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Breakfast. (Taken with instagram)
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Walking down Victoria Ave and saw this. Made me chuckle. (Taken with instagram)
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“Love is Love #1 June 2012” T-Shirts & Hoodies by brodhe | RedBubble
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I haven’t listened to much 1D stuff, but I will say… better than I thought it would be.
(Source: Spotify)
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FUSA & The State of Affairs at Flinders Uni
I’ve had a few people approach me in regards to the state of affairs of student politics at Flinders Uni. What started out as a small misgiving seems to have turned into a somewhat rather heated debate which will, I think, unfold tonight. A long time ago, before certain Liberal Prime Ministers introduced voluntary student unionism, universities like Flinders were in the foreground of the equal rights, student rights and worker rights movements. We had students who were feverently standing up for what they believed to be the correct things. Ten years later, the introduction of SVU and and the dawn of the internet age have all meant that these days on campus students have settled into a lull of apathy. I ran for my student council position a couple years ago to try and shake a few people out of this apathy, as well as to represent my collective the best I could (I reside as the Queer Officer- and since believe I have brought about a nice amount of light to the position). I’ve remained in my position for the last two elections and have seen most others come and go. Old President to New President, I’m not overly jealous of the position that they’re in in regards to the SSAF. The SSAF, Student Services Amenities Fee, is an amount taken by the university for each student and will be/is to be used on things like Student Services: makes sense. The problem at our uni lies with the our setup after SVU. Once SVU was introduced our university basically pulled all their funds and amalgamated the student representative and welfare services with their commercial ventures, such as food and beverage on campus. Seems alright, except it meant that students had little access to the university resources, and that students could barely rage against the uni without upsetting the flow of cash, which in turn supported the student reps. In essence, the Student Council had its hands tied with how they could conduct themselves. With the introduction of the SSAF there are going to be millions of dollars that can be spent improving the above, and, thankfully, what this includes is the establishment of the Flinders University Student Association- an association with the sole purpose of student welfare and wellbeing, and representation. It’s been a long journey this year, coming from inception to implementation [which, by the way, we’re still not at…]. Listening to some of the rumors flying around about what it’s going to look like, and how it’s going to be setup- and many of these rumors have, apparently, been told by people who have absolutely no part in its establishment, and are simply that: rumors. I current conflict that is happening escalated from the last Student Council meeting. At this meeting the President, who has been the student liaison with the university around how the FUSA will be setup, let the other Office Bearers (OBs) know the current and completely preliminary draft constitution of FUSA. This draft included the removal of 3 OB position: Environmental Officer, Clubs & Rec Officer, Activities Officer. There are arguments on both sides, which I tried to bring to light at the meeting, but essentially it is, or was, believed that these positions could be filled with strong activist students as part of a sub-group rather than a direct OB. There are both positive and negative impacts of this move, and people seemed to jump on the negative. As far as I saw it, the OBs were going to vote on whether or not to keep them. As I made myself clear on the night- it costs nothing more to have these OB positions there, it only does positive to have them there, and there is a strong cohort of people who want them to remain: keep them. And that is how I would have voted, had it made it to the stage of voting. Instead, it seems that students who do not reside on the student council have become involved [which is a good thing, not a bad thing]. The biggest problem that I’ve heard is that students on campus feel like they were approached about what the new constitution should look like. I feel the same way- even residing on the student council, I feel as if it’s been kept out of our focus- but I personally believe there was a good intention behind the reason for this. Firstly, the President has been asked to do a lot more than her fair share of work. Sure, she could have delegated some of the work or got some help- but no one else is paid to complete this work, nor is anyone else privy to all the information that she is. Secondly, she’s actually done a really good job, despite what the critics say. Reading over the new draft [which now re-includes the enviro officer et al], there is very little in it to disagree with. And thirdly- I think people have jumped the gun. If I was in her position, I would have followed this process:
- Create a draft to the best of my ability
- Put this draft to the elected members of student council for amendments and edits
- Put amended draft constitution to the student body
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Obama’s Impact on Australian Same Sex Marriage
There’s a lot of buzz going around the world today about President Obama’s declaration of support for Same Sex Marriage in the USA. The question that people are asking here in Australia is what it means for us here, and whether or not it impacts our own leader, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who has publicly reiterated time after time that she is not in support of SSA Marriage.
