DOCSLIB.ORG

EASTERN GAZETTE Volume 1, Issue 2 October 2012

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
EASTERN GAZETTE Volume 1, Issue 2 October 2012 THE Jack and Jill of America, Inc., The MIGHTY Eastern Region EASTERN GAZETTE Volume 1, Issue 2 October 2012 INSIDE MYRTLE & ETHYL ADVENTURES: THE LATEST SMALL CHAPTER CHECK-UP MIDDLE SCHOOL: A SCHOLASTIC TUNE-UP CHAPTERS CELEBRATE JACK AND JILL DAY; COMMEMORATE CAROLE ROBERTSON REGIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT: FEEDING THE HUNGRY! See Pg. 10 IINSIDENSIDE TTHISHIS IISSUESSUE 03 From the Regional Director 16 Why do we Need Policies 04 National Executive Board and Procedures Update 16 Share Your Family’s Legacy 05 Our Quest for Perfection in the 75th Commemorative Edition of Up the Hill 06 Officer Webinars: Mark your Calendar! 17 Legislative Updates 06 Membership Matters 18 Oratorical Contest Guidelines 07 Small Chapter Check-Up 20 Chapter Programming 08 Programming with Power Around the Eastern Region & Potential 36 Teen Hang Suite 10 Foundation MAL-Functions 44 Calendar 11 Associates: Navigating your New Status DEADLINE FOR NOVEMBER ISSUE: OCTOBER 31! 12 Father’s Auxiliary Each chapter is invited to submit up to two 12 Protocol Matters articles: one for Chapter Programming and one 13 Teen Advisors: Get ‘Teen Hang Suite’ article. Each article should Certified! be no more than 250 words, and photos are limited to two per article. Submission should 15 Middle School: A be sent to Regional Editor Paulette Walker Scholastic Tune-Up Campbell, [email protected]. EASTERN REGIONAL OFFICERS ELECTED Program Chair Sergeant-at-Arms ShawnDya Simpson Walthour Paula Magnus Regional Director Joi M. Grady Teen Advisor Middle School Advisor Davida Twitty Ingrid Bentil Regional Treasurer Elayna Rucker-Byers Legislative Chair Regional Grievance Chair Mondi Kumbula-Fraser Gena Ashe Regional Secretary Vicki West Nominating Chair Regional Editor Susan Johnson Regional Member-at-Large Paulette Walker Campbell Karen Chaplin Event Planner Community Service Chair Renee Gadson Margaret Gibson APPOINTED Regional Protocol Chair Celebrate 75 Associates Chair Nikki Farrior Danielle Brown Melanie Johnson Regional By-Laws Chair Chaplain Fathers’ Auxiliary Chair Cathy Long Jill Parham Travis Langster Policies and Procedures Chair Membership Chair Lisa Evans-Chapman National Officer Michele Courton-Brown Tammy King Strategic Relevance and Value National Vice President Membership Task Force Chair Chair Debra Henry Juanita Thompson 2 • THE EASTERN GAZETTE FFromrom tthehe RRegionalegional DirectorDirector elcome Fall! October is here, which means that Jack and Jill activities are in full swing. I Whad the opportunity to visit various Jack and Jill Day festivities throughout the region and love the fellowship and promise the day brings for our collec- tive Jack and Jill experience. Your regional team is energized and ready to serve. On September 14-16, I hosted a Regional Retreat where the team reviewed our respective goals for the year, mapped out the agenda for the Cluster Workdays and vetted ideas to enhance your membership experi- ence. I am thrilled to work with such a talented and dedicated group of moms and teens, and of course our Father’s Auxiliary Chair who had to suffer through of all ages. We hope that you will find these activities the day as the only male. After a day of hard work, we an enhancement to your programming. relaxed by going to a dine-in movie theatre to watch Kudos to our Regional Editor Paulette Walker Sparkle (see pictures below). I must have worked some Campbell for taking an idea and making the newslet- members of the team too hard because there was ter into a beautiful reality. The goal was to provide some snoring going on in the movie theatre! you with timely information and an exchange of ideas. Cluster Workdays this year have been enhanced Please do not hesitate to e-mail me with your ideas or to have 18 workshop selections throughout the day suggestions to enhance your membership value. in the areas of Leadership, Membership Recruitment and Retention, Legislative Advocacy, Bylaws, Policies Joi M.Grady and Procedures, New Members Only, Fundraising, 21st Eastern Regional Director Parliamentary Procedures, Grant Applications, Programming, Financial Matters, Advanced QuickBooks Training as well as workshops on Finding Your Passion, Healthy Living, Hair and Hormones to name a few. We will have more networking opportunities so that everyone will leave having made a new friend. Teens and Middle School students will not be disappointed and will benefit from the leadership workshops and module presentations. My favorite part of the day is