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demigodsanswer · 4 years

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Once Upon a Pointe - Chapter Two

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“Annabeth, you’re with Percy,’ Chiron said. Annabeth. She looked like the figurine in a little girl’s music box had come to life to dance in City Ballet. Percy felt like every opportunity to dance with her was a privilege. Just don’t forget the choreography, Percy thought as he got into the right starting spot for the wedding pas de deux. Don’t forget the choreography, and don’t drop her.”

Percy, a soloist with the ballet company, and he is offered one chance to dance with Annabeth, one of their star principals. If he nails the choreography, he might just earn a chance to dance with her. And, if he’s really lucky, he might get a date out of it as well.

Chapter 2/12 - “Do Your Job”

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Chapter One

Percy didn’t need to be at the rehearsal for the Rose Adagio, but he had nowhere else to be for two hours. Might as well get more acquainted with the ballet.

The adagio was iconic. The ballerina had to balance in en pointe on one foot for what seemed like an eternity, using only her own balance, core strength, and the occasional supporting hand from one of the four princes. She had to do that twice.

With few exceptions, men didn’t go on pointe, so Percy couldn’t image ever pulling something off like that. Hell, he wasn’t even sure he could do that on demi pointe.

Annabeth hardly seemed to have any issue with the balances, though, standing firm through the first pass of it, before continuing the five-minute dance. The second promenade was harder than the first, with each prince turning her around as she stayed en pointe, switching between the four princes, each with their own turn.

When she went up for the second set of balances, Percy could tell that she was off her leg by the way she seemed to hold on tightly to her partner’s hand as they went around and how quickly she brought her arm up and back down out of fifth position before taking the next prince’s hand. It didn’t have to be perfect – this was only the second day of rehearsal since choreography finished, and performances were rarely perfect. But Percy knew from dancing with her that Annabeth had different standards for herself.

Percy held his breath when the third prince walked up. He was a young dancer. He’d only been offered his corps contract a few weeks before rehearsals started, and he didn’t seem to be the strongest partner yet. But Chiron made choices like that sometimes; he threw younger dancers into a bigger role as a trial by fire. It made some of them better dancers, and it had broken some of the others.

Annabeth was probably ready to kill Chiron for putting this dancer in that spot about now. Percy could tell that he was distracted, leaving Annabeth to partner herself for most of the dance. He had the same issue as he partnered her around the promenade.

“Stay with her, Leo!” Chiron yelled from the side. Typically, if Chiron wanted to give a note, he’d stop the pianist and the dancers to correct something. It was rare for him to yell notes as during the dance.

Chiron’s comment only pulled Leo’s attention farther away from Annabeth. He stopped the turn short and released her hand before he was sure that she was ready to move on to the next prince. Annabeth knee and shoulders quivered as she fought to find her balance, before losing it, dropping out of her releve.

Percy winced for her as he watched her foot drop. Such a small action was a big mistake in the adagio. Audience members rarely noticed choreography mishaps. As long as a dancer stayed on their feet, they could adapt or change choreography on the spot if they needed to. No one ever had a perfect show, but the audience never knew the difference. But the adagio balances were one of the rare moments in ballet that had to be precise, because even an audience member unfamiliar with the ballet would notice if the ballerina falls out of the balance when she isn’t supposed to.

And Annabeth Chase wasn’t supposed to.

She popped back onto releve to continue, but Chiron called for the music to stop. She dropped out of her pose, taking a few deep breaths. Leo stepped towards the back of the room, clearly embarrassed. He stared at the back of Annabeth’s head like she was the high school bully ready to beat him up in the parking lot.

He is a high school kid, Percy remembered. He was only eighteen. Percy knew Chiron well as a director and mentor. There was a good chance that Chiron remembered Leo’s age and took pity on him. Percy wasn’t too sure about Annabeth, though.

“Let’s try that again. This time, Leo, stay with her. She needs your support to get through this,” Chiron said. He gave a few more detailed instructions to all the princes’, and then a few notes to Annabeth, who took them with a gracious nod, before going up again, this time for a more gracious set of turns.

~*~*~

Chiron called for a short break before they started running some of the act two sequences.

Annabeth walked over to one of the barres on the side of the room and started stretching as she caught her breath.

Percy walked up to her, hoping he didn’t bother her too much.

“What’s up, Percy?” she asked before he could say anything. She seemed annoyed, but not annoyed with him, which was a good sign.

Percy cleared his throat. “I just wanted to say that I know act one is really hard for Aurora,” Annabeth’s cheeks flushed, and Percy back peddled. “I mean, it’s hard for every Aurora. It’s one of the hardest –”

“What do you want?” She said. Now she did sound annoyed with him.

“I just wanted to say that if there’s anything I can do to make act two and three easier for you, please let me know,”

She glared at him. An “I’m going to kill you” glare, an “I will snap you like a twig” glare, an “I will have my husband hire a hitman to smash your knees with a baton to end your career” glare. Percy suddenly regretted every decision he had ever made between his first ballet class at the YMCA and that moment.

“Do you really want to help me?” She asked him.

“Yeah,”

She turned away from the barre to face him. “Then do your job,” she said, before turning away from him.

~*~*~

Percy hung around Piper, their Lilac Fairy, for the rest of rehearsal. The last thing he needed was to annoy Annabeth more as they worked on the dream sequence.

Their progress was slow. Chiron seemed to stop them every few steps to give a note.

“Piper, you’ve really got to convince this guy to come save the princess.” “Annabeth, charm him. You need him to wake you up.” “Percy, be a little less sure of yourself in the beginning. You don’t know who this woman is. Some fairy just showed up in the woods and told you to go after this dream girl. It’s going to take some convincing.”

Percy took in all of the notes and did his best to apply them right away. Just do your job, he told himself.

“Before we end for the day,” Chiron said, “Percy, I want to run your variation from the top of act two,”

Percy nodded and stepped to the center of the room. The variation was slow and emotional. It was more about artistry than technical skill. It wasn’t an exciting one, but it was a chance for Percy to show off to Chiron that he could do more than jump high in the air. And Percy knew it was artistry that got you promoted to principal.

Chiron watched him throughout the dance, not interrupting him for notes. When he finished, he glanced at Annabeth, who was leaning against the barre, smiling at him.

Chiron had a number of notes and corrections for him but was generally complimentary.

“Alright, go home, rest. Tomorrow we’re going to finish working acts one and two,”

“Percy,” he heard Annabeth say as he walked towards his dance bag. He turned around to look at her.

“What’s up?” He asked.

“I wanted to apologize for being kind of bitchy earlier,” she said.

Percy smiled, “It’s alright. Things get intense sometimes, I get it. But seriously,” Percy said, “you shouldn’t worry about shit like that. You’re the best dancer here,”

Annabeth just shook her head in response. “See you tomorrow,” she said, smiling at him before walking out of the studio.

~*~*~

Percy walked out of the rehearsal room after doing his stretches and nearly collided with a familiar figure.

“Watch where you’re going, you don’t want to end up like me,” Beckendorf said, shaking one of his crutches at Percy.

“Beck!” Percy said, smiling wide. “What are you doing here?”

“Got tired of sitting at home feeling bad for myself, so I figured I’d come here to bad about myself in the company of my wife,” He said.

“I’m sure Silena loves that,” Percy said.

Beckendorf gave him a slight shove. “Come on, we’ve got a hot tea for you downstairs,” he said, leading Percy towards the costume shop.

“I’m sure you’ve had a long day of rehearsals,” Beckendorf said to Percy as they went headed to the costume shop in the studio elevator, “but I wanted to see how things were going,”

“Things are good. Rehearsals got a little intense today, but I think it’s coming together,” Percy told him.

“I’m sure it will be great when it goes up,” Beckendorf said. Percy opened the costume shop door for Beckendorf and followed him inside. “Hello gorgeous,” Beckendorf called into the room. Silena appeared behind a rack of costumes.

“Took you long enough. The tea might be cold my now,” she said.

Beckendorf hobbled over to her. She met him halfway, tilting her head up so that he could kiss her more easily. When they broke apart, he apologized, “I don’t move very quickly these days,”

They sat down around the table, sipping their tea as Percy told them about the ballets practice.

“Pretty sure Leo thought he was going to be fired on the spot this afternoon,” Percy said.

“Poor kid. It’s not easy to keep up with Annabeth,” Silena said.

“I know, she’s …” Percy trailed off and felt himself smiling thinking about her.

“Well, look at that, Percy’s in love,” Beckendorf joked.

“I am not,”

“Better that you aren’t,” Silena said. “I doubt she’s ever going to date company men again,”

“I don’t want to date her,” Percy lied. “And why wouldn’t she date company men again?”

Silena looked at him like he was stupid. “Come on,” she said, asking him to think about it himself.

“Was her breakup really that bad?” Percy asked.

Beckendorf looked at him, a dark, serious look in his eyes. “It was. It was really fucked up too,”

“What happened?” Percy asked.

“Still can’t tell you,” Silena said. “Just … don’t get your hopes up with her. She might not even be ready to date again yet. I mean … they were together since she was what? Twenty?”

“Yeah,” Beckendorf answered, “it was right before she was promoted to soloist,”

Percy traced the timeline of Annabeth’s career in his head. “Was he a principal when they started dating?”

“Yeah,” Beckendorf answered.

Percy nodded and stared at his teacup. He thought about her frustration during the Rose Adagio and the way she never seemed to take his compliments. “Did people give her shit for that?” He asked, “I mean, did they think that she got promoted just because –“

“Some people did, yeah,” SIlena answered.

“Obviously they were wrong,” Beckendrof added, “she’s a fantastic dancer, and she’s earned everything she’s ever gotten but –”

“-- Couple those rumors with the end of a six-year-long relationship, and …” she trailed off, but Percy was smart enough to get her meaning. Annabeth was determined to prove herself, prove to the company that she deserved these opportunities, and this ballet was the chance to do that. That didn’t leave a lot of space for guys in general, especially not company guys.

Percy suddenly felt a lot closer to Annabeth. She’d always seemed so untouchable, unshakeable. But she was probably feeling the pressure of this ballet as badly as he was.

He didn’t have a lot of fancy dance training before joining their company’s ballet school at fifteen. He started dancing at the Y when he was ten. Most of his colleagues had started dancing at three, four, or five years old. He’d gotten lucky (very lucky) with a few scholarships and grants along the way, but he knew most of the people in the company and at the school thought he was a wild card. Until his promotion, only Chiron and his mom really believed in him. And now, if he could do this ballet right, he might just make principal. This was his shot.

You shouldn’t be worried about dating either, he told himself, just do your job.

#percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #Percy Jackson and the Olympians #piper mclean #charles beckendorf #silena beauregard #Leo Valdez #once upon a pointe

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incarnateirony · 4 years

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Hey min, I just read your last post and I was wondering you could do one on the meta-narrative hostility (that most of fandom calls queer coding) of pre-dabb era? I’m a young queer who’s new to all this and doesn’t have the same experience or knowledge as older queer people (obviously) when it comes to these things. Only if you want to/and are able to though, it’s something I’d really like to read and educate myself on, thanks :)

Sure! I’ll get on that, I think @curioussubjects and I held a brief discourse over that recently, but I’m sure we could get into it deeper. I may even try to peel @thecoffeebrain-blog out of her fandom ban to talk about it too. Unfortunately it’s like 2something AM right now and I do not have the brain function to write up a whole-assed thesis on it.

But in short (which will probably still be about a page long)? I kind of want to flip a table any time I read “Dean Winchester has always been written as bisexual.” – and like. I even have friends that say that. Friends I adore. And I still want to flip tables. Because. Like. No.

Yes, Dean Winchester was based on a repressed bisexual, Dean Moriarty. The thing is knowing that about Dean Moriarty requires reading the late release manuscript, not the original. In, perhaps, an ironic statement on our current show, the widely spread original version was sanitized of queer content. But if anyone thinks Kripke was, back in S1-5, trying to make some sort of statement about repressed and sanitized queer culture, I really don’t know what to tell them beyond like. No?

I’d need to go digging – hence not having the time right now – for a full list of early season “bi Dean” moments. A great deal of them are actively homophobic as fuck things, like in Playthings taking a shot at Dean being butch over overcompensating, or whatever else. They used the statements as an insult, something to target, and aggress, and make a joke at a character’s expense – because being gay was immasculating and funny, haha, right?