Ultimately I think it will have little impact as our politically systems are too vast, and our laws too different. I think it was outlined well on The Project tonight: in Australia we have mandatory voting and due to the lack of the need to incite people to get out of bed and vote, all a politician needs to do is a slightly better job than their opponent. With the liberals as the opponents, I’m only surprised that Julia isn’t more popular.
A further look at why Gillard doesn’t allow Same Sex Marriage is even more interested. If you do a quick Google on the internet, you’ll find a dozen people saying a dozen different reasons, but it still doesn’t sit well with me. While I have no intention to marry anyone in the next few years (in fact, I haven’t even found a partner yet), I still find it personally insulting that Australia hasn’t allowed people like me to marry.
We’ve all heard the “man and woman” argument that gets thrown around. This is very popular in Australia thanks to a rather homophobic move by the liberal government back in the 1990s. We were the first country to actively go out of our way to ban same sex marriage while the rest of the world was gearing up to allow it. John Howard, PM at the time, introduced a change to the legislation that states marriage had to be between “a man and a woman”. He specifically wrote these words into law, meaning that no matter if you were gay, lesbian or even trans, if the marriage ever amounted to not being between a “man” and a “woman”, then it was no longer a marriage. Rather sickening and disheartening.
The next argument that gets thrown around is the religious argument which incorporates catchphrases like “the sanctity of marriage”. We’ve all read posts like “if Kardashian can get married for 72 hours, why can’t gays?”, but I think it goes beyond that. In fact, I see little point on why politicians ever, at any point, bring up the ‘sanctity’ of marriage. If you’re confused by what this words means, it means that marriage is ‘sacred’. Sacred is a word which means “pertaining to or connected with religion.”. By even saying this, they’re truly saying “gay marriage is not religious”. This, I understand. In fact, I also accept it. People of various religions have the right to say what is or what is not part of their religion. I don’t like it, but I’ll accept it for now. What I will not in any way tolerate is the leader of our country, a country with a clear and concise separation of church and state, stating religious reasons to oppose same sex marriage.
The fact that our leaders have selected to keep the wording of marriage in our laws, it means that they have separated any religious connotations with it. I truly do not see any reasons why our PM can offer to not accept same sex marriage. A recent inquiry showed that the Australians who were in support of same sex marriage far out weighed those that were not and yet we keep hearing that “Australia is not ready”. It is likely (read “unfortunate”) that Australia is likely to shift towards a liberal leadership soon, but I think that should not play apart: any leader of our country cannot present to me a logical, evidence based argument against same sex marriage that does not drip with “the government simply sees you as a lesser citizen”.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Anyone?
As if full time study, 3 jobs, organising a national conference, sitting on student council as Queer Officer and creating the GSA packs wasn’t enough, I have started working on a project with the Aids Council of South Australia as of tonight. I got involved through my role as Queer Officer when the project coordinator at ACSA reached me and asked me to help him recruit some participants for some workshops/focus groups that they ran around the campaign, and I did this with myself included. That was tonight, and all up there were I think about 20+ people there, which is fantastic to see such a turnout. Basically ACSA want to create a new ad campaign, but they didn’t want to create one that people wouldn’t pay attention to. So in collaboration with SHine SA and The Second Story they’re getting young people aged up to 25 (that is, us) to workshop the campaign and then create it in collaboration with a film director who’s on board. We split up into groups tonight and began brainstorming and pulling out ideas about what it should look like, and even from the other participants in my group there were some pretty awesome things being shared around. I tried to push my idea a little bit (which is why each of us where there: to share our own opinions). Basically the problem that they have is that there are fewer people getting STD/STI tests and the rate of STIs is up. They want to get people back in and getting tested, and the aim is to prevent STI infection and HIV transmission. It’s a known stat that one of the highest groups of men-who-have-sex-with-men that contract and transmit STIs are those who are not out, or who do not identify as being gay: there are many reasons about this, but including things like - not know what testing involves worried that they’ll be outed to doctors - disclosure and privacy, etc. I really think that this is a group that the gay community completely sweeps under the mat, and when it comes to STI campaigns, they’re missed altogether. Every single campaign I know of in the past has, mostly, been promoted at gay events, in gay publications and on gay sites. Those who don’t frequent those things just don’t get the information. With all that in mind, I want to bring that lack of information about testing is, in my opinion and completely unfounded in fact, one of the largest