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Drag didn't just change her life — it gave her one. Watch Canada's a Drag Season 2 now. |
After being expelled by his family and his church for being gay, Grayson Nordgren found his way to the drag persona of Jenna Telz. And through Jenna, he found a place in the world. |
"It was a short while after losing my family and friends due to being disfellowshipped from the Jehovah's Witnesses," he remembers. "It was Drag Race that really exposed me to just how powerful a queer person can be through art, and also that sense of sisterhood and community that is created around it." |
Grayson remembers that the first time he saw drag, it struck him "as the closest thing we have to magic in the real world." And now, thanks in very large part to Jenna Telz, Kelowna — a city of roughly 125,000 people — has so much more of that magic than it did just a few years ago. |
"What inspires me now is building a community locally and reaching out to youth at an age where I had no role models." |
Jenna says that her goth-inspired drag persona is "very much focused on deeper dark emotions." |
"[It's] a cathartic way for me to find empowerment in negative experiences in my life," she says. "I think a unique aspect of my drag is that I prefer to perform darker songs, and much more heavy metal and hard rock than your average pop queen." |
Coming from where Jenna did with her family and her church, it was "incredibly disorienting" to essentially start over "with no real sense of purpose." |
"Drag became my purpose and anchor in life, the thing that gets me up every morning and that lingers as my last thoughts before sleep. I feel incredibly blessed to have found something that motivates me so." |
Jenna does not have a day job outside of drag, focusing her life entirely on the art form and its ability to help grow the local Kelowna queer scene and empower her community. That doesn't always make her life easy, but it certainly does make it fulfilling. "Instead of preaching hate and handing out Watchtowers," she s... |
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I was wrong and I do not mind admitting it. My support for the front-running Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was a mistake. Initially, I admired his outspokenness and his record of turning losses into wins. I believed — and still do — that America is lacking strong leadership. But when strength is partne... |
In light of his recent bigoted statements and behaviour, I am amazed that he retains a double-digit lead in polls over his almost as poisonous main rival Ben Carson who wrongly stated a Muslim president would be unconstitutional and compares Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”. |
Each time Mr Trump came out with statements attacking or ridiculing minorities, political commentators used to predict his political demise. Not so today. The more hurtful and outrageous his comments are, the more his popularity with certain sections of the American public grows, which does not bode well for race relat... |
While I fully understand Americans are tired of President Obama’s inability to lead, if Trump gets to the White House they will be jumping from the frying pan into the fire — one that will consume US relations with the Muslim World. |
Bad enough that he has referred to Mexican immigrants as “criminals, drug dealer and rapists”, described African-American youth as having ‘no spirit’ and stereotyped Jews as the ones he wants counting his money, his tongue-lashing is now pivoted towards Muslims, not merely with personal opinions but with a pledge to cl... |
Worse, he has taken to spouting downright lies, proven lies. |
On Saturday, he told a campaign rally that “thousands” of Arab-Americans in New Jersey were cheering as the TwinTowers came down on Sept 11, 2001. |
“There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down,” he said, adding, “I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it but there were people cheering as that building came down.” Ben Cars... |
However, there is something the US media has chosen to bury. The only Middle Eastern looking people known to have been high-fiving on that terrible day were five Israelis working for a removal company, as reported at the time by ABC News and Fox News. Their celebratory behaviour attracted the attention of a woman who c... |
ABC quoted their lawyer Stephen Gordon admitting his clients’ actions might arouse suspicions. “You got a group of guys that are taking pictures on top of a roof …They’re speaking in a foreign language. They got two passports on them. One’s got a wad of cash on him, and they got box cutters. Now that’s a scary situatio... |
When it comes to accepting Syrian refugees — mostly women with children, the elderly and orphans — Trump does not have an ounce of compassion. They are a “Trojan Horse” he says and if he wins, he would send them all back or make them carry special ID cards. If there was a competition among Republicans for vindictivenes... |
