Indy Pride Fest

I apologize for not being around throughout the history making of the recent political news but I have been ill so therefore, I had to take a break from things. But to keep you up to date..forget all the states Clinton has one because yesterday she ceded and is now endorsing Obama. Looks like all that campaigning didn’t do anything. Wrong, it did a lot. It brought people involved into politics and changed the face of this nation about who can run for the most sought after job in America. It seems funny though, that there should even be a race between McCain and Obama because Obama can do for the Democratic party what we have always wanted, which is unite it. Which is why I’m not worried about the Clinton supporters switching over to the Obama side, sure some will just stay home on voting day and watch McCain dominate and when he keeps doing what Bush has been doing they have absolutely no right to stand up and complain. Wouldn’t you want to be a part of an administration full of changes that are for a better America? Than go vote for Obama. At least you’re putting a Democrat in that office, with the endorsement of Hillary.

The subject line of this entry is something I would also like to discuss. Indianapolis Gay Pride Festival is going on June 13-15, but I will be working the Democratic booth on the 14 from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, this is when all the major festivities will be going on and I would love to see a major turn out of people wanting to register and I’ll be selling buttons I’ve made endorsing Obama. But this booth isn’t just for the presidential candidate we’ll be handing out information about local politics which is just as important as presidency. So if you get the opportunity please stop by. I feel very honored to be running the booth and have already put a lot of my time in trying to make it the best it can be. Whether your gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered or just straight please please please come out.

Yale Art Student Shocks!

I know I should probably write about the Democratic Debate last night, and I will only say a few words on that. It really sounded like Hillary swept it, she came across as clear and very experienced. Barack stuttered a lot and had his own words used against him, but it was a very interesting watch. Now onto the headliner.

I was surfing the web when I came across a story about a Yale Art Student who graduates this year and her final project. Aliza Shvarts is a very opinionated student, pro-creativity, art, feminism, abortion. Why should I mention the latter? Shvarts inseminated herself and made it into her project, yes this is a nine month long pregnancy video done with a splash of creativity. Sounds innocent and beautiful right? Wrong. She took abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. You may want me to stop right there but her project also contains viles of her miscarriages blood.

“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”

The only thing that she didn’t do is pay the sperm donors for their services. She only required them because she needed to take tests for STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). What’s amazing is that in the end she doesn’t care what those drugs did to her body, both in ability to become pregnant again or any other side affects. Her art teacher however, LOVED this project idea but knew a lot of people out there were very disturbed by it. I wonder why? She failed to go to a doctor because she thought since the drugs were herbal and legal that she didn’t need to go.

The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts’ self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.

What do you think of this? A lot of Yale students, students from other campuses and other people in general think she took her constitutional right of her body way too far, think its morally wrong, and don’t think she should be so open about. Discuss.

Exhibit will be open April 22-May 1 in Holcombe T. Greene Jr. Hall on Chapel Street

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24513

Beating in Lakeland.

I know this isn’t politics, but I like to write about things that have caught my attention and should be brought to others, something impacting. So I’m going to twist this blog around just for this post and inform all of you about the 8 teenagers ages 14-18 who kidnapped and beat a defenseless 16 year old in Lakeland, Florida. Two boys stood guard so that no one could get in and help her. They just did this because they wanted a viral video on the internet. Well they got it, and they also got arrested for it.

A lot of teenagers, I know this, post videos of fights up on the internet. Ones that happened in school or over the weekend just to show that they are man enough to kick somebody else’s ass. It only shows how mean and cruel they are. I don’t care if the other person deserved it, that just isn’t something you do and especially something you post on the internet for your friends to laugh about. These kids in this video won’t be blamed most likely by huge society. What will be blamed is video games, energy drinks, and parental raising. Why do we find it so hard to believe that actual teenagers, PEOPLE for that matter, would do something like this? Why can’t we just blame the person? Let them take responsibility for their own actions and take the punishment, like they should.

Stick them in jail, do whatever..just show them that what they did was wrong and not acceptable because from the looks of it a lot of teenagers don’t know this. They think it’s cool to start a fight in the middle of lunch and video tape it just so everyone who did happen to miss it could see it. It just gets on my nerves and it really makes me wonder about our society today. I remember when there was this huge thing about girls fighting other girls just for the sake of a top hit video. When in real life it was the stupidest decision ever. I thought that stopped for a while but it seemed to get worse, the numbers of people fighting over the number of victims rose. Now it’s 8 to 1. What’s happening?