists have confirmed what we suspected for while - such actions do nothing but help create feelings of guilt and failure.
Any positive effects of bingeing on TV (getting to the end of a box set does feel amazing!) or hitting that next level in a game can be wiped out because stressed people feel they should have been doing something more important.
Researchers at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany and the VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands asked 471 study participants how they felt after work or school the previous day and, crucially, what media they had used.
Those who were especially fatigued were more inclined to feel that their watching TV or playing games was procrastination, and that they were dodging more important tasks by succumbing to using media.
It created a cycle of guilt and failure, which in turn made them feel less recovered and revitalised, according to the study published in the Journal Of Communication.
Dr Leonard Reinecke, from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz who co-authored the report, said: "We are beginning to better understand that media use can have beneficial effects for people's well-being, through media-induced recovery.
"Our present study is an important step towards a deeper understanding of this. It demonstrates that in the real life, the relationship between media use and well-being is complicated and that the use of media may conflict with other, less pleasurable but more important duties and goals in everyday life.
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Physique Pictorial allotted space for other studios to hawk their wares
Both longtime friends and Bob Mizer himself have stated that the photographer was all too happy to promote the work of other artists and studios. Mizer didn't see his contemporaries as competitors. Quite the opposite -- he believed that all experimental photographers had an obligation to further the cause of good art, no matter where it came from.
Though he sold Athletic Model Guild photo series, individual images and even posing straps in the early days of Physique Pictorial, Mizer also featured entire full-page advertisements touting the work of other photographers from other studios.
Mizer, in the introduction to the November 1951 issue (Vol. 1, No. 2), informed readers that the magazine's initial press run was limited to only 5,000; he even encouraged readers to pass along their issue to another interested reader when finished with it. In addition, Mizer assured readers in the publication's second issue that his ad clients were required to possess reputations of integrity.
"It was necessary to deny space to some firms who have had a bad customer relation record -- who have misrepresented the merchandise they sell, or who have failed to send material when (the) customer sent money," he stated.
The first advertisement appearing in Physique Pictorial was a two-page spread in that same issue, promoting Bruce of Los Angeles. The double-truck advertised photos of models exclusive to Bruce of L.A., as well as mainstream Hollywood stars both living (Steve Reeves) and dead (silent film star Rudolph Valentino, who had been dead for more than a quarter of a century by the time of publication).
Other ad clients included Russ Warner's Oakland-based Warner Studios (which sold individual photos of models for $2.50 apiece), Beverly Hills-based D'Art (which offered both 4x5" and 8x10" matted prints), Bob Delmonteque of Detroit, Kovert of Hollywood, New York-based Frank Giardina (which proudly displayed its flagship duo, the wrestling DiFalco brothers), and Chicago's Al Urban Studios.
Mizer had particular praise for Al Urban, whom Mizer granted space in which to promote his own up-and-coming physique publication. Urban's ad announced that he was to launch his own physique magazine in early 1952, offering a yearlong subscription for $2.50, two years for $5, and three years for $6. Daringly, Urban promised that his magazine would become "the leading physique publication in the world."
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"Al Urban's new magazine, which is to be a full-size feature magazine, is not to be confused with Physique Pictorial, (which) purports to be nothing more than an advertising booklet," he reminded readers in an editor's note. "We strongly urge support of Mr. Urban's new publication, which we feel will satisfy a long-felt need in the physique field."
Much has already been written about Mizer's liberal use of artist George Quaintance's illustrations from the early days of Physique Pictorial and throughout the first two decades of the magazine's life. Mizer didn't promote another illustrator until introducing his readers to Harry Bush in the January 1966 issue.
By the late 1960s, the Athletic Model Guild and Physique Pictorial had long-established names for themselves, and it was no longer necessary to sell ads to other male physique photography companies. Those ads all but disappeared as Mizer began to more heavily promote the sale of his own still images and the production of his films. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, illustrations became scarce in Physique Pictorial's pages as smaller, thumbnail images of more models replaced them.
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Yesterday in his proposed 2014 budget delivered to Congress, President Obama called for a sizable increase in research spending for alternative technology transportation, including additional help for electric vehicles.
The goal is to cease the need to import foreign oil within the next 10 years. To jump start the initiative, the president called for a 75-percent increase in the Energy Department's vehicle research budget.
"We'll continue our march towards energy independence," said Obama.
If approved, the Energy Department's vehicle research budget would be increased to $575 million, and $2 billion more would be earmarked for the 10-year goal of energy independence.
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Along with weaning off of oil, the White House's EV Everywhere Grand Challenge – first announced by Obama in March – would like to foster electric cars becoming as affordable as conventional cars within the next decade.
"The EV Everywhere Grand Challenge focuses on the U.S. becoming the first nation in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles that are as affordable for the average American family as today's gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years," says its promoters.
The call being repeated is to increase the federal tax credit to $10,000, and Obama has called for expanding it from solely EVs and plug-in hybrids to other advanced vehicles also.
The plan would allow dealers to take the credit themselves as long as they explained to the consumer, and passed along the credit as a point-of-sale rebate.
The multifaceted plan to make EVs affordable includes accelerating research and development on battery tech and manufacturing and paving the way also for faster charging.
Proposed are a limited number of advanced vehicle deployment communities to test in a microcosm government-backed technologies that could be scaled up once proven. These have been approved by Congress, and would be selected through competition.
Other backed technologies include cellulosic ethanol and biofuels, including algae-derived, for which Obama proposes $282 million be spent to develop and demonstrate conversion technologies.
A host of other fees and spending to make the goal for energy security work were included in the extensive budget proposal.
The president has not talked so much about his proposed 1 million EVs and PHEVs on the road by 2015 – a goal he promoted while on the campaign trail in 2008 – but he is still working the same plan.
