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"Several times over the last week or so, my beloved has walked into the living room and said, “Damn it, I really wish we had tissues down here.” Now, keep in mind, there is a bathroom on that first floor with rolls and rolls of toilet paper in it, but apparently my husband is the Queen of England, and using t.p. to blow your nose is an activity worthy of serfs. His comments led me to conclude that we were out of tissues altogether. That was until I checked the bathroom closet in Rand’s office. I found boxes and boxes of them, as though I’d been stockpiling tissues in anticipation of harsh rationing during some inevitable future Kleenex War. There were just sitting there. IN HIS OFFICE. I grabbed one of the many tissue boxes in the cabinet, intending to bring it downstairs. But I just couldn’t bring myself to do it, because if I did, how on earth would Rand know how upset I was? I can’t just tell him how I feel. This isn’t France." - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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Snakes on a bus spark investigation in China: report - Yahoo News UK (https://uk.news.yahoo.com... https://s.yimg.com/bt/api... )

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"Police in China are investigating after 15 boxes filled with live snakes were found on a bus, state media reported on Saturday. The snakes were packed alongside containers holding toads and rats in the luggage compartment of a coach in central China's Hubei province, the official Xinhua news agency said. Many of the vehicle's 53 passengers were "terrified" and ran away when the animals were discovered, 200 km into the coach's journey, it added. Xinhua said transportation of live animals must be approved by Chinese transport and quarantine authorities, adding that the driver of the coach failed to show police certificates granting permission. An investigation is underway, the news agency said." - JustDuckie - -

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Two Jesuit priests honored for their service to Taiwan - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Two Jesuit priests on Monday received Plum Blossom Cards from the National Immigration Agency, giving them permanent resident status in recognition of their selfless love and devotion to the country over the past decade. The two priests — Barry Martinson from the US and Yves Nalet from France — have worked for many years in the mountainous areas of Hsinchu County. While residents of Jianshih (尖石) and Wufong (五峰) townships do not have much materially, their faith has become a source of strength, and many who grew up going to church in the villages said they have been deeply influenced by the priests. “They have not only brought religion, but strength, which allows you to believe that love changes everything,” one parishioner said. Martinson, from California, came to work with the Chingchuan tribe (清泉部落) in Wufong more than four decades ago. Alone with no friends, Martinson said he “wanted to leave and go back to my hometown.” He called his mother for advice and she encouraged him to stay on for at least a year, which has now turned into 41 years." - JustDuckie - -

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"Manul cats are a near-threatened wild species found in the grasslands and montane steppes of Central Asia. More commonly known as Pallas' cats, they are distinguished by having round pupils, short legs, and a flat-looking face with wide-set ears that can create some of the funniest expressions in the feline kingdom. The Pallas' cats high-elevation habitat of up to 5,000m (more than 16,000ft) results in a weakened immune system from lack of exposure to viral infections. For this reason, survival rates are low in captivity, and new litters see a mortality rate of up to 44.9%. Although these fun photos make the Pallas' cat seem like an interesting pet with an expressive face, their solitary and wild nature, as well as their high mortality rate at low altitudes, restricts them primarily to professional zoos." - JustDuckie - -

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Ex-convict carves out food art career - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A former convict carved out a career path by teaching himself the art of food sculpture, winning a silver medal in an international culinary competition and volunteering to help juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. Hsu Fu-chuan (許榑荃), 36, said he had committed several criminal offenses and served some time in prison when he was young and impetuous, but the sight of his family fretting over his future made the rebellious young man mend his ways. He turned to the food industry with his family’s support and became interested in food sculpture." - JustDuckie - -

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Let it go to peer review: discussion of Frozen is academic at Symfrozium | Film | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/stati... )

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"This is Symfrozium, the world’s first academic conference devoted to Disney’s record-breaking 2013 animation. There have been similar events dedicated to film franchises such as Harry Potter or companies such as Marvel, but nobody here can recall one focused on a single movie, and certainly not one that has been previewed by BBC Radio 1 and pre-emptively criticised by the Sun and the Daily Mail. The conference filled up well in advance and attracted enough submissions to fill another day or two. “I’ve been really surprised by the attention,” says Samantha Langsdale, who teaches the study of religions at Soas, University of London. “I have no idea why so many newspapers want to cover this, because academic conferences about popular media happen all the time. So why this?”" - JustDuckie - -