reasons why people don’t get tested: people are scared of what testing involves, scared of the results, and scared to do it. So they are the two things that need to be targeted: the fear of getting tested, and the not out or non-gay-identifying men-who-have-sex-with-men. How do you do this? It’s been shown that these men who aren’t out, are still clued on to a bit of health information, and the internet is by far the largest source of this information. What needs to happen is a resource needs to be created for the internet, but it then needs to be promoted in real life. ACSA want to incorporate a video element and this is perfect. The video is a total of 90 seconds, which is likely to be split into 3x 30 second ads, which is quit normal. So I would love to see a mini series of the ads showing exactly how testing works. In total the video would follow someone walking into the clinic (Clinic 275 most likely), filling out the form, being called by the doctor, getting the test, getting the results and being cleared. People don’t realise the the majority of tests are completely non invasive and don’t even revolve around their privates, and if they could see that on video of exactly what happens, then they’d break down some of their conceptions. I think it’d need to be scripted and workshoped to include some of the elements that plays on emotion: a bit of suspense (getting the results) the realisation (showing just how easy and non scary it is), etc. Then around public places like toilets, buildings at unis, newspapers, etc, to have posters with a simple graphic pie graph with “x% of people have chlamydia” or “x% of men who have sex with other men have syphilis” and nothing else but the website link. Something really simple and hard-hitting. They’d then go home in their own time and log on (again, keeping in mind that the target demographic are shown to look up sexual health information because they’re scared to get access to it elsewhere due to disclosure) and ad campaign done. I’m now signed on for the next 7 weeks to help work with this campaign (this = whatever happens, not this being my idea). It should be launched early July, so watch this space. That’s my idea at least. If you were to create an STI ad campaign, what would it look like?
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City of Playford’s ‘The Fit Element’: Disappointing
Today I attended an event called ‘The Fit Element’. It was a community event with the idea of health promotion in mind. There were numerous stalls and activities, food and entertainment. I was there as part of my role as Men’s Health Coordinator for the Royal Adelaide Hospital [a position which sadly finishes in 2 days time, alas]. I was doing this health campaign with some students from the Uni of South Australia. The organisers of the event had told us to expect between 3000-4000 people, and that while it was a ‘family’ event, they were expecting mostly older people. They were definitely right about older people coming through, and I’d say 90% of our clients were 50+, but I can’t say for sure as I haven’t even looked at the evaluation forms yet. The event, to me, was an absolute failure, though. I say this for two reasons. The organisers told us to expect between 3000 to 4000 people. In total coming in and out of the entire event I would be surprised if they counted more than 500. At our table, which seemed to be one of the more popular for some time, we barely got through 80 clients. Rather disappointed from our perspective, as putting on a campaign like this takes an awful lot of prep and work, but even if we got our message [which was about men taking control of their health] reached 80, we’ll be content with that. Being disappointed with the turn out though, we started asking people how they heard about the event. We thought that by asking this we can see, from a health promotion perspective [as the students from UniSA were studying Health Promotion] what kind of work went into this. One man told me that he had been to the City of Playford’s council officers [this is the local council who put on this event] to ask about the day as he had heard it mentioned by a friend, and the staff he asked there had no idea it was even on. Already I had low hopes: if the council putting the event on didn’t even disseminate to their own internal staff that it was happening, what chance did they have of reaching the broader community? My conclusion was very little, and that seemed about right. For a community area that has over 70,000 people, surely getting a few to come along wouldn’t be that difficult. Other people said that they had heard about it from mates, some people were simply driving past and saw it on, but no one really said that they had heard about it in local news papers, radio or any of the traditional media outlets that 21st century events are promoted in. Not only had our team invested a lot of time, energy and money into being there, but I’m sure every other stall and activity-runners did as well. Being told to expect up to 4000 people, it would have been nice if the organisers had actually promoted the event at all. So that’s the first thing that annoyed me about today, but it is by far not the biggest. In fact, had the event been a good one I wouldn’t have cared if only 10 people turned up. But the event was not good, not in any sense of the word. Before I explain why, hold in mind that this entire community event is about health, and improving ones health. It was great, then, that the first major activity was a cooking demonstration by Calum, from Master Chef, who, with his business partner and dietician Themis, own a health eating