Regarding the proposal, critics have already begun to pounce, and opposition will be determined.
Objections include those to government involvement in private industry – even at the research level, and that the country is running a major budget deficit, and fears are this is money the taxpayers should not be asked to be on the hook for.


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When: Saturday May 9th, 2-6pm
Why: Site prep
Time to begin site prep for the Valmont Bike Park! We hope to begin construction over the summer, but first work needs to be done this spring. We will meet at the site at 2pm, Saturday May 9th, to get the ball rolling on construction. The site has been neglected for years - there are downed fences, windblown debris, and invasive weeds that need to be removed. We are partnering with BMA for this Valmont Bike Park work day, but we also need your help. BMA work days are rewarding and a good chance to meet other like minded members of the community, so pitch in, it is cool to help out.
We scheduled the clean up so you could ride in the morning, and help out in the afternoon. After breaking into groups of ten, we will learn about the park while prepping the site for construction. This is your first opportunity to see the plans on site, ask questions and help out. We will provide the materials, just bring work gloves.
We have to limit the number of volunteers to 60, and there has been a tremendous outpouring of offers to help. Please click here to register; register early because once we reach 60 volunteers, we will respond that the event is full.
The Valmont Bike Park will be a model civic bike project for years to come. Come out, watch it unfold, be a part of it.


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Sparkledogs. When there are others that are too popular then they are, it's no wonder that bleedingfirewolf decided to troll and trace.
Just who is BleedingFireWolf
A typical pair of bored-to-death cuntrags who love spending their time making e-drama because no one in the real world, not even Mommy and Daddy, would give these twats any attention.
Say hello to Caroline DeGeeter and Charlotte DeGeeter. Two
17 20 year old failed aborted sparklwuffs with no lives. Born on April 24th 1995 1993 and raised in Belgium. Two twats that are just as obsessed with Sparkledogs, blueshinewolf, My Little Pony and one day hope to be famous enough to beat blueshinewolf in her fantasies in pursuing an art career. Did we mention they love disney?
At first it was believed by a faggot that blueshinewolf had returned under a new account bleedingfirewolf in hopes of gaining more attention but in the most discreet of manners. However it wasn't long after that the biatches posted a photo of themselves to debunk this myth and rightfully done. Of course long after this had happened it was discovered that bleedingfirewolf hated blueshinewolf that much they took interest in being entertained by her ED. Of course when they found out that their username was plastered on their idol's ED it was a disgust to them. Interesting, isn't it? A typical furfag response.
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Once upon a time
So in the beginning our dear sparklecunts were bored because they weren't getting popular with the usual crap they were spewing out. So what's the best thing to do? Why cause a commotion among the many ass-kissers and whiteknights of blueshinewolf and amathaze. As that is the greatest way to get caught on purpose and to get sympathies from the fans of either furfags.
Trolling and tracing art by other sparkledogs on purpose, drawing your own sparkledogs and bitching that you're not popular enough says you're not out to be poopular alright. Now what was it again that got you cunts so famous all of a sudden?
No wonder why they prefer deviantART over FurAffinity, they're not poopular at all. Their fans can't yiff or clop to their fugly crap over there.
So time passed and the twats started producing their own fugly ass canine abominations because sparkledogs will make you famous, literally. Now of course they seek revenge on being called out for the obvious shit under their latest trolling account, sourblackblossom. Course should you confront them they'll deny everything calling you a turd. Because of course when you get caught in the act the first time around it was just an experiment to test the fucktarded fans and ass-kissers. Because at this point, what will they call it now? You'd think that if this really was another person copying their method to get famous then why haven't they called this "thief" out in a journal yet like before? Strange.
Targeting amathaze and blueshinewolf once again for attention.
Going after blueshinewolf again are we girls, SoaringWhiteWolf. What did Bullshitwolf do to the both of you to piss you two off so much? ( Basically, any tracer tracing from BSW must be SPP. Once a tracer always a tracer right? )
The amazing art
Page 4. Immaturity? Only sparkledogs. Loling hard.
Of course the comic will be canceled long before it even begins because as we all know they suck at creativity. It's true that no sparkledogs will ever be hired by anyone including Disney because of course no real sane person would be interested in such ugly ass canine abominations but hey, that's why the online fandom exists. Not only are the deathly bright colors dangerous but most sparkledogs artists fail in knowing anything about anatomy thus the other aspect that makes these canine abominations even more horrendous.
Disney or not even the creators of Alpha and Omega would touch this.
Aside from failing horribly at anatomy both talentless cuntrags love ripping off whoever they want and of course should you confront either sparklebitch about it, prepared to get called a troll. Because only they can rip and it's not even a big deal really. Lolz, funny how when they get ripped twice in a row they bitch about it.
Moar evidence that no matter the sparkledogs none of them know anything about anatomy. What they really know is how to eyeball (aka reference), trace or steal due to laziness.
So before the whole e-drama they started with blueshinewolf and amathaze they were into making failed contests about their failed sparkledogs. Who would've guess this crap wouldn't have been touch by any sane person, furry or not. Of course neither of them gave up so now they put out a logo contest to get more asspats and free art. Isn't it interesting how on their home site they claim to be sooo creative but yet they fail in creating a decent logo. Who here doesn't feel bad for her latest victims in their petty contest? Poor poor strawberry-loupa, will she ever get the prizes that were offered? Another question one would have to ask if they don't take their own fail of a comic seriously then how is the winning logo ever going to appear on an actual comic cover?
To help get feedback on their basic shitty art before they came into the sparkledogs fandom they created a fuck ton of accounts. Thinking this was a better way of getting moar poopular with other artists. More importantly the artists they love to hate.
