Humanity
Sri Lankan Dances
Sri Lanka is famous for its various classical and traditional dance traditions, which are brought to life by colorful costumes and rhythmic music. Looking back, the concept of Sri Lankan dance may be traced all the way back to the 4th century BCE. The fundamental goal of these Sri Lankan dances was to ward off natural disasters and illness.
By Sandali Tharuka4 years ago in Pride
The Social Construction Of Gender And Gender Roles
Adhering to the ascribed roles of society, humanity tends to protect, nurture, and propagate gender-based identities, believing them to be inherent and biological in their nature. However, all it takes is for one to raise the question, the question of how society ascribes certain roles to an individual. The answer to such a question unravels layers of the discursive phenomenon that collectively contribute towards the construction of such specific roles. Exploration of the social construction of gender not only enables us to decipher the founding constructs of society and the roles of their members, but it also allows us to deeply comprehend how such phenomenon influences a person’s behaviour, thinking patterns, or at large freedom of a person.
By Syed Zain Ali Gardezi4 years ago in Pride
Craig Puranen Wilson
I am updating this to include it in the Vocal Home Town Heroes Challenge. and the Represnted Challenge. Craig was an amazing person who brought so many people together, encouraged and helped people who need it, and is the subject of and upcoming film aimed at promoting a positive, caring image of Newcastle. I have been interviewed for the film, and will possibly be performing a song I wrote unspired by Craig / Sheena when we lost him/her. The challenge is sponsored by The Mentor Group.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Pride
The Truth, On National Coming Out Day.
I have known I was a lesbian since I was about ten, and it scared me to death. Well, I say that, but it was more that I knew I was interested in women, not men, but didn’t know what that really meant since I was about ten. More on why that was in a second.
By Jennifer Juan4 years ago in Pride
A Re-introduction
Hello, one and all. As rapper LL Cool J coined the phrase: "don't call it a comeback; I've been here for years." For years, this gay, scary-looking bear was blogging regularly on this platform. His passion and forte was writing about movies and compiling music lists. It was fun, a great time-passer and one would hope, a gateway to a great, lucrative career in fiction and film writing.
By Carlos Gonzalez4 years ago in Pride
Who am I to Call to Arms no more
Who am I? Am I the one who wears his heart on his sleeve or the one who connects with people too easily. Am I too damaged to be loved or a hopeless romantic that love so deeply that people are afraid to go so far? Am I really funny or do I laugh at my insecurities and uncomfortable situations? Am I really so negative or do I have a hard time showing my true colors due to the numbness I feel from the shame and rejection that’s been built on me. Am I really a demisexual or do I find it difficult to be truly intimate and connect with potential future partners.
By The Kind Quill4 years ago in Pride
An August Memory
The air was warm and wet. Lindsay felt like she could dissolve into it, baking and melting in the sun. When she first laid down in the grass it provided some cooling comfort, but as the heat from her body bled into the earth, the ground became just as warm as the air above it. A bead of sweat formed along her hairline and plummeted down her temple, getting caught in the folds of her ear. She pressed her palm to the ear, trying to disperse the droplet and ease the instant irritation it brought her.
By Natalie McC4 years ago in Pride
The Curious Case Of Queer Parenting In India
The Internet defines a parent as someone that begets or brings forth offspring. From birth parents, to foster parents, to single parents to gay parents interestingly for raising kids - they are all in the same boat. As a child's caregiver, all parents have the same problems, same experiences and same love to share. 27 emoticons come in the phone’s keyboard when you type the word “a mother or a father or a parent”. Our virtual graphical world includes no bars in parenting. But the situation is not so sweet in the real world. LGBT parenting refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people bringing up one or more children as parents or foster care parents. This includes children raised by same-sex couples (same-sex parenting), children raised by single LGBT parents, and children raised by an opposite-sex couple where at least one partner is LGBT. Though LGBT people can become parents through adoption, foster care, donor insemination, reciprocal IVF, and surrogacy. But unfortunately, even today LGBT parents struggle to get equal respect in society. Where 48% of LGBT women are raising a child in the United States, the inclusiveness in states of India looks like a long-lost road.
By Aditi Khandelwal4 years ago in Pride
The Thin Ice
They were all silent and uneasy, Alex noted, not just him. The coarse wind blew across Schuler’s Pond, wafting the light dust of white across the icy surface. The cattails and reeds poked through the ice and stood tall, even in this time of year when the frozen surface was at its most solid. Normally the air would be filled with the clapping of sticks on the ice and the sharp cutting of skates scraping across the hard, cold surface, along with the boisterous cacophony of jests thrown about among the boys.
By Michael France4 years ago in Pride
WHO BEARS THE YOKE?
As he fled from [her] kitchen into [his] study, the door had banged shut behind him (like a rifle sounding a final, fatal warning shot). Escape then was the wiser choice (it was the only choice). Nearly two hours had passed since his return from Drax Doughan & Associates (DD&A) headquarters (which had deep roots in the commercial banking legacies of its two industrial age forebears, who had earned hundreds of thousands then in the San Francisco, California gold rush, but had formed in the latter half of 70s to largely sponsor penny stock and underwrite junk bonds). Although it had earned a hefty sum from the more clandestine negotiations, with forays into insider trading, dark pool investing, and high frequency trading, behind closed war/board rooms, DD&A had ascended to its present, notoriety, the envious upset that had disrupted the industry of investment banking, staking its claims to such heights on the often overlooked high yield, low investment grade bonds. He had curried the favor of a second-generation senior partner, with whom he had developed an easier, almost unprofessional, rapport. Even in either of their offices with a closed, locked door on an empty office floor in the evening hours, he would often lean into their discussions, as if he would then share some salacious gossip and/or more intimate exploit (always with a hint of sordid at least in the undertones) when discussing his growing book of business, which Sr. Partner had intended to transfer at his having achieved a few milestones.
By James Royer4 years ago in Pride