always the Oratorical Competition and watching the incredible talent and courage of our teens. That alone is worth the registration price. Registered participants will receive a detailed agenda for the day prior to the event. I look forward to reading about all the fruits of your labor in the fabulous programming submissions to the Eastern Region Gazette. I love hearing about program- ming activities that inspire young minds and give our children platforms to practice their talents. Maybe you have envisioned something but you need fresh energy to complete the plan. Cluster Workday will help you, as well as the webinars that are planned throughout the year. In addition, at Cluster, we will introduce region- al programming for Community Service, Legislative Advocacy, and a Mock Legislative Debate for children THE EASTERN GAZETTE • 3 NNationalational EExecutivexecutive BBoardoard UpdateUpdate September 19-22, proposing some exciting ideas and executing the duties of her office. • The National Constitution and Bylaws are on track to be delivered prior to the November 1 deadline. • We’ve ordered new membership cards that feature bar codes, which will make it easier for us to track member attendance at con- ferences. • We have installed five new chapters into the organization, with number six to be installed on November 6. • On October 19, I will be in Atlanta facili- tating a workshop for Vice Presidents and attending a reception for National President Robinson hosted by the Southeastern region. Greetings Eastern Region, • And, I’m especially looking forward to It’s been a busy time for our Jack and Jill October 20, when I’ll be in attendance at families. By now, most of you have attended the Metropolitan Cluster workday. your first chapter meeting, participated in a Carol Lastly, we have many teens in Jack and Jill Robertson program, community service project who are 18 and eligible to vote. Please make sure and children’s group activity. We are off and run- they exercise their right to vote! ning! Long Live Jack and Jill! As your National Vice President I’ve had the Tammy King opportunity to attend Jack and Jill Day at the 25th National Vice President Philadelphia Zoo with more than 700 Jack and Jill’ers! It was truly heartwarming to witness a sea of pink and blue amongst the lively environ- ment that you can only experience at a zoo. Did you know the Philadelphia Zoo was the nations’ first zoo in the United States? Kudos to the Delaware Valley cluster for planning a wonder- ful family event to celebrate Jack and Jill Day and pay homage to Carol Robertson. I also accepted an award —the “Generations Award” — from the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc., on behalf of the nation- al organization. This award was bestowed upon us because of the success of the 2010- 2012 AIM for Healthy Living signature pro- grams. Did you know that the President-Elect of the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc., is a Jack and Jill member? Congratulations Icilma V. Fergus, MD, (who also serves as the President of the Rockland County Chapter) for National Vice Tammy King, and former National this esteemed honor. Treasurer Terri Parker, accept the “Generations Award,” on behalf of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. The National Executive Board has been extremely busy! • National President Tamara Turnley Robinson attended many events during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 42nd annual legislative conference 4 • THE EASTERN GAZETTE OOurur QuestQuest forfor PerfectionPerfection Greetings Eastern Region, made them look just like ‘27-year- his program year, I plan to share old’ legs. And she told Ethel she Twith you spiritual “creative should get a pair too to make her anecdotes” of encouragement to old legs look younger. Ethel replied, apply to your daily lives. It is my “Hmmmph!” prayer that your individual spiritual Both Myrtle and Ethel enjoyed walk and growth may benefit our church service that morning. And Jack and Jill organization. The anec- when service concluded, Myrtle got dotes I plan to share are from the up from her seat and stepped out characters ‘Myrtle and Ethel,’ writ- into the aisle. [You can imagine ten in first–person narratives of life what happened!] Ethel tapped her experiences in which we may iden- good friend Myrtle on the shoul- tify and enjoy. This past September, der and whispered, “Your stockings Regional Director Joi Grady held our that make your legs look so perfect Eastern Regional Officers Retreat have fallen and are now gathered and outward, I encourage you to where she highlighted “It may not around your ankles.” Unnerved meditate daily