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"MEN often face pressure to measure up as alpha males, to “wolf up” as it were. Alpha male connotes the man who at every moment demonstrates that he’s in total control in the home, and who away from home can become snarling and aggressive. This alpha male stereotype comes from a misunderstanding of the real thing. In fact, the male wolf is an exemplary male role model. By observing wolves in free-living packs in Yellowstone National Park, I’ve seen that the leadership of the ranking male is not forced, not domineering and not aggressive to those on his team. “The main characteristic of an alpha male wolf,” the veteran wolf researcher Rick McIntyre told me as we were watching gray wolves, “is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you need to do; you know what’s best for your pack. You lead by example. You’re very comfortable with that. You have a calming effect.” The point is, alpha males are not aggressive. They don’t need to be. “Think of an emotionally secure man, or a great champion. Whatever he needed to prove is already proven,” he said." - JustDuckie - -

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"To give you an idea of the waking nightmare that is my life, I’d like to walk you through today’s Paleo abomination, in which I endeavored to make something called “carrot cake cookies” – a name which is at best a misnomer, and at worst a cruel mockery. The recipe describes them as “savory cookies” which is something that, if your blood sugar is low enough, you can almost pretend is a real thing. But it’s not. Savory cookies do not exist. There are real, honest-to-god cookies, which are filled with sugar and flour and all sorts of wonderful things that some random hot guy said I can’t eat. And then there are crumbly pucks of carrot and nut that are held together by the indelible resilience of failure and good intentions. I ate three in a matter of seconds. And you know what? They weren’t bad … though they were seasoned by a bit of forbidden honey and the salt of my own tears." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Parking machine calls French mayor a b**tard - The Local (http://www.thelocal.fr/20... https://pbs.twimg.com/med... )

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"Indeed, an estimated 500 tickets were issued to drivers bearing the usual date and time of arrival at the car park, along with an extra message at the bottom that read: "Copé is a bastard, thieving mayor". Copé has now lodged a formal legal complaint concerning the machine in question to authorities. " - JustDuckie - -

" One employee of the ticketing company told French newspaper Le Parisien that it must have been a fellow member of staff - as accessing the system required a log in, username, and a password. Authorities, however, haven't ruled out that a hacker could be behind the attack and have launched an investigation." - JustDuckie - -

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"As cute and fun as it is to watch Rylai (who’s 2 months old), one of the best things about this story is about how much sensible advice Rylai’s owner has for anyone else interested in owning a fox or any other exotic pet. Read on for more info!" - JustDuckie - -

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"MEN often face pressure to measure up as alpha males, to “wolf up” as it were. Alpha male connotes the man who at every moment demonstrates that he’s in total control in the home, and who away from home can become snarling and aggressive. This alpha male stereotype comes from a misunderstanding of the real thing. In fact, the male wolf is an exemplary male role model. By observing wolves in free-living packs in Yellowstone National Park, I’ve seen that the leadership of the ranking male is not forced, not domineering and not aggressive to those on his team. “The main characteristic of an alpha male wolf,” the veteran wolf researcher Rick McIntyre told me as we were watching gray wolves, “is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you need to do; you know what’s best for your pack. You lead by example. You’re very comfortable with that. You have a calming effect.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Florida man calls 911 to brag about muscles, hits on dispatcher - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://www.clickorlando.c... )

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"A 44-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly called 911 to brag about his big muscles and ask the dispatcher on a date, police said. Eduardo "Edward " Garcia was camping at Lake Griffin State Park in Fruitland Park, Fla., about 50 miles north of Orlando, when he called 911 to report a harassing phone call he received, police said. While on the phone, he asked the female dispatcher if she was single and told her he had big muscles. He called back twice more after the dispatcher hung up on him. " - JustDuckie - -

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ClickHole writers explain their craft: How the Onion’s Internet parody spinoff became the best thing online. (http://www.slate.com/arti... https://pbs.twimg.com/med... )

