@queer-deckovskij has shared information with me that’s lead me to believe that she’s a predator. This started when she told me she’s been attracted to multiple 16 year olds, and when I confronted her (an adult woman aged 19, about to turn 20) she told me that some sixteen year olds are mature, that it’s okay if the minor consents (as if they could), that it’s not illegal in Italy & therefore okay, and that age is just a number. I want to warn her followers of the possibility of being manipulated/used. Please stay safe!!
THIS POST IS DEFAMATION TOWARD A PERSON. Please read my statement:
This post is accusing a friend of mine, a girl I know in real life for more than 6 years, of being WHAT SHE’S NOT. This girl is caring, sweet, and she is really the most humble and pure person I’ve ever met.
This person (mandarinastronaut) is bullying her with this post. This is defamation, and defamation is a crime. Please report this person, they can’t send hate toward a person they don’t even know in real life.
!!!!! please report the defamatory post, what it says is totally bullshit based on nothing
so basically this person is carrying on their defamatory campaign. now i don’t give a shit about our cultural differences or about the fact that despite several social research studies and international laws you still believe this thing to be OBJECTIVELY immoral. it’s your fucking personal opinion on which grounds you can’t accuse a 19 year-old girl (ace and sex repulsed) of being a sexual predator and also of being manipulative, fuck off
bonus: YOU SHOULDN’T EVEN PUBLISH YOUR PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS YOU’RE A FUCKING ARSEHOLE AND IT’S ILLEGAL
In this post I will be giving context to my earlier made claim about @queer-deckovskij
First I would like to address the moral aspects of this.
A minor is always a minor. Anyone who’s under 18 is not an adult. Brains stop developing at 25. These people (kids) are still in custody, because they are incapable of independence in some level, no matter how mature they might be. A minor can never consent to a relationship with an adult. You don’t even get to vote until you’re 18. Age gaps aren’t an issue when we’re talking about two adults because they can consent, but age gaps become an issue when the other person is a minor and therefore incapable of consenting. Being attracted to a 16 year old because you weren’t aware of their age is understandable; when you find out they’re a minor you’re not supposed to feel attracted to them anymore, and most people don’t. If there’s one specific 16 year old you’ve known since you were a minor yourself and there’s some mutual attraction, the situation might not be as alarming. In that case, you do what any responsible and clear minded person would do, you wait until they are old enough to consent to a relationship with you. A relationship between a minor and an adult is always manipulative and non consensual. Bringing culture into morals holds no basis. Morals aren’t subjective. We’re supposed to change and develop our cultures when we see flaws in them. Culture changed when people started fighting sexism. Culture changed when people started fighting racism. Just because something is culturally acceptable, normalized, or legal, doesn’t mean it’s morally right. We can see how the imprisonment of queer people in certain countries is immoral, so we should be able to see how a relationship between a minor and an adult is immoral as well.
I know the person in question, I wouldn’t accuse her otherwise. I had a hour long conversation about this with her, to make sure I wasn’t misinterpreting anything or overreacting. I just want to warn people, especially minors, of her. I don’t want anyone to attack her, I just want kids to be safe.
Here are her texts as proof that I’m not making this up
The conversation ended in a very manipulative way, where she tried guilt tripping me three times and made me feel I was responsible for her actions. I cut her off for the sake of my own well being. There’s nothing she could add to this conversation that would make it better. Nothing.
This person is manipulating everyone. They are trying to ruin someone’s life. And is illegally showing private chats between them and my friend. Please report this bully because they already made her leave this platform for shame and fear. She is desperate. Please, please report them.
@queer-deckovskij has shared information with me that’s lead me to believe that she’s a predator. This started when she told me she’s been attracted to multiple 16 year olds, and when I confronted her (an adult woman aged 19, about to turn 20) she told me that some sixteen year olds are mature, that it’s okay if the minor consents (as if they could), that it’s not illegal in Italy & therefore okay, and that age is just a number. I want to warn her followers of the possibility of being manipulated/used. Please stay safe!!
THIS POST IS DEFAMATION TOWARD A PERSON. Please read my statement:
This post is accusing a friend of mine, a girl I know in real life for more than 6 years, of being WHAT SHE’S NOT. This girl is caring, sweet, and she is really the most humble and pure person I’ve ever met.
This person (mandarinastronaut) is bullying her with this post. This is defamation, and defamation is a crime. Please report this person, they can’t send hate toward a person they don’t even know in real life.
