I'm Keith Gosland. I'm Ann Charles. And I'm Linda Quinlan. It's September 10th, Tuesday. And welcome to all things LGBTQ headlines. Apparently, I have things to say to you. So first thing is events. First thing to let people know is the translating identity conference at UVM schedule for October 12 has been canceled. And as rumor mill has it, it's due to a lack of volunteers, and they're hoping they can build a basis and support for next year. Don't forget, Larks and Ravens, first, third, and fifth Saturday of each month at the Capitol Grange. There is a new festival in town. Zach's telling me I'm looking at the wrong camera. Thank you, Zach. The Stranger Clay Festival. And this is a new venture here in Vermont. We're going to talk about it more in a bit. There is the We Do Language Symposium, which will be at the Kellogg Library on September 19. This is presented coordinated by Toussaint, who has been on our show before, and who we greatly want to support. This is based on Toni Morrison's quote of, we do language that may be the measure of our lives. And in fact, what's being shown is the foreigner's home, which is a video documentary of Toni Morrison at the Louvre in the exhibit that she put together. Queer trans people of color film also on September 19 are showing happy birthday, Marcia, about Marcia P. Johnson. Where are we going to go? I know it. You're heading out of town to Boston. So there's your update. Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules. These are the people who are looking at the Medicaid formulary changes specific to gender affirmation procedures. Originally, their hearing was also going to be on September 19. It's been postponed until October 3. And that's daytime at the State House. Tuesday, September 24 is main dine out. 10% of all proceeds from the 60 participating restaurants go to Equality Main. So do we drive over and get some lobster? Exactly. And you notice the twang. Very quickly, today is the special election North Carolina. Oh, I'm on tenterhooks. And one of the people running is Dan Bishop, who is the architect of HB2. The person running against him, Dan McGreedy, is truly a friend of our communities. And then I want to talk a bit about health and human services and UVM and religious freedom. And Zach now is going to be putting up a few pictures of Chick-fil-A. They decided to expand into the international market. But unfortunately, they picked Toronto to start. And Toronto was not amused. Twinfield High School, on opening day of school, they asked all the students to identify by their preferred gender, preferred pronoun. Their parents filed a complaint. The official response back was that their students didn't seem to have a problem with it. Twinfield High School? Which is in Plainfield. Oh, OK. Right next door. I see. Vermont Woman, after 34 years, has issued their final addition. Unless you're interested in being a publisher editor of a newspaper that's devoted to true women's issues, not just your cookie cutter mainstream. I mean, it's not like housekeeping or good housekeeping. There will be no chocolate chip cookie recipes. Pride Day. Happened Sunday in Burlington. The theme this year was proud, legacy, powerful future, 50 years of persistence. Zach's going to be showing you a series of photographs taken from within Pride Day. However, Linda would like to say. Well, just a small rebuttal. One of the objections we've had, and I at least, and Keith to some degree, is that we really don't want to support corporate interests, especially corporations who work against our very existence. And so we have been kind of not going to Pride events. We went to an alternative event in New York City as well. So anyway, I just wanted to say that. That's the counter-narrative. That's the counter-narrative, yeah. OK. Not necessarily, Catra. And if there's time, we're going to talk about that straight Pride Day in Boston and why they were prosecuting the demonstrators. So what you got. And the police protecting them also. The police protecting the parade. The parade people. And those were your headlines? Yes. OK. I have some too. I know you do. They are as follows. Pride around the world. I'd like to talk about Bermuda, Honduras, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Right now I'd like to show you a picture from Bosnia-Herzegovina because I have a clip when I consider this story later in the program. Good news and bad news from Russia. Activism in Brazil, a very interesting colorful story. Pride flags greet Mike Pence on arrival in Iceland. That's right. ILGA Europe welcomes a landmark decision by Kazakhstan's Supreme Court to uphold the privacy of a lesbian couple. So that's more good news. Bad news following up on my story of last time. The Home Office in the UK has refused thousands of LGBTQ asylum claims figures reveal. And I'll have those figures if we have time. A well-known Nicaraguan, LGBTIA activist, is arrested. I have a picture before you now. His name is Ulises Rivas. He's the third from the left in the picture. He was picked up on bogus charges of robbery. He was running an asylum, LGBT asylum shelter. In Costa Rica, he came back for his father's funeral and was arrested. One good piece of news from Victoria in Australia. A trans birth certificate campaign has turned to other states after Victoria has passed a reform. So you can change your birth certificate. You need a letter from an adult who's known you for 12 months. But that's progress. And there's going to be activism in other states of Australia toward pursuing that end nationally. All right. That's it for international. For the headlines? OK. So what's the best pool you've got for us? I have a couple of sports things. Good. Ryan O'Callaghan, a former Patriots and Chiefs offensive tackle, has written a memoir. It's called My Life on the Line. And it's a heart-wrenching story about his coming out first to himself and then to others. So that's kind of a big thing in football, we'll see. Like the David Coppe story. Yeah. And writer and director Jamie Settos documentary includes a lively interview with 88-year-old philosopher Ram Dass, formerly known as Richard Albert. I still have this book for anybody of a certain age. They might remember his book is Be Here Now, Now Be Here, Be Here Now, Now Be Here. And another book is Becoming Nobody. Anyway, Ram Dass is bisexual. And he began talking about his bisexuality in the 70s. So that should be an interesting interview. I have a clip of Charlie's Angels, which I will show later when I talk more about that. And she's gone pop culture with us. I know. Kid's book, Arthur Raymond Aroya. Bash's boys who do ballet, you know that whole thing about. Oh, what was it? Good morning, America. Prince Henry or something? No, it was on Fox. Oh, that whole thing. That was a good morning, America. Yeah, what initially happened. Yeah. And there was a great demonstration of dancers in front of the studio. I know. That was great. And so anyway, he did that on Fox News. And teens wagging mega flags confront students at a GSA meeting in Bakersfield, California. Members from the group called. The group was called Future Farmers of America. Oh, that group. I know. And they confronted their peers by waving flags, promoting Trump. So we'll have more stories when we get back. So we'll move to Keith. The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. This is the beginning of an article about the Stranger Play Festival. And the statement was those words could be the mission statement for the women playwrights who are featured. This came about, according to the article, from a master's level class in Concord, New Hampshire, where the men who were present in the class wrote about families and relationships and intimate partners. And all the women wrote about people who didn't know each other before the narrative starts, which was not kind of what you would have expected. What evolved was women playwrights don't get produced. And I mean, I think some of the statistics is like 30% as opposed to what men get produced. So they decided to host a festival. And then the question became, were we going to do it? And then cost factors come in. So Vermont got picked to our advantage. And they reached out to Vermont's community of directors and found four women to direct their productions. That's fabulous. Four Vermont women. And it's Tess Hallbrook, Monica Callan, Sarah Vennacher, and our own Kim Ward. Yes. And the first performance is going to be at the Off Center for Dramatic Arts in Burlington, September 19th to the 21st. And then on the 22nd, there's an afternoon performance. And then again, September 27th through 28th in a matinee on the 29th at the Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center. This is a first time venture. They say that they've developed this incredible friendship by trying to bring this festival together. And they're hoping that this is going to become an ongoing event. So this is something that's really due to support. Very quickly, Health and Human Services, they have that new division about promoting and supporting religious freedom. They filed a suit against UVM, the UVM Medical Center, saying that they were forcing their staff to engage in procedures that were against their ethics, morals, or religious beliefs. And it was a specific case that was cited. What UVM has said is they had been working with Health and Human Services for over nine months. And when they investigated the complaint, they could not substantiate it.  And Health and Human Services is threatening to take away multiple millions of dollars in funding. So this is something we're definitely going to want to be following. And as I said on the last show, Vermont, the feds have their eye on us. And they're going to find a way to step in and make us an example. And looking at the very positive pro-women pieces of legislation that we've been looking at enacting, we've got to be at the top of their list. So now you're going to take me to other places that are doing similar things that aren't that nice. Well, first we're going to go to Pride around the world, starting with Bermuda. I have a picture now before you of Bermuda's first Pride Parade that occurred in Hamilton. More than 6,000 people came. Activists from Barbados, Jamaica, and other English-speaking Caribbean countries traveled to Hamilton. I need to remind you that this is 14 months after Bermuda became the first jurisdiction in the world outside the US to rescind gay marriage for same-sex couples. It's top court last November. Rule the Domestic Partnership Act is unconstitutional. Same-sex couples are current now. After this ruling, same-sex couples are currently able to legally marry in Bermuda, even though the territory's government has appealed the ruling to the Privy Council in London, which has the final say in legal cases from Bermuda and other British territories. Yesterday sent a powerful message to the world that there is a place in Bermuda where, for a couple of hours, everybody just came together. An activist told the Washington Blade that is, I was happy. That's really what it was all about. They just came together very happy. And there was love, and there was peace, and there was laughter, and there wasn't any fear. It was just acceptance of whether you were black, white, gay, poor, straight, or whatever. There are a lot of places we can move from there, the activist added.  