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This past week was VYD's Choreography Workshop, but I worked Monday through Wednesday and just showed up for Thursday and Friday. Syd and Finn gave me their Thursday afternoons too, so I could have time to complete a longer piece. This years theme was props, so I picked 3 large yoga balls for mine. My piece was themed around planets and orbits, and went to "Circles" by Oliver Tank. We accomplished about 2 and a half minutes of choreography over the course of Thursday, though most of it I had planned out ahead of time. The yoga balls were sort of a challenge to work with, because they have a bit of a mind of their own and the MMU stage isn't perfectly flat, so we couldn't really put them down. They do take a bit of the pressure off of the floor though, and allow gravity to be used in new ways. I got a lot of compliments on it, and now I'm working towards adapting it into a 9 planet dance, (BECAUSE I LOVE PLUTO LEAVE ME ALONE). Ideally, the finished product ...

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Hey y'all! it's Bella… Welp, Delilah asked me to write stuff soooo here goes nothing… Symptoms Of Being Human: It’s a really good book and it totally captures what it’s like to be genderfluid, sheds light on the positive and negative opinions regarding the LGBTQ+ community, and... all of the main characters have cool hair so that definitely confirms that it’s a must read. Basically, the plot of the book is a genderfluid person named Riley who conquers harassment, coming out, and dealing with anxiety. IT’S A RILEY GOOD BOOK. (see what I did there, see what I did there… nope, okay…) It was a little intense at times but that made it a page turner. If you looked at the cover for the first time without knowing what the book was about, you would say “NOPE, NOT GONNA READ THAT ONE”. But as they say, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Symptoms Of Being Human definitely proved that saying right. Twas GREAT!!!

At one point in time I had 3 physical copies of The 57 Bus  by D. Slater in my house, because this book is wonderful enough for me to take out both the hardcover and the audio book, and then still buy my own copy. I'm not a huge nonfiction fan, but wow. wow. wow. The 57 Bus is the true story of an event that occurred in 2013. As they slept on a bus, Sasha, an agender teen's skirt was lit on fire by Richard, a black teenage boy. Richard was tried as an adult, charged with two hate crimes, and was facing possible life imprisonment. Sasha was hospitalized for 3rd degree burns all over their lower body. Slater tells this story through poetry, social media posts, text messages, and also a lot of that style of writing that's in newspapers, but I don't remember the name of. The writing switches up enough to keep my very easily distracted brain fully engaged. Y'all know I'm obsessed with short chapters. It does a beautiful job of showing that there's more to t...