I am very pleased with how well I can read german.

Boy would I have loved to have moved in circles with the likes of Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, Stokeley Carmichael, Harry Belafonte..... That would have been beautiful.

Kent State expelled an iraqi veteran for protesting a military recruitment effort on campus and the Iraq war.

I am a drag queen.

I was just thinking. MY childhood was very queer and very progressive indeed. I grew up wearing my sisters and my mothers clothes to school. We would wear each others sweaters and shirts, nothing more than that. It was all quite innocent and lovely.

I showed Stonewall in my class at Ivy Tech today. ha. The response was interesting. We will finish watching it and then discuss it. It has some very interesting play in it in terms of gender construction, power relations,etc.

RS and JS are truly good people.

The persecution of Sami Al-Arianis one of the most drastic examples of fascism at work in the United states. Someone should help get to Cuba. What is happening and what is going to happen to our civil rights and our right to free speech in this country? There should be a massive outcry against what is happening to this man in this trial.

I am in an interesting place tonight. I need to stop making war on my body. I need to get in sync with my health.

Not only is Lafayette heteronormative. Lafayette is Stagnant.

My first day of teaching RS's class was wonderful! Blissful moments.

Am I the Same Girl?

Swing Out Sisters-- AM I the Same Girl?

Why don't you stop
And look me over
Am I the same girl you used to know?

Why don't you stop
And think it over
Am I the same girl who knew your soul?

I'm the one you want
And I'm the one you need
I'm the one you love
I'm the one you used to meet

Around the corner
Everyday
We would meet
And slip away
But we were much too young
To love each other this way

Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)
Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)

Why don't you stop
And look me over
Am I the same girl you used to know?
Why don't you stop
And think it over
Am I the same girl who knew your soul?

I'm the one you hurt
And I'm the one you need
I'm the one who cried
I'm the one you used to meet
But you are pretending you don't care
But the fire is still there
Now we are no longer too young
To love each other this way

Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)
Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)

Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)
Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)

Have you ever felt the need for something more
With every week comes scratching at your door
Have you ever stopped and wonder what it is you're searching for
Push your luck too far with me
But if you push it any further
You won't have any

Am I the same girl?
Am I the same girl?
(Yes I am, yes I am)

K and O definitely could be together.

All night, All day, Angels watching over me my lord. All night, All day, Angels watching over me.

I always find it quite amusing and slightly befuddling when I see people reading the Exponent in ernest.

The CIA and the United States should be made to pay for its sins. How dare they believe that that can construct secret prisons in order to do to people what they feel like and think they can? God these people get on my nerves. They definitely need to loose their penises.

Four Black Students Suffer From Another Katrina Race-Related Injustice

Hattiesburg, MS (BlackNews.com) - William Carey College, a predominantly white Southern Baptist private school, has recently wrongfully expelled four black students for using an electric generator during the Presidentially-declared disaster.

Immediately following Katrina, several students of the college were stranded due to road blockage, gas shortage, or distance from their homes. A student went into a maintenance shed that had been ripped open by high speed winds and made use of a generator that remained on the campus.

This reportedly helped students recharge and use their cell phones while the land lines were down as well as give them lights at night. The men's dorm lobby, where the generator was being used, also became a safe haven of sorts for some of the remaining female students.

As the days passed and roads and gas became more available, the only students that remained were those whose homes were out of state, overseas, or destroyed. This small group consisted of three William Carey basketball players and one former player as well as others.

Senior Jeremy Irby, Junior Marvin Flemmons, Senior Dante Hardy, and Junior Jeremiah Blackwell were all expelled for using the generator that many students participated in using including school staff. They were told and given written notice that they were being expelled for conduct that was contrary to the schools handbook and there was not to be any appeal nor could they return to campus as visitors. This action itself was against school policy.

The students were escorted off campus by police with armed military personnel and had to immediately take with them all of their belongings with no place to go. No other students were expelled or repremanded. When asked what their plans were Marvin Flemmons replied, "We are looking for legal representation and we want our story to get out so this does not happen to anyone else."

IF YOU CAN PROVIDE LEGAL HELP AND/OR ANY OTHER ASSISTANCE OR WANT TO SHOW SUPPORT, PLEASE CONTACT:

Dante Hardy
118 College Drive #8177
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
mdantehardy AT yahoo DOT com
601-297-4365

Soul II Soul-- Keep On Movin'

Keep On Movin'
Don't stop like the hands of time
Click Clock
find your own way to stay
the time will come one day
Why do people choose to live their lives this way?
Keep on movin' don't stop no
keep on movin'
keep on movin'
keep on movin'
don't stop
no
Keep on movin'
Its our time
time today
the right time is here to stay
stay in my life
my life always
yellow is the colour of sunrays
I hide myself from no one
I know the time will surely come when
You'll be in my life
my life
my life always
Yellow is the colour of sunrays.
Keep on movin'
don't stop
no
keep on movin'

I know the time
time today
walking alone in my own way
Extremely cold and rainy day
friends and I have fun along the way
Yes
we do! I hide myself from no one
I know the time will really come when
You'll be in my life
my life always
yellow is the colour of sunrays.
Keep on movin'
don't stop
no
keep on movin'.

I Am Encouraged

There are thousands in the streets in Mar Del Plata, Argentina protesting Bush's presence there. God, they have more freedom than we do. I hope they do something to him. Viva Argentina! Viva Chavez!! I am also quite enthralled by the riots in Paris. For ages and ages, the French treated their immigrant/colored populations like rubbish and now they are experiencing the Backlash. It is interesting, and something I think everyone should note: Be aware of the way poverty and oppression travels and migrates....in the United States, poverty is in the urban areas---decrepit schools and housing in what Cornel West calls Chocolate Cities....in Europe, they keep their poor in the suburbs, on the outskirts of the city. Oh the time when there shall be an uprising among the impoverished classes.....

Last night was absolutely interesting. I dont know, but someone up there definitely sends me some interesting experiences down the line every now and then. Talk about homoerotic and god, absolutely sexual--while doing everything but the act--yet. Anyway. We shall see how this develops.