Others included things like clothing choices, food choices, or other things that like… fandom swore up and down was queer coding and like– again– generally, no? Hopefully I don’t have to explain why in most scenarios those things are problematic.

Like you’ve seen me bang on about the menthols thing for example as queer coding – and yes! It is! Because that’s actually a queer culture thing. And like, ask any gay dude, literally, if he sees another, WHITE dude pull out a pack of menthols he knows who he’s going to try to flirt up tonight. There’s all kinds of reasons that was genuine coding written from a gay man that’s even a recovered smoker to the point his colleagues made light of it. Hell of an introduction, hell of a point, and something actually relevant to the represented demographic’s culture. (this actually does not apply the same to other ethnicities, it literally only applies to white dudes, and I could stat out the very real reasons about it some time, but not in this post)

We gays DO have our own language. As my friend Kris put it, “Whenever I see a woman has a purse I give up, cuz she’s either straight or at least in that ballpark where I’m gonna have to be the husband and hahahaha no.” – unshockingly, I don’t have a purse either. My wife does. I on the other hand am fine with being metaphorical husband role. She’s a femme, I’m not, it tracks.

But someone wearing a certain color, or eating a burrito is not a judge. Someone choking on a sausage for a punch line alongside a taco is– questionable on if even intended but again, guess what, a punch line at the receiving character’s expense.

A great WEALTH of early “bi Dean” moments are like this, even if we remove Destiel. And it’s a MESS. I give some leans of “not offensive but surrounded by enough offensive content in its immediate era that I don’t give it good faith” to moments like Dr Sexy. Sure. Those lay good potential groundwork.

Are there moments where Dean turned and looked at someone in a WAY? Yeah, sure. Was that scripted? Uh, generally no. Let’s face it. Jensen could have chemistry with a decommissioned droid if they were put on screen together.

Now, do those moments, that last section there – give early room for bi Dean being evolved into? Yes. Those moments do. Because evolving with chemistry and story is part of how it works. It’s the other shit we need to flush to the pits of hell, bathe in some glitter and chant some YMCAs to cleanse ourselves from or some shit.

Hell, let’s even look at season 7 with Dean flirting with the guard. Despite bobbing and weaving around most old bi Dean content for being flagrantly offensive when I made my Coming Out video, I kept that one. But even THAT runs a line. Why? Because Sam, later painted as an educated ally, starts laughing at Dean at the sheer idea of Dean doing it. Dean tells him to shut up which blows Charlie’s cover. Is that something actual bi people might have to deal with? Sure. Hence my choice to be willing to include the clip. But it was still. A punchline. At the queer content’s expense.

If you go and re-watch, I’d say, S1-7 and stop trying the “DIG FOR PROOF IN RETROSPECT TO PROVE DEAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BI” dance, and watch – really, REALLY watch – the way any kind of queer mention was handled. Is. Gross.

By season 8 Carver seemed to be dabbling in it – enough that Phil Sgriccia and Ben Edlund, exec producers, started leaving commentary on the season 8 DVD, such as how Jensen played it, and the potential it created for love in all places, that he and Aaron could have had a life together. Still, Carver had a LOT of shit he was fixing from holding Gamble’s burning bag. And yeah, Gamble queerbaited. She fucked over a demographic, realized the demographic she picked was wrong, tried to bait back that demographic without intent to follow through on it, then was gone. (And hell, go look at The Magicians now and her Dances With Avoiding Calling Her Characters LGBT).

Season 8 was a tipping point. Did Aaron slap down the idea of having a moment with Dean? Sure. But… guess what? It was Dean being offended by not having a moment. Not Dean being offended being accused of having a moment. This is a very subtle tone change.

Watch forward after that. There might have been a few moments. But it wasn’t until S9 they onboarded a new LGBT author. An open one. An activist. And yeah, menthols and “play it like a jilted lover” showrunner directions began. It’s like looking back, they had the idea and realized what was taking shape, but didn’t know what to do with it. And Bobo was still the new kid on block that year. That was the same year they almost made Metatron’s heaven for Castiel be covered in naked Dean pictures. Some people lament the loss of that. I do not. Because guess what. That made it a joke again. A shot at Castiel’s expense, if one more personal than the old shots. It was painted for absurdity, not authenticity. But, unlike prior eras… they had the sense to change that and paint the absurdity in other ways with dangly cheap hearts and other silliness.

Good.

As you look forward, from there, the question is after season 9– when was the last “LOL GAAAAAAAAAAAAY” joke you heard? When was the last time you heard it be framed in such a way that the audience was designated to laugh at the arrangement? Was Colette… framed as funny when Bobo wrote it? Was the heart connection… written as funny? Were the hunter husbands… written as a punch line or joke?

Sure, Lily Sunder had some funny bits, bit it’s not Funny Cuz It’s Gay, it’s funny and gay, and this is an important distinction. If that were a het couple bickering in the car that episode, we’d laugh all the same. This, also, written by a queer activist. Was the mixtape funny? No. In fact, if we’re to take, say, modern Dean and Cas as the central manifestation of the bi Dean narrative all these years later, their funny moments aren’t funny because of their gender. Their funny moments are funny because of who they are, like any given couple on TV, not in expense to their sexuality.

Even “attached at the everything” is more a fandom problem. There was no cue for that to be a laugh track. There was no recoil, no denial, no flinch, no nothing. It was just a barb of a demon in the know of the nature and depth of their bond needling where it hurt like any other relationship. It’s the fandom that chose to put a laugh track on it.

Beyond this though, I’d need to take the time to go and pick through the different individual moments and break them down and really pick apart WHY they were problematic in the old days. Hopefully this summary is a nice start.

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news4dzhozhar · 6 years

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I FIRST MET Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev in seventh grade, on the basketball court at the Cambridge YMCA in Central Square, where I played on weekdays & in a Saturday league. He went to the gym to use the weight room & shoot around. I disregarded him — he sucked at basketball.

Basketball helped me feel like an American, instead of a Muslim whose single mother dragged him here from Morocco looking for a better life, then worried constantly that we wouldn’t find it. Before basketball, I didn’t really fit in. I wasn’t particularly smart or witty. Worse, I had started second grade in Cambridge the very same month that the Twin Towers fell. On the playground, kids would call me “sand [expletive]” “Saddam Hussein’s son,” or “Abu,” after Aladdin’s monkey. One kid nicknamed me “Unicef,” which was brilliant, in a way: It rhymed with my name & alluded to my African heritage, financial situation, & emergent unibrow. When we were a little older, kids would come up to me, place fake “bombs” on my body & then run away making ticking noises. I got into a fair amount of fights until my mother, who worked three jobs, told me I had to stop. Even if it meant saying nothing when bullies taunted me, I had to exercise self-control. It felt completely debilitating.

My mom always made me stay in the apartment until I finished my homework. But she agreed that as long as I kept my grades up, I could play basketball after school. I began spending hours on courts across Cambridge. This freedom allowed me to meet a slew of people who helped me develop as a young man & truly feel a part of the culture of Cambridge. As I improved, I gained confidence, sociability, & friends.

I met Jahar again in high school, when we enrolled in the same lifeguarding course in my sophomore year, his junior year. Lifeguards were paid well for minimal effort: You sit in a chair & watch people swim, or so we thought. We were actually terrible swimmers, but our teacher stressed that if we failed during a rescue attempt, people could die. So we learned how to breathe while swimming with our heads in the water, & swam endless laps to get in shape. We took turns “drowning” at the bottom of the pool, holding our breath & waiting to be “rescued.” Jahar & I learned to trust one another in the pool — and that trust soon extended beyond class. After we became certified, a group of us from the class applied to be lifeguards at Harvard University during the summer of 2010. To our surprise, we each landed positions.

Jahar & I became part of a small group that would gather at “808,” a tall apartment building off Memorial Drive overlooking the Charles River. After dark, we frequented a party spot nearby that we referred to as the Riv. We were all classmates, peers, co-workers, & good friends who shared common interests. We called ourselves the Sherm Squad. We didn’t know that “Sherm” referred to Nat Sherman cigarettes dipped into liquid PCP (I didn’t even know what PCP was). All we knew was the word Sherm had a negative connotation. We used it to mean someone who messed up a lot; we called it being a Sherm. I felt Jahar & the Sherm Squad accepted me unconditionally; they became my home base of friends, almost an adopted family

My real family’s life centered on Islam. I was raised to follow the teaching of the Koran & the five pillars of Islam, which boil down to self-discipline, love for yourself & toward others, & growing your relationship with God. We typically went to the mosque on Prospect Street twice a week, plus whenever my mother forced me to come to some event she’d volunteered for. I never looked forward to it. Men & women separate when they enter the mosque, which drove home my lack of a father or other male role models (I have an older brother, but we haven’t talked in years). So I would sit by myself or with someone else I knew who didn’t want to be there, engaging only when the call for prayer was sung.

One Friday near the end of sophomore year, my mother yelled at me to go to prayer.

When I walked in, I did a double take — Jahar was sitting there, listening intently to the imam. We had been hanging out all that year & he had never mentioned being Muslim. I picked my way through the large crowd sitting on the patterned carpet & squeezed into a spot next to him. “What are you doing here?” I whispered. “You’re not supposed to be here!

He chuckled and whispered back: “I’ll tell you after.”

After we prayed, he told me his family were also Muslim immigrants who expected him be a model Muslim. We both were trying to maintain an image as wholesome Muslim youths at home while being normal American teenagers away from it.

Balancing our family & American lives was stressful. As a junior, I played point guard on Cambridge Rindge & Latin School’s famed basketball team, and Jahar, a senior, was the wrestling team’s co-captain. During the fierce month of Ramadan or on the fast day before Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, we might endure grueling sports workouts on empty stomachs & no water. At least we could complain to each other.

Maintaining separate Muslim & American lives sometimes meant keeping secrets from & even lying to those closest to us about our other life. We were shamed just for being Muslim by strangers, the media, & even some of our peers, just as our Muslim families shamed us when we were caught committing a sin. Jahar & I shared countless hours toking herb, hanging out, & hitting social events. We lived near each other, & often walked home together from parties. We’d hit Cambridge Street, dap each other up with a handclap and bro hug, then head off to our Muslim lives.

He was fun to be around — always cracking jokes, coming up with things to do. He was smart, warm, respectful & a good listener; and many of us admired his ability to “code switch,” moving effortlessly between social crowds & people of different races. He was also adept academically, holding his own in honors & Advanced Placement classes. He was generous, too. Whenever I ran short of funds, he’d give me money for lunch & crack “Stop being a broke boy!” in a way I found endearing.

Sometimes, when we were hanging out, he’d get calls from his older brother, Tamerlan, telling him to get home. Jahar mostly heeded these requests without question. (He admired his older brother, and I envied their seeming closeness.) At one point, Jahar told me that his family was arranging a marriage for him & he was considering it. All I could say was, “Well, it’s your life, bro.”

* *

IN SENIOR YEAR, my priorities were playing basketball, finding the right college, my fantasy basketball team, girls, watching the Celtics, partying with friends, the prom, & making sure to get my homework done. In the secular, diverse melting pot that is Cambridge, I had my American life at school & my Muslim life at home. Adhering to the tenets of Islam, especially the daily prayers, was a struggle, & it didn’t help that Jahar, one of my main confidantes, was off at college.

My mother still expected me to act like a strict Muslim, even though by now I was really only going to the mosque on the major holy days. She forbade me from attending “unwholesome” social gatherings, including school dances & any event held at the home of a female. I was not to swear, use drugs or alcohol, or flirt, among other vices. My mother knew little of what I actually did when I left the house, since I usually climbed out my bedroom window after she had gone to bed. But she often guessed at what I was up to, & frequently berated me as unworthy.

I was much more interested in my American life, where religion was immaterial. You were judged on your social standing, whether your personality added life to the party, and how you expressed yourself through fashion or music. When Jahar was back from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on breaks, it seemed like we picked up right where we left off, cruising the city with the homies in his green Honda, looking for a party. My future felt bright. I was going to attend Bentley University, & become an entrepreneur. I had fulfilled my mother’s American-immigrant dream of getting into college & building a real life in America.