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"On a warm day at the end of March, the writers and editors of ClickHole assembled in a sunny conference room for a headlines meeting. (I could describe the conference room, but instead will direct you to the ClickHole story “6 Tips for Throwing the Perfect Boardroom Tantrum,” which, thriftily, was photographed in that very space.) The first order of business was to grapple with whether a comedy site should even observe April Fools’ Day. There was general dismay around the table at the thought of the lame April Fools’ pranks other websites would pull the next day. “God, they’re so self-aware, and then everyone Likes them,” moaned Jamie Brew, the site’s associate editor. “Should we tweet a photo of Chris Webber that says ‘Teach the Controversy’ on it?” “I like the Christmas idea,” someone said, referring to an agreeably daffy April Fools’ pitch on the last page of the printed ideas memo the writers were reviewing—a shareable image of a Christmas tree and the words Today is Christmas. Share if you agree! “Well,” chuffed writer Cullen Crawford, italics deeply embedded in his tone: “April Fools’ is Christmas to pranksters like us.” He turned to look at me, as did everyone else at the conference table. “Can you write that I was wearing sunglasses when I said that?”" - JustDuckie - -

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"Indeed, a site launched as a parody of BuzzFeed now has a more complicated and fascinating relationship to the social Web than BuzzFeed does. Somehow the exact market forces that make me and much of the rest of media rend our garments and bite our nails have created in the wilds of Chicago the exact thing we mourn, or at least anticipate mourning: perfectly packaged, finely tuned editorial brilliance. Reading ClickHole no longer feels like reading a parody of BuzzFeed, or Slate, or Upworthy, or ViralNova. It doesn’t feel like a parody at all. Reading one ClickHole piece feels like reading your Facebook feed for an hour. ClickHole is the ultrapure product of a refinery at the end of that Keystone pipeline of crap shared by your uncle, by your pushy co-worker, by that guy you went to high school with. To read ClickHole is to read the institutional voice of the Internet. No one is responsible for the place we all live now. It just appeared. We are all, every one of us, only here to make sure it goes viral." - JustDuckie - -

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At CatCon, Breaking a Stereotype in Ears and Whiskers - NYTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"They arrived wearing whiskers and ears. They purred over new litter fragrances, and pawed through the cat clothes. Hissing? Well, the line was long for that keynote speech: “Photographing Cats — It Looks Easy, but It’s Not.” Debunking the cat lady myth, it turns out, is easier said than done. This was the first CatCon, billed as a celebration of the stylish side of cat fancying. More than 10,000 people crowded into a downtown convention hall here over the weekend to shop for cat-centric merchandise (for people, mostly), have their pictures taken with celebrity Internet cats (such as Lil Bub, famous for her dwarfism), and attend cat-focused panels and speeches (“Goodbye Dowdy, Hello Gorgeous: Debunking the Cat Lady Myth”). There were also “caticure” stations, where Aveda technicians gave visitors manicures and decorated fingernails with cat stickers." - JustDuckie - -

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"“The problem with cat birthdays is that you never really know who the guest of honor is, so I just love this,” said Jeanne Boukidis, a browsing attendee. Ms. Boukidis said she sometimes puts clothes on her cats, Jazzy and Harvey. “It’s kind of like a living Build-A-Bear,” she added, referring to the personalized teddy bear shops. “I might be back for that party hat,” she shouted over her shoulder. Like Ms. Boukidis, a lot of visitors did not seem particularly worried if they came across as cat ladies, crazy or otherwise. “I wear my crazy cat lady badge proudly,” said Pat Preston, who flew in from Fredericksburg, Va., to attend the event. Ms. Preston did not have an actual badge. But she was wearing novelty cat glasses complete with ears and dangling plastic whiskers. Any Los Angeles event worth its salt has celebrities. So Mayim Bialik, the actress known for “The Big Bang Theory” and “Blossom,” was on hand on Saturday to encourage cat adoption through PetSmart Charities. She had read her CatCon script. “This event is a great opportunity to change the face of the crazy cat lady,” Ms. Bialik said. “It’s still one of those stereotypes that needs to be demolished. We’ve come a long way, but we have a long way to go.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Man attempts to sell live shark outside Fort Lauderdale Publix - WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco (http://www.wsvn.com/story... http://wsvn.images.worldn... )

