ff

aka this week neko case won the internet and all of my love. if you don't follow her on twitter, well, I don't even know, fix that scene right this minute.

happy friday, welcome back!

ff

this week we were told, hey don't worry, white men are totally in charge of stuff and so awesome at it! dudes. phew.

which is, like, thank god, am i right? yay! but seriously. something awesome happened in response, and actually wooooo nice work the internets!

* #WomenEdsWeLove

cause it turns out some women work in print media too! weird.

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd a happy friday all y'all!

saved my life

two things this week. both being the internets. one being words-on-the-internets...

{oh shosh...}

 

girls on girls is always always my favourite written-thing-on-the-internets these weeks. i love all of the girls. all. i love them even though i often don't agree. hooray and thank everything for these girls and their words (and, of course, for the girls-on-tv who inspire the words.)

and then. pictures. all of the pictures that go ping in my insides, and i collect them all together and there they are. or.

{a bit of the world i'm making}

 

 tumblr. fine, okay, fine, i love it. i didn't understand it for forever, but now i get it, at least i do as a tool for me and the pictures. endless and scrolling and looking and instant and easy.

ff

this week has heralded a few great conversations about rape and rape culture. (some not so great, too, but let's not focus on those right now.)

people outside of the feminist blogisphere have been engaging in rape culture discussions triggered by the horrible so sad awful rage-tears-inducing gang rape in india. and. while i do agree with the following...

{@pushinghoops}

i am still grateful that soooomething is happening and people are thinking and speaking and learning.

jill over at feministe links to two really thoughtful pieces that discuss purity and virtue. read them both. they're worth spending some time with.  

{from e.j. graff's piece for the american prospect}

and then, too, mom sent me this little dude which is very yes and i like it very much. (because, say it with me friends, feminism is not about women wiiinnnnnning, its about gender equality and a world that is accepting of masculinity and feminity that fall outside of the rigid little set of descriptors we're all supposed to adhere to.)

and also, this video which a dear old friend (hi jess!!) sent me.

somedays my heart hurts so bad for the state of the world, and somedays i have slivers of hopefulness and somedays... and everydays i am thankful and thankful and thankful for my own personal world, where, jokes aside about 'erin's silly feminist posts', i am loved and respected by my friends and family and given autonomy. if only everyone was so lucky. (if only that, then... universe fixed...)

**and as always seems to be the case when i write an ff post that isn't 100% angry-sad a little in advance of friday, i came across this piece last night about two young men raping their jiu-jitsu teammate in a parking lot instead of driving her home safely like they said they would do. and oh, fuck it. ow. oh. my heart. my angry-sad heart.**

... to bath, to cambridge, to canada.

you're all HEY! WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOUR EURO-PHOTOS?!

good question. i got super lazy for a while with the photo editing.

but! i'm back at it! mostly cause marc & mel got married and i wanna put up pictures of how beautiful they were, but i'm not allowed till i get you all the euro-photos. doi!

HERE WE GO! again. the last o' the instagramed. enjoy!

more soon from the REAL camera, even. right now, though, i am cuddling my dog and watching the olympics i missed all weekend.

to london to cambridge to bath to bremen...

part one of the trip report! with some instagram photos in case you don't follow me on instagram/twitter.

(hey, if you don't follow me on instagram/twitter WTF?! YOU SHOULD FOLLOW ME ALREADY!)

okaygo!

and there is so much more to come! so staaaaayyyy tuned my friends!

saved my life

this long weekend (which was extra long thanks to my amazeballs boss-and-job) was maybe the greatest long weekend that did ever happen. maybe. very possibly. top 5 for sure.

i really never expected to love toronto this much. but i do. love it so so much. i am so happy with this city. friday i had an awesome workout at the extension room, where there was only two of us in the class so jenn worked us extra hard. (abs say owwwww.) then saw joel plaskett with jeff at the queen elizabeth theatre. i will come back to that. saturday was a mega sleep in, then a law-student bbq with sarah and her classmates in a great backyard not far from us. these law kids, they are funny and welcoming and a pleasure to be around. who knew?! sunday was more sleeping in, and watching a baseball game in christie pits followed by another law-bbq at another law-home. margene came. i ate three spectacular homemade burgers. (which is allowed, i figure, because i couldn't eat any of the buns or salad due to being so dietarilly complicated.) finally there was monday, and i woke up to phone chats with mel who was in ottawa for a bonkersbread conducting competition. after lazing about and waking up slowly, i found my way to the park (trinity bellwoods of course) for a good old park hang with my park people. with magazines. and fresca. and SUN FOREVER! when we got thirsty, we rolled on to ronnie's and made best friends with some great patio folk. newspaper friendship bracelets were made. twitter handles were exchanged. margene made friends with a black lab puppy who then stole her treat. haha! and then, you won't even believe it: there was ANOTHER BBQ at jeff's with ribs and steak cooked to perfection by his roomie.

holy cow! i am exhausted!

and now back to work and real life again. and blog posts about having my life saved. this week, obvi, by joel plaskett!!!



he was so so great live, guys. so great. and the audience was so into it. hilarious and grand. i only cried once, but i cried good and hard. ugh. dudes. he played 'beyond beyond beyond' which i knew was about someone dying, but it turns out it is about a friend of his who was violently murdered. sigh and sadness! jeeeez. so heartfelt. he was crying just explaining about how he doesn't normally play it live, but he recently saw a story on tv about another girl he knows who was a victim of violent death. so he was playing it for the two of them. so yeah. i criiiieeeeeeeddddd and held so still and it was so beautiful. hooray for music and tributes and love and all of this.

happy tuesday, friends! party on.

favourite mistake

sometimes when i mean to go to tinyurl.com, i make a typo and i go here instead:

tinu

hi! i love tinu. i keep using tinyurl even though i don't have to, just so that i can, occasionally, accidentally, visit tinu.