The Kawaii Desu Fans
Wanna be a sparklefag like arnieliaguard? Then go fill out that form and join her forever alone group.
Actually, jennawolf48 it does considering that Caroline has bitched many times before not being noticed and trolling other artists in the successful attempt to get noticed. Your brain must be made of home grown fail.
Because only bleedingfirewolf is allowed to troll!
Bet she won't like it when she finds out how much of a faggot she made herself look. candycocoamonster, the little retard.
Every sparkledog artist have their own set of stupid fans. If not an army of them such as blueshinewolf.
1. Aly12343 The 'bestest buddy', and furfag. Really just a retarded dog obsessed with fucking.
2. krissi2197 Go show her some love on her home here at ED, Krissi2197.
3. CandyCocoaMonster is an inexcusable fucktard. No really, if you disagree with her she'll call you a bitch for it.
4. jennawolf48 is the failed canine abortion born with no brains.
Contact the sparkle cunts
See Also
- Wolfaboo
- Original character
- Plagiarism
- butthurt
- weeaboo
- Art Theft
- Tracer
- My Little Pony
- Furfag
- Disney
- Mary Sue
- Hugbox
- Unwarranted self importance
- Dolphy
- Blueshinewolf
- Evana
- Vanillakitsune
- moondragon78 Charlotte -
DEACTIVATEDHello archives. REACTIVATED
- War-of-Blood Charlotte - DEACTIVATED
- Jadis-Blackear Charlotte - Active
- Charlotteuh Charlotte - DEACTIVATED
- JadisBlackeye Charlotte
- CharleyWarley Charlotte
- Blogspot of fail Charlotte
- Her other failed site. Charlotte
- FairyPrincess78 Caroline - DEACTIVATED Sup archives.
- romance-anonyme Caroline - DEACTIVATED
- Carolisaurus Caroline - DEACTIVATED
- TheCarosaurus Caroline
- More fail by our dearest attention whore. Caroline
- WeasyL account.
- forgotteneclipse Where you can be a sparklefag and role play forever alone.
- Ask-SakuraTheSaluki Go ask why are they a bunch of attention whores.
- darkartist45 Caroline and Charlotte Another failed account to get noticed. Lmao.
- sweetpinkpetals Charlotte & Caroline
- cococuddles The latest account dedicated to KAWAII DESU human art
- sweetpinkpetals Charlotte & Caroline
- xSweetPinkPetalsx
- Just like their idol they both hate, they've got one too.
- Spreading the sparkle tardation.
- sweetpinkpetals
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- sodabutts
- Dafuq is this shit?
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Phoenix Tawnyflower is a queer feminist jack of all art-related trades, but mainly fiction, theatre, and slam poetry. They were born in San Francisco and homeschooled in Virginia up until undergrad. Tawnyflower is a senior Linguistics major at Bryn Mawr College, having decided majoring in creative writing would take all the fun out of it and sticking to taking classes and attending the Chesapeake Writers' Conference two years in a row instead, and mostly writes about mental illness and queer identities. Online, they are heavily involved in intersectional activism amd politics, and in real life, in local and college theatre. Tawnyflower has been speaking Spanish since age 4 and telling stories even longer. They didn't intend to write a novel so heavily based on their own experience, but began to identify as trans partway through writing it. Tawnyflower has worked with authors such as Jonathan Friesen and Robert Bausch. Their current favorite author is Matthew J. Metzger, but they've taken inspiration from such diverse sources as Faulkner, Dickens, and Rowling. Tawnyflower has been published under their real name, Sally Little, with the Northern Virginia Community College newspaper NOVA Fortnightly and won both the Penguin Books Signet Essay Contest and the NOVA literary magazine contest in the play category in 2013.
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Leandra and Jimena have been best amigas forever. But when Leandra discovers the word transgender, the cost of her struggle to regain her identity may be her Spanish—and Jimena.Share Tweet LinkedIn Embed pszr.co/oZNrw 1450 views
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Leandra and her best friend since forever, Jimena, are determined that their friendship is not going to fade when Leandra goes to college. After all, Leandra's going to be a Spanish major, and their mutual fluency in the language is one of the things that keeps them together. But when Leandra gets there, she meets students who identify as transgender—and quickly figures out that there are words for her growing hatred of everything female about herself, from her body to feminine words in both languages, including Jimena's pet name querida. This discovery of a new subculture that she may, by no choice of her own, be part of, unseats Leandra, and her struggle to regain her understanding of who she is may cost her Spanish—and Jimena.
Like Leandra, I've spoken Spanish since I was little, and, like Leandra, first found it coming into conflict with nonbinary language during my first semester of college. At first it was just an interesting concept, a nice paradox to explore. Then I did a lot of reading in preparation for writing this book, and I've found a serious lack of well-written fiction about trans characters, particularly nonbinary characters, which has made it even more important to me to see representation. It got personal when I myself started to identify as agender.
The book is not currently divided into chapters, but the plot timeline looks like this:
August 27th, 2016. Jimena and Leandra say goodbye and make plans to skype. Leandra arrives at Haverford College for move-in day and meets roommate Antigony and neighbors Gary and Ryan.
Aug 29th. Leandra speaks to her dean about taking biology at Bryn Mawr College instead.
September 2. First day of classes. Leandra meets Henriette.
Sept. 3. Bio at Bryn Mawr. Leandra meets Ella in class, and goes to lunch with her, thereby meeting the Doublestar crowd, including Whitney, an effeminate gay trans man and Chrys, a genderfluid person. Leandra finds out what transgender means, and promptly goes home and has a panic attack over how familiar the descriptions sound.
Sept. 4. Leandra meets Nadie.
Sept 5. Leandra eats with the Doublestar crowd again and freaks out some more about gender.
