La Vie en Couleur

Thanks! He’s a good man, Charlie Brown. I should draw him more. All I have are ditched comic panels of him and Arthur trying to bond: 

She’s often described as “Canada’s Rosa Parks,” but if anything, Rosa Parks is America’s Viola Desmond.

The civil rights icon and new face of the Canadian $10 bill refused to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre nine years before Parks’s famous act of civil disobedience on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala.

“Viola was passionate about people. She inspired them and she inspires us,” Desmond’s 89-year-old sister Wanda Robson said Thursday when the bill was announced at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.

Now she’s made history again as the first Canadian woman to be featured on the $10 bill.

Viola Desmond to be 1st Canadian woman on $10 bill

Between 2004 and 2012, the back of the $50 bill featured Quebec suffragette Thérèse Casgrain and the “The Famous Five” Canadians who fought for women to be recognized as persons under law: Louise Crummy McKinney, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Emily Murphy.

Born and raised in Halifax to parents who were active members of the city’s black community, Desmond was always ambitious.

At a time when opportunities were extremely limited for women and black people, she set out to establish a career in business.

She studied at the Field Beauty Culture School in Montreal, one of the few institutions that accepted black students, and went on to open Vi’s Studio of Beauty and Culture, a Halifax beauty parlour and shop that catered to black women.

From there, she expanded her empire, founding the Desmond School of Beauty Culture and launching a line of products sold at venues owned by her graduates.

On Nov. 8, 1946, Desmond, who was then 32, had some time to spare while she was waiting to get her car fixed, so she decided to catch a movie at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow.

She sat in the slightly more expensive, and implicitly whites-only, section of the theatre. She was asked to move, but she refused — so she was removed by force.

“The usher came up and said, ‘Miss, you are sitting in the wrong seat, you can’t sit here, that seat is more expensive,’ so Viola said, ‘OK, I’ll go and pay the difference,’” her sister and Wanda Robson, who has dedicated her life to telling Desmond’s story, told CBC News earlier this year.

“But when the usher came again and said, 'I’m going to have to get a manager.’ Viola said, 'Get the manager. I’m not doing anything wrong.’”

She’s often described as “Canada’s Rosa Parks,” but if anything, Rosa Parks is America’s Viola Desmond.

The civil rights icon and new face of the Canadian $10 bill refused to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre nine years before Parks’s famous act of civil disobedience on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala.

“Viola was passionate about people. She inspired them and she inspires us,” Desmond’s 89-year-old sister Wanda Robson said Thursday when the bill was announced at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.

Now she’s made history again as the first Canadian woman to be featured on the $10 bill.

Viola Desmond to be 1st Canadian woman on $10 bill

Between 2004 and 2012, the back of the $50 bill featured Quebec suffragette Thérèse Casgrain and the “The Famous Five” Canadians who fought for women to be recognized as persons under law: Louise Crummy McKinney, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Emily Murphy.

Born and raised in Halifax to parents who were active members of the city’s black community, Desmond was always ambitious.

At a time when opportunities were extremely limited for women and black people, she set out to establish a career in business.

She studied at the Field Beauty Culture School in Montreal, one of the few institutions that accepted black students, and went on to open Vi’s Studio of Beauty and Culture, a Halifax beauty parlour and shop that catered to black women.

From there, she expanded her empire, founding the Desmond School of Beauty Culture and launching a line of products sold at venues owned by her graduates.

On Nov. 8, 1946, Desmond, who was then 32, had some time to spare while she was waiting to get her car fixed, so she decided to catch a movie at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow.

She sat in the slightly more expensive, and implicitly whites-only, section of the theatre. She was asked to move, but she refused — so she was removed by force.

“The usher came up and said, ‘Miss, you are sitting in the wrong seat, you can’t sit here, that seat is more expensive,’ so Viola said, ‘OK, I’ll go and pay the difference,’” her sister and Wanda Robson, who has dedicated her life to telling Desmond’s story, told CBC News earlier this year.

“But when the usher came again and said, 'I’m going to have to get a manager.’ Viola said, 'Get the manager. I’m not doing anything wrong.’”

[drama happens]

me: 

lgbt disney   ♔ ♔ ♔   beauty and the beast

Unable to conform to the expectations for men his age (e.g., Gaston) or muster any interest in courting a woman, Beau longs to leave his provincial town. His wish is inadvertently granted when his father is imprisoned by a prince who is cursed to appear as a hideous creature until he learns to love and is loved in return. The Beast and enchanted palace staff are disappointed that there is no female family member to take his father’s place (and therefore hopefully break the curse); nevertheless, they allow Beau to do so, thinking that at least having a peer might help ease the Beast’s suffering.

I should take his advice.