* * *

DURING MY FRESHMAN YEAR at Bentley, I realized that I wasn’t sure I wanted to be in school. I took a leave during second semester & went back to Cambridge.

I was at a friend’s house on April 15, 2013, when the bombs went off on Boylston Street. We ended up on a nearby rooftop, watching the commotion — the helicopters scouring the city & flashing police lights everywhere. I felt angry & under attack. I wanted the monsters who had committed this atrocity to get what they deserved.

On the 19th, I was at another friend’s house and still up at 3 a.m. when I got a call. “Turn on the news!” my friend said. They were broadcasting a photo of the possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Just look at the picture, fam,” he said to me.

I looked at the blurry image on screen. “What am I supposed to be looking at, bro? I don’t know who that is.”

“Yo, doesn’t he look like Jahar!”

I thought that was outrageous. I fell asleep on the couch, & the next morning I woke up to see my friends huddled around the TV. I had never seen kids my age so absorbed in the morning news. I wondered if maybe a late spring snowstorm was approaching. They told me Cambridge residents had been asked to stay inside, and it did sort of feel like a snow day.

Suddenly, Jahar’s face appeared on the screen — there was no mistaking him this time. He was the bombing suspect still at large, the anchors said. Aside from the sound crackling on the TV, the room was dead silent. I felt like 10,000 volts of electricity were coursing through my body. It had to be a mistake. The Jahar I knew wouldn’t even do something mean, let alone commit an act of terrorism.

One of the girls’ cellphones rang; the call was from a TV newsroom where her sister’s friend was working. As our friend answered questions, her name appeared on the screen & we heard her voice come from the television. Within minutes, the doorbell rang. Our high school principal came into the house, along with two FBI agents wearing bulletproof vests. The FBI agents said they were looking for Jahar, and collected our cellphones. They had us sit in the living room & pulled us into the kitchen one by one to question us.

It didn’t take long for one of the FBI agents to step in the room and say, “To save time, which one of you knew him the best?” I raised my hand. In the kitchen, they asked what I knew about the bombing — nothing — where I thought Jahar was, whom he might try to contact. I answered their questions as best I could, and then they left.

Much later on that surreal day, a group of us were walking around Central Square, saying almost nothing. A pizza shop had its TV on & that’s where we saw a news update: A body had been found in a boat in Watertown, it said. Though we’d later learn he’d been captured alive, at that moment we believed our friend was dead. I remember a man riding toward us on his bike screaming like some sort of modern-day Paul Revere: “They caught him! They caught the bomber!”

This infuriated us, and we started screaming insults & epithets at him. I’ll never forget his shocked expression. That’s probably how most people reacted over the next few days when some of us defended Jahar, saying he was a good kid. But really, that’s the Jahar we knew.

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SOON WE KNEW THE FACTS of the despicable acts Jahar committed with his brother, Tamerlan. We witnessed the heartbreak & loss suffered by those they hurt & by the families of those they killed. Jahar left behind an ocean of pain that is still washing across my city, & my country, sowing hatred & division between people who hardly know each other’s lived reality. Jahar wounded those he grew up with as well as millions who practice a religion he perverted with his crime. He made suspects of everyone who knew him.

Jahar put our safety & freedom in direct peril. Cambridge gave way to the real world, a place where I found myself feeling clueless. Like many of my friends, I did not have easy access to a lawyer. Later, I would realize I didn’t have access to what I needed even more: medical advisers, counselors, or therapists. Some of our mutual friends made bad choices & ended up in jail.

In the fall of 2013, I returned to Bentley to start my second semester, but I was still struggling to cope with the aftermath of the bombing, the FBI calls & questions. I felt guilty I even knew Jahar, after what he’d done. I was ashamed about what had happened to his victims — I still feel terrible for them. It feels awful that innocent people were hurt by a person I cared so deeply for.

That November after the bombing, three days before midterms, the FBI interrogated me for five hours, as far as I could tell simply because I had been friends with Jahar. I had nothing to tell them; I still felt betrayed by him, & knew he deserved the full brunt of the judicial system. After that interview, I found myself completely unable to focus on my studies. I asked my professors for extensions, but all of them made me take my midterms. I failed several of them, & soon after I took another leave.

This time I entered a downward spiral of addiction, insomnia, severe stomach pains, & depression, which fed off each other. I didn’t sleep more than a couple of hours a night for months. I felt paranoid & distrustful in every social interaction. Every aspect of my American life I had had to figure out on my own, and it seemed as though I hadn’t figured out anything at all. I felt like I had fallen behind my peers, unable to compete with their intelligence, their access, their privilege.

I was exhausted from maintaining multiple, often conflicting identities as a Muslim-American, from not being Muslim enough for my family, but too Muslim to feel secure in a hostile, post-9/11 environment. It was soul crushing; I felt I had lost touch with the person & identity I fought for years to establish. It got to the point where I could no longer follow a normal conversation. I lost around 25 pounds, and the ability to play basketball, which had been my sanctuary.

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AGENCY, CHAPTER 4. You can find all other works of mine here. NOTES: This story is not always friendly. It contains some graphic content, brief mentions of non-sexual nudity, murder, death, and plenty of language. Please be advised before you read it. Some upsetting content is in this chapter.

Dahlia sat perched on the edge of her bathroom counter, teasing her bubblegum pink, short hair just so. Peering intently into the mirror, she dragged a finger slowly downward under her eye, poking at the skin. Bags? Oh no. That would simply not do. She turned to the left, unlatching a multi-tiered box and sliding the trays out one by one. Pots and pump bottles and lotions of all sorts sat in the bottom, eyeshadows stacked neatly on the second row and more lipsticks, mascaras, and eyeliners than were necessary piled together in the third. Teasing her favorite face cream out, she pumped a dollop onto her finger and set to massaging it in. Exactly two minutes, she reminded herself, then let sit for two minutes. That was what the sales rep said. Makeup had come so far.

Technology as a whole, she mused absently, had come even farther. How long ago was it that they were using telegrams? Now you took a picture on your phone and it was global in mere seconds. It excited her something terribly, but even her exuberance at the newness was tempered with caution. Better technology meant better cameras and heat sensors and traps and communication. She supposed even Jason Voorhees might have been stymied by kids who thought to SnapChat him. But that was where knowledge came in. As quickly as technology had sprung up, her knowledge was still a vast pool, a shark in the water. Cameras were fallible, and heat sensors could be tricked. People made mistakes. Traps sprang without their prey. It was just a matter of patience, caution, and knowledge. Dahlia inspected her skin tone and spread a light color correcting creme over her face, applying a layer of foundation after. Touching up with a hint of blush, she combed her wayward brows and plucked them to perfection. Out came her eyeliner. Oh how she loved eyeliner; back in the day she used so much that these modern sticks would never have lasted her. Now she preferred to keep it simple. She coated her eyelashes with a layer of mascara and applied her lipstick: bright, vibrant pink. Too much pink? She asked herself. No. Never too much pink. She hopped from the counter and pranced through her sunny pink-and-white bedroom, candy cane stripes on her wall and plush pillows on her bed and billowy, pink curtains drawn over long windows. Delving into her closet, Dahlia pried out a pair of jeans and a white top, throwing on a pink necklace to match her sparkly pink nails. She appraised herself in the mirror and blew herself a kiss. How she had ever thought to go out in public before makeup was a continual source of wonder and embarrassment for her. “I’m lovely.” She smiled broadly at herself and did an experimental twirl. Now for shoes. Reaching under her bed, Dahlia pulled out a steamer trunk overflowing with them. She positively, absolutely adored the things. Heels, flats, boots, platforms, wedges--anything was good by Dahlia so long as they were cute. She’d once picked a fight with a Seraph after he broke one of her favorite heels. It had not gone well for her--but it had not gone well for him either, the smug, suit-wearing bastard. Rifling through the packed case, she pulled out a pair of three inch, strappy bubblegum heels with a large stone set on the front of them. How perfect--a perfect outfit for a perfect day. She pulled on her purse and hopped down the stairs two at a time, never afraid of falling. Jangling her keys about in a hand, Dahlia stepped into her living room (also decorated mainly in pink, grey the compliment this time) and peered through the French doors into her dining room. “I’ll be back!” Wiggling her fingers in a wave, she gave a sad smile to the man duct taped to her dining room chair. His eyes were huge with horror, sweat rolling in beads down his forehead. “Now now, don’t sweat all over that chair. It’s an antique, I’ll have you know, straight from Russia. You stay put right there until I get back.” The man had no choice. He tried to say something, but it came through the tape as only a muffled mmmmmmph. “What was that? Oh, I’m sure you can tell me all about it once I come home and deal with you. Toodles!” Popping her pastel pink earbuds into her ears, she turned up her music and bounced out the door, locking it securely behind her. --- Click click click click click click click click click-- Tiffany rested her head against the window, staring directly at Jeremy, wondering when he would turn the damn blinker off. It had been on for the better part of two miles and no sign of stopping yet. Midlothian Turnpike was hell enough without the infernal noise. Click click click click click click click--He hummed something absently and she wondered if he even knew it was on. “Blinker’s on,” she announced finally. He gasped as if shot and smacked it down. “Well that’s embarrassing. I’m becoming an old man.” “You’re twenty-two.” “I’m aaaaancient.” She rocked her head back against the window and stared outside at the yellow street lights flickering by. The sky was an inky black bleeding into blue, the headlights carving a path through the deserted streets. Night shifts sucked, especially in the Midlothian area. At least there was something to look at in Richmond; up in the suburbs, there was nothing but fast food and grocery stores and banks and dentists. They passed a 7-11 converted into a pizza place and Tiffany wondered why it was that the convenience store did so poorly around here. She assumed it had something to do with all the rich people. “You aren’t mad at me or something, are you, girl?” Jeremy asked anxiously. “Huh? No. No, why?” He heaved relief. “Oh, good. You were just quiet is all. I was worried you were annoyed with me or something.” “Over the blinker? Sure,” she joked. “But no. We’re solid. I’m just tired.” “Yeah.” Nodding sympathetically, he took a turn past the gym. “You work hard, lady. You should take a break from that restaurant every once in a while.” “Nah, ‘cause then my parents will really think I’m not doing anything.” “Oh God. Are they still hounding you about college?” “Yep,” she sighed. “I tried to tell them I wanted a year off before I committed.” “Didn’t listen?” “Nope.” “Aw. I’m sure they’ll come around. They love you no matter what.” Tiffany side-eyed Jeremy and wondered what he meant by that. His parents no longer spoke to him. Apparently accepting their daughter as a son was not possible.

“Do you want to play some music?” He offered. “Oh, come on. We never agree on music.” He wrinkled his nose. “Yeah. That’s right. I mean, maybe you’ll like The--” “--If you say ‘Decemberists’, I’ll kindly remind you we listened to that the last six times you were trying to come up with a compromise.” “Two times.” “Two times,” she admitted. “You get what I’m saying.” “Well,” he started slowly. There was a cop ahead of them. Even though their plates would come up with special privileges, Jeremy slowed on instinct. “We could just pop on the radio. It gets dull if no one is talking.” Tiffany thought about it and mentally agreed. They needed something going. Once midnight hit it would be twenty hours awake for her, and she was ready for bed. She punched the radio on and ‘Toxic’ by Britney Spears filled the cab. Her laughter intersected with Jeremy’s squeal of delight. “Oh come ON. You, the hipster king, like Britney Spears?” “I don’t think you understand.” He held up a finger while taking the u-turn near the YMCA, heading right back the way they came. “This was my middle school-slash-high school jam.” “Jer, could you get more stereotypically gay right now?” “I’m pretty sure ‘Toxic’ is a baby gay rite of passage,” He joked. “Anyone who says they didn’t like ‘Toxic’ but still like it up the butt is lying to you.” “Jeremy David--!” The sensor box mounted on the dash glowed fiercely blue, warped into purple, tried to force its way back to green and began squealing. Jeremy stomped on the brakes, the Lincoln screeching to a halt the same time that the sensor outright exploded, bits of wire and plastic casing spraying them. Tiffany screamed and shielded her face, drawing her knees up protectively as Jeremy dove for cover. A moment of silence as the pieces rattled to the floor like hail, and they both surfaced tentatively to inspect the damage. “What the hell was that?” She asked shakily. “No fuckin’ clue,” Jeremy managed. Together they stared out the windows at their surroundings, nearly forgotten in their conversation. To the left, a lake on the edge of an apartment complex lapped silently at walking trails. As one, their gaze shifted slowly to the right and to the mass of trees, a parking lot to a series of pathways leading into pitch blackness under the boughs. “Not the Coal Mines?” Tiffany moaned softly. “Might be.” He reached unsteadily for the radio mounted on the dash. “I’m calling this in.”