on the prayer and be perfect, but do the best you and humored by her own atrocity, bible verse provided below! can.” At the retreat, I shared the Myrtle reached down and pulled following ‘Myrtle and Ethel’ anec- her stockings back up over her Dear Heavenly Father, dote on that very topic: eighty-something year old legs. She smiled at her dear friend Ethel, and We thank you for your gra- said, “Oh well, they’re not perfect, ciousness in blessing us with willing As Myrtle was dressing for but I am going to keep on doing the and committed leaders in our orga- church, she was giddy and all best I can to make these old legs nization. With you at the forefront smiles as she reflected back on look perfect!” of our vision and our goals, we yesterday’s visit with her 27-year- can provide our organization with old niece.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Racial Identity
    DEVELOPED BY THE EASTERN REGION Regional Education Committee Jack and Jill of America, Inc. 2016 EASTERN REGIONAL OFFICERS Mondi Kumbula-Fraser, Regional Director Delia Ware-Tibbs, Regional Treasurer Margaret Gibson, Regional Secretary Akira Johnson, Regional Member-at-Large Danielle Brown, National Vice President 2015-2016 EASTERN REGIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE Lisa Brown, Chair Tia McNair Dawn Ray Crystal Barrow JACK AND JILL OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED EASTERN REGION CT • DC • DE • MD • MA • NJ • NY • PA • N.VA October 2016 Dear Eastern Region Families, We are beyond excited to share our very irst Eastern Regional Racial Identity Kit! As someone who was born into a Black neighborhood and moved to a predominantly White suburb when I was just six years old, I experienced irsthand the culture shock that can occur, when our beautiful African American children grow up in an environment where society does not always MONDI KUMBULA-FRASER value our beauty, our intellect, our grace or our talent. As a result, it is Eastern Regional Director imperative that we shore up our children with a strong racial identity, so they [email protected] can embrace their full potential. DELIA WARE-TIBBS Although our children often lived charmed lives and we have an African Eastern Regional Treasurer [email protected] American President in the White House, we also know that society sometimes views us as “different.” While many of our African American children attend MARGARET GIBSON well regarded schools and live in highly desirable neighborhoods, the reality Eastern Regional Secretary is that they usually are the minority in those environments. Self-acceptance is [email protected] key, and our children want to feel conident in the darker hues of their skin, AKIRA BELL JOHNSON the breadth of their noses, the texture of their hair and the shapes of their Eastern Member at Large bodies.
    [Show full text]
  • Extensions of Remarks
    1154 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 27, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS QADHAFI AND TERRORISM: THE Libyan leader Mu'ammar Qadhafi consid­ against Libya, there was a series of attacks DESERT COYOTE CONTINUES ers himself an agent of historical forces. He against US targets that were linked by cir­ HIS BATTLE AGAINST THE is implacably committted to ending US and cumstantial evidence to Libya. Just prior to WEST other Western influence in the Third these attacks, Qadhafi publicly predicted World, to unifying the Arab world, and to that progressives around the world would destroying the state of Israel. He sees Israel, strike US facilities, but later denied any HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD the US, and other Western countries as bar­ Libyan responsibility. OF MICHIGAN riers to his goals. To achieve these ends, The Japanese Red Army <JRA> was re­ Libya has employed threats, terrorism, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sponsible for the April 14, 1988 bombing military aggression. outside a USO club in Naples. The attack­ Friday, January 27, 1989 Since the US airstrikes in 1986 and Libya's claimed under the covername "Organization military defeat in Chad in 1987, however, of Jihad Brigades" and specifically linked to Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I want to many believe Libya has chosen to operate share with my colleagues a disturbing State the US bombing raids of Libya two years through surrogate terrorist groups willing before-killed five people including one US Department factsheet documenting Colonel to strike at Western targets, rather than servicewoman and injured at least 20 per­ Qadhafi's continuing involvement with terror­ become directly involved in terrorism.