Sept. 7. Leandra signs up for Robotics Club and talks to Henriette, who gives advice on how to deal with queer culture at Bryn Mawr.
Sept. 8. Leandra eats with the Doublestar crowd and asks Whitney for his coming-out story. After coming home, she experiences self-harm urges, but goes to sleep instead.
Sept. 9. Leandra and Jimena skype. Leandra tells her about not feeling like a girl. Jimena struggles with the concept.
Sept. 12. Leandra meets Nadie again and learns that Nadie uses se/sem/ser pronouns. Leandra tells sem about her gender struggles.
Sept. 13. Leandra visits Nadie in ser room. They argue a little, but both enjoy it. Nadie admits to not being a friendly person.
Sept. 15. Leandra eats with the Doublestar table and tells them about Nadie. They immediately figure out that Leandra finds Nadie attractive.
Sept. 16. Leandra and Jimena skype. Jimena still has trouble with transness. One of the biggest problems is it's really hard to talk in Spanish without talking about someone's gender. Jimena reluctantly suggests calling Leandra Leo and using masculine language.
Sept. 17. Leo tells the Doublestar table about the conversation and comes out to them.
Sept. 18. Leo comes out to Nadie and invites sem over to skype with Jimena the next week.
Sept. 20. Leo goes to the first meeting of Robotics club, and starts working on a robot with Ryan. He comes out to Ryan, Gary, and Henriette. Ryan and Gary are confused.
Sept. 21. Whitney comes over to visit and Antigony reveals herself as a transphobe.
Sept. 22. Leo borrows a binder from Whitney and asks Chrys for hir coming out story.
Sept. 23. Leo and Nadie skype Jimena. Nadie and Jimena get off on the wrong foot immediately and dislike each other. Jimena says Nadie isn't a good match for Leo. Leo kisses Nadie.
Sept. 25. Leo asks Nadie for ser coming out story. Nadie talks about nonbinary identities and Leo decides he's agender.
Sept. 26. Leo asks Chrys about nonbinary pronouns and starts going by Lee and they/them pronouns.
Sept. 27. Lee talks to Henriette at Robotics club and realizes that nonbinary pronouns don't exist in Spanish. They come out as nonbinary to Ryan, Gary, and Henriette.
Sept. 30. Lee deals with self-harm urges, but Jimena calls before they can go through with it. Lee comes out as nonbinary. Jimena can't deal with that at all.
October 3. Jimena comes to visit. Whitney explains the history and science of nonbinary sex and gender to them both. There seems to be a tentative truce.
Oct. 4. Henriette asks Jimena about gender-neutral pronouns in Spanish and Jimena blows up and tells Lee they're going to have to choose between nonbinary and Spanish. Jimena thinks briefly about self-harm.
Oct. 7. Lee's teacher talks about how native speakers learn rules unconsciously. Lee realizes they also learned Spanish rules unconsciously, but still can't consider themself a native speaker. They start to freak out and end up skipping the rest of their classes. Instead, they go home with Nadie and have sex. Lee forgets to call Jimena at the usual time. When they do call, Jimena figures out immediately why Lee missed their call. She's really mad, because she thinks Lee did it to spite her, and tells Lee to stay away from her. Lee goes home and succumbs to self-harm. Antigony catches them and gets Ryan and Gary for help.
Oct. 9. Lee talks to Nadie about the fight with Jimena. Nadie is unsympathetic. Lee goes home for winter break.
Oct. 13. Lee visits their old high school, and runs into a former classmate who's come out as a trans girl in the meantime.
Oct. 14. Lee goes to Jimena's house to confront her. They talk it out. Lee admits to the self-harm for the first time. Jimena is horrified and forgets her anger completely.
Oct. 17. Jimena finds nonbinary Spanish pronouns and suggests Lee go by the name Casey.
Oct. 19. Casey and Nadie break up.
Oct. 20. Casey tells the Doublestar table about all the progress they and Jimena have made. The Doublestar table is ecstatic.
Oct. 21. Casey calls Jimena, who uses the new nonbinary pronouns while talking to her mother.
Many transgender teenagers search for books about being trans and coming out as trans. Binary Talk addresses these issues from the perspective of someone who has been through them. Around 417,000 to 626,000 youth ages 10-19 identify as transgender in the US (1,2), but only half a dozen books with trans protagonists were released by children's publishers in 2015 (3). In transgender YA literature, next to no books feature nonbinary protagonists, and those that do feature troubling themes such as sexual assault. It is particularly distressing for trans readers to identify with a character in a book that is then subjected to the worst possible treatment. When there isn't a lot of representation in the first place, it is important for trans readers to have more positive and accurate representations in literature and mainstream media. Binary Talk will appeal to fans of other trans authors such as Alex Gino (George) and Elliott DeLine (Refuse). Finally, it is unique in that it explores the intersection of nonbinary existence with language that has grammatical gender.
(1) 2015 census
(2) Hoffman, Jan. "As Attention Grows, Transgender Children's Numbers Are Elusive." NYTimes.com. May 2016.
(3) Alter, Alexandra. "Transgender Children's Books Fill a Void and Break a Taboo." NYTimes.com. June 2015.
I have a social media presence on Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, and Instagram, as well as a regular website. I've been talking about the project since it began on Facebook, Tumblr, and the website, and I'll be able to promote it in all those places.
I have about 115 followers on Tumblr, where I talk about my book all the time. I plan to do a giveaway by asking people to reblog a post about the book in order to be entered for a drawing to win a free copy, and I'll reblog that post daily for two weeks. I will also ask the community blogs @transpositiveliterature and @diary-of-a-genderfluid and book blogger @nebulousboundaries to post promotions for me.
On Facebook I have about 340 friends, and I'll make a new post every week. I also plan to post on the Bryn Mawr Fiction Writers (~70 members) and Bryn Mawr Alums (~3K members) pages, as well as the group page for my study abroad program (114 members).