What is going on here! Chris Christie is the grandson of Sicilian and German immigrants. Donald Trump’s mother was an immigrant from Scotland, his paternal grandfather was German. Marco Rubio, who has called for all places where Muslims gather, including cafes and diners, to be shut down is the son of a Cuban hotel mai... |
It is worth remembering the last time refugees fleeing war and genocide were turned back which remains a deep scar on America’s much-touted values. In 1939, the ‘SS St. Louis’, a cruise liner carrying Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust hoping for a new life was barred from Cuba and was subsequently prevented from d... |
The word ‘Conservative’ is now being equated to ‘Callous’ when in essence the Conservative movement was thought of as one that holds to universal principles in which racism, discrimination and the stereotyping of whole communities play no part. It is an uphill task trying to find a good guy among the entire Republican ... |
Trump should have crossed everyone’s red line when he supported a group of his fans who kicked, choked and punched an African-American heckler during a rally calling the victim and his companions “monkeys”. “Get him out of here,” Trump yelled again and again. “Maybe he should have been roughed-up …” he said. |
Hillary Clinton warns that “slamming the doors on refugees isn’t who we are,” and stressed that “We are not at war with Islam, but with extremists”. She is tough in the right way. She is experienced and, most importantly, she is one of the few in this race who sounds remotely sane. She is the one I will be rooting for ... |
It may sound like a plot from "The Twilight Zone," but a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa says she can voluntarily enter an out-of-body experience. This was a lucky break for scientists, who were able to scan her brain during the episode. |
Usually out-of-body experiences are a part of, say, a near-death experience. A patient may float above their own body as surgeons work on them. These experiences are usually attributed to the drugs in a patient's system, or the hormones released into their system by trauma. |
The study — which only involved this one person — was published Feb. 10 in the journal Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, a peer-reviewed open access publication. The researchers are members of the School Of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. |
According to the paper, this woman enters her out-of-body state right before sleeping, visualizing herself from above. She started doing so during naptime in preschool, they write. She currently only does it sometimes. |
I feel myself moving, or, more accurately, can make myself feel as if I am moving. I know perfectly well that I am not actually moving. There is no duality of body and mind when this happens, not really. In fact, I am hyper-sensitive to my body at that point, because I am concentrating so hard on the sensation of movin... |
The researchers did a fMRI before and after asking her to enter her out-of-body state to find out what that looked like in the brain. They compared these to when she was imagining, but not actually entering, the state. |
Interestingly, the pathway that seemed to be activated during her out-of-body experience is also involved in the mental representation of movements. |
Brain regions activated by the out-of-body experience include the supplementary motor area, the cerebellum, the supramarginal gyrus, the inferior temporal gyrus, the middle and superior orbitofrontal gyri. |
Brain regions inhibited by the out-of-body experience include the visual cortex. |
She didn't have any specific emotions surrounding this experience, and it seems to be a kind of hallucination she can turn on at will. |
Even if there is no soul stuck in our bodies, this woman isn't making this up. There's obviously something happening in her brain that is making her experience the world in a different way— but researchers can't yet say exactly what it is. Plus, this study was about one woman's out-of-body experience, not all out-of-bo... |
Still, the changes they observed could be similar to how the brain can be trained using meditation. The researchers even suggested that this could be something many kids can do, but that with practice could be carried into adulthood. |
Interestingly, the researchers suggested that this kind of experience may be much more common than we thought. The woman in question actually "appeared surprised that not everyone could experience this," the researchers wrote. |
They compared it to synesthesia — the condition in which people hear colors or smell sounds — which was thought of as "completely out there" but has become widely accepted in the last few decades. |