    [Show full text]
  • Extensions of Remarks Section
    November 12, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1509 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HONORING MAYOR MARIAN serve so unassumingly and carry on the fine IN MEMORY OF DEPUTY DANNY DELEON GUERRERO TUDELA tradition not only of her predecessor but of the OLIVER mayors of all our islands should serve as an HON. GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO inspiration for women, but more, should serve HON. TOM McCLINTOCK as a model for all people who aspire to serve OF CALIFORNIA SABLAN their communities. OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, November 12, 2014 f Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Mr. SABLAN. Mr. Speaker, June 8, 2014 A TRIBUTE TO BRIGADIER along with Representative AMI BERA, Rep- marked a pivotal moment in the history of the GENERAL JAMES DEREK HILL resentative DORIS MATSUI, and Representative Northern Mariana Islands, when Marian DOUG LAMALFA, in honor of the service and Deleon Guerrero Tudela was sworn in not only HON. TOM LATHAM sacrifice of Sacramento County, California, Sheriff Deputy Danny Oliver. as the first female mayor of Saipan, but the OF IOWA first female mayor of any of our municipalities. Danny Oliver grew up in the Del Paso IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mayor Tudela assumed this position by oper- Heights neighborhood of Sacramento, where ation of law upon the untimely death of Mayor Wednesday, November 12, 2014 he graduated from Grant High School. During his youth, Danny experienced parts of the Donald Glenn Flores. Though residing at the Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to time in the mainland United States, she honor- community that he was determined to im- recognize the retirement of Brigadier General prove.
    [Show full text]
  • January 10,1918
    J Wescott and others asking that the city OBITUARY. The Court. Belfast Water OF THE JOURNAL. City Government. | Supreme Judicial Company. PERSONAL. CONTENTS should assume the expense of $50 per which is the customary charge to year, Forrest A. eldest son of the late Albert M. The letter from the Belfast School Union Conference. of the gov- Dyer, Judge Spear Presiding. following Miss Maude E. Barker left to n.,1Kl The regular meeting city the Grand for heating the Memo- Saturday Government.The Red Army Wm. R. Dyer of Me., died Dec Water Co. has been received by The Jour- City ernment was held last Monday evening Kittery, visit relatives in Bangor. Cross....News of the Granges. rial Hall, inasmuch as the Grand Army The January term of the Waldo County and Aider- 28th at his home, 163 Oxford street, Port- nal with a request that it be published: Obituary... Maxine Elliott Stars with Mayor Hanson presiding have turned that building over to the use Judicial Court closed after a Morris L. Slugg returned Saturday of severe suf- Supreme \ 1918. absent. land, after many months January 8, in First Cinema Play.The man Higgins of the Red Cross Society without charge. short session Friday afternoon, when the from a business trip to Porland. He had an four months The and Supreme Judicial Court.The OF MUNICIPAL OFFICERS. fering. operation Mayor City Councils, IN BOARD Read and passed and prayer granted. divorce case of Beryl Thomas Ludwick Joseph W. Blaisdell returned Red Cross Christmas Drive. ago which it was would benefit Maine.
    [Show full text]
  • Toys & Stories
    Childhood Memories Part One: Toys & Stories History | Health | Happiness Let’s Reminisce: Our Childhoods Every single one of us has unique and special memories of our formative childhood years. This booklet will help remind us of this magical time of adventure, exploration and fun. We will look at Toys, Comic Books, Nursery Rhymes and Schools across generations, because it’s interesting to share and compare our childhood experiences with that of others. You will find a mixture of puzzles throughout the booklet for a bit of fun but also as an opportunity to reflect on the memories that were important to you. We would also love to hear about your own childhood experiences and ask that you email [email protected] with anything you might like to share. Childhood Our own childhood experiences are shaped by factors such as location, education, expectation, responsibility and conflict. For example, the experiences of Roman children were very different from the children born today. Throughout history our experiences of childhood have been shaped by various influences, in classrooms, factory floors, mines, family homes, orphanages, battlefields, in front of television sets and so on. Over the last 200 years we have seen significant transformations that have taken place surrounding children’s lives, in the ways they are thought about, and how they are treated. For example, a hundred years ago, a twelve-year-old working in a factory in Britain would have been perfectly acceptable. Now, it would cause social services' intervention, causing both the parents and factory owner to face charges of exploitation and neglect.