On my website, which is hosted by Blogger, I'll update the page about Binary Talk to include all the campaign information, and keep posting updates on the campaign and its status. All of the information on my website gets reblogged to Tumblr and the Phoenix Tawnyflower Facebook page.
The current most recent video on my YouTube is the video included here, and I will update the information on it to include all the campaign information.
I am planning to attend several open mics for slam poetry, and after I perform, I'll promote the book.
I will ask Bryn Mawr to mention the book in their daily digest email. I will also reach out to Bryn Mawr's poetry club and literary magazine.
Overall, there is a small market of transgender lit, but very little of it deals with nonbinary people and none of it with the intersection of gender identity and gendered language.
Spy Stuff, Queerteen Press, 2016. The number one trans teen narrative out there. Anton was driven out of his old school for being trans, so he's determined to go stealth at his new one. His binder is a 'back brace', he doesn't go out for football in case anybody feels anything, and nobody comes over on Sundays because that's when Dad shows up, and Dad still calls him Natasha. But it's really hard to stay closeted to your boyfriend, especially when you're pre-transition, and Jude--well, Jude's smile gives Anton butterflies from day 1. It's just manic pixie dream boy enough for me to adore it, because don't we trans kids deserve to see our fantasies played out of paper too, rather than be confronted with all of the harsh reality of being trans every time we want to read a book about ourselves? Enough shit happens to Anton to make the book realistic, but it's largely before the book starts, and he has more support than he does antagonists throughout the actual story timeframe.
I Am J. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2011. J hides his feminine body under two bras and four shirts. He hides from being photographed by being the one behind the camera. He hides from the slew of dyke and suspicion by keeping to himself, only interacting with his parents and his best friend, Melissa. Then an ill-fated kiss and some poorly chosen words catapult him on a whirlwind adventure to drop all that, stop hiding, and become who he really is. A fascinating painter named Blue, a friendly hotel worker, a poet with boy troubles, and a successful trans activist all help to guide J into a deeper understanding of not only himself, but Melissa and his parents as well. J was a little bit overly perceptive for me--it felt like this was for the benefit of the reader, to understand why everyone else acts the way they do. For this reason, he is a shell character, allowing the reader to slip in, view the world through his eyes, and not feel entirely out of place.
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. North Star Editions, 2012. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children is the name of Gabe Williams' new radio show, where he gets to exercise his talent as disc jockey and hang out with his neighbor John, his musical mentor. It's the only part of his life that really makes sense--his family refuses to stop calling him Elizabeth, he can't see how to get a job or go to college as Gabe, and now that Beautiful Music for Ugly Children is getting popular at school, he's got to contend with some bullies making serious threats, the overtures from two girls who may or may not know what they're asking, and his best friend Paige acting weirder and weirder.
Being Emily. Bella Books, 2012. Emily comes out as a trans girl to her girlfriend. She makes friends with another trans girl she met online and finds a decent therapist who helps her come out to her parents. They react badly and force her to see a not-so-decent therapist, but come round enough to sign the paperwork for HRT with time. These books are the most similar to Binary Talk, but don't deal with nonbinary people or with language.
What We Left Behind. Harlequin Teen, 2015. Genderqueer Toni and girlfriend Gretchen were rock solid through high school, but have to do long distance in college. Toni finds a trans community and explores gender more, while Gretchen struggles to remember who she is without Toni. There are almost no stories about nonbinary trans folk. This one is a romance, while Binary Talk is not.
Symptoms of Being Human. Balzer + Bray, 2016. Genderfluid Riley starts a blog on the advice of a therapist, but when the blog goes viral, Riley has to decide whether to stay in the closet or come out despite Dad's upcoming reelection in conservative Orange County. This book was very clearly not written by a trans person, as it ends in sexual assault. Considering the high rate of sexual assault against trans people and how little representation there is of nonbinary people, it feels a bit like being told that this is inevitable. This is not something I did with Binary Talk.
The Best Boy Ever Made. Self-published copyright Rachel Eliason, 2011. Alecia Mueller has a plan for her life. She's going to find and marry the One, be a farmwife, and never live more than a mile away from her best friend since childhood, Sam Oleson, the biggest tomboy in town. Alecia puts loyalty before politics, and so when Sam comes out as transgender, Alecia doesn't hesitate to stick by her friend's side. As a country girl raised Catholic and conservative, Alecia has a lot to learn as Sam starts coming out at school and preparing to transition. Alecia's suddenly got a lot on her mind, including the meaning of her ongoing attraction to Sam, her mother's wholehearted rejection of anything queer, her favorite great-grandmother's ailing health, and an upcoming district debate about gay marriage. A sweet story overall, but the plot seemed forced and holey in places.
Luna. Little, Brown, and Company, 2006. Regan loves her brother, and so she lets him use her room at night to dress up, put on makeup, and become his real self: Luna, a confident drama queen obsessed with her looks. But the pressure of the closet is getting to Liam, and Regan becomes his bodyguard and moral support as he begins to let Luna out in public. Regan really does love her brother. But the pressure of lying around the secret of Luna to everyone messes up her relationships with her parents, her friends, and the cute new guy at school. Both of these books, although much of their focus is on the relationship with the trans character and those closest to them, are told from the POV of the other person, while mine is from the POV of the trans person.
