My Name is Drake

My name is Drake Diana. I am an anthropology major with about a year left until graduation. If I were to try to think of one word that I identify with: "wanderlust." After graduation I hope to travel the world and learn everything I can from different people, and cultures.

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taylorswift we need a recipe for these please! 🍪🍪🍪

[taylorswift]

MMMKAY— there are two ways you can go about this. The quick and easy way is to make sugar cookies from a sugar cookie mix and just cut open a packet of chai tea and pour it into the batter as you make it. Cause you’re busy and you want making cookies to be a chill part of your day. Pow. Done.

OR

If you want to make the cookies from scratch (that’s what I did for the 1989 Secret Sessions), you can use this recipe I found on a baking blog I like, joythebaker.com and I believe it was originally from a book called The Pastry Queen. If you want another great baking blog, I get a lot of great ideas from smittenkitchen.com too. This is a recipe for basic insanely good sugar cookies. I added the chai element to the recipe because I thought it would infuse cozy holiday vibez into the cookie and it really did. So I’ll star the part that I added in the recipe.

http://joythebaker.com/2009/06/giant-vanilla-sugar-cookies/

***after you add the egg and vanilla, cut one chai tea packet open and empty the crushed up tea leaves into the batter CAUSE CHAI COOKIES ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN UP IN HERE***

I made an icing for the cookies, but they’re fine on their own. If you want to make icing for them, just mix 1 cup powdered sugar with 1/4 T-spoon of nutmeg, 1/4 T-spoon of cinnamon and 3 TAYblespoons <—-(I’m so annoying, it astounds me sometimes) of milk or eggnog if you can find it this time of year. The more milk/eggnog you add, the more your icing will become a glaze. But glazes are legit too so basically just LIVE YOUR LIFE.

I lightly sprinkled cinnamon over the icing once the cookies were baked and iced, but there are so many icing options you can pair with these cookies—I mean it’s out of control. If you’re really feeling like living on the edge, you can go ahead and add a few drops of food coloring to the icing to make it festive. No one is going to stop you.

Why?

Cause the bakers gonna bake bake bake bake bake.

Bye.

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did taylor swift really just show up out of the blue on tumblr only to drop some betty crocker shit on us what the fuck

[wlw-mess]

I’m reblogging this solely bc Taylor Fucking Swift just wrote a whole thing about cookies and ended it with a reference to her song.

I have so much respect for her right now.

[mynameis-drake]

queen

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[thebayybrown]

This post represents my whole entire life. I’m not even fucking kidding.

[mynameis-drake]

supernatural

break the internet

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My life as a dog, John & Wolf | Tumblr

[mynameis-drake]

this dog is beautiful......

and so is the scenery!

[hatzigsut]

well.

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If You Are 32 Or Younger, You Have Something We’ve Not Seen In This Country At All. Ready?

America has never seen a voting bloc this large. Get ready to change the world, y’all. It’s about time you were in charge.

[mynameis-drake]

Warped Tour '14

With This Wild Life

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Obama Separated Boy Toys From Girl Toys. He’s Got A Wonderful Way Of Doing It.

[mynameis-drake]

ITS OBAMA'S FAULT 

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While Arresting Others, The Cop Whispered A Revealing Warning In His Ear

Bear in mind that this happened in New York City.

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One Protest, Two Results...

We are the generation of change.

[mynameis-drake]

A Birth Announcement Retraction? These parents!

This appeared in the Brisbane Courier Mail .

LOOK AT ITTTTTT

Really makes me smile.

[mynameis-drake]

Week 12: The "Nut Graph"

Tool 36: Mix Narrative Modes.

At first I found this tool very confusing but after some discussion and a help from Amy I understand it so much better. 

In Journalism the "Nut Graph" is the portion of the story in which a writer gives a sort of summary of the story. Here is an example (italicized).

                                                                   WASHINGTON — It would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years.

Congress has failed to stop it, and for more than a decade generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.

Until this month. On July 16, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia issued a decision that the arrangement is anticompetitive on its face. It potentially sets up a confrontation before the United States Supreme Court. If it were to accept the case, the outcome could profoundly affect drug prices and healthcare costs.

The Philadelphia ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals conflicted with decisions from at least three other federal circuit courts, giving the Supreme Court a strong reason to hear the case within the next few years.

(http://next.upi.com/learn/Writing-effective-Nut-Graphs)

                                       1. The writer begins by discussing the general, generic drug makers keeping product off of the market for profit. 

2. Then the writer discusses a specific example to lead into the actual story regarding Philadelphia's attempt to remedy this issue.