A BENDIGO-based engineering company has won a grant to research and develop new technology to replace bare-wire powerlines with the aim of reducing the risk of bushfire. Groundline Australia, in partnership with United Energy, Swinburne University and Amokabel, has been granted $291,000 under the state government’s Pow... |
A BENDIGO-based engineering company has won a grant to research and develop new technology to replace bare-wire powerlines with the aim of reducing the risk of bushfire. |
Groundline Australia, in partnership with United Energy, Swinburne University and Amokabel, has been granted $291,000 under the state government’s Powerline Bushfire Safety Program for the project. |
The project will see engineers develop, test and install experimental spans of covered conductors as alternatives for existing bare overhead conductors on single wire earth return and high voltage lines. |
“As a Victorian company with a strong focus on research and innovation, we searched the world for the latest innovation and technology in bushfire prevention for the electricity industry,” Groundline Australia director Ian Flatley said. |
Groundline Australia said the grant had the potential to create new jobs in Victoria and were the project successful in finding a safer viable technology, would ultimately lead to the creation of more new jobs. |
There is about 90,000 kilometres of mostly bare-wire, high voltage electrical lines across Victoria to which this innovation could potentially be applied. |
An airline has announced a massive recruitment drive which will bring 200 new jobs to Newcastle Airport - including more than 100 cabin crew positions. |
Jet2 and Jet2holidays is looking to recruit 'passionate and talented' individuals to fill over 100 cabin crew roles and more than 75 ground operations positions at Newcastle Airport, in addition to vacancies in flight deck roles. |
A recruitment roadshow will take place at Novotel Newcastle Airport on Wednesday September 19, giving jobseekers the opportunity to meet with Jet2.com colleagues and find out about all these roles. |
The announcement of more than 3,000 new jobs across the UK and Europe comes as the award-winning airline and tour operator continues its growth strategy, on the back of a bumper Summer 2018. |
After its biggest ever programme of flights and holidays this summer, the company will increase capacity at Newcastle Airport by another 6% in Summer ‘19, with over 930,000 seats on sale. |
This programme will see Jet2.com and Jet2holidays launch two brand new destinations from Newcastle Airport - Bourgas in Bulgaria and Izmir in Turkey. |
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays said: “This is our biggest ever recruitment drive at Newcastle Airport, and once again demonstrates our commitment to investing in our customers and in people’s careers. |
In total, more than 3,000 jobs are up for grabs across the UK and Europe in a variety of positions to support the company’s growth. |
These positions for Summer 2019 will be advertised from this month. To see all the jobs available click here. |
In their final hurrah at school students at Hastings Secondary College Westport campus participated in a day of fun activities on September 11. From faculty lead stalls to a student teach dance off and colour run the class of 2018 went out with a colour bang, said class teacher Tammy Frater. “Today is all about celebra... |
In their final hurrah at school students at Hastings Secondary College Westport campus participated in a day of fun activities on September 11. |
From faculty lead stalls to a student teach dance off and colour run the class of 2018 went out with a colour bang, said class teacher Tammy Frater. |
“Today is all about celebrating the students and all their achievements up until this point and for the school get behind them and farewell them from the school,” Ms Frater said. |
“Splendour out of Class is a chance for the whole school to come together and bond as a single group and say goodbye to the leaders of our school. |
Students Brittany Chandler and Theodore Howard said they were excited for the fun day. |
“I guess for us it is our ‘muck up’ day so to speak as we aren’t allowed to have one,” Brittany said. |
“We had a silent disco and dance battle with the teachers – which we won – and now the colour run should be great,” Theodore said. |
Discuss "Colour fun marks the end of year 12 for students" |
You Must Read This: Patrick O'Brian's 'Master And Commander' Napoleonic Wars? The Royal Navy? Yawn. Novelist Nicola Griffith had low expectations when she started reading Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. But soon she was tearing through the 20-volume series, reveling in the deeply rendered friendship between the... |
In the autumn of 1995, the editor of an academic journal (we'll call him Dave) recommended a book. |
"It's set during the Napoleonic Wars — " |
"No, listen. It's about the friendship of Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy — " |
" — and Dr. Stephen Maturin, his ship's surgeon, who's also a naturalist and secret agent. It sounds unlikely, I know, but just trust me. You'll love it." |