    [Show full text]
  • Children's Books & Illustrated Books
    CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 104 ALEPH - BET BOOKS - TERMS OF SALE Helen and Marc Younger 85 Old Mill River Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576 phone 914-764-7410 fax 914-764-1356 www.alephbet.com Email - [email protected] POSTAGE: UNITED STATES. 1st book $8.00, $2.00 for each additional book. OVERSEAS shipped by air at cost. PAYMENTS: Due with order. Libraries and those known to us will be billed. PHONE orders 9am to 10pm e.s.t. Phone Machine orders are secure. CREDIT CARDS: VISA, Mastercard, American Express. Please provide billing address. RETURNS - Returnable for any reason within 1 week of receipt for refund less shipping costs provided prior notice is received and items are shipped fastest method insured VISITS welcome by appointment. We are 1 hour north of New York City near New Canaan, CT. Our full stock of 8000 collectible and rare books is on view and available. Not all of our stock is on our web site COVER ILLUSTRATION - #405 - Parker manuscript for Funny Bunnies with 14 original watercolors #338 - Make Way for Ducklings in DW #183 - Dulac’s Sindbad the Sailor - Signed / Limited #400 - Outhwaite’s Fairyland Fine in DW and box #374 - Nazi Anti - Semitic Children’s Book #363 - Early Dean Moveable #80 - Outcault’s Pore Lil Mose Pg 3 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] CLARA TICE DOG ALPHABET SIGNED WITH DRAWING 1. ABC. (ART DECO) 5. ABC. (DOGS) ABC DOGS. (NY: Wilfred Funk 1940).
    [Show full text]
  • EBOOK on SLANG ENGLISH DICTIONARY an Initiative By
    EBOOK ON SLANG ENGLISH DICTIONARY An Initiative by www.computerscienceexpertise.com EBOOK ON SLANG ENGLISH DICTIONARY An Initiative by www.computerscienceexpertise.com 1 EBOOK ON SLANG ENGLISH DICTIONARY An Initiative by www.computerscienceexpertise.com PREFACE EBOOK ON ENGLISH SLANG DICTIONARY The contents of the book reveal a thorough usage of English Slang incorporated through the American, British and Australian usage vocabulary. The terms are dealt with in a lucid manner with reference to the perfect understanding for usage at all levels. Happy Slanging. www.computerscienceexpertise.com An Initiative by www.computerscienceexpertise.com [email protected] SEND FEEDBACK AT [email protected] 2 EBOOK ON SLANG ENGLISH DICTIONARY An Initiative by www.computerscienceexpertise.com rupee Aks: To ask. Ammunication Toilet Paper Arbab Afghanistan leader Alan Whickers: Knickers, Anchors Brakes. A Action man : A man who underwear. Ankle-biters Children, participates in macho activities. Aled (up) : Drunk, intoxicated particularly crawling babies. Ace (!) : Excellent, wonderful. by alcohol, usually beer. Anorak An often socially inept Alderman: A man’s pot belly. Ackers : Money. Alkie : An alcoholic. person, having an obsessive Ameche: Telephone Adam and Eve Believe. All mouth and no trousers: interest in a hobby or subject. Ankle: 1. Woman 2. To walk Aerated : Over-excited. Boastful and without just reason. Anti freeze: Alchohol Abdabs :Terror, the frights, Agony aunt : A woman who All-nighter A club night or Antwacky Old fashioned. nerves. provides answers to readers event that goes on all night. Any road Anyway. Also spelt Arvo : afternoon letters in a publication’s agony All over the shop 1. In a mess, anyroad.