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Trigger warning ! : sexual assault/ abuse

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My heart is breaking. It is 1 in the afternoon on October second, and I should be doing my home work for my first class on my way to do something in the field of psychology where I can do something to help the victims of sexual assault and abuse. I have found my purpose in my life and I believe it is my DUTY to emotionally help victims of sexual assault and abuse.

I don’t talk about my past very much on public platforms because I’ve heard people don’t like hearing about people’s problems .. and that these are hard topics to hear about ... but maybe so many people are so ignorant because people aren’t talking about things because it’s hard for people to hear?

I should be doing my home work right now but I can’t even concentrate at all because the only thing circling my mind is how inconsiderate and ignorant so many people are towards victims of sexual abuse. My heart is breaking and I am appalled.

I was raised to treat people with kindness. To treat others how you would like to be treated, so because of this it is literally in my nature to give people the benefit of the doubt, I put myself in peoples shoes and think “ how would I feel if ____ was done or said about me “? And I guess I just have a hard time understating why other people don’t do this is as well?

If I heard about a tragic incident that I have never been a victim to I would not make comments about assumptions of how the victims are feeling or not feeling, why they are or not doing something. And I don’t know why so many people are making comments about how and why victims of sexual assault do or don’t do certain things ?

It is more obvious to me now than ever that people are ignorant to what victims or sexual assault go through. I do not expect people to be psychologists and to already know why people that are victims do or don’t do certain things... but I expect people to be KIND and before making comments they can ask questions in their head and research it first before sounding so rude/ sassy or inconsiderate. If I heard about something happening and I didn’t fully know why people who were apart of it were saying or not saying things I wouldn’t be rude about it, I would do everything I could to be kind and research what victims go through.

How would you feel if half the world were making comments about YOUR trauma that no one REALLY knew about but YOU? It would make things SO much worse than it already is.

Those who are not victims or sexual assault/ abuse or harassment will NEVER fully know what its like to be a victim. They can research all they want but they will never fully know what it like to go through the after affects of being sexually abused. And that is why I think if you’re not a victim yourself and if your not willing to look into why victims don’t do things, I mean this in the kindest way possible : please keep your mouth shut.

I log into face book and I want to see pictures and new text statuses of what my family and friends are up to but ... instead I am bombarded with post after post followed by comments of a sexual assault case. And suddenly there are tears streaming down my face ... each comment I read that is against the victim/ survivor makes me put myself in her shoes .....so if people think this of her ? Would they think this of me? What would happen if my abuser decided to run to be in power and I wanted to TRY and see that he didn’t get granted any type of power ... would all these people be against me?

I am not going to make comments on the political side of things because why ? Because 1) I am not fully educated on how the political side of this all works and the laws and what not ... so I’m not going to make comments about that 2) everyone has their opinions so I don’t share political things on social media because I don’t feel like having this debate with close minded people BUT what I will make comments on is what I am educated and passionate about: the emotional side of this all. Below I will state some comments I have read followed by examples of my own past.

It absolutely BREAKS my heart to read comments like “ she waited so many years to come forward she HAS to be lying !” The first time I was sexually assaulted I was 11, the abuser touched me in some where I honestly didn’t even know existed on my body..so I didn’t know it was wrong. He told me not to tell anyone, I was young and naive so I listened to him. I didn’t tell anyone .. not even my own mom until I was about 17. What if I knew this mans name and remember exactly what his face looked to be able to identify him and see that he was running to be in power.... what if I came forward and spoke up about what he did to me? I’ve seen people comment that she didn’t even tell her best friend when it happened so it must be false ...so you’re telling me that if I didn’t tell my best friend that I was abused in the YMCA swimming pool at 11 ... it never happened? I didn’t even have a best friend since we just moved into the area..

When I was 12 I was sexually abused multiple times by a family friend... he manipulated me and messed with my mind. I didn’t tell anyone because I didn’t want the person in my family who was friends withy abuser to loose that friend in their life. The one time being a considerate person didn’t do me good..

When I finally told my family about what he did, my parents confronted him and he denied it at first then finally he said he thought I “ wanted it” I was 12, scared and didn’t want it. What if he were to run to be in power? Would I not be believed because his argument is that I wanted it? Because I didn’t fight back?

When I was 15 a boy I liked in high school gave me my first kiss but immediately afterwards through me on the ground and sexually assaulted me. I was in shock and didn’t know what to say or do. We “hung out” again and the same thing happened. After that I didn’t want to see him outside of school again. He harassed me in the middle of the night almost every night through phone calls. He would call me and and yell at me to “ moan” to him ... I didn’t even know what that was ... and he’d tell me to send him nudes or else he’d tell our classes what “ we” did and even worse. It didn’t matter what I did or didn’t do that he begged of me... he told our classes what “ we” did sexually and made up lies about me and people called me names and I lost “friends”. This went on for months and I finally told my mom about a fraction of what was going on... I was scared and speechless. I just remember going home from school sitting on my bedroom floor and playing Selena Gomez’s music and crying and thinking constantly that my things would just be better if I weren’t alive anymore. No one saw me for me anymore and I was just seen as an object by my abuser and as a slut by the people I was hanging out with at school. My mom begged me to report it to the school and I begged her not to because I didn’t want to be even more humiliated at school. I finally reported it when I asked the kid if he’d “ ever leave me alone” he laughed at me and said no. We had science together next and I couldn’t stop thinking about the next two years at that school being an absolute night mare: my teacher noticed I was tearing up and pulled me out of class: in the hallway I cried and and cried telling her EVERYTHING that happened to me over the last 5 months. I couldn’t stay silent anymore. So she took me to the office to report it ... I did and they gave the kid a “warning”. I remember being SO pissed that they didn’t do anything else. And I remember getting texts from random numbers threatening me saying they knew I told .. I was scared. Knowing nothing came from me reporting I learned to stay quiet.

When I was 16 Sleeping at a family friends. I was awaken by being sexually assaulted. That one hurt me.... I knew him since child hood, and I was in such shock. Even someone I knew practically my whole life only saw me for my body and not for my heart. I didn’t say anything then because I was in such shock and I didn’t want to loose his wife as a friend. I didn’t tell my parents until I was 20.

I wonder: what if I heard he was running or applying to be in some sort of power and I didn’t want him to be because he’s an abuser and he made an argument saying he’s never done it to any other kid and his wife would have backed him up saying he’s a good man? People seem to think just because he didn’t do it any other time then the ONE time it did happen it must be false. You think you know someone... but you don’t. Just because someone didn’t murder 20 other people it doesn’t mean they didn’t murder that one person. Just because someone’s never been known to lie before doesn’t mean they aren’t lying this one time. Just because someone hasn’t been known to be an abuser to multiple people doesn’t mean they didn’t abuse this one person ...

When I was 19 I went through a horrible episode of depression that came from a breakup of a relationship with someone who cheated on me multiple times. I beat myself up for so long thinking it was all my fault because I wasn’t worthy of love.

I became desperate to prove to myself I am worthy of someone wanting me in any way. I started talking to this guy through online dating, we never met in person until two years later ....

When I was 22 and at a bar I saw this guy that I had talked to for awhile two years prior. We started talking. One second the bar was full and the next thing I remember it was just me him and my friend. He asked me to walk with him to his car and that led to him sexually assaulting me. This time I was older and I knew I should report it .... but I had no proof. A week after the incident I remember it so clearly....I got off of work and sat in my car, I didn’t want anyone at home to hear me on the phone. Because even though I know my family loves me there’s always this voice in my head telling me that if I scream and cry with emotion... then I am pathetic and being to dramatic. So I call the police department and I try to report what happened to me. They said because I couldn’t remember how forcefully he grabbed my hand to put it on him it doesn’t count... but I so clearly remember him telling me to show him my breasts so he could touch them and I said no, and him lifting my dress up to touch them himself I remember him kissing in me llamas me just standing there like a numb statue .. They said my drink might have been messed with and I should have gone to the hospital right away to get tested. And they “advised” me that because we had talked before that he probably thought I wanted it. I said no.

I remember hanging up the phone and crying, screaming and hyperventilating in my car. My head was spinning. I couldn’t believe it at first and then all of a sudden a thousand echoes filled my mind screaming at me “ you’re not worthy of anything, you don’t matter, your experiences don’t matter, no one will see you for you, my personality will never matter if all I’m seen for is my body” after about two hours of this I decided that if my 22 year old self couldn’t get justice then I would HAVE to get justice as a minor. I thought to myself “ I CANT live like this I can’t live just thinking I don’t matter and no one really cares”

I called the police department back and tried to report the incident that happened to me when I was 12, I knew his exact name and I thought I could take him down. They said it would be complicated to press charges but we can try.

I sat and cried for another thirty minutes and wanted to make my pain go away. I am terrified of physical pain so I wasn’t going to hurt myself so I thought getting away from the town my trauma happened at would help. I filled up gas tank and started driving out of town.. no destination in mind, I turned back around when I had to go to the bathroom and I looked at every police car I was passing up thinking maybe they’ll see I look like Im distraught and help me. I got a call from the police department saying someone was going to come to my house to help me fill out a report of what happened to me at 12 years old so I went home and waited. I filled out the report and a few days later talked to an investigator and police. I told them what happened as best as I could remember ... I kept my composure and only started to cry when they were asking very detailed questions that forced me to remember things I had tried to forget. One of the comments I’ve seen people make is that if the victim isn’t showing emotional pain while being in question then it probably didn’t happen... I’m sorry I didn’t know we had to be emotionally distraught for the rest of our lives in order to be believed we were sexually assaulted. What if I wasn’t crying the whole time I was reporting my trauma, Would I have not been believed?

A couple months passed and I didn’t hear anything back, I called them back and they said that my abuser has chosen to use his right to remain silent... yet again being shown I don’t matter.

For months and months I was very depressed. The tears wouldn’t stop falling from my eyes, I did everything and anything I could to some how make the depression go away, I traveled, went to concerts, I didn’t let myself be left alone because then my mind would go to scary places.

Around Christmas time I got a job at a warehouse for a delivery service, one of the supervisors, he was in his 50s, he sexually harassed me, word for word said “ I’m curious to see what you would look like in a provocative picture” I was immediately freaked out and wanted to run out the building and leave. I had a panic attack and cried. I went home and cried. All the thoughts of worthlessness came rushing back to me. I reported it and the only thing the company did was transfer him to the other location and said they didn’t have any proof and maybe if they had more people saying it, it would be believable. This was crushing: if I didn’t literally have a video of him full on rapping me it didn’t matter? I felt uncomfortable knowing some older man was looking at me work and wondering what I looked like naked and that should be enough to do something about. And one isn’t enough?

You wonder why people don’t report ? Because we are shown no one cares enough unless you have DNA proof from the abuser or an actual photographic evidence that it happened. You wonder why people wait years to report? Because maybe we were a CHILD and listened to what some people told us like don’t tell anyone. Because maybe we wanted to make it go away by forgetting about it, because maybe I didn’t want to take away other people’s friendships. Because maybe I didn’t know how to articulate the words of what I just went through. What does reporting the abuse do? Put them in jail to punish them for their actions and so they can’t do it to other people?

Besides being worried no one would believe me to be able to punish the abuser ..... I was to wrapped up in my own mind thinking about how much emotional pain I was to think to immediately report it to make it not happen to other people. Not because I’m selfish but because I couldn’t think straight at a time like that. The abusers not only put me in such a emotional distraught from being sexually assaulted and abused but I literally have been affected by these trauma in way a lot of other people don’t know such as disassociation. Literally around the time I was assaulted for the first time in late elementary school is when I started to zone out of school... started to struggle. How unfair is it that something that happened to me I had no control over has Affected me for the rest of my life even in school? I have to work twice as hard to concentrate and remember things just because some sicko put me through trauma.