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"A South Florida man had plans to turn a catch into cash, as he attempted to sell a live shark outside a Publix Thursday evening. Shoppers outside a Publix Supermarket on 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale said a man hauled in the five-foot nurse shark, dropped it on the sidewalk and tried to sell it. Friday evening, 7News caught up to Patrick Lanier, the man who tried to sell the live shark, and he said he reeled in the marine predator on the Intracoastal Waterway. "I felt like a leprechaun, like I struck gold," he said. Lanier said he was hoping to make about $100 from selling the shark, but no one seemed interested. "On top of it, it's not on ice. It's just sitting there on the concrete," said Publix shopper James Douglas. "Who's going to buy something like that? I'm just saying, it's like worthless. It's like saying, 'This animal's worthless. You can buy it if you want.'"" - JustDuckie - -

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Minnie Mouse, Hello Kitty Arrested in Another Times Square Mascot Brawl (http://gawker.com/minnie-... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"Two of Times Square’s notorious costumed mascots have been charged with assault after a cat (and mouse) fight broke out Thursday afternoon between two women playing Minnie Mouse and Hello Kitty. " - JustDuckie - -

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Stamford Man Calls 911 To Report Aggressive Cat Won’t Let Him In Home « CBS New York (http://newyork.cbslocal.c... )

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"Mohammed Lokman made the call at around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to say he could not get into his Shippan Avenue home because his nearly 8-pound cat was being too aggressive. “I have a problem in my home,” Lokman told 911. “I cannot go inside my home.”" - JustDuckie - -

"Lokman said the cat had a kitten the night before and said she was acting fine until late morning. He said it wasn’t until he came in from outside and changed his clothes that the cat tried to attack him. He then locked the cat in another room, but it attacked again. “We cannot move. We cannot do anything. It’s so aggressive and so mean,” said Lokman. Lokman said he and his wife were sitting in their car in a parking lot because they could not get into their home. The somewhat confused 911 operator asked the make of his car and then said she’d send the police. They were advised to stay away from the cat for the rest of the night. The couple was eventually able to get back into their home." - JustDuckie - -

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(Florida) Man dances on car roof to save kids from vampires - NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.co... http://assets.nydailynews... )

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"Radecki told the responding officers that he went to the home because “when he opened his front door, a woman with fangs was threatening him, and that a human sacrifice was about to occur involving vampires,” WPTV reported. “Therefore, Radecki made the conscious decision to get the Sheriff of Nottingham to help him stop the slaughter of small children," the police stated in their report." - JustDuckie - -

"He told police he had not been drinking or taking drugs, and he has not been diagnosed with any mental illness, the station reported. Radecki was taken to Cape Coral Hospital and medically cleared to be transferred to the county jail." - JustDuckie - -

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USA Freedom Act: Before Snowden, librarians were the anti-surveillance heroes. (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Specifically, the section of the Patriot Act that expired is Section 215, which is commonly nicknamed the “library-records provision” because it called on librarians to hand over patron reading and computer records when requested by law enforcement under a Section 215 request. The law further paired government requests for information with gag orders, so if librarians were asked to hand over patron data, they legally weren't allowed to alert anyone. Librarians didn't take this lightly. For more than a decade, the community has stood in opposition to the Patriot Act, with the Section 215 provision at the top of its list of complaints. The community claimed that intellectual freedom and the right to research could be preserved only if patron privacy was respected. Section 215’s sunset does not mean that the NSA doesn't have an arsenal of other options for secretly retrieving peoples' personal details without a warrant, nor does it mean that the surveillance powers stripped from the Patriot Act can never again be reinstated. But it does mark an occasion to look back at the wave of anti-surveillance activism against this one notorious law. Before there was Snowden, there were librarians." - JustDuckie - -

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Police: DUI suspect showed up drunk to be fingerprinted - Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/pol... )