Napoleonic naval fiction, pah! The man was on crack. But he recommended it again a week or two later. And then again, this time dragging Ursula Le Guin into it: "She loves it, too!" |
Fine. I surrendered. But I began Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander knowing I would hate it. |
Instead, I was smitten — I read all 412 pages in one sitting. |
I was living in the 19th-century navy, thinking like Stephen, or sometimes Jack; using their vocabulary, adopting their sense of humor, feeling their joys and disappointments. Their world became a part of me so hard, so fast, that when I reached the end I was bereft. |
The next day I was so pitiful that my wife, Kelley — who, when she had seen me falling into the book, had sneaked out unnoticed and bought the next three in the sequence as Christmas presents — gave me the next one. I read it in a few hours and pleaded — it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say begged — for more. She gave... |
By mid-January I'd read all 15 paperbacks. And then I broke all my rules, and our budget, and bought the just-published 16th in hardcover. It's some of the best money I've ever spent. |
In case I haven't been clear: I love these books, all 20 volumes. Each is a chapter in a single, flowing narrative. The first 13 are, in my opinion, without parallel: the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel, the just-a-hair-off-center reality of a Michael Gruber adventure and the same rootedness in, and lov... |
Lots of reviewers have compared O'Brian to his fellow naval novelist C.S. Forester, but that's nonsense. This is Jane Austen on a ship of war, with the humanity, joy and pathos of Shakespeare — and brilliantly written. I have read them perhaps 20 times. I will read them many more. |
A native of Yorkshire, England, Nicola Griffith was a self-defense instructor until a multiple sclerosis diagnosis led her to a career in writing. Her most recent novel is Hild. |
The shining center of these books is the friendship between Jack and Stephen. They are opposites: extroverted, one-of-the-lads Jack and introverted, shrewish Stephen. Jack is a fool on land but brilliant at sea; Stephen is an idiot child at sea, while on land he is a subtle and dangerous spy, natural scientist and poly... |
I can't wait to introduce others to Patrick O'Brian's erudition, perfect balance of exuberance and restraint, and unerring eye for the exact word and the comic detail. I delight in the thought of you experiencing O'Brian's gifts for the first time — above all, his ability to delineate changes in the friendship between ... |
In these books every reader who loves fiction both intellectually and viscerally will find something to treasure — and every writer something to envy. They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. |
If the phrase "Napoleonic war fiction" fills you with anticipation, then you don't need me to convince you to read O'Brian. But for the rest of you, my fellow Horatio Hornblower-haters: Ignore the jacket copy on Master and Commander. Forget it. And please, just trust me. |
Kobe Bryant’s announcement that he will retire at the end of the season probably didn’t come as much surprise to basketball fans. |
But Bryant’s statement on Sunday night — published in the form of a poem– confirmed that The Players’ Tribune has become the go-to media outlet for an athlete looking to make news. |
The site, which was launched by former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter last year, provides a platform for athletes to go around sportswriters and publish their own first-person essays. |
Bryant’s poetry crashed the site Sunday night and was the latest in an impressive number of scoops racked up by the Players’ Tribune in the year since it launched. |
Tiger Woods wrote an essay last November lashing out at a Golf Digest columnist who had mocked him. NBA star Kevin Love announced on the site over the summer that he was re-signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And in an essay published on the Players’ Tribune in September, New York Mets ace Matt Harvey quashed specula... |
The Players’ Tribune has distribution partnerships with AOL, and it secured $9.5 million in its first round of venture capital funding earlier this year. According to Comscore, the site’s monthly audience has grown to more than 1 million visitors since its “soft launch” in October 2014. |
That’s modest traffic, but the numbers belie the site’s capacity for the viral moment, as demonstrated by the reactions to Bryant’s prose and Love’s announcment in July. |
Each of those pieces contained on-the-record statements that any journalist would have loved to have reported, underscoring the mission of the Players Tribune. |
Although Jeter said he isn’t trying to “eliminate the media,” his site has already provided competition for scoop-hungry sports reporters. |
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