business. They were placed up on stage and talked about the importance of eating health, and gave a demonstration of a really nice, quick, health prawn salad. It was fantastic and drew a decent crowd [although we were asked to go watch, as stall holders, to try and make it look like there was a larger crowd]. I’ve met these men before, and was great to see them continue their work around diets, health eating, etc. What I didn’t like is what happened next: so from one moment of Themis talking about the important of eating balanced, not to over indulge and only eat until you’re full, to the very next event which was an eating contest. This was the first thing that annoyed me: surely in an area such as the City of Playford, which is fairly low-mid on the scale of socio-economic areas of South Australia, where problems such as obesity and weight are a constant struggle, especially for younger people, the organisers of this event would steer clear of any kind of eating contests. I’ll admit that the food in question was watermelon, which you might think ‘its a fruit, it’s healthy’, but there are two reasons why you’d be wrong: eating contests of any kind reinforce the idea that eating for the sake of eating is ok, and this is one of the largest issues with obesity: people can’t realise when they’re full, because they’re so used to eating; and secondly, a single slice of watermelon has about 18g of sugar. In the eating contest, people were eating an entire watermelon: you might have well give them a bag of sugar. Food was a constant disappointment, actually. There were 2 food stalls at the day: one was a BBQ stall which had sausages [not healthy], and a deep fryer [not health]. The other stall had soft drink [not healthy] and ice cream [not healthy]. I cringed. Here we were at a stall promoting health eating, there Themis and Calum were doing health eating demonstrations, and other stalls were nutritionists, dieticians, gyms and lifestyle coaches and every word we said was being undone by the dynamics of the food stalls. Extremely poor organising on the council’s behalf. Seriously. The last thing that bugged me about the day was the draw ‘main’ entertainment. For some unknown reason the person within local council organising this all ages family event thought it would be fitting and appropriate to make the main entertainment wrestling. A ring was constructed and people succonded, and for the entire afternoon extremely over weight people wrestled each other for some prize or another. Not only was it glorifying violence to the young kids [who were beginning to act out wrestling themselves], but it was also glorifying the overweight people within the ring, all who would have had health issues. The wrestling was reiterated to all the people there negative aspects of male masculinity [= obesity, violence, etc], as well as normalising this kind of behaviour. Seriously disappointed by the event today. City of Playford, The Fit Element organisers: You seriously could have done better, without much effort.
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GSAs in South Australian High Schools: Watch This Space
As some would know, I work in various roles around the LGBTI community, and I’m pretty excited about one project in particular that I’m working on at the moment. In a joint role between my position of Queer Officer at Flinders University, and as the Same-Sex-Attracted Support Role for a different group, I’m working on creating a totally inclusive pack for high school kids wanting to start up a Gay-Straight Alliance (or whatever name they wish to call it) in their own High Schools. This work follows on the absolutely fantastic work by a group at one high school here in Adelaide (moreover, the great work by one girl, though I won’t put names to blog just yet for reasons of not having asked). Within this one school this student had the courage to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’ to all of the homophobic and hetero-normative attitudes that she was facing on a daily basis. She created the school’s GSA and from there it was heralded as a great movement within South Australian schools. Since, those students have been invited to numerous conferences and meetings to explain just what’s been going on and how others can get involved, and there’s now talks about South Australian schools forming a Safe Schools Coalition like the one that exists in Victoria. This is a multi-agency plan including groups like SHine SA and Marion Youth.
I have meetings with the students coming up (one tomorrow, in fact) where we’ll be looking at some of the drafts that we’ve got so far, and trying to make it a bit more polished. I can’t wait for the pack to be finished and to trial an implementation.
Starting up a GSA may seem over-the-top or not needed, but for the thousands of students in our education system who face homophobia on a daily basis, it can make a world of difference. The concept of starting up a GSA within a high school is often scary. The idea of publicly advertising your sexuality can be a daunting thought- let alone action. It takes a brave person or group of friends to stand up against these attitudes. GSAs aren’t only created by LGBTI people, and straight people are encouraged to help with the setup. The entire purpose is to create a bridge between LGBTI and straight people, and often to educate and support each other. Those who do put their hand up to start a GSA in their school honeslty have my full admiration as it isn’t something that I could have done back in High School (though, is something I did at uni- a very different culture that, I feel, is more accepting).
