Thats Just The Way You Make Me Feel

That’s just the way you make me feel

HZD Week

Day #2: Nature or Technology

Did I ever tell you why I stopped speaking Spanish? One day you sent me to school in a puffy yellow dress with a big red bow in my hair. I looked like Ms. Pac-Man, and so at lunch, I “accidentally” flushed that bow down the toilet. Took two flushes to get it down. When I got home you were so mad. And you started going off on me in Spanish, and I… I just didn’t hear you. I mean, I heard you, I just didn’t want to hear you. So, instead of answering back in Spanish, I just looked at you like… And you started yelling at mom: “Your daughter cannot speak Spanish anymore. She has lost her Cubanidad.” So I had an out. I pretend I can’t speak Spanish, you ain’t great at English. It was perfect.

Gun Reform Advocate Emma González Is Bisexual—And The President Of Parkland’s High School GSA

Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González, who made headlines with her moving call-to-action at a gun control rally after a deadly mass shooting at her school, isn’t new to activism: The 18-year-old is openly bisexual and the president of her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA).

Just days after the massacre, she was handed a mic and told she could speak to the nation about what needs to be done. Her moving speech “called B.S.” on the NRA—and the conservative politicians who accept donations from the organization. The tragedy has propelled her activism forward, she said: “This has changed me fundamentally to the core.” (read more)

Watch González’s full speech here.

When the game autosaves and the background music starts getting intense

A meteor shower!