she comes by it honest

“Call Me By Your Name But Lil Nas X Makes All the Sounds With His Mouth”

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1. trump being (the former) president sounds and is and was just absolutely ridiculous, but even back then people knew he was a con man with exactly as much unearned and often pretend wealth as it would take to successfully buy the presidency, the conman’s instinct for finding out what people wanna hear and saying it over and over and the ego to be magnetic to those who are, frankly, pathetic. The Simpsons was a show that started out being reviled by a lot of Middle America. The creators were always aware just how backwards America could be, how much conservative backlash we were capable of. And trump banked on that. And he was the kind of guy that the people who were in a position to stop him would dismiss with a, “pfft, he’s a sideshow, he’ll never make it, it’s absurd”. Right up until he’s dismantling democracy from the Oval. The Simpsons was known for imagining ridiculous but not 100% impossible scenarios and just flying with it. They were the walking definition of “your chances of being killed by a cat are extremely, extremely low, but never zero.”. The chances of trump being POTUS were extremely, extremely low but sadly not zero.

2. Any female head-of-state would have to have a certain look, because misogyny. They’d have to ride the line between not too masculine (so no strong blues or reds, no neutrals) and not too feminine (no pink, yellow or pastels), not too adorned and not too plain, not so rich looking it puts the middle class off (no diamonds or big stones) but appropriately coiffed enough to make her success evidence (so some jewelry must be worn). A cool purple is a good color because it can feminine-to-neutral (a male executive could wear this as a tie color and no one would think twice) while still lending itself to an outfit that’s the spiritual heir to Hilary’s power pants suit. Pearls, as well, ride that line. They’re classy, but not flashy, they’re classic but never outdated. Reasonably good looking fakes can be obtained by the lower classes yet the upper classes continue to wear them so their status as a class marker remains. 

If I were thinking carefully about how a smart, determined woman like a grown President Lisa Simpson would present herself, I’d pick just about this outfit. 

As I went walking that endless bread line My landlord gave me a 2-week deadline And Labor Action ran a better headline: “This land was made for you and me!”

This land is their land, it isn’t our land From the plush apartments to the Cadillac car land From the Wall Street office to the Hollywood star land This land is not for you or me

So take your slogan and kindly stow it If this was our land, you’d never know it So let’s get together and overthrow it ‘Cause this land was made for you and me

And then in the middle:

Readings:

Hockey is not for Everyone - Akim Aliu

Silence is Violence - Mark Fraser  

Joel Ward on What the Hockey Diversity Alliance Can Accomplish - Mike Johnston 

Sarah Nurse Urges Fellow Canadians Not to Suppress Our Black History - Thomas Ketko 

NHL Exec. Kim Davis on Racism in Hockey and Growing the Game - Jerry Bembry 

NHL Needs Action, Not Words, on Racial Injustice - Greg Wyshynski

Kevin Weekes: NHL Needs to Get Real About Inequality - Emily Kaplan

For NHL, the Battle to Eradicate Racism in the Sport Continues -Helene Elliot 

Anthony Duclair’s Protest, Racism in Minor Hockey, and More - Brandon Maki

Jospeh Opens Up About Racism, Protests 

‘What the Hell are You Doing Here?’ A Conversation With Black Hockey Fans - Mark Lazerus 

Evander Kane on White NHLers Addressing Racism: We Need ‘Strength in Numbers’ - Ryan S Clark 

Why White NHLers are Calling out Racism Now: ‘Hit Me So Deep That I Was Angry’ - Ryan S Clark 

We Need to be Loud, We need to be Unflinching - Erik Gudbranson

‘It Can’t Just be Their Fight’: Why Blake Wheeler is Speaking out Against Racism - Murat Ates 

Rethinking Canada Through Indigenous Hockey - McKegney and Auksi

Videos: 

How Racism in Hockey Affects Indigenous Communities 

How Racism Affects Hockey Culture 

Iginla on Racism in Hockey

A Roundtable on Racism with NHL Players  

Black Ice: African-Canadians and Hockey  

Soul on Ice: Past, Present, and Future  

Akim Aliu Sits Down For A One-On-One With Ron MacLean 

Ryan Reaves Talks About Hockey in the Black Community 

Is Hockey Having a Moment of Reckoning? 

Hockey Is For Everyone, Or Is It? - Nicole Giordano with R. Renee Hess

As hockey confronts its racism problem, why have so many NHL players remained silent? - Hemal Jhaveri

Everything wrong with the New York Islanders statement on George Floyd - Hemal Jhaveri

Nihilism and White Bliss in America’s Most Livable City; On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell - Casey Taylor

Here’s what happens when you proclaim “Black Lives Matter” in the whitest sport in America - Rebecca Renee Hess

Only the puck was black: a story of race and the NHL - Gilman W. Whiting

The significance of a Stanley Cup champion named Devante - Clinton Yates

Current and former NHLers are calling for greater transparency as the GTHL keeps secret its data on penalties called for discriminatory slurs - Rick Westhead

NHL20 has a racism problem, and EA needs to address it -  Jeff Veillette

Kevin Weekes: NHL needs to get real about racial inequality - Emily Kaplan

BLACK HOCKEY ROUNDTABLE: TALKING RACISM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE SPORT with David Amber, Blake Bolden, Grant Fuhr, Kwame Mason, and Sarah Nurse - Matt Larkin

Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey

‘We are gathered. We are here.’ Welcome to Black Girl Hockey Club - Kim Brunhuber

Books: 

Black Ice: The Val James Story - Valmore James & John Gallagher

Videos:

A critical look at social justice in women’s hockey, past, present, & future - Erica L. Ayala 

PART ONE: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

PART TWO: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

New episode of Social Justice in Women’s Hockey by Erica L. Ayala premieres Wednesday, June 9, 2020 at 8:30 pm ET with Saroya Tinker discusses “white gaze” and racism in Canada

A BGHC Community Event: Renee Hess and Saroya Tinker talk race, hockey and BLM

Podcasts:

Redvolution Rampage: The Color of Hockey with Hockey Coach Derrick Henderson, Ayo Adeniye, Malcolm Hayes, and Darius Kirksey

Bardown Beauties: #Sticktosports - Guest Erica L. Ayala

The End of Sport: Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri

TXHT: A Conversation with Saroya Tinker

Japers’ Rink Radio: Hockey Must Do Better with Marie Smith & Chris Watkins

Further Education & Involvement: 

Anti-Racism in Sports Resources Google Doc