So I ask you to please please remember the emotionally hard things victims of sexual assault have to endure the next time you think you have the right to comment on sexual assault victims in general.

#metoo #me too

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Crunchyroll All-Stars: Larry Ogunjobi on Going to Conventions from Anime Expo to Japan

Anime fans come from all walks of life and in all shapes and sizes. Some are students, some are scientists, some are doctors, some are artists, and some are even well-known athletes! Crunchyroll All-Stars is a series of interviews highlighting elite professionals who harbor a passion both for their art and for anime.

Today’s profile is on Larry Ogunjobi, a defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals. Growing up during the Toonami era, Ogunjobi would go on to take his passion for anime all the way from Anime Expo in Los Angeles to even conventions in Japan. We spoke with Ogunjobi about how Naruto’s lessons have helped him his entire life, why so many athletes relate to anime characters, and more!

When did you become an anime fan? Was there a specific moment that affected you or changed the way you felt about something?

It started when I was younger when I was in 5th grade or so in elementary school. I used to always play video games and the first game I ever got was Zelda. After gaming a little bit I’d go to school and talk about the games. Then I remember on Cartoon Network there was Toonami at 9 pm, and then on Saturdays, you’d get all the good anime — Dragon Ball Z, Trigun, Wolf’s Rain, Case Closed, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho — those were my introductions to anime. I always enjoyed it. 

Then came Naruto...I feel like I grew up with Naruto! Watching him as a kid and growing up to get married in the last episode of the last season of Shippuden. 

I also remember getting a Dragon Ball Z video game for Playstation. I saved up to buy a PS2 and got really into that game. 

Anime always told a story. You got your main character and sometimes he’s maybe a knucklehead kid or has some problems. There’s always that origin story that grabs you and you figure out more of what the show’s going to be about. For me, it was always about the character development -- you have a character and things don’t go their way...do they quit or do they push through it? I always took those kinds of life lessons and nuggets that anime have in them, and my appreciation just grew and grew into a real love for anime. Now it’s just a part of what I do. 

Are there any ways you engage with your favorite anime series or characters aside from watching them?

I ended up visiting Japan. It was really cool going to see a convention out there. The excitement the people there had for anime was amazing. It was like their Super Bowl!  

When I was young, people would knock anime sometimes so it was awesome to see people enjoying themselves, being happy, getting all dressed up. I remember seeing this reenactment of the Naruto fight with Pain. These were just people walking by each other and they really did it! It was just very cool to experience. 

Have you ever bonded with someone else over anime?

One of my mentors in the NFL is Geno Atkins (Defensive Tackle on the Bengals), and I was with him in LA and there was an Anime Expo out there at that time. So I was talking to Geno about anime and he started rattling off a list and I could tell he was for real so I told him about the Anime Expo and we decided to head over to the convention. 

Overall, I’m slowly starting to see more people, more pro athletes show their fandom. We’re able to put ourselves in the same shoes as some of these characters. There have been times in a game where I have put myself in the mindset of a main character from one of my favorite anime. When you find someone who watches anime too, who does that same kind of thing, who’s balling, it creates that bond. 

What’s your favorite anime series of all time?

Naruto. I know it’s a mainstream anime and an introductory anime for a lot of people but I REALLY watched it, with subtitles, and I’d wait week after week to watch it. From elementary school into middle school and then going all the way through it to college till it finished. And I felt like “Damn, this is really over?...” I had really invested in it and it really followed the development of my life. I was an overweight kid (obese), a troubled kid. I really started football because my mom took away my Xbox, and then after that, I went through my first real season of football. I remember we had an awards banquet after that year, and when the award for most improved JV player came up, they called my name. I thought my best friend at the time was going to get it but I got it...and it really got me feeling like I earned it and my hard work paid off. 

I was biking and running at the YMCA every day and went from 350 lbs. To 247 lbs., bulked back up to 267 lbs., and ended up getting five scholarship offers. Ended up going to Charlotte for college. Now I’m in college and with Naruto, the anime is going on throughout all of this for me (probably like the Pain arc or somewhere around that). It felt like we were going through our trials and tribulations together; it was actually really cool. Now I’m working hard, I’m grinding in college, and the only thing I could compare my process to was these storylines in anime — I knew I was special and that I was the main character of my story — and I ended up being the first player ever drafted to the NFL out of my college. 

Then as I'm finishing college, Naruto finished...it was just so cool and such a special experience. I have a lot of favorites but that has to be #1. 

Who’s your favorite anime character of all time?

Have to stick with Naruto for all the reasons mentioned above. He’s so relatable to me. He was different from everybody. I remember my grandpa telling me I was special and that I was different. At the time, I was an obese kid...I didn’t know what he was talking about. But I just knew that me being different and working hard would pay off. God always finds a way to make things work out for you. Are there going to be trials? Yes. Are there going to be tragedies? Yes. But the triumphs are going to outweigh everything. 

Who would you rank as the top anime hero ever?

One of the best characters I’ve seen develop into a hero is Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul. I’m big on mental health, and you see all the phases he went through. He has to deal with that headache of being on two different sides of the world. He was a human just a little while ago, and now he has to survive on eating flesh...it was a crazy segue. Being a ghoul, soft-spoken...he really develops into this boss! 

There’s so many anime though: Naruto, Goku...his demeanor is fire. He always wants to get better. He’s very relatable. Whenever there’s a super-strong opponent, Goku’s always ready to try them out and give it a go. Even if the person he fights is stronger than him before the fight, Goku evolves during the fight to become better than his opponent. Facing and going through obstacles you become better on the other side. Like the Goku who fought Nappa and Raditz isn’t the same Goku who fought Jiren. He always elevated his game to meet who he was fighting. 

Who would you rank as the top anime villain ever?

Dio from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. MAN!..I’ve never seen a villain so dedicated to messing with a family! He REALLY had it out for the Joestars. It was a generational show: you had the first Joseph and Jotaro, and Dio still found a way to be that ultra villain who stays in the mix. There’s not a lot of villains who have been able to stay so relevant. Dio was kicking ass for a minute before he got beat up. I enjoyed him as a villain for sure. 

Have you ever taken any elements or learnings from anime and implemented them into your daily life?

Yes, with Naruto his motto was never going back on his word and never giving up. In life, you’re always going to go through ups and downs but Naruto always found a way. He also had a great support system, which is really important. You need to have the right people around you. And with rivalries, I’d apply the ways Naruto and Sasuke or Goku and Vegeta approached rivalries. Having someone next to you that you look to as a brother, but who pushes you to new heights and great places. 

It feels like more and more athletes are showcasing their love for anime — what’s anime fandom like in NFL culture? And what do you think it is about anime that attracts athletes?

Anime is definitely becoming more and more prevalent. A lot of guys will gravitate towards each other with gaming and things like Call of Duty and Fortnite. I’m a D-Lineman and I feel like there’s so many D-Linemen around the league who are fans of anime. You see anime characters go through intense training and we do everything we can to be great at what we do, to improve our technique, and it’s very relatable for guys. 

It also helps us decompress. We have a hard job. We’re in the offseason right now. You get up, you grind, and you work. Sometimes it's just fun to watch someone else's story. 

Like I said, I’ve always felt like I’m the main character of my story, and when you believe that you start to move in a different way and start to workout that way. The concept is so relatable to real life. And in general, guys just like it too. 

Social media has also made anime way more known. Before people didn’t talk about it much and now guys in the league are posting about it and you learn all these guys like it. Then you start talking about anime with them, now we’re sending each other anime to watch, like “Yo this one is about to come on, you got to check it out”. A whole bunch of guys on my team like it, and you start giving people anime to watch and they come back to you like, “This is fire!” 

Also, I’m big into anime but I didn’t realize how big anime was till I saw my baby sister and how into it she is. She draws the characters. Man, she’s caught up on One Piece!

What would your message be to someone who recently discovered anime and was thinking about getting into it?

My message would be to figure out what you personally like. Anime has a little of everything: sci-fi, action, sports anime. Find one that’s similar to something you already enjoy watching and then go from there. 

If you’re new I’d also watch an anime that doesn’t have a whole bunch of episodes in each season so you can fully get into it, like a Mob Psycho 100 or Attack on Titan. 

I remember watching the first half of the first episode of Attack on Titan and I wasn’t feeling it right away, and I remember being in college and working out and visiting the Student Union and I remember falling asleep after working out, and right next to me was where people were hanging out and watching anime. Then I woke up to hearing people cheering. I had seen some of the first episode but they were watching the 2nd episode and Eren had just gotten eaten by the Titan, and I was talking junk like, “How can the main character get killed like that?!”...Then the next scene he turned into a Titan and I was like, “Oh man this is HARD!” 

You have to give each anime a chance. Most anime develop really well throughout. I remember with God of High School I started it and was like “ehh, it’s alright”, but I ended up watching the rest of the season and was like “Wow, this is really nicely done!” 

Also, be open to watching subbed and dubbed anime. Give yourself an opportunity to like it.

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this blog is 3 years old today, and so, here is my third post ever (wooowwww)