And I have a picture now before you of a Honduran trans woman participating in the Pride March, which is- Why are they all in September? Well, this was August. Oh, they're following Berlin's schedule. Still. Yeah. This Honduran march drew 450 people. It was at the end of a week's activities. The banner read, Honduras Unlivable for LGBTQI, which provides a glimpse on the violence that's occurring throughout the country. In fact, according to a lesbian network in 2018, 25 LGBT people were killed, 16 gay men, five trans people, and four lesbian women. The situation seems to be worsening. The number of killings between January and August of this year, 13 gay men, seven trans people, and six lesbians. It already outpaces the year before. In the face of such violence, a Pride March is an act of defiance. Kudos to the protesters in Honduras. Now I'd like to go to Sarajevo. Bosnia Herzegovina, which is also celebrating its first ever Pride March. It occurred peacefully. There were counter demonstrations. Some 2,000 people showed up for this. While top Bosnian politicians failed to attend the march, the US ambassador to Bosnia, Eric Nelson, showed his support along with many other diplomats and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Bosnia. So I'd like to show you a clip now featuring US ambassador Eric Nelson. There were protesters, as I said. Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only country in the former Yugoslav region that has hosted a public Pride event. The socially conservative country also has a history of violence targeting LGBT festivals, most notably in 2008 and 2014. And I'd like to talk for a minute about the clip that I just showed you, because Eric Nelson mentions, Eric Nelson mentions Bosnia Herzegovina's aspirations to join the European Union. And this leads me to a correction that I have to make, an error I made on the earlier show. An earlier show, Linda asked me if Hungary was a member of the EU, I replied in the negative. And of course, I was wrong. Hungary joined the European Union in 2004. I should have known that. I should have corrected it earlier, but now I have. And I have an editorial, if I may. We watch this show regularly called Gay USA. It comes out of New York. It's wonderful. And what happens, they occasionally make an error also. And there are viewers right in. So if we don't slip up often, but if we do make an error, please write in. It's all things LGBTQ at Hotmail.com. Tell us, we're very responsive to all. Say, Ann, you did it again. Oh, no. So anyway, I had to get that off my chest. Now I would like to move on to Moscow, if I may. I will. If it's not too long. Well, it's a double story. Pro-Putin nationalists disrupt the performance of a gay play in Moscow with homophobic slurs. The play with gay themes was called Out of the Closet. It was performed at 100 seat Moscow theater. It, the theme has no LGBT content, but it's based on real stories of coming out of men to their mothers. Thugs barged into the theater and shouted homophobic slurs at audience members. The protesters, it's awful. And it echoes the first response to the straight pride in Boston because the police arrested the director, arrested one of the audience members, didn't seem surprised that all these thugs were there. The protesters said that invoked the law banning the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors, this is their language, even though the theater had operated an over-18s policy with strict IG checks. When police were called, no member of the mob was detained. They continued to hinder the audience. They didn't check any of the thugs' papers. They acted if the protest, they and the protesters were on the same team. The performance eventually continued, despite the fact that the director was arrested. She says police have twice before sought to investigate claims that the play was defiling children and violating the gay propaganda law. We know about the Russia propaganda law, and that's been rebuked, as we know, by the European Court of Human Rights. But it's been evoked in this instance. I have a good news out of Moscow, but if Linda wants me to wait with that. You'll have to wait for that. OK, it's not out of Moscow, it's Russia. Well, we have another football story, which is about Drew Brees, which, unfortunately, is one of my favorite teams in New Orleans. He is quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. And he doesn't see the problem that he did a video for this hate group. He says he's not anti-LGBTQ and does not appreciate media outlets suggesting that it was a bad idea for him to appear in this homophobic groups video. Well, according to him, he says he doesn't see anything wrong when he got huge criticism for doing this about having a message saying bring your Bible to school, or bring your Bible to school day, which was produced by our friends to focus on the family. So apparently, he doesn't see any problem with this. So Drew, get it together, or I'm going to have to stop watching you. And Charlie's Angel rises as a kick-ass women united will be out in November. What is it? TV series? Movie. I can't wait. Looks interesting. It's fun and can't be. And it stars Kristin Stewart, Elizabeth Banks, and Naomi Scott. In a recent interview, Stewart talks about how she was advised to remain in the closet if she wanted to continue to make blockbuster movies. And that she should not hold to the hand of her girlfriend in public because that would really hurt her career. She, however, suggests that she doesn't care what they think, and that's not the kind of people she wants to associate with. So good for her. And now I'm going to show a clip of that movie. So here it is. Because they can. It doesn't mean they should. But I have so many talents. He's like, oh, I sure am. I'm just a decoy star. That's just the way you make me feel. Who's still? Outstanding angels. You have a new client? Who is she? I can't sleep at night. I'm the lead programmer on a product that can revolutionize the power industry. But there is a possibility it can be weaponized. Elena, we need to go. You know we're ringing bombs. No, I'm Jane. Oh. I'm Basley. Welcome to the Pounds and Agency. We exist because traditional law enforcement can't keep up. I don't like that, boy. You guys are like ladies-fied. Jane's former, my sixth. Oh, god. What did you do to Ben? I compressed his carotid and deoxygenated his brainstem. Well, that sounds painful. Don't worry. He's going to wake up. Unless he doesn't. Sabina runs the ground game. See, I know stuff. Let's get the weapon before it becomes every bad guy's favorite new toy. Take her to the closet, hear her out. We're going to need some wigs, toys. We're still in the first closet. There's another closet. Oh, Vince. Let's just stop the touching. Some of these blows up. Love phosphorus. My favorite chemical. Jane, are you flirting with a handsome nerd? Coast note. How'd that feel? Because it looked like it felt really good. It felt nice. In angels. Good morning, Chuck. Very interesting. I know. I can't wait. Point trash. I cannot wait to see that movie. And then there's an, yeah, OK. There have been two transgender murders in the last week or two. And that makes 18 this year. This is unacceptable. One was a 17-year-old. And her name was Bailey Reeves. She died leaving a party in the evening. It was like 8 o'clock. People heard shots. They called the police. When the police got there, she'd already been dead. And in Florida, B-Love Slater was also found burned to death in her car. I don't know. This is like, it's just unacceptable. Anyway, very sad. So we will turn to Keith now for his segment here. Just very briefly, we all know about the Happy Family Strait Pride Day in Boston. Because Straits, our oppressed minority. Story coming out of the Pride march was there were 2 to 300 people who actually marched. There were many more. 1,200, I heard. Protesters, demonstrators. I heard 200. No, 200 people in the march. Mostly in too, weren't they? There were 1,200 counter demonstrators. White supremacists, that was the theme of the day. What happened though is there were 36 demonstrators who were arrested. The police were very much protecting the parade. When they got into court, the district attorney, Rachel Rollins, moved to dismiss all but eight of them. And the eight were, there were some active violence or a weapon or something involved. The judge, Richard Sinott, who was a Republican appointee, said, no, I'm going to prosecute. We are going to arraign, prosecute all of them. So there was an emergency application to the Massachusetts Supreme Court that very quickly ruled that, no, you may be the judge, but this is not your decision to make. This is a separation of powers. And it is the district attorney who gets to make this decision. All right. And what this leads to is the 45 regime has appointed 160 federal judges. Those are lifetime appointments. If we are going to do advocacy and challenge, we're going to really have to look at the grassroots and state level because we know we're not going to be getting the support on the national. This judge, actually, with the, yes, we will arraign them all, went to as far as to charge the defense attorney with contempt of court when she challenged what he was doing. So now, you're probably going to take me back to Moscow where this would have been very much in keeping. We're going back to Russia. But we have good news. Oh, good. We're in Siberia. Five people live. No, no, no. I don't know how many people live there. But it's Kemerovo, Siberia. There's a Russian bakery. It's a Russian bakery. It's been fined $150 for hanging a sign at the entrance that banned LGBTQ people from entering. The Ipbakov brother's bakery in the city of Kemerovo placed a wooden sign near its entrance that said, I don't want to use this slur. F blank are not allowed. We know what that means. This is when it opened in February. Is that an FF double one? F. Moving on. All right. The bakeries' co-owner, Anton Abatov, told the news that the sign didn't discriminate against anyone. The court said, and this is amazing that this happened really in Russia, the sign humiliates homosexuals as a group of people distinguished on the basis of sexual orientation and negatively impacts others' feelings toward LGBTQ people. The owner told the court that he hung the sign because of his personal convictions. That old familiar story. The presence of non-heterosexual people in his shop could affect his children. The court cited him as saying, and he added that this is so sick, he makes natural food, and everything unnatural is alien to him. Are we sure he's not part of health and human services? In 2017, a bakery in St. Petersburg owned by a prominent Orthodox activist, German Sterigoff, came under fire for doing the same thing. TV coverage is linking the two bakery owners, but they were fined in a good move. More public, well, I don't know, more good news comes from Brazil. You may or may not know. They have an evangelical mayor in Rio who's quite homophobic. A Marvel comic has been issued with the same-sex kiss. I'd like to show that to you now. You did a Marvel comic? I know, I know about popular culture. And Brazil's biggest newspaper has printed this illustration of two men kissing on its front page to attack the attempt at censorship by evangelical mayor of Rio, the evangelical. Marcellos Cruella tried to ban copies of the novel Avengers, The Children's Crusade, from appearing at a book fair on the grounds that it included unsuitable content for children. This has echoes of past efforts at censorship. The editor of the paper said he's publishing it, publishing the picture to throw light on censorship threats. It's an attack on freedom of expression. The controversy began on Thursday when Cruella ordered the biennial, this is a book fair, to wrap copies of the graphic novel in black plastic. What we did was defend the family, he said, in a video he tweeted. I should wrap my family in black plastic? He ordered City Hall Inspector's deceased copies of the book, which had apparently already sold out by that point. It's a backwards decision, it's ignorant censorship, said the President of the Commission for Social Rights at Rio's Bar Association. Philippe Nato, a YouTube celebrity with 34 million followers, bought 14,000 copies of the book with LGBT themes at the book fair and gave them out for free wrapped in black plastic with a warning book inappropriate for backward and prejudice people. Demonstrators marched through the event, wrapped in rainbow colors and waving placards in books while gay couples kissed in protest. I'd like to show a picture of that, but I don't