!!!!! please report the defamatory post, what it says is totally bullshit based on nothing
Smart Watches To Outsell Dedicated Fitness Trackers in 2016 Just as we said in our post entitled: ‘Best Fitness Tracker Devices 2016,’ smart watches will be the fitness tracker of choice in 2016. In Adobe’s 'Digital Trends Report,’ smart watch sales will surpass dedicated fitness trackers in the
It’s not particularly easy to report harassment, hate or breach of the Community Guidelines on Tumblr but you can do it.
Go to tumblr.com/abuse. This brings you to a form that allows you to report several things: Someone is at risk of harm Misuse of your identity or work This content is gross or hateful Some other reason
Make sure to include as much detail as you possibly can, like a link to the post(s) that are concerning you and so on.
If for whatever reason you can’t use the link, these steps work instead: 1. Go to the account button at the top right of your dashboard (it looks like a little head and shoulders). 2. In the drop down menu, click Help. It has a little question mark in a circle next to it. 3. In the search box (that says How can we help?) type report. Click the link that says “send us”. 4. A form will come up that allows you to report technical issues or if you think you’ve been hacked. If this is not what you need click “use this other form” in the “Note” near the top. 5. This brings you to the correct form as described before.
According to Save the Children’s report, “State of the World’s Mothers 2015: the Urban Disadvantage”, Finland is the 2nd best place in the world for mothers. Great :)
Inside the World’s Toughest Adventure Race | National Geographic
In Oman, competitors gather from across the globe to run a near impossible 87-mile ultra-marathon. Follow as racers face rocky terrain, soaring temperatures and 26,000 feet of elevation gain over the course of the grueling route.
Just spent a very overwhelming 2 and a half hours on my chemistry lab report. I have a chemistry exam tomorrow and to be honest I am not ready for it. T.T
SCANDAL, who has happily gone past their 10th year anniversary since formation, appear as COUNTDOWN artists! They opened up with the powerful tones of “Shunkan Sentimental” right off the bat. With MAMI (Guitar & Vocal) on her guitar solo, and HARUNA (Vocal & Guitar), guiding with her crazy intonations, she went,「Everyone, sing to your heart’s contentーー!!」, before connecting (the last song) with “Taiyou Scandalous”.
With RINA (Drum & Vocal) bringing out the goodness from her snares, MAMI threw in a distorted guitar rift, before continuing onto “DOLL”. TOMOMI (Bass & Vocal) came out with a bass play that feels completely driven, before diving into “LOVE SURVIVE” with her vocals. Here, HARUNA then looked back on the last 3 times they performed on the GALAXY STAGE, and once again, RINA conveyed her thanks to all of the audience gathered. They then dove straight into the emotional yet wildly exciting numbers, “Awanai Tsumori no, Genki Dene” and “FREEDOM FIGHTERS”.
And then, after “SCANDAL BABY”, HARUNA spilled their thoughts on heading into year 2017 over 1 chorus of “Image”. It was finally the deciding moment. They not only announced about the release of their best album,『SCANDAL』for 15th February 2017 (Wed), they also conveyed their New Year resolutions in laughter. TOMOMI wants to「Do a room makeover」, MAMI wishes to「Live healthily」, RINA hopes to「Travel frequently」, and HARUNA aims to「Make many friends」. As they spoke of these wonderful things, the countdown begun, in a 3, 2, 1, 0 (!!) fashion. Confetti burst and floated down amongst the cheers, as everyone welcomed the most exciting moment. The band then rolled forward with the glamourous, “Take Me Out”, which everyone danced to, and lastly, they finished with the rockish-yet-cute “EVERYBODY SAY YEAH!”, with MAMI doing its call-and-response. It was a countdown live that could only be pulled off by SCANDAL, its atmosphere equivalent to a year’s worth of energy. The absolute best.
This will also be a part of the special supplement, of the March 2017 issue of magazine,「ROCKIN'ON JAPAN」(30th Jan 2017 release). The supplement will contain the full setlist for all of this year’s CDJ acts, as well as live photos.
Original article by rockin'on Japan HERE, translated by fyscandalband.
I never thought I’d be exposed with my naked pictures on internet with my name. I don’t mind that much if it’s just on Tumblr but some pictures were showing up on google results when you googled my name so I deleted posts. There’s one post though I did not post. Someone took pictures of me from xvideos.com and found my name and used my name as description for pictures and that shows in google and I am unable to delete. I’ve even messaged the poster several times to remove but not one single reply. I’ve even reported picture still no reply. Again I don’t care if I’m naked on internet but showing up in google search results when you search my actual name is a different story. I’d post link to picture to report it but some people would just reblog it. So I will avoid doing that.