So. It’s been a few years. I’m 21 and a senior in college. Is it cool if we make a time jump? Cool. I’m still Kathleen, but a bunch of other stuff has happened, and I’ll try to sum it up in bullet points: • Depression and anxiety hit me pretty hard spring of my freshman year. • I actually ended up making some more friends that spring, too - a pretty & cool girl named Jenae, a goofy and quirky girl named Emily, and a bearded dude named Zach, who was a couple years ahead of us in the art program. • I couldn’t find a job, so I spent all summer of 2017 hanging around my house and occasionally driving into a nearby town to get coffee and sketch the apple trees. • I lived in a single dorm in what was once the attic area of the oldest dorm on campus. I had three windows and a slanted roof and string lights, and it was the coziest place ever. • I go on an overnight trip to Portland with my two best friends from high school, Kaylee and Emily. • I ended up becoming better friends with Jenae, and met some of her friends, two dudes named Jon and Luis. • I arranged to move into my older sister’s old apartment in the fall with Jenae and her roommate Jordan. • I became infatuated with Jon, to no avail. Although, once, he did invite me over to his and Luis’ apartment, and just Jon and I hung out while he cooked me dinner. I still don’t know if that was a date or not. • I suffered major FOMO because they would all hang out without me, since they’re all from the same town. • I got my first summer job! I was a camp counselor at a YMCA day camp, and it was a wild ride. • I bought my first car! She’s an old Chevy Blazer that I named Monica, and half the stickers on the back aren’t even mine! • I played D&D with my summer camp coworkers/friends for the first time out of curiosity, and it was actually really fun! • I went to my first house party. I was the only sober person there. I kind of hated it. It was the same night someone hi-jacked an empty plane at the nearby airport and crash-landed into a nearby island that was, thankfully, uninhabited. • I took a week off work to move into the apartment with Jenae and Jordan. Jon helped me move my stuff in (I asked because I was still infatuated with him, and he lived in town year-round). I drove across the mountains and cried to Alaska by Maggie Rogers, although I don’t know where the tears came from. • I started my junior year of college, and re-connected with Emily, who I was friends with spring of freshman year. • I turned 20! And then a week later, I found out Jon had a think for my friend/co-worker Kaitlyn, which really bugged me, because she was the person I wanted to talk about it with the most. • I go on a youth ministry retreat and become better friends with Luis and our friend Annie. • I start to develop a crush on Luis, which Jenae and I agree is not ideal. I decide to not act on it, and just focus on becoming better friends with him. Which I do, because we have a bunch of stuff in common. • Jon comes back from winter break with a girlfriend, and I start to not really care. • I become better friends with a bunch of people in our social circle through Jon and Luis’ small group, like my friends Haley, Heather, and Katie. • Jordan decides in with her boyfriend, and so Heather agrees to move in with us for senior year. • Luis starts showing an interest in me, but then he changes his mind, all in the course of a week, which honestly breaks my heart, and I throw up because my emotions got the best of me. • Luis starts dating some random girl, which doesn’t amount to anything, but it still sucks for me. • I get a design internship down in Sacramento for the summer, which means I will live with the family of one of Dad’s best friends from high school and college, whom I have never met in my life. Oddly enough, this doesn’t scare me at all. • I continue to hang out with Luis while he’s dating that random girl, and try to push past my feelings for him. • By the end of the school year, I feel so low and under appreciated by the people I hang out with, I literally pack up all my stuff and go home in less than 3 hours. I say goodbye to Jenae, who is hanging out with Luis, so unfortunately, I have to say goodbye to him, too. He doesn’t know the reason I’m leaving, and thus skipping the graduation and grad parties of a bunch of my friends is because I can’t stand to be in the town where he lives any longer. • I go home for a week, and then my mom and I make the two-day-long drive down to Sacramento. We both feel like we should be having some deep talks, but we can’t think of anything, so we just kind of hang out and enjoy the drive southwards. • We arrive, and I meet the family I’ll be staying with - the Harlow’s - and I immediately bond with their two youngest kids, a 22-year-old girl named Maddy, and an 18-year-old girl named Emma, as well as their 19-year-old friend Molly. • After making sure I’ve settled in, my mom flies home, and it’s just me with the Harlow’s in California. • I start my internship, and I’m the youngest person in the office, but I work as hard as everyone else. • I spend the summer eating mint chocolate chip It’s-Its, floating around the pool fully-clothed on a large flamingo floaty, being fairly stressed out by work, hanging out with Maddy and her friends, drinking cold-brewed French press, watching Studio Ghibli movies, and talking to my sisters on the phone. • The area I lived in is home to the largest number of millionaires and billionaires in California north of Beverly Hills, so I watch the wealthy through both the lenses of my own experience and curiosity. A lot of people look down at me because of my car or the things I own, but a lot of people ask me a ton of questions, like have I been to Forks or Twin Peaks? (I have, but both are just regular towns, no vampires or serial killers that I know of). • In my last week, I visit Facebook and San Francisco, and my dad flies down that Friday night to drive back with me. • We drive back home, and I leave my pillow in a sketchy Holiday Inn in Oregon, which saddens my greatly. • I hang out at home for 3 weeks, and then I head back to school. • I start my senior year of college, and I become closer friends with two girls in my photography class (whom I’ve hung out with on and off throughout college), Riley and Jordyn. • Luis and I are actually really good friends! We play lots of Mario Kart and hang out a couple times a week to binge-watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine. • I turn 21, and instead of going out, my roommates and I stay in and do homework because we all have a butt-ton or homework. I drank one beer over the course of 3 hours. It’s pretty low-key, which I liked. Luis brings me balloons, even though him and Jenae hadn’t been getting along very well. • I start to get physically sick and anxious because I can’t tell where I stand with Luis, so I finally tell him how I feel. He says he’s not interested in me like that, but he wants to remain friends, which I agree too, because that was the main thing I was worried about. After telling him, I honestly just feel really relieved to know where I stand. We just promise that it won’t be weird. • I become closer friends with Jenae and Heather, and we all agree this is the best living situation we’ve had during the entirety of our college careers. • Luis avoids me for two weeks with out explanation, so I get anxious and spiral and freak out, and he dodges my questions. I apologize for spiraling, but he doesn’t seem to care. • I go home for winter break and come back, and his and I’s friendship is basically non-existent. • I take a yoga class and become better friends with my friend Arthur, whom I also know through Jon and Luis’s small group. • Heather has more free time, so her and Jenae and I hang out more. • I become better friends with my friend Bethany, who is also my coworker, but I knew her before through Jenae. • I apply for a butt-ton of jobs, and I either get a “we’re going in a different direction” or no response at all. • Luis hangs out with Jenae at my apartment, and things are so icy between us, I don’t feel like I can sit on my own couch. • Slowly, we start to get along a bit better, and we hang out a grand total of 3 times throughout the quarter, but he still doesn’t seem to care. • COVID-19 breaks out in Washington state just in time for finals, which I do online. • The guys use coronavirus as a reason to avoid me, but still hang out with Jenae, so I decide to use social distancing to cut them out of my life. And now we’re caught up. I’m currently at home, and I’m probably going to go back to school next week, if it ever stops snowing in the mountains that I have to cross to actually get to school. Heather texted the roomie group chat a few days ago and announced that she’s going to have to pull out of the lease because of coronavirus and her parents not being able to afford her rent with their jobs up in the air, so we’re on the hunt for a new roommate, which seems kind of futile with all that’s going on in the world. It’s definitely not how I wanted this year to go, and now that I’m looking back over the past few years, I got kind of obsessed with Luis. The way he treated me is super unhealthy, and unfortunately, I’m just one of a large group of people he treats like that. I was talking to my mom the other week - she drove over to my younger sister’s college to help her move out since all her classes are online and the campus is closed, and on the way back, she stopped in my town to get breakfast with me - and she told me she’s excited for me to graduate so that way I can find a better group of friends that actually value me, that I don’t have to doubt so often. I know I’m gonna be friends with Heather and Jenae after college - I’m going to Heather’s wedding this fall - but I know it’s gonna be a lot harder to see them, since we all don’t really know where we’re gonna be after June. But I agree with my mom. I’m pretty eager to find a group of friends that I actually know are my friends. To be honest, I forgot about this blog. I forgot it was here, and why I started it in the first place. I guess it’s kind of Caroline Calloway-inspires in that it’s sort of a living memoir, this blog. Maybe one day, after I’ve written a bunch of other books, I’ll make this blog an actual book, because now I know it’s here, I want to be here a lot more. If anyone in the digital void is reading this, hi! Thanks for spending a bunch of time looking at the summary of my college career, exactly three years after I started this blog. It’s not super exciting, I know, but maybe it’s interesting to watch a life take it’s course. I’ll be back! -Kathleen

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truunity · 5 years

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Improving Maternal and Child Health for ALL – Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Webb

Jonathan Webb (Northern Virginia)

Career: Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs is a national organization that works with states and territories to support the optimal health of women and children. Our member programs collectively serve about 63 million people.

Steps towards becoming a CEO: I received a Bachelor of Science degree, then went on to get my Masters degrees in Public Health and then Business Administration. I thought the MPH would provide me with the information I needed from a content perspective, and the MBA would help me better understand business and strategic planning processes.

I also spent time thinking about how I wanted to make an impact; in what industry, what role, etc. I then spent some time researching if that position existed and if so, what types of skills did the person currently filling that role have. I tried to also critically think about what that role might need to have in the future if the industry changed and/or if there were needs/gaps I could see filling in some way.

Afterward, I started to chart an educational and career path to get the necessary experience and education that would make me marketable and differentiate me from other people who might be applying for the same role. For example, in the public health space, it’s not common to see someone with both an MPH and MBA, so I can “sell” the fact that I can bring a strong business background and focus on business principles to organizations. Additionally, I realized that a great deal of work in this space depends on your ability to raise money…but not many people have formal training/experience in this, so I sought out roles that were hardcore fundraising, so I would have this skill/experience and be able to “sell” that to a would-be employer. I’ve been the Chief Development Officer for the YMCA and the VP, Corporate and Foundation Partnerships and Social Enterprise for the American Diabetes Association. It’s essential to think critically about what’s needed in your desired role…and then think outside of the box for ways to fill that need, so you can market yourself in the best possible way.

1- What is a quality that makes you successful in your career?

The quality that makes me most successful is that I try to always put God first. This approach allows me to enjoy what I’m doing; even the hard stuff because I’m doing it in His service and at His direction. It also helps me to value every person, relationship, and interaction. A former pastor of mine offered a challenge that I’ll always remember. “If someone is looking for Jesus, May they find Him in you.”

2- What 3 tips would you give someone struggling to reach their goals?

Before answering this with practical tips…as a Christian, I would first pray for guidance and understanding if this is the “right” goal for me. Is this where God is directing me? Is this my purpose in Him?

Then depending on the answer, I would:

1) Look to better understand how others have achieved a similar goal, i.e., if I want to start a business, can I find a few people in my network to serve as mentors to help me understand how they got to where they are and learn from their mistakes and successes. Having good mentors and a strong network is essential. I heard someone say, “You can network or not work” a long time ago, and that phrase has stuck with me ever since.

2) Never give up. I had a southern grandma who only had a 5th-grade education, but her life experience and old school wisdom were always on time. She said, “If it ain’t no trouble, it ain’t no good.” If your goal is worth anything it will come with struggle and sacrifice…but keep at it.

3) Be creative in your approach. If you are trying to make things work unsuccessfully within the same box, step outside of your box and try a different approach. There may be more than one way to skin a cat.

3- Name the top 3 goals you achieved?

1) My first goal was to complete college and attend medical school. After getting accepted to medical school, I was encouraged to consider getting a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH) before entering a med school program.

After completing my MPH program, I fell in love with population health and adjusted my goal from medicine, which I thought would allow me to make a difference one person at a time, to public health, which would allow me to make change on a larger scale through advocacy, systems change and community capacity building. After working in local government and nonprofit work for a number of years, my goal became focused on getting a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), so I could apply some of the business skills I’d learn to public health and be able to make change happen at an even larger scale…with business and public health partnerships.

2) While working in communities, I’ve had a goal of bringing about change by changing systems, empowering communities, and improving health. While working in Evanston, IL (a suburb of Chicago), I was able to achieve this goal in a few ways:

a) I built a successful health program, called Women Out Walking, geared towards women and strengthening communities. It won national awards and has been serving the community (approximately 1000 women each year) for the past 10 years.

b) I was apart of a small team that brought Evanston its first and only federally qualified health clinic to meet the unmet medical needs of the community. We designed the center, raised the money and worked with the community to build this center, and

c) I was a part of a small group of leaders who designed and raised funds to build a digital media lab within the local YMCA to allow kids to hang out after school and learn about making music, video editing, etc. Above all, it was a place they could go to be safe…since Evanston, like other places, was seeing a rise in youth gun violence.

3) My goal was to lead a national health-focused organization and continue to bring about change on a national level. About 7 months ago, I achieved that goal when I became the CEO of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. Excited to see how we can change the world and address some of the issues of inequality in our communities.

4- What inspired you to reach your goals?

1. Growing up in some rough neighborhoods and environments in Philadelphia, I saw first hand how people live and the pain and struggle they go through. I also split my time between inner-city Philadelphia and rural PA, which allowed me to see the struggles of both impoverished minorities and whites alike. Since I can remember, I have wanted to do something about that. My parents and grandparents (really my entire family), have always challenged us to leave this world in a better place than we found it. That motivates me every day.

2.Many people have sacrificed a great deal to allow me to be where I am; I want to honor their sacrifices by living a life that makes them proud, is pleasing to God, and helps others.

3. God provides where He guides and protects where He directs. I want to live a purpose-driven life, so every day, I want to be sure that my work is advancing God’s kingdom.

5- How did you overcome obstacles to reaching your goals?

It wasn’t easy, but as I mentioned before, I knew it wouldn’t be. I am also still on this journey. What’s gotten me through thus far, is my faith, my family and my friends/network.

It is really important to surround yourself with like-minded people, so they can prop you up when you are weak. They can encourage and support you in your most vulnerable moments. Expect that you’ll stumble and hit a wall, but operate knowing you’ll get over it. Your mindset shifts completely when you operate knowing you’ve already won…you just have to keep moving forward.

Also, work hard, but enjoy the journey…you need to enjoy life and be you; because only you have what it takes to walk your journey. If you don’t allow yourself to live, then parts of you will die, and you’ll deprive the world of getting the full you.

6- How do you keep your inspiration from decreasing?

As I mentioned, I am continuously praying and calling on God for strength. He has never let me down and keeps me moving when I’m weak.

I also try and keep in mind why I am doing this and how it will impact the lives of the people we serve. If I keep the people I’m serving in mind, I stay grounded and motivated to keep grinding because people are counting on me.

Another critical piece is to make sure your passion aligns with your purpose, and that you are in a position to make an impact. If your purpose and your passion are aligned, then it won’t feel like work. You will have limitless energy. If you are in a position to actually make a difference in the areas of your passion and purpose, your inspiration/energy can’t decrease.

You’re winning!

To learn more about the organization, Jon leads the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs please visit http://www.amchp.org

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I am 21 years old and i live in California, I work at the YMCA but i only work 20 hrs. a week so i do not quallify for insurance here. I only make about $950 a month so i don't have alot of money to pay for insurance and my parents jobs do not provide insurance for me. can anyone help?""