Refuse. Self-published copyright Elliott DeLine, 2009. When Dean's (female) roommate complains about their placement, the housing department places him with Colin, the only other out FTM on campus. In some ways they are similar--both love The Smiths and music in general, and Colin agrees with things Dean says. But mostly they are opposites. Colin is social, generally likeable, the poster boy transgender artist. Dean is sullen, bad at social interaction, and full of unpalatable opinions. Together they experience a trans support group with a troubled woman named Teddy, the sudden coming out of Dean's best friend Vivian's sister, Colin's on-again, off-again relationship with his girlfriend, and Colin's band, Owl Eyes, whose lead singer is both not quite good enough and Colin's best friend. Dean's depression and general personality color everything in this book to give it a completely different tone than mine.
Parrotfish. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012. Grady, a trans guy, comes out to family and friends and deals with rejection while falling in love. Everything turns out OK, though, in perhaps too little of a plot; everyone comes round with surprising ease and Grady gets a new, previously-forbidden pet. Reviews complain that this book is too neatly tied up in a bow with little effort. Binary Talk contains plenty of angst.
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I take the free Blue Bus to Bryn Mawr the next day to shop Intro Bio. The three sessions are back-to-back. The 9am class is on the physiology of feeding, which sounds kind of interesting and kind of gross, and I decide halfway through that having to get up at the crack of dawn to catch the bus for a 9am class outweighs my interest. The 10am class is on invasive species, and much more promising. I decide to stay for the 11am just in case it's even better, just as long as I'm over here. Before it begins, a short perky blonde girl sits next to me.
"Hi!" she says. "I'm Eloise. Ella. Who are you?"
"I'm Leandra," I answer.
"Cool. She pronouns?"
My brain stutters on that, restarts the question to see if it makes more sense the second time, decides it doesn't, and comes out with, "What?"
"Do you use she/her pronouns?"
"Yes," I answer—it's the simple truth, and conveys nothing of the confusion—and what the hell, joy—flooding my lungs, most of which I can't even put into words. Jimena tells me enough that I look like a boy, but I don't honestly look enough like a boy that she would need to ask, would she? I mean, I have boobs. And a girly name. Ella appears to be satisfied with the answer, though, and carries on.
"What sort of music do you listen to? I love the Backstreet Boys. I know, I know, they haven't been really big since the '90s, but their vocals, you know they sang a capella a lot, which was just amazing, and so many artists these days rely on a sound bite and what the computers can do, I can't stand modern pop, it just seems so faked all the time, you know? I always have the radio on oldies, but of course I can't set the radio at work, and it's always on modern pop, usually from a few years back so it's not the stuff you're totally sick of at least, I hear the preppers listen to a station that only plays the top like five hits and the rest is talk show, I feel so sorry for them, and I'm sorry, I'm not letting you talk."
"Alternative, mostly," I answer the earlier question, deciding it's not worth it to ask what a prepper is just yet. "Anberlin is my favorite band."
It isn't disbelief. It isn't even polite small talk. She's turned to face me completely, though we're at a lab table, propped her elbows on the table and nestled her chin in her hands. She looks about twelve in that position, though that might be the pigtails and the overall shorts with the purple T-shirt.
"I like what they can do with guitar," I begin, "but mostly it's the lyrics." Most people let me stop there and say something else about their music or tell me if I like guitar I should listen to Jimi Hendrix (which I have), but Ella just cocks her head at me. "They're full of really interesting, unusual phrases that can mean some pretty deep things if you listen to them carefully, but you're never a hundred percent sure what they do mean."
"Like what?"
"Like, um, 'it's not that we don't talk, it's that no one really listens and honesty fades.'"
"And, 'it's alarming how loud the silence screams no warning,'" I add, warming to the sudden attention.
"That is seriously the best," says Ella. The professor starts to talk just then—this section is apparently on the evolution of skin. Bryn Mawr has some super odd classes. We don't talk through the rest of the class (Ella pays as rapt attention to the professor as she did to me), but when it ends, she turns back to me and goes,
"You wanna grab lunch with my people?"
I am kind of hungry. And my OneCard gets me into Bryn Mawr's dining halls too. "All right."
The main dining hall is about as far from the science building as it gets on this campus, but it's still only a fifteen-minute walk. Ella continues chattering to me.
"Are you into sci-fi/fantasy at all?"
"Only kind of superficially," I tell her. "Harry Potter. Marvel movies. Nothing really nerdy."
"Aw. Oh well. Not like everyone at the Doublestar table is actually in Doublestar anyway."
"Our sci-fi/fantasy club. It's awesome, it's really more of a philosophy club that uses nerdy stuff from evidence. There's nearly always somebody at the table, so you don't have to look for someplace to sit."
"Wait, your club has its own table? Not in the dining hall?"
"Yeah, in the dining hall!" She laughs. "It's not official, of course, but if you tell someone who's Doublestar or friends with Doublestar people that you're sitting at the Doublestar table, they'll know what you're talking about. Our president is Fearless Leader, and our VP is Lackey. It's an inherited position. Fearless Leader Hells her successor. Oh, do you know about Hell Week yet?"
"I go to Haverford," I say, wondering suddenly if she doesn't know that. She doesn't.
"Omigosh, you go to Haverford? I had no idea. I figured you were a new froshling. That sucks. Hell Week is awesome."
I am even more confused than before at her remark about pronouns. Ryan's voice comes back to me. Bryn Mawr is all-girl. But she tells me a little about Hell Week, which sounds like an elaborate system of dares, and next thing we're swiping our OneCards at the checker desk at Erdman. Ella leads me toward a table near the back. It's got quite an assortment of characters. There are Haverford students, since there's at least one boy, and I'm relieved. The dude has slicked hair, turquoise glasses and a feather boa. Gay, I'm guessing. There's someone who I think is a girl, with a green streak in brunette hair and eyeliner to match, plus a sequined shirt. There's also a couple of way less striking-looking girls, and someone else, maybe Native American, who might be a girl, wearing a blouse and dark hair in a messy ponytail, sitting several seats down, so I can't tell if she (?) is with the rest of the group.
