LAURA FORM

THE BEAUTY OF OUR MOST CHERISHED LAURA FORM,
IS HOW SWEETLY SHE SINGS OF OUR TRUTH.
HER SONG IS THE STORY OF EQUALITY,
AND THE FREEDOMS OF ALL FUTURE YOUTH.

FREEDOM TO DO WHAT THE OTHERS DO,
A CHOICE MOST TAKE FOR GRANTED.
BASIC HUMAN ENTITLEMENTS,
VOID OF POLITICAL SEMANTICS.
TO MARRY AND PROTECT THE ONE’S WE LOVE,
ENSURING THAT THEIR TAKEN CARE OF.
RECOGNISING ALL AS PART OF HUMANITY,
WILL BRING US TOGETHER AS ONE.

LABOUR GENTLY TILL RAINBOWS END,
WATERING SEED TILL IT GROWS.
GOLDEN TRUTH FOUND IN SONGS SWEET VOICE.
RESULTS IN THE BEGINNING FORTOLD.
DREAMS ONCE WISHED FIND REALITY,
AND A LOVE TO HAVE AND TO HOLD.

GRANT US THE VOICE OF OUR LAURA FORM,
SING US THE SONG WITH THREE CHEERS.
WITHOUT IT BELLS TOLL, NO RESONANCE,
AND IGNORANCE WILL ECHO FOR YEARS.

CHANGE MINDSET WITH NEW CHALLENGES,
ALLOWING MUCH GROWTH FROM INSIDE.
UNLOCKING THE GATE OF LOVES AVENUES,
VALIDATION WILL FILL US WITH PRIDE.


Copyright © Robyn Whittaker 2008.

CRITICAL READER LEAVES BARB ANON

WELL IT SEEMS SOMEONE IS CALLING MY MORALS INTO QUESTION ANONYMOUSLY FROM ONE OF THE BASHERS OR THE CREW. APPARENTLY I AM A JOKE OWING TO THE FACT I DID NOT RAISE THE MONEY NEEDED FOR ENTRY BY BASHERS ELECTING TO GO ON THIS PARTY ON WHEELS. (WHICH BY THE WAY YOU FOOL I WAS NOT EXPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE AS MY DONATION WAS MY TIME IN KIND ENTERTAINING THE LIKES OF YOU.) I WAS TAKEN ON AS ENTERTAINMENT, I DID NOT ASK TO GO ON THIS EXCURSION AND AS AN ENTERTAINER ON AN HOURLY BASES I WOULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE ENTRY FEE IF NOT MORE SO GO TO HELL! MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY HELPED ME RAISE $1050 IN 2 DAYS AS I WAS BROUGHT INTO THIS LATE, BUT MAYBE MONEY FROM MY COMMUNITY IS NOT AS WELCOME. IT SEEMS MY MORALS ARE SOMEWHAT LACKING BECAUSE I DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK THAT THEY ALL PUT INTO RAISING MONEY FOR CHILDREN, LIKE I SAID AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, RAISING MONEY FOR CHILDREN IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO TREAT PEOPLE WITHOUT RESPECT AND GO ON LIKE ANIMALS. I NEVER SAID EVERYONE WAS AT FAULT BUT OFFICIAL CREW SHOULD HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE SITUATION AND ENSURED THAT ALL PEOPLE WERE TAKEN CARE OF. I DON'T KNOW WHAT PLANET THE PERSON WHO LEFT THE ANON COMMENT WAS FROM BUT THIS ONE REQUIRES US AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY TREAT ALL AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS FAIRLY AND WITH RESPECT AND WITHIN THE LAW. I DO NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE POWER STRUCTURE OF THIS EVENT, DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ME OR FACILITATING IT BY ALLOWING IT TO CONTINUE. NOTHING ON A CURRENT AFFAIR BROACHED THE TOPIC OF THE DISCRIMINATION I WENT THROUGH, DISCRIMINATION THAT WAS SPARKED ALL THANKS TO SOME RUMOUR ABOUT MY GENDER AND LET'S FACE IT IF IT WAS A RUMOUR THEN YOU CERTAINLY NEVER WORKED IT OUT CONCLUSIVELY AND THUS NEVER KNEW, WHICH I AM SURE REALLY PLAYED HAVOC WITH SOME OF YOUR MINDS. I AM A TRANSGENDER WOMAN AND I AM PROUD OF WHO I AM AND MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY ALSO RAISED MONEY FOR YOUR CAUSE BUT IT SEEMS PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE NOT WELCOME IN YOUR GROUP AND RIDICULE IS ALL THEY CAN HOPE FOR IF THEY DARE TRY AND CONTRIBUTE. DAMIAN THE CLOWN KNEW I WAS A TRANSGENDER FROM THE DAY I MET HIM, BUT HE MADE ME PROMISE THAT I DID NOT TELL ANY OF YOU AS HE THOUGHT YOU (THE BASHERS AND CREW) WOULD NOT HANDLE IT, IT SEEMS IN ALOT OF CASES HE WAS RIGHT, BIGOTRY IS STILL RIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. I AM NOT ASHAMED OF WHO I AM , IT WAS DAMIAN WHO ENCOURAGED ME TO HIDE MY TRANSGENDER STATUS. I HAVE BEEN LIVING AS A WOMAN FOR 19YRS AND THAT IS THE END OF IT, I AM A WOMAN AND THERE WAS NO WAY I WAS GOING TO HAVE GROWN MEN AND WOMEN LAUGHING AT ME AND CALLING ME A BLOKE AND TRYING TO GET ME TO ADMIT I WAS A MAN AS I AM CLEARLY NOT ONE THANK YOU! ALL THOSE WHO HAD A LAUGH AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, CAN GO AND JUMP AS FEMININITY AND IT'S APPRECIATION IS OBVIOUSLY A DYING ART WITH SOME OF YOU. I AM NOT SAYING ALL OF THE BASHERS WERE GUILTY OF DISCRIMINATION AND NEGATIVE BEHAVIOUR, BUT THOSE WHO DID SEE ME AS A TARGET FOR JOKES AND HILARITY SHOULD TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THEMSELVES AS WHAT I EXPERIENCED MOST OF THE TIME WAS NOT FUN AND REALLY AMAZED ME THAT IT STILL WENT ON. IT PARTICULARLY SURPRISED ME THAT THE ONE'S RIDICULING ME HAD MORE REASON TO JOIN THE SIDE SHOW AS AN EXHIBIT! LASTLY I ENCOURAGE ALL CRITICAL NEW READERS TO KEEP LOGGING IN AND READING EVERYTHING, AS IT IS HARD TO FIND IGNORANCE WHEN YOU HAND IT AN EDUCATION.

