Friday, November 6, 2009

Birth Charts don't lie, I was born to be a Queen Dyke.

Your sun sign is Scorpio. This is the sign in which the Sun is in your birth chart. Your Ascendant is in Leo, and your Moon is in Virgo.

Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Virgo


  • Your personality is expressed through service to others, usually dealing with details of organization and arrangement.

  • Internally you feel resentful about life that fate has dealt you.

Ascendant in Leo, Sun in the Fourth House

  • People with Leo in the Ascendant seem to possess a flair for the life of nobility and regality. Your life will be in many ways influenced by decisions you make that have been motivated by your pride, desire for power, for authority, and your need to convince others of your courage.

  • In life you will act with a rather frank, generous, and amiable disposition.

  • The course of events in your life will unfold themselves swiftly, and a life full of chance and circumstances will be the outcome of your desire to rule, to organize, to hold the keys of authority.

  • You should be aware that as a result of overly strong impulses there is the danger of failures and upsets in life.

  • You will be generally regarded as an amiable, sincere and generous person who, however, has much pride and sensitivity.

  • Egocentricity is one of the prices of being born with the Ascendant sign of Leo.

  • your personality becomes excessively charged with passion and sexual desire.

  • these zodiacal signs grant in life a large dose of vitality as well as a strong, healthy constitution.
  • You are very self-assured and you implement ideas with a self- assurance that lets nothing get in your way of success.

  • It would be beneficial to you, however, if you were not so candid and frank and if you did not expect others to act and feel as you do.

  • Leo will grant you very sincere and affectionate relationships in which you desire to bring happiness and an overall feeling of charitable spirit and warmth to your loved one.

  • In your sexual relationships you appear as happy, strong, playful and even a little innocent.

  • You will always act better as a leader than a subordinate.


Mars Conjunct Ascendant


  • Mars conjunct the Ascendant gives you an inexhaustible supply of energy.

  • Lacking self-discipline, you take daring and unnecessary risks when challenged.

  • You want most of all for people to recognize your superiority.

  • The image you present hides a persistent inferiority complex.

  • You have enormous creative ability that merely needs to be harnessed to an objective. When you do this, no one can succeed as easily as you can, and with energy to spare.

  • You are independent and self-confident. You know how to mobilize people and their resources to achieve your objectives.

Sun in the Fourth House


  • You believe in being the "ruler" in your home.

Venus in the Fourth House


  • This is usually a very favorable and fruitful position that grants excellent relationships within peaceful and beautiful environments.

  • This position indicates many social affairs, feasts, parties, celebrations, and related activities.

  • A natural lover of country life and nature, you will find many opportunities to gratify these sentiments.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Victory


Office of the president:
"On behalf of the President, I am writing to acknowledge your email received by our office today regarding the event organized by the student group Campus for Christ. Our Center for Human Rights has been in contact with this group this morning and will be in contact with community members who have voiced their concerns about this event. I understand that the Campus for Christ group has recently issued an apology and the event is not going ahead as scheduled for tomorrow. I have forwarded your letter to our Centre for Human Rights so that you may follow-up on this issue. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention."
Campus for Christ event organizer:
"It has been brought to our attention that many people have been deeply hurt by some of the content of our weekly email that was sent out yesterday. In fact, we realized it was not communicating what we intended even before we received any feedback. We are regretfully sorry for this and as a result are taking an opportunity to respond. The email below is being sent out to the clubs who have been personally hurt by it:
On behalf of Campus for Christ and all those who were involved in the initiating and planning of the Prayer for the Homosexual Community, I want to offer my sincerest apologies for any offense, hurt, or hatred that was caused by the email.
As the organizer of the event I need to make it clear that I did not write the email and none of what it implied was intended. It does not in any way express the heart of Campus for Christ or my personal intention. The original purpose behind the event was to address the negative relationship that currently exists on a wide scale between the Christian and Homosexual communities. Our hopes in this were, and continue to be, to mend this strained relationship and to seek opportunities for encouraging genuine friendship and open communication. It is our mistake and regret for not better monitoring our emails. The individual who did write the email was unclear about our purpose and has informed us of how regretful he is for any hurt it has caused anyone.
From the bottom of my heart I am so very sorry for this misunderstanding. I want to clearly state that we believe that people of any sexual orientation are human beings with rights and are to be completely respected for who they are. To anyone who feels personally attacked, threatened, or who now feels unsafe or unwelcome by us at York University, we want you to know that you are completely valued by us in every way. We ask that you would please consider this email and accept our humble apology."
(PUKE and BS, but victorious puke and BS. )

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Dear Dr. President,

I am a student working towards an MA in Critical Disability Studies. I am returning to university after working in museums and community development for the last 10 years. It took me a long time to determine the best place for me to study and what direction to take. I finally decided upon York because of its unique programs and its reputation for being a dynamic and inclusive learning environment, committed to critical theory and social justice.

I have an established career, home and family in Ottawa, so I commute one day a week to attend classes, while continuing to work full time. In addition to this, I do volunteer work regularily, write for a local newspaper and spend time with an elderly family member. It’s a lot of work, but up until today, I thought I had made the right choice in the university I was attending. Today however, I discovered the following announcement made by the York student group, Campus for Christ:

Prayer for the Homosexual Community at York

Thursday Nov.5th, 2009, 12:30-2:30pm

Location: TBA

Join us in prayer as we pray for lives to be changed on the York University campus! One aspect of that change will be dedicated towards the homosexuality community. Let us pray in love for those who seek freedom from this bondage that they may find Jesus and turn away from temptation. Let us earnestly, get on our knees and fight a battle in prayer for their victory.[1]

As a student at “Canada's third largest university, world-renowned for attracting students who forge their own unique paths”[2] I was, to say the least, shocked. I did not request this prayer service and I can only assume that York student representatives acting on behalf of the student LGBTQQ community were likewise not consulted, nor did they request this prayer service.

This event is hurtful, oppressive, disrespectful and not in keeping with York’s core values. In your own words you stated that “York stands for: excellence, diversity, accessibility, social justice, fairness.” You went on to hope that students would “remember to be themselves”. [3]

Likewise, this event is not in keeping with my core values. I cannot and will not attend a university which supports either financially or symbolically a student organization that seeks to “fight a battle” in an attempt to abolish my family, my identity, my community and myself, whether through the means of prayer or otherwise.

I was relived to read that you care about student’s experience and that York is a space that supports and promotes diversity and inclusion. As you noted in the summer president’s report: “top priorities this year [are] to improve the student experience” while also ensuring that York is “a place where you will grow as a person, where you learn what it means to be a citizen, and where you can form friendships that will last for life.“[4] I hope I can trust in your words and your commitment to them as this group is clearly deviating from your expectations of student citizenship. I hope that I can rely on you to act quickly and respectfully in responding to this matter, so that this school is a safe and welcoming place for us all.

Respectfully yours,

A Student.


[1] Campus for Christ, York Campus. (2009). Retrieved online at 3pm November 3, 2009 from: https://www.mygcx.org/c4c_york/screen/home (this description was removed by 10 pm the same day)

[2] York University, (2009). Office of the President. Retrieved online, November 3, 2009 from: http://www.yorku.ca/presidnt/aboutyorku/index.html

[3] Shoukri, M. (2009). York University. Retrieved online, November 3, 2009 from: http://www.yorku.ca/presidnt/news/YorkU_summer08_p7.pdf

[4] Shoukri, M. (2009). York University. Retrieved online, November 3, 2009 from: http://www.yorku.ca/presidnt/index.html