Health insurance? For a 20 year old?

Hi I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for getting cheap health insurance. How are people paying for this, I was quoted at $140 a month! I have Never had any serious problem No broken bones and I've only had 3 prescriptions in my life! I only make $1,100 a month and with rent bills food and gas $140 extra is A LOT for me! Could you give me a good company? I really don't want to be fined in January, this is crazy! Also I was denied by Covered California because they said my household makes to much, I live on my moms property but is still pay rent/internet/electricity. How could I get around this for covered California? Please help me understand this better and if you have a link to a good cheap insurance company please let me know, Thank You""

Is there some program California State offers for people who can't afford health insurance?

I lost my job a couple months back. I am receiving unemployment, and that is just enough to pay all my bills with about $20 left over. Is there any program the State of California offers for people who are in my situation?""

Help European health insurance card?

my health insurance card has expired and i fly tomorrow? is this card important? if i get ill will they still treat me? and will my insurance company cover me still?

Are there different types of car insurance?

What are the different kinds?

Car insurance and finance question?

I bought my car on finance a month ago and had to have Fully Comprehensive insurance for it. It is very expensive - if I were to drop to third party F&F, would they find out? If they did what would happen?""

Do I need car insurance in Florida?

I passed my 4 our class on drugs and alcohol. I'm waiting for my certificate to come in the mail so I can go to the DMV and get my learners permit. Do I need insurance even though I'm not going to be driving my own car? I'll be driving my friends car. Sources? What's the cheapest insurance for a 16 year old male? Name of insurance and cost? Why would I need it if I don't even have a car and I'm driving my friends car?

Auto Insurance: Does the auto insurance have to be in the name of the car owner?

What's the cheapest liability insurance in the metroplex?

Car insurance question?????

me and my husband both have a car and have full no claims on both of them however we went to france for a year now we have returned but our uk insurance company are saying our no claims is no good as last year we were in france and they can't read whether we had a claim or not as our policy is in french!! the french company wont translate it to english as it's a french legal document!! so now although we have full no claims we are being penalised for leaving the country for a year!!!! we feel this is discrimination!!!!! we can translate it for them and the english lady in the french office has said it is ok for the uk company to call but of course this is not good enough!! any advice would be great!!!

Term Life Insurance at age 21?

I am 21 and I was wondering if I should purchase a $1,000,000 term life insurance policy through USAA. I received a quote for $42.19 (and an additional $11.66 for waiver of disability) and the premium is guaranteed for 30 years. Do I need this policy at my age? Also, should I get the Waiver of Disability for $11.66 more per month? All answers are appreciated!""

""How much would car insurance be for a f, pa, 16?""

how much would pa car insurance be for a 16 year old, female driver car suggestions: -mustang -X3 or any car on the hyprid/luxury end?""

How much will my insurance go up from a honda oddessey to a bmw x3?

How much will my insurance go up after I've gotten a speeding ticket?

Alright here is the deal, this Monday i got pulled over by this idiot cop who gave me a speeding ticket for going something like 8-10 mph over...I'm 17 going on 18 and have had my license for about a year and a half or longer. I have had no prior tickets, violations, ect. It was a 75 dollar fine which im paying....but im really worried about my insurance, my parents pay it, and i havn't told them about the ticket, im just going to pay it...so my question is...will they notice a dramatic change in my insurance rates? for one speeding ticket? oh and also, i live in idaho...i know these things vary by state.""

Why did my car insurance go down?

My car insurance premium went down by $10/ mo. I have no idea why. My credit score just went from 631 to 747 in just a couple of months because I fixed some errors, and I am also turning 24. Could either of these be the reason that my premium went down? Or is my car just worth less b/c all the new models are comming out? I drive a 2002 Honda Civic.""

What kind of car insurance do I need?

All I want is liability, but what does the state of California require as their bare minimum? Do I need uninsured motorist bodily injury limits and property damage limit? I drive a 1993 Jeep Cherokee.""

Motorycle Insurance (NY)?

I am looking into buying a bike now, but before i do, i want to know, how much is the average amount an 18 yr old male would pay per month for insurance. I'm not looking for insurance sites that i can get a quote from, since i have not decided on the bike to get so any quote might be off. Any roundabout estimate would be very helpful, plus if u can recommend a bike that wouldnt cost me a fortune that'd be helpful too =)""

Will car insurance be cheaper if I drive my mum's car?

I'm learning to drive, but my mum won't allow me to practice in her Fiat 500 or drive it once I've passed the test. This means I can either buy myself a car or drive my Dad's car, which is a much larger Jeep. I don't particularly want to drive it though because its an automatic whereas I'm learning manual (I know automatic is easier, but as a new driver I won't be able to practice for the test and I'm worried I might forget manual if I drive it for too long) and I imagine insurance is likely to be higher. I was wondering, which of these options are likely to work out cheapest? Is it worth trying to persuade my mum to let me drive her car?""

Car insurance help...please?

im 17 and im about to get a car from a friend but i wanted to know if my mom can just add the car to her insurance and not say anything about me driving it. then i can drive it and the car will still be insured right? thats basically what im doing right now anyway. i have my permit and im driving my mom's car to practice in, but the insurance company doesnt know that. my friend has his liscense and his parents gave him his own car, but the insurance company doesnt know hes driving it. if he got into an accident, wouldnt his parents insurance cover it since the car is in their name?""

What is the cheapest auto insurance company?

Can you have your name on the insurance if you dont live at the same address?

I am looking at car insurance, if i do it under my name it will set me back about 2,000 to 2,500. If its under my mothers name, but I am down as the MAIN driver it will cost me about 700 - 1,000. Can my mum legally be the insurance holder if she lives at a different address? I don't want to commit fraud""

""My boyfriend that has no insurance borrowed my car and got rear ended, will my insurance cover?""

I let my boyfriend take my car to go drop off his friend and he ended getting backed into by a truck and severely damaged my back bumper. Because it was on private property, the police couldn't do anything but observe us exchanging information. My boyfriend doesn't have insurance, but my car is insured. Will my insurance company be able to cover my damages, even though I was not present? This accident was the trucker's fault because he backed into my car, but this guy didn't even have an ID but the car was his family & supposedly it's insured. Please no smart remarks, I am asking because I'd appreciate some advice.""

""After receiving a check from car insurance company, am I obligated to use the car shop that gave me the quote?""

My car was damaged by hail. I took it to a shop recommended by my insurance company, they gave me a quote, and the car insurance company gave me a check for that amount. Am I obligated to use that same shop that gave me the original quote, or am I allowed to still take it somewhere else that might repair it for less?""

I suspect I may have cancer in my thigh but no insurance?

Over ten years ago I went to a doctor to exray a hard fat tumor in my thigh. He said it was nothing. Since then it has grown massively and is no longer movable, aches and seems very suspicious. Since then I had insurance through my sisters business but it was cancelled at the end of May. I did not know this but after making an appointment with an oncologist I had to cancel since I have no insurance. I know to get new insurance, they must have some sort of a waiting period for them to pay for anything due to the pre exsisting condition clause. Is it 3 months? Six? I don't know. But I am wondering if anyone knows of any other options of anything I can do?""

Health and Maternity Insurance.?

My wife and I are wanting to have a baby and need to get health insurance that includes maternity. I have gotten a couple quotes, but they all seems somewhat high being that she is only 22 and in great health. Who would be the best and most affordable provider to talk to? Thanks, Dustin""

Why are my insurance quotes so high?

I have tried searching for insurance on my moms car which is a Suzuki Swift GL 1.3 and I'm getting back quotes of 10,949.50 cheapest fully comprehensive and 6,404.20 Third Part, Fire and Theft. I passed my test january this year and I'm 18, I had temporary insurance on the car for a month in april and a week in june, the month in april cost 55 with Tesco and the week in june cost 70 with another company. I've also tried searching for insurance on other smaller engined cars like a citroen saxo 1.1i SX and got cheapest price coming back at 4,777.63 I live in Birmingham and have set it as the car being parked in the garage over night. Am I doing something wrong?""

""Car insurance in Wisconsin, us.?""

Hi, no one will give me a clear answer here.. Do you have to carry car insurance in Wisconsin? If so, what kind?, and how does it work?..I dont understand...would anyone ming explaining motor insurance policies?, or giving me a url thank you...""

How can I find out NAIC number for car insurance company?

I am filling out a report for DMV and there is a section where I need to provide the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) number for AAA. I talked the company and my agent and they say that there is no such thing? I wonder if there is any where I can look this info up..... Any idea?

How much would car insurance go up?

I'm currently driving a 1994 Honda accord and i'm paying $150/MO for car insurance. How much would my car insurance go up if I bought a used car...let's say a 2002 Audi Thanks!

Approximately how much does it cost to bond and insure a sole-proprietorship pressure washing business?

Disability Insurance question?

Can an individual buy short term disability insurance themselves without going thru a business? Can I purchase Aflac on my own, or some other disability insurance?""

""Why do the Cons enjoy that insurance premiums are avg. $13,000 per year?""

And expected to get up to $25,000 within ten years? Do they enjoy that average Joe might spend about half of their annual income on insurance? I'm interested to know how either s bankrupt nation or an illness plagued nation is good for the country. ? These statistics are all over the news today""

How much is motorcycle insurance in Ontario?

I am a 17 year old male living in downtown Toronto Ontario. I am buying either a used Honda CBR 125 cc or a used Kawasaki Ninja 250r. Please tell me the estimate of what my insurance would cost with a completed motorcycle training course.

Auto Insurance: Does the auto insurance have to be in the name of the car owner?

How can you get a car insurance estimate if you don't own a car and never have?

I just got my license a few months ago and may get a job in an area that is difficult to get to by public transportation. I want to find out how much it would cost me (roughly) for car insurance but I don't have a car (yet) and most sites I've found ask me a lot of vehicle information. How can I get a rough estimate for insurance, so I can figure out if it's even feasible for me to get a car. Thanks!""

Car insurance wise..im 16 living in Houston. How much will car insurance cost for a 2006 mustang gt?

""Im 17 and got a DUI, will this affect my insurance when I turn 18?""

I realize this was the dumbest decision me and my buddy have made in our lives. Trust me I dont want to be near a vehicle for a while. I have lost my license for only 90 days, the cops were very respectable about, and did not criminally charge me, although they were good at scaring the **** out of me. It will also cost me 500$ to get my license back after the 90 days, and my car has been impounded for 30 :(. I live in British Columbia, Canada and the car I was in is my parents and I am registered under them. Again, I feel ******* terrible about it and glad I didnt injure anyone, especially someone not in my vehicle. - The drinking age is 19, he didnt charge me for under age thankfully. - Im not considered an adult until I turn 18, you sure this will stick with me?""

Car Insurance For 17 Year Old?!?

So im doing my driving lessons but am so worried about insurance. I want to go on my dads insurance who has maximum no claims bonus. The car I will be driving is a 1.2L Vauxhall Corsa SXI (52 Plate). The cheapest quote I have had is 4000. I was just wondering if any of you guys know the cheapest insurance provider or can help me in anyway at all or tell me the best thing to do? Im willing to do a Pass Plus if that helps? Thanks.

Group 1 Insurance License?

Hello, I need to get my group 1 insurance license to sell annuities in the state of Texas. I am honestly not sure where to go or what to do. What do I need to do? Thank you.""

What is a good looking car that is cheap on insurance?

I am 15 and I am trying to figure out which car would be the best for me. I want to nice looking car that is not to fast because the insurance will be to much. I was looking at the Honda Civic and the Mazda 3. Any ideas? I do not want to spend more than 7 grand.

What are best and/or most affordable insurance companies?

In Oregon. And does anyone know the minimum if I am 21 and have had one accident? For 1996 Ford Taurus car Thanks

Best optical insurance?

Which insurance is accepted at the most places?

""How much do you pay for these items,Gas,Food etc Monthly?""

rent, water, electric, gas, car insurance , gas, food, internet service, phone bill, medication""

Does a car insurance company need to know the state in which the car will be used?