have it. Although we are going through the most frightening government in terms of repression since the dictatorship, this time we have united and engaged people who will not permit that censorship. The imposition of others' moral values, Nato told the Guardian. Linda's telling me I have so many stories though. I know, but look. I only have a few minutes left. Well, let me just take them up. My friends arrived in Iceland, all the corporations near the airport flew rainbow flights in protest. The prime minister met him wearing a rainbow bracelet. And then in Kazakhstan, a lesbian couple was filmed kissing at the movies. A homophobe took a picture of it, put it up on Facebook. They were threatened, 60,000 people saw it, but they have been the Supreme Kazakhstan Supreme Court of held the privacy of the lesbian couple. And so the person who took the photo was given a fine. So that's more progress. It's very upbeat, some of these stories. Okay, I'm finished. Not really, but I will. Well, in the two seconds I have for it, I just wanted to say a few things. One is Michigan approves an LGBTQ credit union charter. So this is going to be a bank that would be primarily, although anybody can join for LGBTQ people, it'll be opening in 2020. So we can incur as much debt as anybody else. I know. All right. But the really good thing is the founder, Miles Myers, and it's called Superbia, Superbia, and it's maybe Superbia. Anyway, they're gonna give loans for transgender people in the process of transitioning, which is something you might not be able to get at your local bank. Should be covered, by the government. I don't think people should add it with... Really? TD Bank. TD Bank. Oh, and then let's see, Grace and Frankie. Lily Tomlin is 80 this year. And the show is going to go on again with her and Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson and Jane Fonda. It's the longest running show on Netflix. So I really enjoy it in a few... But this is the last season. This is the last season, but you can look at all the back seasons if you want. And congratulations on your birthday, Lily. And on that note. We have an interview. We have an interview. I have things to add. I'd like to add to the Lily Tomlin story that she has revealed to have supported a prominent AIDS activist anonymous layer. The public didn't know about it. Which activist? Of course. We'll tell you next time, Randy's. No, oh, it was. Randy Schultz. Who wrote the show. Yes, Randy Schultz. And the band's name is on. Yes. Yes. And the show... Randy Schultz. Is it Schultz? Yeah. Yeah. Schultz. SHILTS. Yeah, from having met him. Oh, you met him? Yeah. Schultz was in the HBO version of and the band played on. As the San Francisco health officer. And she was definitely the person in charge. Yeah. And remember, so your Lloyd closet that was based on the band played on, right? No, that was based on Vita Russo's book. Right.  Sorry. Sorry. And now we're gonna have an interview with Keith and Holly Perdue. Yes. So stay tuned. It's not often that you really get to spend time just talking with old friends. But Holly Perdue is decidedly an old friend. And as we were sort of chit chatting before this taping started, we were co-liasons to the governor. In our youth, when we were younger, tighter, firmer and some of us had more hair. Right. But as we were talking, it was apparent that prior to that level of political involvement, there was a lot that was going on in central Vermont. There were things happening in the women's community, things happening in the men's community that as we get older, really need to be acknowledged before there's no one who forgets. Right. Who remembers, excuse me. So you came to Vermont, you said in 1982? Yes. And you chose to come to Vermont for a relationship? I did. And that was a good thing at the time? It was a good thing at the time, for a short time, yeah. Okay. And when you first got here, was there a lesbian community in central Vermont to which you could have access? Oh, sure. And when I came here and the person I moved up to be with, she'd already been active in the women's center, which was above the, above on in-rear sports. Okay. And there were women's dances in Plainfield. Above. Oh, above the Grange. Which is now the co-op. Co-op, okay. Yeah. Yeah, which was above the co-op. There are dances there. I knew and met the lesbian separatist community. So if there were women who were pretending to be straight and lived with somebody else, I didn't really know them. But when I moved here, we had parties and things. Okay, so there was a social component where you spent time with other lesbians. The separatist community, was there activism that was happening with that community or just how they self-identified and chose to stay with each other? Well, I understand that there was activism around violence against women because there was talk about something called Gentian Blue and painting men's penises who had violated women. Okay. I knew some of the women who talked about it, but I never knew any of the men who were painting. Okay. But there were men who got painted. I believe so. Well-deserved as we hear giggles from the peanut gallery. They want to help now. Okay. And then there was lesbians of Vermont and women of the woods. Did they happen around the same time or did one sort of predate the other? I know we're over 60 now, so it takes us longer too. I think that women of the woods might have predated lesbians of Vermont a little bit. Okay. But there was also the battered women's networks that the lesbians ran. Which is now the Vermont network against domestic and sexual violence. Well, it was first the Shelter House project, and then women's, I don't know what it was. Hotlines and safe houses. Yes. Women of the woods. Yeah. I think that's... Women of the woods, yeah. Well, at first it was called the Lesbian Social Network because many of our members were teachers and we sent out a newsletter. The newsletter could not sit on their coffee tables in case somebody came to visit them and knew and figured out then that they were lesbians. So after the first couple meetings, the teachers brought it to our attention that we should change the name to something less obvious. So we changed it to women of the woods. And you were the contact for that. Oh, yeah. And I recall an old story of a letter being delivered to your home that merely said lesbian, Worcester, Vermont. Yeah, and there were 17 of us in town at the time, so. The North Hampton of Vermont. Right. So women of the woods was the genesis for a social gathering, a political gathering, or just to create a network within the women's community so you didn't feel so isolated. Right. It was someone I knew was going through a divorce from another woman and needed, wanted a social network. So I opened up my Rolodex and we sent out postcards. No, we wouldn't have been postcards because that would have been too obvious. So we sent out letters to people inviting them to an event. And I don't even remember what the event, the first event was. If I'm hearing correctly, a lot of networking within the women's community was by virtue of those Rolodexes. Yes. Not just yours, but the next person along the line. Yes. In that during some of the days of activism, you'd pick up the phone and start a phone call and wait to see the ripple effect and where it ended up. Right, yeah, we knew, I mean, I knew if I called somebody down in Bennington that she would activate the tree down in Bennington. That was the civil rights bill, not lesbian, it was women of the woods. But... Okay, women of the woods did an event that always intrigued me. Which one? Always a bridesmaid. Yeah, always a bridesmaid. And how did that come about? Because I remember visiting and seeing pictures of you all on the stairwell that was at Moonstorm at that point in time. In our beautiful dresses. Exactly.  She spit into it. We were all amazed. Okay, so this was literally all of the times that you all had to be bridesmaids for other people's families. And here you were just wearing them for this evening of just fun. Well, you pay hundreds of dollars for these things. You have to get more than one use out of them. You don't get to rent them like to see those. Right. So how many years did that happen? Oh, six or eight probably. Probably at my house because we used to have a staircase that came down from the second into a big. You still got pictures? Yeah, I'm sure we do have pictures. They're beautiful. I may want to look at them at some point. Yeah, well, we look so virginal because we were so young. I have no comment on that. Moonstone or Farm? Yeah, Moonstone, yeah. Is actually known on a national basis because some of the work that you've done relative to queer families. Oh, yeah. And working on some adoption reform here in Vermont. Being an adoptive parent yourself. Of how many children? 11. And I found an old quote where then SRS, which is now the Department of Children and Families would come looking for you when they had special needs kids. Yes, they did. So was that really common within the queer family community that special needs kids were the people you were bringing in? Or was that just your personal skill? These are the easy questions. I don't know that that's an easy question because when we were adopting, there were not a lot of other lesbians out there adopting. I mean, there was a couple up in Burlington who adopted internationally from India. But locally, people were not adopted. Adopting older children.  Our social worker here in Vermont knew that we were lesbians. But the social workers of the sending states just thought that, well, it was said in our home study that Sherry was this nice woman who lived with this woman who adopted all of these children. Which was really an odd thing. Who had a degree in brain trauma, correct? I do. Yeah. Yes, but I mean, we got our special needs adults first because the woman I was living with who's not the current woman wanted to birth a child. And I said, we should do foster care. And then this specialized foster care program came up and we got Bonnie. Well, we had two regular foster kids before that. Okay, but you've been in the forefront in other ways you were saying that some of the sending states didn't realize that this was a lesbian couple household. So you might have come as a bit of a surprise to the state of Mississippi. Oh, well, the state of Mississippi, he was an infant. You adopted an infant from Mississippi. Right, he was just an infant and we got him as- And finalized the adoption here. Yeah, we finalized all of our adoptions here. We did not finalize any of them in the sending states. Most of the states we got children from are sodomy states. You wanna explain? I told somebody that once and they didn't know what a sodomy state was. I thought, really?   Right, but- And there was originally a court case that said states could legislate this. And then finally a Supreme Court decision that said, no, you can't. But when we got Taliesin as an infant, he's 22 now, but when we got his, they did not wanna issue us a birth certificate with both our names on it. So we sued them and won. But the interesting thing is the judge waited to be re-elected down in Mississippi. That judge waited to be elected. And the same time period that he acknowledged that because we were adopting Taliesin and he was gonna play Little League and he needed a birth certificate to play Little League. But at the same period of time, that same judge issued a new birth certificate of a transgendered person. So that judge waited, we thought he waited a long time and he did wait a long time, but he was waiting to get re-elected because if he got elected- If he issued- If the election was prior to that. He might not have gotten re-elected. So he did it and he said precedent. But before that we got Leo from Virginia. He's 35 now, he came at seven. And that's, I had been calling and speaking to that social worker about a two-year-old little black girl who has that skin condition where you have lighter spots on your skin. The Michael Jackson syndrome. Is that what it is? Well, she hers was legit. Anyways, and she, but they didn't tell me they were looking for a black family.  