"Everybody, this is Leandra, she/her pronouns. Leandra, this is not everybody!" says Ella helpfully, dropping her stuff by a chair. The two girls, the dude, and the person with the streak all smile and say hello. I wave and set my backpack by the chair next to Ella and follow her to the food.
I quickly lose track of Ella, who knows exactly what she wants and where it is, and take my time examining the salad bar, the hot line, and the soup 'n' sandwich bar. I take a bowl of minestrone, head back to the table, and tuck in. It's pretty good for dining hall food.
"So, how many of these people are Haverford?" I ask, figuring that might help me work out some of the sexes.
"None," says Ella, giving me a weird look. "You're the only one."
Wait, what?
"But…" I lower my voice. "That…person, in the boa, looks like a dude." Ella's expression goes cold. What did I do wrong?
"Introductions!" she says, a little loudly. "Whitney. He/him pronouns." Boa dude flaps his hand at me. "Chrys, with a Y. Ze/hir pronouns."
See here pronouns what?
She rattles off another couple names, which I immediately forget. The person with the ponytail doesn't get an introduction, so I guess that one's not part of the group. "All Bryn Mawr students."
"I thought Bryn Mawr was all-female," I say, completely stuck. Now that I really look, Whitney and Chrys don't have visible Adam's apples—though there's no sign of breasts, either.
"Officially," says Chrys, and Ella's not the only one who suddenly looks frosty. "But it does have rather a large transgender population. Do you have a problem with that?"
"I don't know what that is," I admit quietly. The expressions become more wary now than cold.
"We, Whitney and I," says Chrys, "although our birth certificates say we're female, don't consider ourselves to be girls. Simply put…" Chrys—what's that pronoun again?—stops and looks a little sheepish. "What's a way to simply put it?"
"Deep down inside, we don't feel like girls," says Whitney. "I feel like a boy since I was a little kid and didn't understand why people kept calling me a girl."
"Are you a lesbian?" I ask. Everyone cringes except Whitney, who seems to be prepared for the question.
"Naw, I'm a gay man," replies Whitney. "I like guys and I am one. Some lesbians like dressing in button-downs and wearing their hair short, sure—hell, so do lots of girls—but as far as I can tell they don't hate their boobs and crave a penis. I do. And it's not about sex, I just feel wrong all the time without one. And I hate it when people use 'girl' or 'she' for me, it just feels so wrong, like they're talking about someone else."
"How did you go your entire life without knowing this?" bursts out Ella, who can apparently keep silent no longer.
"I don't know," I admit.
"'S okay," says Whitney. "Just use 'he' for me and 'ze' for Chrys and don't tell us we're confused or going to hell or disgusting, and we'll be good, yeah?"
I nod, because it would be rude as hell to say any of that, regardless of what I feel, and I have no idea what I feel, beyond that I think as soon as I let myself process, it's going to be terrifying.
Whitney changes the subject, to what I have no idea. I pretend to listen and finish my meal relatively quickly. I make my excuses about needing to catch the bus (which is true, in the sense that I'll miss it if I don't leave now, more than in the sense that I actually need to be on this particular bus) and bolt. Thank goodness, lab doesn't start until next week, or I'd be stuck here until late afternoon. The bus seems to take forever, purposely landing the reds at every intersection and waiting an extra second to pull away every time it turns green. When it pulls up by Stokes, I'm first off, making a beeline towards Barclay. Antigony isn't home, and I thank anyone listening. I need to be alone. I shut the door and the security of solitude washes over me. On its heels follows sheer terror. I lock the door with jittery hands, figuring Antigony has a key, drop my backpack on the floor, toe off my shoes and climb into bed.
My breath pulls in—and stops, holding there for precious seconds before I force it out again. Whitney's voice is still on repeat in my head. Deep down inside, we don't feel like girls. A couple normal breaths, and the hitch happens again. I can feel my heartbeat, which is way too fast to be accounted for by the walk. They don't hate their boobs. I do. I burrow under the covers, although it's early September in Pennsylvania and still breathtakingly hot, and feel marginally better. I hate it when people use 'girl' or 'she' for me, it just feels so wrong, like they're talking about someone else. My breath seizes up completely for long seconds, and I can feel a whimper trying to escape my throat. Yes, I think, I hate it when people use girl, she, and more, I hate it when people use ella, chica, even Jimena's querida, as affectionately as it's meant, is painful. I want Jimena, and I don't want Jimena, I want the comfort, but I absolutely cannot share this with her. Yes, I hate my boobs. I thought it was the inconvenience, the way I had to be careful what shirts I bought after that, the irritation of bras, the way boys started staring. But I think about it, I imagine being free of them, having a flat chest like a boy's, and I'm gripped with the urge to take them in hand, dig my nails into them, try to rip them off, and what's worst is that isn't a new feeling. My shirt is suddenly suffocating, and I pull it off, unclasp my bra and throw them both on the floor. I run my hands over the bare bulges in my chest and I am filled with disgust, old disgust, my hands remind me, as they slide over raised ridges that I know are fading to pink by now, and it's not that they're breasts. I like women, as I told Ryan and Gary, and that includes their breasts. It's that they're on me. Deep down inside, as Whitney said, do I feel like a girl?
My bones echo a resounding No! and I start to cry.
But in all the excitement, I've forgotten, somehow, about my Spanish, forgotten about it until Saturday and Robotics club learning a whole new programming language called Logo while Ryan solders, and Henriette comes over.
"Looking good!" she says of the robot, and then, in a lower voice to me, "¿Cómo estás? ¿Hay problemas con su género? ¿Sus pronombres?"
"Mierda," I mutter to myself. Pronouns. No gender-neutral pronouns. "I switched to they/them yesterday," I tell her. She blinks.