I think that this type of writing is most effective when trying to convince your reader of a specific argument. 

In anthropology, most people write changing narrative modes. They begin by discussing their argument. Next they discuss many ethnographic examples (i.e. specific cultural examples), In conclusions they then bring all of these together, their main argument or idea and the examples that help to prove it. 

Margaret Mead, perhaps the most famous anthropologist in US history would have done largely the same. In her famous work "Coming of Age in Samoa" she tries to teach American parents that children should live differently (though her research was done almost 100 years ago), and used specific Samoan people to prove this point.

[mynameis-drake]

Baby Shower's and Gender Policing

I thought that I would share a small example of gender policing that I encountered over the break. 

My boyfriends brother and wife are pregnant (8 months). They had a joint baby shower with a friend who is also expecting a boy.

We celebrated football sunday and the party included tonka trucks full of chips and buckets of salsa. It was great fun. I arrived a little early as my boyfriend was bar tending the affair and I was watching and helping the women set up the party.

They had a few games, as many baby showers do, some of which involved writing down guesses, or names. The women setting up put out a handful of chalk markers and, because I love chalk markers, I started to draw with them on scrap paper. 

When I was done I had drawn various doodles that meant nothing in the pastel colors available. When the women saw my drawing, they said "Oh, maybe we should put the girly colors away since they are both having boys."

I didn't say anything as it was a baby shower that my friends had only joined in on but I thought to myself: Why does it matter? Why is it so important to use "masculine" colors and also inconvenience others by providing fewer pens for the rather large group involved?

What do you guys think?

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New York Film Academy’s study of gender inequality in the film industry.

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An Australian TV Host Highlighted Sexism In The News Industry Using One Knockoff Suit

Australian “Today” host Karl Stefanovic did something great for his co-host Lisa Wilkinson (and all women who deliver the news).

[mynameis-drake]

How is it that this went un noticed?! It's totally hilarious and absolutely frustrating!

[mynameis-drake]

As a woman

I face a lot of stereotypes. I am harassed by some. Awkwardly stared at at times. Told that I cannot do the same things as men. 

But what I'm wondering is what kind of adversity men face.

Tell me your stories about facing adversity due to your gender?

[mynameis-drake]

Week 11: REPEAT REPEAT.... REPEAT?

Tool 33-

BEFORE:

In my depositions I am asked hurtful questions such as “Why did your last relationship end?” “Did your boyfriend break up with you because of the accident?” “Did the guy you were seeing break up with you because you no longer had any hair?” “Was it your fault?” I don’t know the answers to any of these questions.

AFTER:

In my depositions I am asked hurtful questions such as “Why did your last relationship end?” “I don’t know,” I would say.

“Did your boyfriend break up with you because of the accident?”

“I don’t know.”

“Did the guy you were seeing break up with you because you no longer had any hair?”

“I don’t know.”

“Was it your fault?”

“I don’t know,” I sputter, tears streaming down my face. I don’t know the answers to any of these questions.

So I picked a short portion of my story once again. Unfortunately, while I feel I have grasped the tools for the week. I found it really hard to use any of them effectively as the majority of my own writing (at least that I have access to) is academic and some of these tools are not helpful in trying to make my arguments. 

I did however feel that this edit was helpful for this portion. This passage comes out of a place of torment. I felt tortured when I was being asked hurtful question over and over again and forced to relive them, or, in some cases told that I was lying. 

"I don't remember"

This repetition is more real, more honest than my original writing. I think I must have felt that repetition was over the top but, now I find this more fitting, especially because of the emotional context. 

[incorrectsylviaplathquotes]

Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.

Sylvia Plath (via myrisingvoice)

(I love that the source of this incorrect Sylvia Plath quote is the tumblr incorrectsylviaplathquotes, but by now it has been so widely attributed to her that it will forever be connected to Plath. Regardless, great line!)

On the topic of catcalling......

[mynameis-drake]

So,

This is my mother, Tracy Williams. A wonderful woman who owns a PR firm in Los Angeles. She does a lot of interviews as she has won a couple of awards for her work with homeless women in Los Angeles, and owning a company with primarily female employees.

She recently got a small feature in a magazine LA Business Journal. I personally loved it because she is my mother, but the more that I think about it the more that I wish they could have talked more about her brilliance in business, NOT her accessories. 

Yes she's a beautiful woman, but why is this the most reportable thing?

Why do they break down her wardrobe? (for clarification my mother is not the type to spend such lavish amounts of money on garments, the magazine chose those prices)