But she finally said, we found a family for this little girl. Would you be interested in a little black, a little seven-year-old boy? And I said, who is he and what's he about? And she started describing him and I said send me his information. And his information was dire. I mean, he'd been born at a pound and a half. He didn't speak. He didn't learn to walk till he was five. He wasn't toilet-trained. But they sent a picture near the spark of the devil in his eye. So I said, sure. He still does. Yes. And I, so I, they asked in August. They said, we're gonna bring him up in September. And they said, can you send us a video of your family so he can see it and know where he's coming to? I said, sure. It dawned on them that we were lesbians. Well, this is Virginia. So they said, we have a black family interested in him, but they're going on vacation for two weeks. And I was like, yeah, right. Well, I was very polite to her. But anyways, I said, okay.   In February, the school district sent them a bill for his services and they couldn't finalize fast enough. So we're in our last minute and we're down to our last minute. Yeah. Do you have a sense that Vermont's sense of activism, men and women working together, based upon your experience, this is something we can achieve? You got 30 seconds? Sure. Some people can. I don't know. I haven't been out active in the community. I have too many children right now who have issues that I just don't get out to be social. So with that, I say thank you. You're welcome. Thank you so much to go home and hopefully Ema has cooked dinner for you. Oh no, I've got Tai Chi tonight. This is my adult night out. Well, that was great. We'll have to have her on again. Yeah. Well, there was so much of actual Central Vermont organizing in history that we didn't get to that. We still have to do the larger statewide and we can. And do we have trivia? We didn't mention the trivia at the beginning of the show. So it may be good because we really don't have time for it now. So I've got a question and wait for you for next time. Okay, trivia next time. Well, then I have another anecdote. What? Let me just hog the camera. We have 56 seconds. Epipole of Kristen Stewart. When I started my career as an academic, a heterosexual mentor said you can't be open. You're not gonna get anywhere. But my lesbian mentor said, well, you gotta be open if you can do this. Might this be something we could talk about in a third anniversary interview? Yeah. Perhaps. Perhaps. You may be disclosing more information than you intended. Oh, I have much more to tell. And we held hands, didn't we? What's that? We held hands while you were in graduate school. We held hands. Yes. Yes, we did. I get it. I get it. Okay. All right. Good. Never mind. On that note, remember to resist.


And welcome to WISIS Forum 2022 here in Geneva, and with me is Nisa Purcell, who is CEO of the Office of the Regulator in Samoa. Welcome. How are you enjoying the forum so far? I'm enjoying it very much. The amazing thing for me is having a lot of decision-makers like ministers who are participating and it's very important for us that we understand what other countries are doing in terms of developing or reforming telecommunications and in particular the innovative ways that they are using now to make sure that coverage is improved and to make sure that the quality of service is there because I believe there is no point having 100% coverage and people can't even use the internet, the quality of service is poor. And also it's our opportunity to highlight the challenges that we are facing because I believe in not reinventing the wheel. Some countries may have already experienced the issues that we may be facing and so the answer is there. So WISIS is an excellent program. What are the specific challenges that Samoa faces in using information and communication technology to meet those sustainable development goals? The main challenge is our remoteness from the rest of the world. So we are floating over a huge ocean so that alone has its own issues and then the skills of people on using the modern technology. So we may be trying to say, hey, these are smartphones, you can do this and that. And then again, the affordability of people, of the handsets especially, and then quality of service. But we are working very, very well with the service providers so that we can collaborate and make sure we provide what they need. And then they provide the people of Samoa with the quality of service that they need. I suppose as a remote nation, you have these significant challenges but also so much to gain from increased connectivity through use of ICTs. Yes, of course, especially with the pandemic. So a lot of the way we communicate, do work, do business, we're all done online. So what we do is we look at the enabling environment so that connectivity can be meaningful. So ICT is using the right technologies and because I believe an enabling environment is the precursor to true and meaningful connectivity. It's a new world, isn't it, that we're all getting used to after the pandemic. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much.


Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali, welcome to my channel. If you guys are new, definitely hit that subscribe button. It is currently Wednesday and I usually do week in my life. I started one, but guys, it's been raining here in Austin for like so long. Like definitely not normal for Austin because I feel like it never rains and it's like in the middle of the summer. But I'm not complaining because it looks like the next week is gonna be a lot cooler weather. Like in the 90s, I'm like, that's so much cooler than at least being 100 degrees. So looking forward to that. But it's also made me be in a really, really weird mood. And if you guys haven't caught up on my vlogs, my boyfriend moved home for six months. So like I'm also in a weird mood because of that and just like figuring out how to live alone and all that kind of stuff. The rain kind of like came at a good time and a bad time because it kind of gives me a reason to like be lazy and just, you know, enjoy these like moments alone and be somber. And sit with my thoughts. But then also I think it's just like been canceling my plans and you know, just making me sad because I don't like rain. Like it makes me feel weird and I also can't do much content because it's so dark in my apartment and all that kind of stuff. So anyways, I tried to vlog but then I was like, I'm not feeling it. So I kind of just threw the footage away but it's Wednesday and I'm forcing myself to vlog in a way of like not because I have to for any reason like this isn't sponsored. I don't really like care about AdSense cause I don't really make that much off of YouTube anyways. But honestly like vlogging makes me happy and I think it'll like boost my mood talking to you guys even though you're not talking back but like I don't know, it makes me happy. It's like definitely a passion of mine doing YouTube and I was just thinking the other day, I have so many people telling me that they want to start a YouTube channel and I'm like honestly don't just like do TikTok because most of the time 90% of these people want free stuff and just like a way to make money on the side. Unless you're like super passionate about it and like I love having these memories to look back on like I'm so thankful. I've logged in my whole college experience cause I have all those blogs to look back at but if I was just doing this to make money like I would 100% not touch YouTube and just do TikTok cause that's honestly where I get all my collaborations now is all through TikTok. Like maybe a little bit on Instagram but I barely get any on YouTube. Just went down to the locker room to pick up some packages. I actually have some campaigns that I need to film today and I'm very proud of myself because I have been just trying to get as organized as I can so I've really been trying to use my Notion app which is kind of like, I don't know how to describe it like an organization note taking app and it's so cool cause you can customize it and you can have like so many tabs on the side. I have to show you guys later because I'm kind of proud of it but I did like a calendar of just the dates that I have for my collab so like when I need to submit my content or when I need to post my content and I think that's gonna make me feel a lot less stressed because at first I was just kind of like I don't even know what I was doing like I was putting it in my like personal calendar so like I just have so much going on that it's stressing me freak out so I decided to make it separate and just concentrate on one thing at a time because I think that's my biggest issue right now with just like work in general. If you guys are new here, I'm a photographer in Austin and an influencer so I have like collabs for the influencer stuff and then obviously my shoots and like what I need to promo for things coming up for example, December grads are not coming up but like December is not that far away and I want to start planning like holiday minis and you know winter grads for earlier because I know I'm going to be home November and December probably like I was last year because of Thanksgiving and Christmas and all that sort of stuff and I had to say no to a lot of opportunities on that end during the holiday so I really really wanna start like promo-ing it before so I can get my clients thinking about it and booking ahead of time.  Like let's go here or we would decide to cook in and decide on a meal together but now that it's all on me I'm like I don't even know what I want like what is there even to eat? It's just a weird like thing to you know think about I guess. I don't know how to explain it like I almost don't feel like as hungry because someone else isn't talking about food in my ear which maybe is good because you know like maybe I should just eat when I am hungry which you know is like the three meals of the day but anyways so I went grocery shopping yesterday finally because I was like eating just like the randomest stuff that I could find in the pantry but then when I got home and I was gonna make dinner I was like thinking I literally did not even get any meals like I didn't go with meals in my mind which was definitely problem number one on my end.  