    [Show full text]
  • THE EASTERN GAZETTE • JUNE 2014 Nnationalational Oofficer’Sfficer’S Updateupdate
    THE Jack and Jill of America, Inc., The MIGHTY Eastern Region EASTERN GAZETTE Volume 2, Issue 4 June 2014 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Teen Conference Highlights National Convention Protocol Legislative Roundup Chapter Programming Teen Hang Suite EASTERN REGIONAL OFFICERS INSIDE THIS ISSUE 03 From the Regional Director ELECTED Teen Advisor Davida Twitty 04 National Officer Update Regional Director Legislative Chair Joi M. Grady Mondi Kumbula-Fraser 05 Treasurer’s Update Regional Treasurer Conference Planner Elayna Rucker-Byers Fatimah Moody 06 Treats from Your Regional Secretary Regional Secretary Regional Protocol Chair Paula Magnus Margaret Gibson 06 One in Four Reminders Regional Regional By-Laws Chair Member-at-Large Cathy Long 07 Foundation Update Danielle Brown Policies and Procedures 09 Associate’s Corner Nominating Chair Chair Suzanne Walker Lisa Evans-Chapman 09 Father’s Auxiliary National Officer Strategic Relevance and Tammy King Value Chair 10 Protocol Matters National Vice President Juanita Thompson Sergeant-at-Arms 11 Policies and Procedures APPOINTED Tomeka Bumbry Middle School Advisor 12 How Helping Others will Help your Associates Chair Lisa Brown Melanie Johnson Middle Schooler Regional Grievance Chair Fathers’ Auxiliary Chair Gena Ashe 12 Education Committee Travis Langster Regional Editor Membership Chair Paulette Walker Campbell 13 Legislative Update Michele Courton-Brown Community Service Chair 14 Leveraging Technology Membership Task Force Akira Bell Johnson Chair Debra Henry Chaplain 15 Regional Teen Advisor: Farewell, and Jill Parham Program Chair Welcome Nikki Farrior Technology Chair Delia Ware Tibbs 16 Highlights from the 64th Regional Teen Conference 24 Chapter Programming 47 Teen Hang Suite 65 Regional Calendar FFromrom tthehe RRegionalegional DirectorDirector Dear Mothers of the Mighty Eastern Region, Now we are focused on Congratulations on another successful program year, the National Convention in and thank you.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Childhood and the Mediatization of Marketing, 1955-1965 David Buckingham This Essay Is Part of a Larger Project, Growing up Mo
    Childhood and the mediatization of marketing, 1955-1965 David Buckingham This essay is part of a larger project, Growing Up Modern: Childhood, Youth and Popular Culture Since 1945. More information about the project, and illustrated versions of all the essays can be found at: https://davidbuckingham.net/growing-up-modern/. In the twenty first century, there has been growing concern about the phenomenon of marketing to children. Campaigners argue that childhood has become inexorably commercialised: children today are subject to a growing barrage of advertising and marketing, using ever more sophisticated techniques. In recent years, there has been legislation to restrict the advertising of particular types of products to children – most notably so-called ‘junk food’. There are also ongoing efforts to regulate more covert and deceptive forms of marketing in online and social media. However, the topic also raises much broader concerns: the apparent ‘commercialisation’ of childhood is seen by some as a kind of corruption of its fundamental innocence and purity; while others regard it as an instance of consumer capitalism at its most rapacious and unprincipled. In this respect, the anxiety about marketing to children appears to unite conservatives and political radicals in a nostalgic yearning for a ‘golden age’ in which childhood was apparently untainted by commercial forces.1 However, this is not a new issue. There is a long history of marketing to children, which can be traced back well into the nineteenth century; and campaigns to restrict and regulate it, while they are more recent, also date back several decades.2 In this essay, I focus on a particular period – between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s – when there appeared to be a step change in marketing to children.