With every social media network rolling out new options for reporting mental health concerns, it’s worth taking the time to listen to people when they say that getting notifications asking if they’re okay from an automated system is not helpful. Instead it makes many people more paranoid about what they post, and takes away from their ability to use social media as a safe space to share their struggles with others. Instead of drive-by reporting, if you see something that concerns you try reaching out to the poster! Even if you still think it would be best to report them, shooting them a heads up that you’re doing so, goes a long way to ensuring that our online communities stay safe for everyone!
I work hard to keep things lighthearted on my blog so I apologize for the brief serious post, this is just really important to me. Having had my paranoia triggered when a few of my memes were reported, it caused me to leave a few social media platforms and I think this is a suggestion that would have helped mediate a lot of the pain I went through.
There’s no better way to start of the year than with a zero waste cosmetics workshop! As part of our Arts Unlocked Program, we organised and hosted a workshop at the Skip Gardenin Kings Cross, teaching students how to make their own face masks, toothpaste and deodorant from natural and organic ingredients you can find in your cupboard.
Most great ideas start with a really bad period, which is exactly what brought about the inspiration to start our own Evironmenstrual Campaign. Partly inspired by an international campaign initiated by the Women’s Environmental Network. The campaign was to raise awareness of the environmental and health implications that single use sanitary products have on our bodies and the environment, as well as period poverty, which remains global issue. We created a poster campaign advertising the discounted menstrual cups that we sell at the Students’ Union, amongst facts about period poverty and the issues surrounding period stigma.
We successfully managed to lobby the university to place FREE sanitary products in all the women’s and non-binary toilets at the UAL sites, which is a fantastic win!
We are also aware that many women cannot afford to buy menstrual products, or even sanitary products, and so we have been setting up workshops, teaching students how to sew their own reusable sanitary pads. We will be celebrating the campaign with our period party in the LCC Darkroom Bar on the 26th of June! There will be FREE wine, a pub quiz and lots of fun prizes to win!
As a student I noticed that the bins at UAL didn’t work. They were confusing, mismatched and didn’t do a great job at separating waste. Upon visiting the Mitcham Waste Depot, we discovered that due to our lack of recycling, our waste was becoming contaminated. This contamination and lack of recycling, was costing us money to dispose of our waste, being subsidised by our student fees! So after many discussions with the university, we worked with the comms team and the UAL estates team to replace the bins across all UAL sites! Buy the next academic year there will be food waste bins, and clearly labelled recycling and waste bins.
On another note of sustainability, through the cost of study working group set up by our Educations Officer Anita Israel, the university has agreed to set aside specific funding for recycling and materials swapping spaces, across UAL campuses. This will hopefully encourage a low waste culture at the university, and save students from spending massive amounts of money buying new art supplies and fabric!
As link officer for London College of Fashion and a Fashion Design and Development Graduate, I have worked closely with the LCF events team and an external organisation La Marche, to put on several talks and events, focusing on representation and inclusivity within the fashion industry. The fashion industry has a huge problem with representation and it’s lack of diversity and opportunities need to be discussed more. By collaborating with La Marche we hosted some incredibly positive events, creating spaces for students who feel underrepresented, and a chance to network with industry professionals.
I think it’s really important to note that without the staff at Arts SU, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve half of my successes this year. I want to say a massive thank you to all the staff for supporting me, the UAL students for inspiring me, and my sabbatical team, for teaching me so much about so much. It’s been an incredible year, with it’s highlights and it’s challenges. Becoming an independent Arts Students’ Union and shaping the future of the SU, has been one of the many challenges we have faced as a team. And I cannot wait to see what the new sabbatical officers and amazing staff team will achieve next year!
I cannot believe a year has gone past already! It has been a privilege and honour to be your Activities Officer of the 2018/2019 Academic year.
My manifesto in 2018 focused on four main areas:
1. Improving the accessibility of sports and societies for students
2. Ensuring parity across sites and lobbying the university to extend opening hours at Wimbledon
3. Helping students understand how to create opportunities for themselves whilst at UAL and once they leave
4. Supporting students who run sports and societies
It has been an incredible yet challenging experience to see all of this and more come into fruition. Here are some of the projects I embarked on:
CURATING THE BIGGEST BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMME and BEYOND BLACK HISTORY MONTH
During what felt like a few minutes in my sabbatical role, one of the first projects I took on together with my incredible team was curating a series of events during Black History Month. This programme included a major exhibition at the Copeland gallery, several talks relating to fine art and fashion practice, Afrobeat dance classes, film screenings and self-care workshops.
This was very much possible with the support of the Dean of Students Mark Crawley!
After the Black History Month was over, we continued to curate other talks and events. Such included ‘’Elevating Our POC Voices’’ organised by Shannon Bono, the Women’s’ officer.