I did get chicken so I made like some chicken breast or thigh thing with like sweet potatoes last night which was honestly really really good and I only really have like what three more dinners this week and I have a lot more chicken but anyways I need to get better about just like meal planning and I think in the last vlog I told you guys that my mom recommended me to do something like Hello Fresh so I wouldn't have to think about like what I'm gonna eat every single night or just do it three nights out of the week so I can like cook on the other two nights like what I want cause I always see like TikTok recipes that I wanna recreate but that's the other thing like I wanna cook because I love cooking but it's not as fulfilling cooking for yourself like that it just doesn't hit the same you know like I always love seeing Ryan get seconds because I know I like cooked a good meal and just like seeing people enjoy your food just is so fulfilling to me so I maybe need to start inviting friends over for dinner when I want like something big like chilly or like I don't know some big pasta dinner or something so I don't have like too many leftovers I guess I'm just going on a random like ramble of my thoughts over the past few days of like living alone for my first week cause there's been a lot of thoughts I also kind of knew that a big issue for me was going to be like consuming a lot on social media or just like podcasts or not being able to live in the silence which I'm definitely gonna have to work on like it's only the first few days of being alone but I've been like almost more addicted to my phone like I'll literally just like sit anywhere and play tech talks just so I can hear people talk to me or like sounds in the background and yesterday or was it today? I think it was yesterday I was cooking dinner and I just told like the Google home to play like something on Spotify and honestly I didn't touch my phone once while cooking dinner and I feel like that's not like normal for me cause I'm always like on my phone scrolling and so maybe I need to do that more just like play more music I'm not like super into music though I have my same like house playlist I play all the time so maybe I just need to find more music and just get more into that because I feel like the scrolling is just getting a little too much and may not be good for up here I wanna start getting ready for the day and I wanna film a lot of content today because also another thing that happened is I got new teeth I feel like I'm like trying to catch you guys up in every vlog but I got new teeth so these are my temp veneers I literally just went in for follow up today and we're actually gonna change like kind of a lot on my teeth I'll zoom you guys in so this is what it looks like now and I just wanted like an even more like leveled smile cause I think it goes like up a little bit and that's like how my natural teeth were and I just like you know if I'm getting veneers I want them like super straight across so I think we're gonna change like kind of a lot about my teeth so I'm really really excited to see like the finals and that's gonna happen on September 8th and I'm gonna vlog the whole thing for you guys so I'm really really really excited about that and then yeah so having new teeth it's kind of like weird to see myself in pictures and like even just smiling with them I'm gonna have to relearn to smile and everything maybe it won't feel as weird when I have the real ones because the temps are one block of teeth and so it feels really weird and not natural but like the finals are gonna be like individual teeth and they're gonna be porcelain so they're not gonna feel like as rough as these do not that they're like horrible but like on the back of the teeth it feels as though I didn't brush my teeth like that's how weird it feels and like almost scratchy so it's kind of been weird filming content for that reason I feel like I'm not used to them yet and I don't know, I don't know it's just weird so I feel like I've been not in like the mood to film at least for TikTok which is kind of sad because I've been loving TikTok and I'm also mad at myself because I had a goal of trying to hit 100K on TikTok by September 1st and it's currently August 22nd and I'm at 82,000 when I was talking to like management agencies which I ended up not going with one because I am just at a place where I don't want them to take like 20% but when I was talking with them they're like once you get to 100K brands start to like really start looking at you and like you'll get like a bunch more brand deals which obviously, you know, that'd be great so I'm really, really wanting to hit that but I honestly have not been putting in the work on TikTok and I'm really mad at myself for that I just feel like I've been having like a lot of weird life changes in this past month so it's been a weird time but that is no excuse because this is like my income so I need to really just like brainstorm sit and brainstorm like ideas and all that kind of stuff and I do wanna start talking on TikTok more cause I feel like I scroll TikTok on my 4U page and it's just people talking like I literally maybe hear one trending sound every 10 talking videos so I really think that they're trying to push the like original audios even more I know I said I was gonna stop rambling like three times I just feel like I had to catch you guys up on so much so Monday's homework was having a sale and I'm kinda mad because I really bought the swimsuits when it was 40% off but then a couple days later they went to 60% off and I was like are you freaking kidding me but it's okay I still love the company so I definitely wanna support and I re-bought one of the swimsuits like in the same color and everything because I think I lost it somewhere I'm not really sure where but I literally can't find it anywhere so this is the Portofino one piece and what I love about Monday Swimmer is the quality is like insane like it really sucks me in cause it's almost like that spanks material and like it's ribbed too so it really just makes me feel so secure and like stuffed in and then this is a new color I have this style I guess the other one that I have is ribbed so I expected this one to be ribbed but I'm gonna try it on and see okay so the next thing I got is for the pantry there's like a really big space on the bottom of the pantry and I'm just like I don't know what to do so everything's just like stacked up so I thought I would get some like drawer kind of thing so I'm gonna set this up later I'm so excited for this because this is a mirror phone case and I actually have one brand collaboration coming up that they are specifically asking me to film with the back of my camera and I had this like brilliant idea of getting a mirror phone case I'm just gonna cut it so that I can like see what's filming because most of the time when I film with the back of my camera I can't see anything obviously so I got a little mirror phone case for that this is what it looks like on and I feel like this is oh, I'm definitely distorted like it is 100% distorting me on the back but at least I can see like how it's being placed and like if there's anything on my face that shouldn't be there so this purchase is kind of funny but like 100% necessary here in Austin I bought a neck fan because since I am going to be the one taking Sophie out like 100% of the time obviously unless Ryan comes and visits I get really, really irritated in the sun like when I have to like stand out there for a really long time and sometimes it takes a while for her to like sniff everywhere and pee and poop and shit and so for me not to be irritable I thought I'll get a neck fan for when I take Sophie on walks or just like out when it's super, super high up which it feels like it always is I thought this was gonna be so freaking smart and even just like on walks like it looks like headphones so you can put it around I believe it just goes like that so it looks like you're wearing headphones although it'd be weird if I went on a walk with this and like my over the head headphones I feel like people would be like what the fuck is she doing but I am super freaking excited for this because I feel like this is going to be also really smart for when I have photo shoots outside I can give my client this to cool her down because I'm always telling my clients you should bring a mini fan because it's gonna be hot and the people that do it like their lives are saved so now I have this I need to make sure it's charged and I wonder if it is a little bit charged so I can turn it on I kind of thought it would be more powerful but it still feels really good let's see if it goes even more no, that was it I guess that has three speeds but you know what? it does feel very cooling and when I'm hot or like honestly even out shooting full looks this is going to be a game changer because I have to like change in my card it's always so hot just finished my makeup and my hair and I used a new foundation today it's called She Glam I guess it's on She In but I think it's its own website like she glam dot com anyways, this one at Tiktoker was talking about this foundation that's like nine dollars and it's really really good so this is what it looks like on my skin and it's supposed to be like super full coverage it was but like this dang bruise is really showing through like a lot of my like more full coverage foundations so it sucks but at least I can kind of cover it up and like show this side of my face but I filmed two TikToks and now I'm going to eat some breakfast I tried out these like soft scrambled eggs the other day and they were so good I've been craving them ever since so we're going to make them the main campaign I'm filming today is for Madewell so I got my little Madewell jeans on and actually this full outfit except for the shoes is Madewell like how cute this little ball sweater is so we're going to go to Maribou coffee shop which I already took you guys along I think it was my last vlog actually but I proposed the location to the team and they said they really liked it so I mean I don't mind going back it was super cute and the matcha was really really good with Nagin and we are looking through TikTok sounds cause I literally once she got in the car I was like so I have some homework for you you have to post two TikToks during our hangout session well maybe not post it because like wait till later tonight I think but still you got to make two TikToks cause I'm trying to get her on TikTok I'm telling her that's where it is honestly it is very very daunting but but why you are on YouTube I don't get it I don't know I think there's just the TikTok is so different than YouTube I feel like you really have to be just I don't know I don't know why I'm like that it's so weird because a lot of people are like I like TikTok better cause I can like let loose and like be myself so I can't let loose I think that's the problem it's so weird cause I get it I get it for Instagram like you have like or like we just have people in our past that like are on our Instagram so maybe you just like don't want to be your full self like I get that but TikTok like you're starting fresh you're starting new yeah well I will have to post those two videos like there's no question it's not negotiable but yeah she's on YouTube if you guys don't know and she does like a lot of like living alone videos which I'm like honestly I've been kind of binge watching some of them especially because I'm like the one you just posted was really good and yeah they're really really good yeah follow me thanks gal oh my god a shout out okay so we're gonna go inside and I just told her that the like vision I have for my brand video is more like paparazzi like camera man's not there I'm just like chilling doing my errands that's what I told the brand but I was like getting matcha and looking at a home store is probably not errands but I guess just showing off the fit and honestly the brand sent me a sound that they want me to use it's like a jingle and it actually is such a bop so I'm like I won't be surprised about if that sound goes viral like people use it it is a really good sound it's kind of bop so I'm excited to use it I'm excited to see it too let's go get some matcha what do you place this morning which is central market something about it just makes me feel so good I love walking around bougie grocery stores and just looking at all the fun snacks so I wanted to do a little grocery haul cause I got some good stuff but I got like a lot of like salmon things I don't know why I did that but I couldn't say no okay so first off we got the balsamic fig dressing this sounded really good and I have spinach in there also got strawberries and goat cheese well let me not get ahead of myself but I wanted to make a salad I saw that Jenny's ice cream was on sale so I literally just had to my favorite flavors are the gooey butter cake and then the wild wildberry lavender together too it's just such a good pairing next we have sourdough bread this is the only reason I went to the center market to get this cause I bought my favorite butter the other day I don't know if I already said this but when I was at H.E.B. they had my favorite I'm pretty sure it's vegan butter I'm not personally vegan my mom is and she showed it to me it just tastes really really good when sourdough so it's like one of my weaknesses then I got some sushi the last time I was at Whole Foods which I know Whole Foods in central market are totally different but