    [Show full text]
  • Footer, After the Reading He Came up to Me A
    XXV A lot like having Helen Keller verify your TV tint adjustments you addle-brained ‘footer, after the reading he came up to me and said “I never realized that you had so many good lines there”, and a Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear makes one wish to be a garbage collector, and although we’d only met and chatted for six hours when it came time to part I already missed her, and anyways I read this great book this afternoon about Barnett Newman that made me feel bet- ter, and just the thought of tofu cheesecake covered with a sticky gooey blueberry sauce makes me shudder, busted a fat ass half-Cab over it first try on a Shut Shark with a three inch nose. He had big hair, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out dropped in the water and was never seen no more, dipped in Ram’s phlegm and then packaged in meat conveniently cut out from a head of a dead howler, Do you think about time trying to figure out how to get more and more of it viewing it as “yours”?, dreary small rooms and a common shower and toilet that looked like it was something out of the Lager, Duccio came not by usura nor Pier della Francesca Zuan Bellin’ not by usura, duct tape is like the force — it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together, Ever humped an inanimate object like a pillow liver hole in the wall sausage banana?, Gabriele d’Annunzio the pseudonym of Gaetano Rapagnetta (1864 —), he added that many women insist on using Saran Wrap when he goes down 297 to taste the tuna, he is the unseen seer the unheard
    [Show full text]
  • Up the Hill with Jack and Jill
    UP THE HILL WITH JACK AND JILL: THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF INTERSECTIONAL COMMUNITIES A Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY by CiAuna F. Heard May 2020 Examining Committee Members: Matt Wray, Ph.D., Advisory Chair, Sociology Michelle Byng, Ph.D., Sociology Judith Levine, Ph.D., Sociology Patricia A. Banks, Ph.D., External Reader, Mount Holyoke College © Copyright 2020 by CiAuna F. Heard All Rights Reserved ii ABSTRACT This study is an investigation into the ways that intersectional social actors conceptualize their position as raced, classed, and gendered, and how they seek to pass down identity categories, cultural frames, and behavioral habits to their children. In particular, it is an examination of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. (“Jack and Jill”) as an intersectional social club, which seeks to socialize upper-middle class black youth into the habits that this community sees as legitimate and productive in modern society. Using interview, archival, and focus group data, this project analyzes the discursive frames of current club members, former child participants, and documentary evidence from historical correspondence. This project seeks to respond to racial formation and social reproduction scholarship by interrogating the ways that parents articulate the meanings of race, class, and gender, the ways such meanings are engaged by Jack and Jill, as a legitimating organization, and the absorption or internalization of such meanings by young people. It asks three questions to examine such mechanisms: 1) How do intersectional social actors talk about race, class and gender? 2) How do such community members engage social reproduction strategies that highlight their unique race and class positions? 3) How do recipients (children) rearticulate those messages and indicate their absorption or rejection of those norms? I find that discourse around race frames blackness as a salient social stigma, despite socioeconomic privilege.
    [Show full text]
  • Adam's Ale Noun. Water. Abdabs Noun. Terror, the Frights, Nerves. Often Heard As the Screaming Abdabs. Also Very Occasionally 'H
    A Adam's ale Noun. Water. abdabs Noun. Terror, the frights, nerves. Often heard as the screaming abdabs . Also very occasionally 'habdabs'. [1940s] absobloodylutely Adv. Absolutely. Abysinnia! Exclam. A jocular and intentional mispronunciation of "I'll be seeing you!" accidentally-on- Phrs. Seemingly accidental but with veiled malice or harm. purpose AC/DC Adj. Bisexual. ace (!) Adj. Excellent, wonderful. Exclam. Excellent! acid Noun. The drug LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide. [Orig. U.S. 1960s] ackers Noun. Money. From the Egyptian akka . action man Noun. A man who participates in macho activities. Adam and Eve Verb. Believe. Cockney rhyming slang. E.g."I don't Adam and Eve it, it's not true!" aerated Adj. Over-excited. Becoming obsolete, although still heard used by older generations. Often mispronounced as aeriated . afto Noun. Afternoon. [North-west use] afty Noun. Afternoon. E.g."Are you going to watch the game this afty?" [North-west use] agony aunt Noun. A woman who provides answers to readers letters in a publication's agony column. {Informal} aggro Noun. Aggressive troublemaking, violence, aggression. Abb. of aggravation. air biscuit Noun. An expulsion of air from the anus, a fart. See 'float an air biscuit'. airhead Noun. A stupid person. [Orig. U.S.] airlocked Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. [N. Ireland use] airy-fairy Adj. Lacking in strength, insubstantial. {Informal} air guitar Noun. An imaginary guitar played by rock music fans whilst listening to their favourite tunes. aks Verb. To ask. E.g."I aksed him to move his car from the driveway." [dialect] Alan Whickers Noun. Knickers, underwear. Rhyming slang, often shortened to Alans .
    [Show full text]