At LCF, we hosted Tolu Coker (Alumni) and Mariam Tijani (student at the time) to have a conversation about their fashion practices. It was well attended by current students and external foundation students who wanted to know about what it was like to study fashion at LCF and CSM.
The exhibition at Copeland Gallery was well attended and saw over 300 guests throughout its duration. Students were able to sell work through the show and establish new networks.
WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART OPENING HOURS MADE EQUAL TO CHELSEA AND CAMBERWELL: LOBBYING FOR PARITY
As a Wimbledon Alumni, I was very aware of the frustrations students feel about the luck of consistency in areas such as opening hours and CLS in CCW. It was my mission to change the opening hours at Wimbledon. With your help, through statements and focus groups we were able to have conversations with the head of college at CCW to address this inconsistency.
The parity in opening hours across CCW does not end there! We seek for parity across all 6 colleges now! I have written a report which expresses the demand for equal opening hours across all 6 colleges. This will be used to lobby the university and implement the change we want to see.
BEHIND THE SCENES STUDIO VISITS: PARTNERSHIP WITH CREATIVE SHIFT AT CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY
Our courses do very well to invite external speakers and practicing artists throughout the year, which is beneficial to the student experience. However, we understand that these opportunities can create a space for artists to talk about the polished side of things and to delve into the difficulties and strategical ways to get around any obstacles, especially after graduation.
We partnered up with the Creative Shift team at Careers and Employability to organise a programme of visits to artists’ studios and companies. These small intimate groups created a space for an alternative way of learning and observing what goes on in the real art world.
We visited PR Agencies, sculptors, film makers, painters etc.
These visits have now been compiled with podcasts and other interviews to create a publication which will serve as a tool/guidance for recent graduates.
YOGA AND FOOD: A SERIES OF YOGA AND CREATIVE EVENTS AIMED AT BUILDING COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVING ENGAGEMENT AT CCW
Earlier during the first term we received a call to apply for funding to run a series of events relating to health and wellbeing. After a couple of brainstorming activities led by Claire Flannery, the Creative Activities team were able to secure the grant for the programme titled “Yoga and Food’’. This programme focused on community building in Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon. Brilliantly delivered by the Arts Active Coordinator, Camille Koosyial, the Yoga and Food event engaged over 70 students and saw several collaborations happen between Arts Active, societies and MiAL artists. The Latino X society delivered a brilliant clay workshop, Lizzie Reid and Ella Banard delivered a watercolour pattern workshop and ArtsFems society delivered a homemade face masks workshop. These are only a few of the collaborations that happened.
The Yoga and Food events evidently made more students aware of not only Arts Active but other opportunities that Arts SU provided. Some students went on to attend the Behind the Scenes visits in June!
SUCCESS’ & BYE LAWS AND CONSTITUTION REVIEW FOR SPORTS AND SOCIETIES
Throughout the year, I have seen and approved several applications from students wanting to create new spaces and communities. There is literally something for everyone! If there isn’t, I challenge you to start a new society or sport next academic year. Some of the new societies we have had this year include Fail Better Society, Lingerie Society, UAL for All and Fashion Psychology.
This year, I introduced a Creative Activities newsletter which goes out to all students. It contains match results, events and other happenings within sports, societies and Arts Active. This was to help committees spot opportunities for collaboration with other societies but also celebrate achievements on a regular basis. We also introduced an equality, diversity and inclusion training for committee training attended by presidents, treasurers and other members of sports and societies.
I reviewed our Bye Laws and Constitution for Sports and Societies and approved them through Student Council. The changes are not weighty but were important for us to ensure a continuous and successful running of sports and societies at Arts SU.
Last but not the least, I had the opportunity to wear the UAL Women’s Basketball jersey one last time in a victorious varsity win. Go Arts!
PREPARATION FOR THE SECOND EDITION OF THE DECOLONISING THE CURRICULUM ZINE
The impact and distance the decolonising the curriculum zine has travelled so far is incredible and I believe it is only the beginning. My predecessor on this project, Hansika Jethnani, did an impeccable job to begin this work and it has been an important decision for me to play a part in not just helping people understand its purpose and message, but also using it as a tool to educate and lobby change. The Zine has toured all the colleges with the great work of Rahul Patel, Lucy Panesar, Gustavo Grandal Montero and many others. We are in the process of creating the next Zine!
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES TEAM
With all that said, I will like to make it clear that this work could not have been done without the support of students, Sophie Greaves, Vinesh Kurup, Camille Koosyial, Claire Flannery, Lotte Dawson, Katie Hughes, Sophie Risner, Sarah Choudhary Grant and the entire team at the Student Union. These people have supported me in ways you cannot imagine.
It has been an incredible and eye-opening journey and I am thankful for all of you!