"Hard to talk in Spanish, then."
"Mm-hm." I ponder that for a few seconds, and decide it isn't a problem to solve while I still haven't actually answered her question.
"Otherwise, estoy contento."
"¿Contento?" she questions, and this time I hear the ending. Not as bad as 'contenta', but still.
"Mierda, mierda, mierda," I hiss, setting down the motor I'm working with so I don't crush it and digging my nails into my palms. All this time, all this trying to find something to call myself, when I hadn't even really wanted to go on some self-discovery journey anyway, and the only thing that's felt close to right is incompatible with my language.
"What's up?" asks Ryan softly, apparently lost.
"They just remembered that Spanish doesn't have gender-neutral language," Henriette explains, putting an arm around me. I lean into her gratefully.
"At least you aren't a native speaker, right?" asks Ryan. He's not being mean, he's honestly trying to help, but it's not something I haven't thought a million times before. Spanish is not my heritage, not my birthright.
"No, I'm not Latino," I spit. "Latino? Latina?" There's no word even for what I'm not.
"Latinx," offers Henriette. It's a small comfort.
"Not Latinx. Or Spanish. No."
"But you've spoken it forever, so it might as well be," says Ryan, and maybe he gets it more than I thought.
"Might as well be," I agree. "Been my language since kindergarten. Been the foundation of my best friendship, my college choice, my career. If I didn't speak Spanish, I'd have a completely different life. ¿Por qué?" I whisper, and Henriette hugs me harder. Tentatively, Ryan joins in.
"What's up?" Gary has noticed us from across the room and abandoned his teammates. He crouches on Ryan's other side.
"They're having a language/gender crisis thing," Ryan explains, letting go.
Ryan looks at me. "Leo?"
I wave a hand about, trying to convey the depth of my not knowing.
"Maybe just Lee for now?"
Ryan nods decisively. "Lee." He turns back to Gary, as if to say "That settles it," and I search their faces. Their gazes are too focused, too soft for friends. I'm suddenly sure Nadie was right.
Gary catches me watching and meets my eyes. "So…what are you, then?" he asks, and Henriette draws in a breath beside me.
"Let it go, willya?" says Ryan, to my surprise. Gary looks almost betrayed.
"What? It's weird," he starts to say, but Ryan stands and grabs his hand, pulling him some distance away before dropping it, stuffing his own hands into his pockets, and staring firmly at a spot on the floor behind Gary's right shoe. They're not quite far enough away for me to not hear Ryan's next words.
"Yeah, it is weird, but you didn't see Lee's face, okay? I don't understand it either, but it's important to them." He meets Gary's eyes on the last word, and something seems to pass between them.
"You're the weird ones," mutters Henriette.
"Nah, they're just into each other and too scared to do anything about it," I answer quietly.
"Seriously?" says Henriette.
"You can't tell?"
"I am totally clueless about allosexuals," says Henriette, and after a second, adds, "and alloromantics."
"All-of-the-sexuals?" I ask, confused, and she starts to laugh.
"Close enough. That's roughly what it means."
Huh. Another thing I don't know about. It's less scary than at the beginning of the year. I'm sure I'll get the lowdown soon enough.
I leave Robotics Club somewhat surer about my friend group and less so about what I'm going to call myself or what the hell I'm going to tell Jimena.
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Safety fears sparked Taser use, officer tells Winnipeg inquest
Michael Langan, 17, died after being subdued by Winnipeg police officer's stun gun
A Winnipeg police officer who was at a 2008 confrontation that led to Michael Langan being shocked by a Taser told an inquest into the teen's death that he ordered his partner to deploy the stun gun over concerns about his partner's safety.
The inquest, which began Monday, has heard that police were searching for a robbery suspect when they found Langan in a back lane, holding a knife and refusing to put it down.
One of the police officers who was there, Michael Temple, testified on Tuesday that he yelled at his partner to deploy the Taser after Langan was ordered at least twice to drop the knife.
The use of the electric stun gun was appropriate in this case, Temple said, citing concerns over his partner's safety.
Temple said the officers had approached Langan in a police cruiser, thinking they were going to chase him on foot. But they didn't see the knife right away and by then he was about a metre away from the vehicle, he said.
"Three to four feet is very close proximity for a knife assault," Temple told the inquest, adding that Langan threw his jacket onto the ground and was acting aggressively before he was subdued by the Taser.
"When he threw the jacket on the ground, he had an angry, crazy look in his eye," he said.
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The officer's testimony differs from that of Jordan Wolfman, who said he heard officers yelling at Langan after the Taser was deployed.
Earlier on Tuesday, Wolfman said he was doing maintenance work on the grounds of the national virology lab on Arlington Street when he heard a police car speeding down the street, then saw two officers getting out of the vehicle and walking toward the suspect.
Wolfman testified that he didn't hear Langan say anything, nor did he see him do anything, but he heard the officers yell, "Drop the knife!" after Langan was shocked by the Taser.
During cross-examination, a lawyer for the Winnipeg Police Service asked Wolfman if it was possible the incident happened too quickly for him to remember the exact sequence of events.
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Temple testified that Langan still had the knife in his hand after he fell to the ground, which would explain why officers were seen yelling at the teen after he was shocked with the Taser.
The officer, who is also a Taser instructor, told the inquest that pepper spray wasn't used in Langan's case because it's not as effective when a suspect is too close to officers and poses a threat.
Had the officers known from the start that Langan was carrying a knife, they would have tried to contain the suspect from a distance and called for backup, Temple told the inquest.
A paramedic is also expected to testify at the inquest. The first phase is expected to last several weeks.
Inquest counsel are questioning witnesses, as well as lawyers representing Taser International, the company that manufactures the stun guns, and the Winnipeg Police Service.