like they are similar in ways because they're bougie grocery stores last time I was at Whole Foods I was like the sushi looks amazing even though it wasn't like super cheap but anyway this looked really good it's $10 which I feel like is I guess normal for like a sushi restaurant I don't know and then I saw salmon like sashimi salmon which was amazing because I usually have to drive all the way up to H Mart up north to get sushi grade fish so I'm really really happy that I found this even though I feel like the fish that I get at H Mart is a lot more like the quantity is a lot more it's a little bit more expensive but especially if you're making like a pocky bowl for like two people going to H Mart is so worth it because you can get so many other like fruits and vegetables for really really good prices but this was like $14 and I think I'm gonna make like a pocky bowl or I don't know I think I'm gonna look up some TikTok recipes to do with that I got some more salmon so I actually reached for this first because I had chicken in the fridge and I was like you know what what if I'm get sick of chicken I'm maybe should have gotten salmon and then I got some goat cheese and I saw this like honey goat cheese that sounded so good I've heard a lot about just this brand as a whole siete and so I wanted to try these chips so I just got sea salt chips I got some bunches of mint and basil I actually just purchased a click and grow I think that sounds cool but basically it's like an indoor plant grower if you will and there's like a little light and I'm pretty sure like it waters it on its own I'm hoping it does and then you buy specific pods there's so many herbs you can choose from there's like apple mint which I didn't even know existed I had no idea what it was I was like is that the same as mint but I think it's only being delivered at the end of this month so I just went ahead and picked up some herbs and it smells so good and then I got some shallots because I've been seeing so many again referencing TikTok but I've been seeing so many like chefs using shallots instead of onions I really wanna look into it more and I'm very inspired by this girl on TikTok she does day in my life as a private chef in the Hamptons they are so interesting because she literally makes like breakfast, lunch and dinner and these recipes look so amazing so I really really do wanna learn how to cook more but the issue is that now that Ryan doesn't live with me I'm only cooking for myself and it's just not as exciting obviously I have an Indian background and culture and everything like that but I do not know how to cook anything really I mean I usually like buy those like butter chicken packets and I don't really cook anything from scratch which kills me inside because I really do want to learn but I don't know it's just years of practice and obviously I don't have it under my belt just yet but I guess you know it's better to start today than tomorrow okay so this has actually been on my grocery list for a while now these are just rice paper yeah it's rice paper so I can make like spring rolls and I got my oyster mushrooms these were, I don't even know actually how much these were it didn't have a, let's see oh okay they would tend to ores that's not horrible because these can get pricey at farmers markets definitely recommend to get these at like an Asian grocery store like H Mart or 99 Ranch they have really good ones for very very inexpensive I just didn't want to drive all the way out there and I was craving those mushrooms so again I just bought strawberries for like salads and stuff I think this might be the last thing and I got cucumbers in case I wanted a juice or put it in my salad so yeah that's my little Central Market Hall I love this place so much I mean it's very very comparable to whole foods I will say but it's just so fun just getting to see all the new and upcoming like foods and brands and all that kind of stuff but today I really really want to focus on my photography brand I feel like I need to lock in some rates for like the upcoming few months and next grad season because I definitely want to increase my rates in like a certain season or like a certain month especially for like April grads like I'm going to do an early bird package for March and then maybe April I'll increase the rates having a little late breakfast I'm just going to use this container and put the grapes in here I love to slice my grapes this is how my mom used to do it cottage cheese and grapes are such an underrated combination I tried peaches and cottage cheese the other day and I just like didn't hit as good also this is lactate so for all my lactose intolerant girlies out there you're welcome I'm feeling like I need a midday pick me up and I got some self seizes in a PR package actually and I think I tried these before I can't really remember I got tropical vibe pineapple-y kind of drink let's see ooh strawberry lemonade that sounds good let's try it together I guess I was kind of expecting it to be a little bit more carbonated it's not it's pretty good I feel like I just like want to be like super energized and like go crazy and like get shit done today because I've been like organizing and like slowly doing work over the past few days but I just want to get a lot done especially because I feel like it's sunny I want to create content I have makeup on and I need to do the photography stuff because I've been pushing that off and I have some DMs to respond to and I hate making people wait but I also need to like think about like rates before I message them back but cheers let's get some shit done today I've been doing some research on my competitors in the area and like what they charge and just like what their packages are I personally don't put my rates out on the internet but I do appreciate what other photographers do it so I can kind of like base my numbers off of that so I've been doing that and then I drink the Celsius and now I'm feeling so anxious and I hate the feeling but I am getting like stuff done and I was thinking I could create like a contact form I was gonna do it on a Google form so I was like there has to be a way to make this cuter so I actually have Canva Pro I like have the subscription so it's like there has to be like a widget or something and then I found this thing called type form where you can like actually insert the widget into like a Canva template which I haven't made the Canva template so I'm just working on the type form cause it's kind of like confusing at first but I wanna show you guys that cause it's very interesting so first question is hey what's your name then I say are you a high school senior and then like if it says yes then I go to the next question which is when would you ideally like to shoot and then if it says no then it kind of gives this little what's this just like a screen that says like you know follow for more updates on anything else but then when you go into logic which this is kind of the confusing part and the cool part so this is kind of where you can like end the question I guess so let's see this is the one would you ideal okay so are you a high school senior we'll do that one is it focusing okay so basically if they choose be which is no you can put it to like the end screen that says this contact form is just for high school seniors but if they say yes you can go to the next question so I thought this was so cool and the fact that you can just like embed it in a widget is awesome if I had the patience I would literally make so many type forms for like anything like even in my friend group I was like this could be a cool thing to just like if you wanted to create like a weekend itinerary or for like a bachelorette party you can get other people's like opinions on what they want to do it seems free for now I'm not sure like what you can buy or like what you can get more of if you purchase a plan because I do CBU plans on the top corner but I think it's free for now so I'm good on that but my issue is just like coming up with the packages and everything like that because I don't want to like be too expensive for people to be like oh that's like really expensive but I know that my prices are not close to what other people are charging which I feel like I don't want to be the exact rate that everyone charges because I do want to like get those grads that maybe can't afford those packages but in my eyes obviously I'd rather do less work but get paid more and I feel like I've been like established in Austin for a while and just like I've been in the industry for a very long time so I feel like I can raise my prices but I just do feel bad like even last year I raised my prices and I'm surprised that I went the way I did but then I got one senior that was like oh yeah like I chose you because you were so much cheaper than the others and I was like I mean that's a great nall but I'm like oh shoot I also just got a text from my friend Jenna saying that she was doing like a happy hour with friends if I wanted to come so I think I'm gonna go it's at 7 p.m. it's currently 3 p.m. so I still have a lot of work to do I still want to film some TikToks so I'm not really sure what to film so I also want to like put all my ideas down which I feel like I said that but it's just so hard when like your mind's running and it also doesn't help when you're doing like two I wouldn't say completely different jobs because I feel like photography and influencing is like in the same realm but like but the tasks are completely different and it just makes me want to combust sometimes but I was telling you guys about my Notion calendar so I wanted to show you guys what it looks like we have all my tabs over here this one is for sponsorships and I just wanted one place to see you know when I need to submit my content when I'm gonna post it so here is some of the stuff so basically submitting Wayfarer content so I definitely want to get this film today and submit my Wayfarer content today I actually already submitted the Madewell content early the really long ones are a whole duration period where you can choose your post dates but for let's say the September 1st one I already told them that I would post on September 1st so I need to make sure I'm not posting this Wayfarer on September 1st because I like to spread it out a little bit you know what I mean? So same with the Express content I could probably post that another day just so I don't kind of bump into the DSW content I feel like whenever I explain this kind of stuff like it makes my mind go like boom goodness gracious like slow down I don't know what the frick you're talking about so I don't know if it's interesting to you guys or what my brain is all over the place especially with this damn caffeine it's making me feel some weird things I'm all ready for a happy hour I literally just changed into another hot pink top which is very not on brand for me but I'm loving it I think it just like really pops with my skin color but I'm gonna bring my pop bae bag this is not Patega Veneta but it's like the dupe for the noodle bag or whatever it's called it really doesn't fit shit at all like I can put a card, my ID, maybe my keys and a lip liner so just a heads up it is 100% for show and I love it for that reason but I definitely bring it out when I don't need a lot so a cake tonight because I actually I'm probably gonna Uber over there not really in the mood to find parking downtown and pay for it and all so just gonna do that also I don't know if I told you guys this but I like misplaced my business credit card I know it didn't get stolen because I like used it in person but I actually just called the last place I used it and I definitely left it there so I'm gonna go get it tomorrow but let me give you guys a quick OOTD before I leave this is what we're working with today I've already worn this outfit I think maybe with different jeans but I really like this top it's from Revolve maybe I need to like look up how to like do the bow nicer but it's kind of like