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Feminist Bolin / Perfect Man Bolin [x]

Just… no one understands how much I care about Bolin.

Just watched this episode last night!!  Although I’m convinced that “The Legend of Korra” is something I’ll only watch for entertainment value (not because it’s brilliant), this is a nice character profile!

This shouldn’t be a fake meme. This should be real life. 

Poor Bolin.  Mako gets all the love.

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Catch-Up

The Good Day Project

Yesterday:

• Andrew Marin came to LG to talk about Christian engagement with LGBTQ issues.  His framework reminded me so much of Rom Coles’ and I nearly died of happiness.  Even though I read his book and knew many of his arguments, I really like the way he explained them in person. I loved his definition of reconciliation: “the constant pursuit of what is disconnected.”
• Service of Tenebrae: this was my first time and it was quite powerful to follow Christ’s journey into the darkness.  It’s scary to think of the time following his death up until his resurrection on the third day.
• Watched the tail-end of Justin’s swing performance!
• Fun Broom-Ball times!  Though not fun injuries.
• Hanging out with Andrew for our 1.5 year anniversary. =)

Today

• Saturday morning ballin’—and worked with Rachel!
• Awesome small group with free food voucher for food trucks.
• Watched and cried through “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” with Andrew.  Though he didn’t cry.
• Delish cookout and “How I Met Your Mother.”

Merengue Mixer and Vegetable Soup

The Good Day Project

Now that I’m in my final days at Duke, it might be nice to keep account of the good things happening.  And I like the idea of seeing every day as a good day.  So, I have no idea how long I’ll keep this up for, but let’s go for it!

• A middle school class from Philly came into our Latin dance class to observe us so our instructor, Doug, had them join in for a “Merengue Mixer.”  And leading shy, awkward middle-school boys in dance just reminded me of the time me and my-coteachers at Student U tried to drag the boys out on the dance floor for our 8th Grade Graduation dance.
• We also learned super cool samba spins.
• Romand Coles and my Religion and Politics class is changing my life.  I now reject the Rawlsian Kool-Aid and will forever subscribe to Coles’s framework of democratic participation (what my prof calls “vegetable soup” because it’s harder to swallow).  It consists of three elements:

1. Listening:  If you want to help the community gain a greater voice, we have to create spaces for listening and come with a willingness to be transformed. This reeks so much of the StoryCorps mission.
2. Traveling: We have to be willing to displace ourselves and actually travel into spaces of difference that belong to a community.  “It is nearly impossible to hear another person or group of people well if one has not spent time in their very different spaces and been proximate to their discrepant conditions and modes of being.”
3. Tabling: The table is where all the decision making and the conflicts come about.  But rather than there being one table, there are many and they are constantly shifting.  Our prof asked us how often have we sat at shifting and moving tables.  For me, not many.

I have never been this excited about democratic participation and community building in my entire life.  

"In North Korea, a brutal choice" - CNN

timtimedin:

Thank you JKoh for the share. “During a sleepless night, Song Ee Han agonized over a decision: Was she willing to leave her youngest child behind while she and her daughters escaped North Korea?” Written by Madison Park.

“The absolutist position rests on a biblical concept of divine revelation! In the Bible, God is not presented as an aloof lecturer who occasionally breaks his customary austere silence with a solemn pronouncement of abstract truth…Rather, God is encountered in the raw stuff of human experience such as the dread moment when fleeing slaves tremble as a crushing army of the Pharaoh descends upon them to drag them back into captivity. Revelation in this understanding is not the mechanical transmission of abstract truths, but the discovery of Immanuel, God with us, in the joys and tragedies of human existence. The Bible consists not of words frozen in eternity, but testimonies by a living faith community of their awareness of living not alone but in the ever-watchful presence of a loving God. The Word of God is not a set of propositions trumping human experience and excluding the ongoing exercise of discernment of that loving God in the here and now, but rather the framework of an ongoing conversation between a God continuing to create and to redeem and a people attentive to God’s presence in their midst.”

Paul D. Hanson in Political Engagement as Biblical Mandate

Okay, I’m just sad that I can’t put this in or even discuss this in my paper without breaking the 2200 word limit. =(

Last call…

The last week before my thesis is due!  Wanted to try one last time, but would anyone be interested in reading my thesis and giving me feedback?  You could read one 76 page story or one 39 page story, or both…

Let me know! Thanks!

Every door is barr’d with gold, and opens but to golden keys.

-Alfred Tennyson

laurenchun:

So, Judy where does that leave you?

Pen on paper by Lauren Chun

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they call me freshman

Have been recently reminded of this time in my life.  I wrote this…in my junior year of high school as a homage to the Port Jefferson class of 2007.  Just thought I would post for fun.

jeangu:

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jay-so:

SNL spoofs sport world’s racist Jeremy Lin stereotypes.  This is ON POINT.

OMG, this is freaking lin-diculous. HIDDEN GEM great find J-So

“kobe… fried chicken…”
“Yo what’s up with that?”

…l..o..l… this is why i love snl

I’m so glad they did this…exactly the way they did this.  If I had more time, I would write a blogpost about all this uproar and people’s responses.  Maybe I will try to later in the week.