We’re also creating a cross-campus gay straight alliance (the name is still be worked on). At the moment the three major unis of SA (Adelaide, UniSA, Flinders) are all taking part and once the GSAs are setup (if it happens- positive thoughts!) they’ll be invited to join. I hope to have this setup especially so that the students of all GSAs across various schools have opportunities to meet each other, support each others GSAs and have metro-wide events. By involving the universities we also think that it’s a fantastic opportunity for year 11/12s to make tertiary friends and peers who, when they start university themselves, are great contacts to have.
I’ve not yet had much opposition to this project idea, and I’ve been working on it for a few weeks now. I think, going ahead, there might be some opposition to actually putting a GSA in-place within a school, and there are huge issues surround visibility and outing people that come up- and they’re all things that we’ll be working at minimising and overcoming, but at the same time perhaps empowering people enough to feel comfortable about coming out if they are LGBTI-identifying. With that said, if anyone knows any high school kids in Adelaide (we’re aimed more at the inner-south suburbs, but I think this needs to be a city-wide approach) that would be interested in discussion a GSA in their school- let me know!
Here’s hoping this project goes well. We’ve got a lot of support for it from a lot of Agencies and schools so far- so here we go!
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GSA Pack: One Step More
Tomorrow I’ll be attending the Australian Education Unions LGBTI conference here in Adelaide (I say conference, but I expect ~20 people). I’ll be seeing what some teachers have been doing to be more LGBTI friendly in their classrooms, and I’ll be talking about the work that I have been doing, and the work that I plan on doing. This is, of course, about the GSA packs that I’ve mentioned in my last few posts (see below), and so to try and get a somewhat polished draft to them tomorrow, I’ve been working on it a little bit today. The final pack won’t be a single “document”, but rather a physical pack with separate documents and acitivites, but I’ve thrown it all into one PDF document so that I can distribute the draft and have it worked on. If you click HERE you can download a copy of the working draft in PDF format. I’ve had a lot of people email me and tell me that they’d be so keen to get involved in this- and I thank each of you and I think that’s great. It needs a big driving force behind it, though ultimately the finishing touches will be coming from the students themselves. Even I will be only providing a pack that’s as inclusive as possible as a skeleton for the students to play around with as much as they like. With that said- feel free to edit, add to, and change what I’ve got here. If you do, I ask that you email me ( send to queer . officer @ flinders . edu . au ) what you’ve got so I can merge it with the existing pack. Also email me if you have further suggestions of what to include. Please note, the attached document is only a DRAFT and is in no way even near completion. This is a long-term project that I’ve only been working on for a few weeks. Oh, also did a vid here. Cheers y’all. Previous Posts:
1. GSAS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HIGH SCHOOLS: WATCH THIS SPACE
2. GSA UNDER WAY
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GSA Pack: Teacher’s Conference
On Wednesday of last week I went to a teacher’s conference specifically about LGBT issues here in Adelaide. It was hosted by the Australian Education Union and had a good variety of people from various backgrounds, mostly young starting out teachers or student teachers like myself. I presented to the workshop group what I was doing with the GSA packs and got some positive feedback from people, but most greatly I got contacts from some of the teachers there who thought that their students would be interested in starting up a GSA. One of the better ones was from a school known to be particularly homophobic, and yet this teacher had been approached by students wanting to do just this- start up a GSA. I think they’ll be some great pioneer students to test-run this GSA, so hopefully will do that soon. I’ll be presenting what I’ve done at a team meeting at work next Monday, so we’ll see what work think. Next up I’ve got a meeting with the original GSA on Tuesday next week where the students and I will go through the pack as it is and tweak it to their own experience, and start listing what else they’d like to see in the pack; then on Friday I meet up with the girl who was the one who started up the GSA. She’s graduated so not part of the GSA anymore, but a 1-on-1 chat with her where I can pick her brains will be great. It’s coming along, slowly but surely. Whoop.
Related articles
- GSA Pack: One Step More (brodhe.com)
- GSA Under Way (brodhe.com)
- GSAs in South Australian High Schools: Watch This Space (brodhe.com)
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The Problem with the Future of Television in Australia
When The Project first came out on Australian television, I was skeptical. It was poorly done, the hosts cut guests off mid-sentence and the entire thing seemed to not weld together too well. I was very surprised as the show gained footing, but it did so for good reason. The hosts quickly started to find their place and the overall feel of the show began to improve, but further more the show itself (thanks to the producers et al) started using social media to interact directly with people at home watching.