this asymmetrical vibe super cute and then these jeans are from Zara you can barely see my feet because they're so long and I always cut my Zara jeans I am 5'3 and they're always so long on me but I kind of like it especially because I'm wearing heels I think they're like four inch heels but these are my go-to heels they're the Knowles heels from Dolce Vita and they have like a clear strap on them so they go with everything and they're actually very very comfortable I don't usually wear heels because they're not comfortable but these I can actually walk in so that's good but I'm gonna go call Lyft and head to the event I'll probably vlog on my phone though because I'm just like over carrying this camera around but I got set home with a goodie bag and some leftovers from the event and I didn't eat at all I was really excited that they were gonna have food so I'm very very happy that they brought like two boxes out we're back from the event it was so fun and I honestly never know who's gonna be at these events it was Jenna's like event before her big event tomorrow celebrating her like one year podcast if you guys don't listen to her podcast it's called Fun On Weekdays and I actually took her cover photo I'll insert it here it's so cute we went to Wax Myrtle's it was like more of like the sponsors I guess got together for the event and then some of like her friends and stuff so I was able to meet some new people which is always so so fun and I always appreciate like connecting with new people especially here in Austin I've been here for three years now and I feel like I'm never gonna stop wanting to meet new people but I got like a little to-go box so I think I'm gonna like heat this up in the air fryer so that's gonna be loud in the back but we'll just have to bear ever since Ryan has been gone which has not been for that long yet I, you know, obviously knew I was gonna have a little bit of mom dog mom guilt and I did I wasn't even gone for that long like 6.30 to like 9.30 and usually I'm gone for longer but I just feel so bad because I feel like he always gives Sophie so much attention come here it was so hot out I just really wish I had a clock left so now I know to not go anywhere without a clock left just hanging off my bag I low key was about to like go in and take my Invisalign off because my temporary teeth feel like they're a retainer and it just feels so uncomfortable lovely and so I literally sometimes find myself going to like take them off if you're had Invisalign whenever they get like uncomfortable you just like slide them out or like when you're about to eat which I was about to eat and I was just about to go like that it's like wait I literally can't get rid of this feeling for another couple of weeks which honestly I feel like it's going by super super fast because my final appointment is September 8th I feel like I've been seeing them a lot but I'm counting down the days because like now it doesn't really hurt it just feels like not like normal you know so just looking forward to having normal real teeth Hey y'all it is Friday it's midday and I'm about to meet a new friend for acai bowls we're going to go to Blender and bowls on the east side I feel like there's so many like cute little places around this area of town that I always forget about I've only gone here like once and then I got it to go obviously to go just didn't hit as good as getting it in the store because it's like acai bowls, avocado toast and you know it should just get mushy when you get it to go or take out no I think I Uber-eased it so I feel like that's even worse I've been very scatterbrained this whole week and I don't know why I just can't seem to like focus on one thing pissing me off so much because I have so many things to like just plan out for the rest of the year and I don't know I just don't know what's going on in my mind so hopefully next week can be better and will be better I will make sure of it it's 7.20 and I am going to make myself a poke bowl for dinner I actually just made a bunch of sushi rice well I'm not done with it just yet but I have like specific rice for sushi rice it's just called sushi rice but to make it like an actual sushi restaurant does you have to put sugar and where is it? vinegar or something like that rice vinegar maybe? so I'm gonna do that in a second like a tablespoon of vegetable oil fourth cup of sugar half a cup of rice vinegar whenever I make sushi rice Ryan hates the smell so much and it definitely has like a vinegar like feet smelling smell and then I think we need to add some salt we are probably going to go out tonight I let the sauce cool now it's time to pour in and mix it my friend's friend ended up arriving late because there was like a bit of a delay so we couldn't even make our reservation which is totally fine because we're just gonna go straight out to the bars and I think we're going to West and I'm actually so excited because I feel like I have not been like out out in forever and I'm just like so ready to like go out more I made a little margarita concoction I made it way too strong at first so I poured like a little bit of chlorine in it which is good because I need to hydrate anyway so I need to like trug it and I'm not putting like cute little rose petals on top I just love being extra with my cocktails I love a pretty cocktail any little garnish I'm like wow a little lime I'm like that is beautiful like I don't know why I'm just like very impressed by like any little garnish or rim on any kind of cocktail but it's like strong and gross still usually a tequila girl like I never really drink vodka unless it is in drinks out at the bar and I'm like ooh that like sounds good but I usually try to stick to tequila so tonight I'm definitely going to try to do that because last time I was just like out of chill bar and I think my issue was that I kept ordering like really sweet drinks because they were like craft like craft cocktails I don't even know what that means but like specialty cocktails where they like you know make it like pretty and stuff and so there was like two really sweet ones that I ended up ordering and I got an immediate headache and now I'm like gonna remind myself don't do that like it's not worth it because then you literally have to go home and it's just not fun I've been blasting some music trying to get me in the party mood because I feel like when it gets so late especially when you're like alone at first when we decided we weren't gonna go to Codependent they were like we should just come to like one's place and then go from there and pre-game and I was like hell yeah but I'm kind of glad that's not happening because then I would have had to rush clean the place which wouldn't have been like terrible and honestly it would have probably been better because then I would have cleaned my place but now I don't have to rush but I'll probably end the vlog here and put like some clips I get throughout the night if I do I don't even know if I will I just remembered I need to figure out what person I'm bringing and then like switch everything over and also my hair's been like not greasy but just pretty flat on here so I just threw it up in a ponytail and I feel like that's gonna be fine anyways cause like it just gets so hot when you go out and you're just wanting to throw it up anyways like last night I would have died for a hair clip or like a claw clipper or something like that so anyways, if you guys enjoyed this vlog subscribe and don't forget to follow me on TikTok and Instagram I am very active on both so those are both, what do you want? Those are both so underscored gnarly I also gave Sophia bath today and she looks so nice and cute and she looks so good but I will see you guys in my next video, bye


What's going on leave her nation asleep for back again and welcome back to another NHL 20 pack opening and today We have our squad battle rewards, which are lacking because we only played one game and her CS rewards Which are pretty decent, but before we get into the packs Let me show you the new content that is out So we get some more fantasy hockey cards the new masters Brady kichup. We got John Tavares I would love to pull them so here the new cards. We got Patrick Tavares stall Gustafson. Oh, yeah Samson of Blake Wheeler Keith Yandle Josh Bailey capo cacao John Klingburg and Mueller so a very good lineup I would love to pull Johnny T because he will get upgraded a big time We got some new prime times available and me kill surrogates have John Gibson Matthew Shane Jacob Truba Connorsherry and Nikolai healers We have a general premium pack out which we are not buying. We got these alumni's out to Maruto Joe Mullen You know Frederick Tudin Beer on those guys and then a new team of the week, which I will show you guys right now So here's a team of the week 86 mark Shifley 82 Riley Smith with that Anders Lee Sam Reinhardt Magna and Philip Dano We don't care about the last two lines and then we got Tyson Barry who I would love to pull John Carlson Marco Mueller and board wiki and then in net Flurry and kicker so we are ready to open up some packs We got to go claim a reward. So like I said, I only played one game of squad battles You know, not the greatest rewards. Obviously We get 750 coins. So that's cool I guess and now it is time to go claim our seat S reward. So let's go do that We did season. So here we go I think we finished just above 500 so 541 we went 9-1-1. So we did have a good season So we will take 541 that gets us to mango packs and a premium players pack So not the biggest pack opening but we do have some very good packs where we can pull some stuff So six and open packs is not bad We got a you know a re-roll a base pack two base packs two mega packs and a premium players pack So here we go We're gonna start with the trading that I did just cuz maybe we pull something who knows here we go Chris Russell and Okay, so nothing in that we expected nothing from that. We got our two base packs Which again, I expect nothing from them, but you just never know. So here we go right a nice silver contracts here I Seven hundred fifty coins. Okay, we got a gold player. There's one gold player So that's gonna be a gold player for the pack. I believe Adam Henry gady overall I don't know why I got excited for that, but yeah, not the greatest pack I said not the greatest pack that was pretty good for a base pack I guess to be fair So here we go on with another base pack here that we got from playing one game a squad battle So I guess that's cool. I don't know I doubt we pull anything in this too. There's our gold player anything else Not a not a nothing at all. All right now. We're on to the big boys I think we're gonna do the mega packs first and then the premium players pack So you guys know the drill these mega packs have been a so good for me You know just check my recent pack openings when I've had these they've been so good So again, my expectations are high up Jacob true has a prime time feel bad feels bad But yeah, I have high expectations for these packs. They are really good So we are Randall Jacob truly does have a special card out Tyson Barry Why does this game do this to me? He has a team of the week out eighty five overall and you give me his base card in this game Legitimately hates me feels bad. We don't pull his team of the week David Creech each okay, not the best gold tins So so far our best pull has been an 83 in this pack and in the pack opening in general can we top that? Jvr. Okay. Oh man I really wanted his team of the week and they gave me his base card feels bad Chris Brown a barracuda jersey Ryan Murray Surely there's one more gold tint left in this pack. I think there's gonna be one Adam Henry We pull him again James a real deal Neil Come on here We're getting to that might be it for the pack.  All right nose pack for the mega pack here boys Those packs have been good, especially with mega packs. So here we go. Let's get something good here Don't ram you like you did last pack.  Let me see that you know a gold or purple tin would be very nice here.  Okay, just a gold tint at least don't ram me this hard here. Come on Tommy Wiggles didn't know you still playing hockey Evan Bouchard Come on something towards the end of this pack.  He doesn't go for much today three overall though Alex Galchenyuk. Okay. There's our two gold tints They're gonna be anything else here. Come on. We got what four cards left. Surely there's one more gold tints in these last couple Rasmus Dallin. Okay. All right decent pack Not the greatest though last pack is a premium players pack ten items all gold players at least two plus 80 overalls Okay, here we go. Give me something good in these Adam Larson Mark Latestu Sekira PK Souben Okay, not bad Not bad. We'll take it. I don't know if you'll make the team, but you know what? We will take a PK Eric Carlson, baby, we pulled him again. This is my second time pulling him. I'm not gonna sell him this time I don't think there's our purple tint. Oh my goodness EA. Thank you Oh my yeah, he's gonna use to the team. Look at this card 92 speed An 84 wrist shot 84 slap shot power. Beautiful. We will take it Connor Hellbuck the follow last two here. Chris Crieder and a Jack Eichel. Okay. That's twice that we pulled Eichel Let's go though. What a pack opening Eric Carlson and Jack Eichel in the last pack That's huge man. Let's go. Anyways guys, that's going to be it for this NHL 20 pack opening video I mean the first couple packs were pretty bad, but the last pack did reward us and we are so happy for that So if you guys did enjoy this video, be sure to drop a like on it If you guys are new around here hit the subscribe button join the lead for nation Anyways guys, this is going to be it for this video. Thank you guys very much for watching and I'll talk to you guys later Peace