I am buying car insurance for a 21 year old child who will attend graduate school out of state. Primary address will still be with me. Car will be in my name; child/student will be listed as primary driver. Child/student will live in an apartment while at graduate school. Does the insurance company need to know in what state the student will be?

Who offers affordable home owners insurance in south florida?

trying to buy a house in south florida and I need a good and affordable company for my home owners ins.

Car Insurance in Georgia?

I just bought a new car, and I was wondering what does the state of Georgia consider to be full coverage auto insurance?""

Which website is best for buying health insurance in California?

ehealthinsurance.com, shopyourowninsurance.com, or gohealthinsurance.com? The prices all seem to be the same. Is there any advantage in going with a particular one?""

How am I supposed to get Medical Insurance if I'm out of work?

I am 59 years of age. I've been out of work since Oct.'012. I live in SC. I have been trying in vain since 012 to get a parttime job. I live alone with my mother. She is 86 ...show more

Car wreck....Why is his insurance calling me? Can someone please clear this up?

So Friday morning, my fiance' and I were headed to New Jersey to visit his family for Christmas. On the way there, I was driving his truck so he could sleep a little before we switched places. Early morning when we were in Virginia, I pulled off the highway to go to a McDonalds to get some coffee. When I pulled off, it was a weird exit and I had no clue where I was going. I stopped at a red light, which had another light very close behind it which turned green, my idiot self was looking at that light for some reason while our light was still red...I hit the gas and then slammed on my breaks realizing what I was doing but it was too late and I hit a guy on the side of the door. It wasn't a big wreck. The guy didn't fly across the intersection. He didn't even move, his door was just dented and it will definitely need to be replaced but the man said he was not hurt at all. The truck we were driving in barely had damage, just a little dent in the hood that was very small to the eye and a bent license plate. We were in much better shape; but again, he was not in pain and his door was the only thing that seemed to be damaged. ANYWAYS, I received a traffic ticket for failing to obey a traffic light which I totally accept because this was extremely stupid of me and I am planning on mailing the fine to the court. So since I was driving my fiance's car, which is under his parents insurance, I assume my insurance is not affected. The trooper just told us that the other guy's insurance will contact my fiance's insurance. So I am thinking all I have to do is just pay this awful fine. Well my fiance' called me this morning and said that Statefarm (the other guy's insurance) called him asking for my number. Why would the other guy's insurance need to contact me if my fiance's parent's insurance are the ones who insure the truck? I just want to know what's to come when they call me. I don't know much of anything about insurance. I just want to know why the other guy's insurance would contact me when, yes, I caused the accident but my fiance's father is the insurance holder of the car that was wrecked. Thanks!""

Different ways to lower insurance cost. could i have my boyfriend insure my car for me?

Please, if you're not 100% sure don't answer,, it's confusing. Anyways, i recently financed a vehicle, 06 Taurus, and the insurance is killing, nearly higher than the car note! ($314 a month). & now that I'm pregnant i need to save $. My boyfriend doesn't have a car or license, but is there any way he could get insurance under his name & then add my car? Or any other work a rounds? Btw, I'm willing to fix his license if that's an issue. I'm 23, He's 29. I live in what's considered to be more dangerous city than he does. Also, he has less moving violations than me. So a policy for him maybe be anywhere from 40-60% cheaper than mines.""

How do you get health insurance for under $500 a month?

My health insurance premium costs $500 a month. What options do I have for a cheaper plan? Would I have to avoid going to the doctor for many years to get affordable health insurance ? What is the secret?

How much is car insurance for a 16 yr old girl in FL?

i want a car, something sporty but it can also be 4 dr too. =]""

Cheap car insurance uk?

My car insurance is due, anyone know the cheapest company to go with? I'm a 19 year old guy with 2 years no claims and no convictions. The cheapest I found on a comparison website was 1300. any help would be appreciated. Thanks""

""I have Full Coverage Insuranc. Someone vandalized my car destroying the hood, and the front window is busted ?""

My friend has full coverage insurance. Someone vandalized his car destroying the hood and busted the front window out. Will the insurance company cover this? Someone also advised us that it would be better to report the car stolen and they would cover it once it's found with the damage. Is this true? we really need some advice on this one. Don't want to be stuck having to pay the costs for all this damage. Also, what steps he should take first, i.e - informing the police, ect?""

How much would i expect to pay for insurance?

I live in New York, I am 17, i have my car and motorcycle license. I took the motorcycle safety course that was offered. I have had my drivers license for over a year. I got it on dec 29 and i have not gotten any traffic violations. I dont know if any of this matters, i have excellent grades, i have ridden motorized vehicles for years. It is a 1999 CBR600F4 has 18,500 miles on it. How much would be a reasonable estimate without collision? with collision? how much did u pay? If you are 17, 18, or 19 how much do u pay? Thanks!""

Car insurance for 18 year old female with '97 Dodge Dakota?

I turn 18 in August and plan on getting my license right after my birthday, but my grandmother has offered to buy me a 1997 Dodge Dakota before I even get my license. Questions I want to ask are: How much is insurance on one of those vehicles? What will be the insurance once I get my license in August? I'm just looking for an estimate so I can figure out how much of my paycheck would be going towards it or even if I could possibly afford the thing. Thanks in advance! =) P.S. I'm an A+, homeschooled, female student if that makes any difference.""

Annual Mortgage Insurance Premiums?

Pretty sure I know the answer to my question, but I want to run it by the pros . Doing my taxes and I'm to Form 1098. The form asks what my Annual Mortgage Insurance Premiums are. This is the additional $40 mortgage or loan insurance I pay each month, correct? The IRS is not asking for information about my Nationwide Home Owners Insurance Policy (aka: Hazard Insurance). Thanks.""

Any one know anything about the new medical insurances?

Please tell me that my co-payments will be less! I pay $15 for my primary care physician, $25 to see a specialist, that my primary care physician sends me to, from time to time, and $25 for lab blood tests. Most of my medicine co-payments are reasonable. Except two: $60 each every 30 days. Ouch. I am 60 and working full-time.""

I need help with car insurance please!?

Ok here's the deal, im 18 yrs old and i currently financed a vehicle with the assistance of my mom. I agreed to pay for the car and most of the insurance. I financed the car with the plan of paying only general liability car insurance. After signing the car from the used car dealer, it came to my knowledge that i will have to get FULL coverage auto insurance. The reason behind this is because i need to protect the auto loan that i got to finance the vechicle. It is impossible for me to pay for full coverage of this vehicle as i called for a qoute and learned that i would have to pay an insane 300-400 a month. I dont know what to do, im going back to the dealer to explain the situation and hope he will be willing to get the car back. If the dealer wont agree to get it back, what are my options? Can i sell the car privately and pay off the loan with the money i get from selling it? My goal is to just buy a really cheap car straight up and only pay for general liability insurance. Help!""

Auto Insurance: Does the auto insurance have to be in the name of the car owner?

Does the car appearance affect insurance?

Does the car appearance (good or bad) affect how much we pay for car insurance. I know insurance companies always ask What condition is your car?..any dents, etc does saying its in good condition make the rates go up or down?""

Cheap Cars for cheap insurace??????????

I am 18 a new driver and i am looking for a used car with a budget from 400 to 600 iam trying to find a car with a cheap insurance and are Diesel cars cheaper to insure????

Car insurance help ok so i am going to be a first year driver?

ok so i am going to be a first year driver what insurance company should i get since the are a lot of them out there and how much do u think i will be paying per month in joliet IL i am a male and 18 years old

Insurance question: Uninsured car in accident?

My son (17) had permission to drive his uncle's car to the store when he was staying at his house. My son is in an accident and the car is totaled. I now find out his uncle does not have insurance on the car. Am I responsible for replacing the car? Does his uncle have any liability at all? I have full coverage on my cars. Will my insurance kick in at any point?

""I'm just wondering, is there anyone here who can't get health insurance?""

If you do have it, how do you get it? and if you don't have it, why not? Spiritually speaking, of course""

Is it important to have insurance?

Is it important to have insurance for a motorbike? I was thinking of buying a 125cc learner bike. How much would insurance, mot etc cost roughly""

One Day Rental Car Question?

I'm about to rent a car for one day travel for the first time ever but I have some questions. 1. They give me these options for insurance, but what's the difference and ...show more""

Why car insurance quote from tesco is 550 whereas competitors quote over 1000 ?

i went through swinton, axa ,norwich union, high performance, churchil, and a couple others. they did not even come close...is this possible? i am a bit suspicious, if that tesco quote is reliable, but they say when i call that i can complete the whole process online and i do enter the same detail as on other websites.""

How much would the insurance/tax be on these cars?

Im Looking at the following cars which i are in my price range but i'd like to know how much on average the insurance would be per year for these. If you know the average tax price that would be great too :) I just want a rough estimate because every insurance quote site i go on you have to fill out alot of details about the car aswell, but i dont have one yet. Im 17, live in london,england,female and this will be my first car. Renault Clio Peugeot 206 peugeot 206 cc Vauxhall Corsa SEAT Ibiza thanks :)""

Where can i get some health insurance @ a reasonable price?

I'm need health insurance my income is very low.. where can i get health insurance at a reasonable price?

Inifiniti G37 insurance for 18 year old?

Ok i live in new york and im 18 and a new driver.... i keep hearing that it would cost over 700 dollars a month to insure it ..... is that true ? i know there is alot of variables but i wanna know is it possible ?

Is American Family Insurance a good insurance company?

Currently I have State Farm on my car and EMC on my house. I found out I would save money if I switched both insurances to American Family Insurance. I was wondering if this would be a good choice?

No Proof of Car Insurance?

I got a ticket for no proof of insurance, I forgot to pay it, now I must see the judge, I didn't have insurance, yes very very dumb, I know, my question is..will I just be fined or is there jail time involved. I imagine there will be just a heavy penality in fines""

Question for someone who is familiar with car insurance companies?

I had a wreck and I have full coverage with car rental included for 30 days (20 dollars a day) if I don't use the car rental, do I get a check for the amount that I didn't use...I have Allstate...my daughter had a wreck a year ago and she received a separate check for the total of the car rental expense she didn't use, but that was with farmer's insurance...If I'm paying for collision and car rental on my premium and the insurance doesn't pay the car rental place, shouldn't they pay me?""

""If i insure my company car without my company knowing, is it ok if i dont declare my dr10 (dink drive)?""

If i insure my company car without my company knowing, is it ok if i dont declare my dr10 (dink drive)?""

Which car insurances?

OK 21 years old and looking for a car insurance that cheapest in Washington state, and I am thinking between these three, progressive state farm and Geico, which one is the cheapest of these and tell me the cheapest auto insurance any body know for my age and I am a male thank you""

Insurance on newly bought car?

When you buy a car, you kind of have to drive it home without insurance. What happens if you get in an accident or get pulled over? I'm talking about buying a used car, if that makes any difference.""

I need health insurance?

i am a student in college from the ages of 18-26 looking for a affordable health insurance..

How much does a ticket cost for no proof insurance in ca?

I got a ticket for no proof of insurance at the time. But I have insurance. Does anyone know how much the ticket costs. Or what I can do to get it written off??

Is the global warming scare (scam) just what the government needs to mandate disaster insurance as well?

With they make those without if look bad and neglectful? After all, children would be homeless just because their neglectful parents didn't buy disaster insurance for their ...show more""

Do I need car insurance with a drivers permit?

I'm 15, just got my permit, do I need car insurance? If so, then why did my parents have to sign for responsibility? Wouldn't that just put it on their insurance?""

""I got my first ticket today, will my insurance go up?""

I have had my lisence for about a year, im 17. i got pulled over today for going 29 in a 20 school zone. i got a 66 dollar ticket, but i really need to know if my insurance will go up... so can i get some help please?!""

SR22 insurance Texas?

I'm looking for a cheap SR22 insurance Texas, maybe some special price just for Texas State. Any info? And what's a medium SR22 insurance cost? Thanks""

""Whats the difference between limited, broad and regular collison deductibles with insurance?""

Whats the difference between limited, broad and regular collison deductibles with insurance? Trying to get an auto insurance quote, thanks""

How do you get cheap car insurance for an 18yo?

I need to find cheap car insurance for an 18yo female who owns outright an $11000.00 car. Any suggestions?

Auto Insurance: Does the auto insurance have to be in the name of the car owner?

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