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"Police say a Pennsylvania man showed up drunk to be fingerprinted for a previous drunken driving charge and earned himself another one in the process." - JustDuckie - -

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Drunk Hedgehog Removed From Street In Holland - WeHaveNoTopic (http://wehavenotopic.com/... http://wehavenotopic.com/... )

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"The animal ambulance in the city of Arnhem in The Netherlands removed a drunk hedgehog from the streets. It found a smashed bottle of liquor and got intoxicated. A local found the animal with the liquor and called the animal ambulance. The hedgehog was no longer capable of anything and couldn’t even defend itself anymore. The animal ambulance took him with them to sober up and to be medically examined. “He will need a few days off rest” explains Toon Lesterade of the shelter. “Animals aren’t much different from humans, when we drink too much we also have a bad day.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Inmates become street artists to begin a new life - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Fifty-two Hsinchu Prison inmates on Saturday last week received street artist permits from the Ministry of Justice’s Agency of Corrections — part of a government program to help inmates make the transition back into society and start a new life, agency Director Wu Man-ying (巫滿盈) said. Street performances allow inmates or former inmates tare in direct contact with the community and the agency hopes this contact will motivate inmates or former inmates to integrate with society, Hsinchu Prison Warden Huang Chun-tang (黃俊棠) said." - JustDuckie - -

"One inmate, surnamed Tsai (蔡), was moved to tears when he received his permit, saying he had never thought he would be able to bring joy to those whom he had intimidated, robbed and mugged. Another inmate, surnamed Kao (高), who is serving a 10-and-a-half-year sentence for selling custom modified guns during his youth, said he felt nothing but despair when he started serving his sentence. Kao said he read a magazine article on aluminum sculpting, and it piqued his interest. With encouragement from the prison wardens and his parents, he had — along with other interested inmates — started an aluminum-sculpting workshop in prison." - JustDuckie - -

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Store’s offerings provide for the living — and dead - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A newly opened convenience store at a public funeral parlor in Keelung is the first of its kind in the city, offering a variety of products that one does not usually find in convenience stores and where standard greetings and farewells are taboo. Well-stocked with food, household goods and other everyday items, the store at the Keelung Mortuary Services Office looks just like any normal convenience store, the Chinese-language United Daily News reported on Sunday. “We have everything a convenience store would have, just on a smaller scale,” the proprietor, surnamed Kuo (郭), was quoted as saying." - JustDuckie - -

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"Saying that many customers have asked her if she fears the patronage of “ghost customers,” Kuo said she does not think about it. However, there is one taboo that Kuo observes: She does not welcome customers with the traditional greetings that other stores do, acknowledging their presence with a cordial nod, as she does not want to disturb them during their time of grief. Neither does she tell them to come again, as she does not wish them to revisit the shop and the funeral parlor, she said." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Sturgeon leaps from Suwannee River, knocks Florida teen unconscious (http://www.baynews9.com/c... )

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"Florida wildlife authorities say a teenager was knocked unconscious by a sturgeon jumping from the Suwannee River. It's the second strike involving that type of fish in two weeks on a north Florida river. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the sturgeon are jumping just as they have for millions of years. Occasionally Florida boaters get in their way." - JustDuckie - -

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Beside the Pointe: Queering Ballet - The Hairpin (http://thehairpin.com/201... http://thehairpin.com/wp-... )

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"I ended up fixating on dance because there’s athleticism and discipline, but also because it extends into a realm of self-expression I’ve never been able to access. Dancers seem so in tune with their bodies, so at ease with the ways they occupy space. I’ve spent hours watching YouTube videos of choreography on repeat, wondering what it must feel like to understand your body well enough to use it as a mode of expression. This sentiment eludes me. I flail around like a newborn giraffe. At the same time, I’ve wondered if some dancers feel a rupture in their physical awareness that’s similar to mine. After all, dancers are asked to push their bodies to an extreme, and sometimes those bodies break. Sometimes there is a distance between what we expect of our bodies and what they can give us. Where does dance make room for queerness? Between the rigid stereotypes about gender and the narrow range of bodies that are deemed acceptable in classical dance, how do queer dancers go back to the barre, day after day, without feeling alienated? " - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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