This has happened extremely well before in shows such as Q&A, and breaks down an invisible barrier between live-TV and an at-home audience that has existed since TV was first broadcast. The problem that we face in Australia, though, is that Live Television is not Live unless you live in the Eastern States. Q&A has this down pact. They have a 24-hour live television station which they broadcast the one show, regardless of time slot, at the same time. Channel 10 need to do this. To be frank, I don’t think it should even be a question for them.
Social Media is gaining footing, no matter who you ask. We’re transitioning into a generation of adults who know computers well, and expect things to be at ones fingertips. As it stands, you can’t even stream Ch10 shows like The Project live on the internet: there is absolutely no way for me to interact on news items that I find interesting with Ch10 in real time, short of moving to the East.
The Project currently airs at 6pm in your local state. For Australia, that’s numerous time zones (especially when Day Light Savings has a say). Logistically- it would be extremely hard to do this, for example at 6pm in Sydney, it’s only 4pm in Perth, and people aren’t even home from work let alone ready to watch The Project. You’d have to start broadcasting at about 9pm in Sydney for anyone in the West to get to watch the beginning… seems ridiculous but Q&A doesn’t seem to have a problem. And multi-streaming/ simulcasting it (on a dedicated news channel like ABC has, or even on The Project’s own website) would be great. Hell, Ch 10 does have Ch11 to play around with too, and god knows Couch Time needs to be axed.
As television in Australia moves forward, I can image in that more and more shows will focus on current-affairs, and will beging to utilise the growing power of the internet- I just wish that the corporate bodies realise that the one and only draw back that this holds is timezones, and this needs to be reconsidered.
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GSA Pack: Teacher’s Conference
On Wednesday of last week I went to a teacher’s conference specifically about LGBT issues here in Adelaide. It was hosted by the Australian Education Union and had a good variety of people from various backgrounds, mostly young starting out teachers or student teachers like myself. I presented to the workshop group what I was doing with the GSA packs and got some positive feedback from people, but most greatly I got contacts from some of the teachers there who thought that their students would be interested in starting up a GSA. One of the better ones was from a school known to be particularly homophobic, and yet this teacher had been approached by students wanting to do just this- start up a GSA. I think they’ll be some great pioneer students to test-run this GSA, so hopefully will do that soon. I’ll be presenting what I’ve done at a team meeting at work next Monday, so we’ll see what work think. Next up I’ve got a meeting with the original GSA on Tuesday next week where the students and I will go through the pack as it is and tweak it to their own experience, and start listing what else they’d like to see in the pack; then on Friday I meet up with the girl who was the one who started up the GSA. She’s graduated so not part of the GSA anymore, but a 1-on-1 chat with her where I can pick her brains will be great. It’s coming along, slowly but surely. Whoop.
Related articles
- GSA Pack: One Step More (brodhe.com)
- GSA Under Way (brodhe.com)
- GSAs in South Australian High Schools: Watch This Space (brodhe.com)
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GSA Pack: Teacher’s Conference
On Wednesday of last week I went to a teacher’s conference specifically about LGBT issues here in Adelaide. It was hosted by the Australian Education Union and had a good variety of people from various backgrounds, mostly young starting out teachers or student teachers like myself. I presented to the workshop group what I was doing with the GSA packs and got some positive feedback from people, but most greatly I got contacts from some of the teachers there who thought that their students would be interested in starting up a GSA. One of the better ones was from a school known to be particularly homophobic, and yet this teacher had been approached by students wanting to do just this- start up a GSA. I think they’ll be some great pioneer students to test-run this GSA, so hopefully will do that soon. I’ll be presenting what I’ve done at a team meeting at work next Monday, so we’ll see what work think.
Next up I’ve got a meeting with the original GSA on Tuesday next week where the students and I will go through the pack as it is and tweak it to their own experience, and start listing what else they’d like to see in the pack; then on Friday I meet up with the girl who was the one who started up the GSA. She’s graduated so not part of the GSA anymore, but a 1-on-1 chat with her where I can pick her brains will be great.
It’s coming along, slowly but surely. Whoop.
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(Source: dailyp0rn, via as-told-by-gingerrr)
