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Re-post: 19 signs you are multiracial
Dec 11th, 2012 by maysie

I love this!

Full blog post here.

5. You feel mild guilt over not identifying with one of your cultures (i.e. you hate the food).

6. You feel awkward during get-togethers with one side of the family because you look nothing like your other family members.

7. Men (or women) use your questionable ethnicity as a means to hit on you.

9. You can’t understand your grandparents’ language.

10. There is an undeniable clashing of cultures whenever the two sides of your family meet.

11. Your grandparents initially disapproved of your parents’ union.

12. Similar to a “gay-dar,” you’ve developed a “multiracial-radar.”

15. You’ve lied about your ethnicity in the past just for the hell of it, or to avoid conversation.

16. Your last name doesn’t really look like it belongs to you.

17. You’ve been criticized for not being [insert ethnicity here] enough, or speaking [insert language here] well enough.

Anti-white racism. This should be good.
May 29th, 2011 by maysie

Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game that They are Losing.

So. A study came out recently saying that white folks in the US felt that anti-white discrimination was a huge problem and that anti-Black racism is hardly a problem at all anymore. While I understand that people do all sorts of studies on topics that I don’t give a shit about, my only question is was this a slow news day or something?

So white people minimize racism experienced by Black folks? Wow, stop the presses. And white folks still frame race issues in the US as Black/white? Sounds like some people don’t want to join the 21st century, which is well underway people, get with the program. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Ontario, I think I need to see other provinces
May 6th, 2011 by maysie

Dear Ontario,

I think I need to see other provinces.

Come on, you can’t possibly be surprised. This latest federal election is simply the final straw. So many ridings went conservative, some in my own city!  Toronto!! We’re in municipal-level counselling by the way. It’s not going well.

Ontario, you and I clearly want different things, and I have to say, I think your priorities are fucked up. And I don’t respect you anymore.

And you know what? Some of this is my fault too. I forgot that you were the big blue Bill Davis machine for so many years. But you know what? Next to your leader, Stephen Harper, (who’s from fucking Etobicoke, you fuckwad), Bill Davis looks like a raging commie. The Far Right is the new center? Not if I have anything to say about it.

I remember when the federal Progressive Conservatives went all kablooey. This time it’s the Liberals’ turn and you, Ontario, think you’re going to benefit from the Conservatives. You won’t, and you’re naive to think otherwise. Harper hates his home province. He actually hates most Canadians, if you look at who his policies benefit and who they fuck over, and not in a good way. He also despises his home city, and has done everything to pretend we don’t exist or to cause trouble for us, like hosting the G20 in downtown Toronto in the last week of June last year.

And the future for us, you and me, Maysie and Ontario at the provincial level? Are you kidding me? Tim Hudak?

Dude.

Let’s face it, we don’t have the same goals anymore, and I don’t respect your friends, your ideals and your politics. Your friends are thugs, bullies and not the kind of people I want to hang around with.

So. We’re through.

I’m liking Québec a lot these days. And I think I can finally tell you I’ve had a huge crush on BC for a long time.

It’s not me, it’s you.

With fond memories,

Maysie

Names I Will Never Be Called (and I’m okay with that)
May 1st, 2011 by maysie

This is a found poem I wrote last year, and just read at a poetry event today. The words/phrases are all taken from newspaper headlines and other online news sources. Enjoy.

A found poem by Maysie

  • Neutral third-party
  • Aging teen heart-throb
  • Liberal leadership hopeful
  • Reliable white house source
  • Newly appointed Conservative senator
  • Billionaire property tycoon
  • Olympic gold medalist
  • Disgraced media baron
  • World Bank president
  • Middle-aged reality show star
  • Former CIA operative
  • Notorious insider trader
  • Blonde American celebutante
  • Captain of industry
  • Convicted counterfeiter
  • Wrathful demagogue
  • Vice-regal consort
  • Multiple Emmy-award winner
  • First round draft pick
  • Famously knocked-up
  • Saved By the Bell alum
  • Neo-Conservative
WWYMD?
Apr 20th, 2011 by maysie

I need a break from all this talk of the fucking election and fucking goddamn Stephen Harper and all that fucked-up fuckery.

Bitch Magazine had this article in my news feed the other day. I love Bitch Magazine. Where else can I get information on the stupid fucked up shit that goes on in the U.S., and with a snappy, smart-assed feminist critique to boot?

What Would Your Mother Do? at bitchmagazine.org

msmagazine: New line of tween panties promotes abstinence

And the site itself, wwymd.com

I really can’t make this shit up.

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