This is Stockmer 11317. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. And today we are checking out this like-new 2019 Ford F450 extended cab, 60-inch cab-to-axle XL dual rear wheel. This one has a Monroe nine-foot dump body on it. Stainless steel. Really nice condition. And we'll show you how that works in just a minute here. First we'll do a walk around. This truck has a 6.7-liter power stroke diesel. All of our vehicles go through 130-point inspection per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. Blue Jeans Metallic is the color on this truck. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right-hand party screen, there's a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one comes with the 19.5-inch steel rims with these chrome covers on there. And it has Continental Conta Hybrid HS3. Two 2570R 19.5 tires and they are like new. There's only like 1300 miles on this truck or 1800 miles, very, very low miles on this truck. Frame and underbody is like new as well. Blue Jeans Metallic, you can get a good idea of that metal flake in the paint if you have your HD capabilities on. No denser dings on the front fender. The front bumper and lower valance are in excellent condition. And the hood is absolutely perfect. It does come with the clearance lights up there. Pass in your side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that wheel simulator there. And as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you are looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And that is why we offer the Summit Auto Fast Pass option in the upper right hand part of your screen, link to our website where you can apply for financing. Get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade. Basically do your entire deal from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here, all you got to do is drive the truck, love it, and you'll be all set to go. It has some nice mineral toolboxes on the side. They look like they have never been used. The frame and underbody has been undercoated. And you do get the dual rear wheels with the mud guards on them, which are pretty nice. It does come with a receiver hitch and seven-pin wiring back here. You can see just how nice that dump body's in. Nice condition. No major dents or dings. There's just a couple really light toy scratches in the bed there. Looks like it's hardly ever been used, at least for what it's made to do. Those sides, these sides do come down. They are pretty heavy and it would be pretty hard to do it with one hand here. But they do just pull this lever and then they do fold down like so. You got another box on the side. That's where your def goes. It has the telescopic tomers with the built-in directional signals. Just telescope out like so and fold in like so. We'll take a quick look inside and then we'll show you how that dump body works. It comes with the gray vinyl interior. No rips or tears on the seats. It has the heavy-duty rubber floors. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors. Those have the extended cab. Don't worry, these doors have a little tab on them so that you can't open up the doors all the way. You do get power windows back here. Back seats are in excellent condition as well.  You want to put back here while you're taking your truck to the dump. It comes with the owner's manual for the dump body and the floors are nice and clean back here. As we hop inside the truck here we'll turn the ignition on so that you can see just how many miles are on this thing. 1,228 miles on this truck. Very, very low miles. Hardly ever used. You get the multifunction steering wheel. Bluetooth and audio controls on the right. Cruise controls and information center controls on the left. Six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. It has AM FM radio sync to pair to your Bluetooth device. It has the factory exhaust brake stability control. It has turned out four wheel drive factory brake controller controls for your heated mirrors and climate controls. And a USB and 12 volt power point up here. Passing your side floor mat. I'm sorry, passing your side floor is in nice shape. Passing your side glove boxes. And the whole truck is like new all the way through. The headliner is absolutely perfect. You do get six upfitter switches right there. And then map lights up there too. We'll raise that dump body for you here. So it comes with the controls. Really easy up and down. So hard to mess that one up. So it takes roughly about 40 seconds to get this dump body up. So I'm going to start. Right now you can count along on the timer there. And it'll stop once you get to the maximum point on the dump. So I'll kind of show you so you can check out that angle inside the dump body. So pretty steep there. Make sure everything goes out. And you can see the frame and everything underneath here is in really nice clean condition. Really nice truck, really nicely set up, really nice dump body. And we'll just take a quick look under the hood. And then we'll put the dump body down. And then do start it up so you can hear it run. But 2019, pretty perfect truck. Only 1200 miles on it, engine bay very clean. The lights are working good. I'll actually do one walk around here so you can see the dump body all the way up. Then we'll put it down and start it up real quick. Finish off the video here. You can see just really steep. Wish they gave you that angle. Then to get it down you just press down on your... Once again you can count down and I counted 37 seconds before. But it's roughly about 40 going up and down. You see it's got a serial number on the dump plate there. And here it was inspected by. And we'll start it up and do one more final walk around. Starts right up. Runs real smooth. And I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video you'll have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Check out the dump body and see how nice it works. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs. Mini vans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, four fifties, five fifties. You name it we got it. Go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Number two like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more F450 videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those. Check us out and we really look forward to helping you with this super clean 2019 Ford F450 extended cab, 60 inch cab to axle with a Monroe dump body on it. Thanks again for checking out the video.


Look at that space. Look at that space. You see that little, uh, so that's a little shoulder. The impact Ben Simmons will have in Brooklyn may be monumental, but it's not just limited to the court. Damn. I ain't even warm up yet. His Ben Simmons Family Foundation has embarked on an eight-week leadership program aimed to advance social justice and racial equity for Brooklyn youth. The way I was raised, my parents have always told me to give back when you can. And I think that's something that's just very important to me. I was very fortunate growing up and coming from Australia, having, you know, a family that loved me and had all that support to get to the NBA and make it to where I've come. You know, I'm here to use my platform to give kids an opportunity to express themselves or do something that they love or feel passionate about. And I'm excited to do that. I think for me, I've always wanted to give back to community and you guys. And that's what it's about. It's about passing on my knowledge and trying to help you guys grow. For whatever situations you're about to go through in life, everybody in here is here for you guys. I want you guys to grow as young men, women, and be successful and be happy and do what you want to do in life. Back in 2020, when all of the things happened with Black Lives Matter and the murder of George Floyd, Ben and Australia started a campaign called Do More. Using his foundation and his name and platform to create programs and break down barriers for people to have equal opportunities. And so working with his family and with his team and really all driven by Ben's vision, he wanted to create a program or create partnerships that had more longevity and rises the most premier nonprofit organization in the country that uses sport to break down barriers. We try to empower athletes who want to use their platform in this space. And so this for us was a really great partnership with the Ben Simmons Family Foundation because they focus on leadership. They focus on advocacy. They focus on breaking barriers to promote equality. And so for us, there was just a synergy and alignment. It may not always feel like you can say certain things to certain people, but this is a safe place. I want you guys to let out what you got to let out. Nobody's going to judge you. I'll share a lot of stuff that I've been through if you guys want to know. There's a lot of things that everyone has dealt with. It's not just me. Everyone deals with everyday struggles, whatever it is. I think the one thing that I want to pass on is just any knowledge I can give them, whether they're asking for advice on basketball or life, that's everybody. Everyone has different situations. So if I'm able to help these kids in any way I can, I feel like I've done my job. You saw him be hands-on because that's who he is. He doesn't just phone it in. He's been here for two and a half hours doing every conversation, every drill, getting down with the young people, sharing and being vulnerable and being open because that's what's necessary for you to then get vulnerability back. The young people learned from him. They heard his voice. They heard his perspective on things. And that to me is truly amazing. It's one thing to see your heroes and see your idols on the court or on the pitch, but to hear from them in a private, safe setting, I think is amazing. And that takes an incredible vulnerability. The fact that these kids were coming up to me and asking me questions about certain things was amazing. That's the whole point. We want these kids to be able to talk and communicate and try to learn as much as possible. Now again, we're going up.  I've always just felt strongly about giving back and being able to do that in Brooklyn now, it's a blessing.