The Variety Story!

THIS IS A VIDEO YOU CAN FIND ON YOUTUBE AND EXPLAINS HOW VARIETY CAME TO BE AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR, ESTABLISHED BY THEATRE PEOPLE THAT NO DOUBT CAME FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY- I AM SURE DISCRIMINATION WAS NOT A PART OF ANY OF THIER ORIGINAL AGENDA. I AM NOT TRYING TO RUIN VARIETY'S NAME, JUST TRYING TO ALERT THOSE WHO MISTREATED ME ON THE BASH AND DISCRIMINATED AGAISNT ME THAT THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOUR IS NOT RIGHT AND DOES NOT FIT WITH THE IDEALS OF THEATRE AND VARIETY.

AFTER ALL VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.

WHY I HAVE NOT POSTED FOR A WHILE

WELL TIME AND THE UNIVERSE HAVE A FUNNY WAY OF PUTTING YOU IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND CREATING DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES FOR YOU TO GO THROUGH TO EITHER GAIN STRENGTH AND INSIGHT FROM THE EXPERIENCE OR CRUMBLE AND FAIL. I HAVE BEEN THROUGH QUITE THE ORDEAL OF LATE AND I AM DETERMINED TO PREVAIL IN THE FACE OF IGNORANCE AND VILE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR. RECENTLY I WAS INVITED TO DONATE MY TIME PERFORMING ON WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE VARIETY BASH AS A ROVING COMEDIAN ON A ROAD TRIP FROM TOWOOMBA TO BATHURT AND INITIALLY WAS DELIGHTED TO JOIN IN WITH WHAT I THOUGHT WERE WELL MEANING PEOPLE FRONTING A CHILDREN'S CHARITY. UNFORTUNATELY WHAT I ENCOUNTERED WAS A PACK OF FERAL PEOPLE ON A QUEST TO PARTY AND DRINK AND SEX THEMSELVES INTO A STUPOR, GOING FROM TOWN TO TOWN PATTING EACH OTHER ON THE BACK FOR APPEARING TO DO GOOD BY OUR COMMUNITY AND DISADVANTAGED AND DISABLED CHILDREN IN NEED. NOT ONLY DID I WITNESS HUMAN BEHAVIOURS THAT I THOUGHT HAD BEEN LONG EXTINGUISHED FROM CIVILISED GROUPS OF PEOPLE BUT ALSO HAD TO ENDURE DAYS OF EMOTIONAL ABUSE VIA CONSTANT INSULTS ABOUT MY GENDER WHEN A RUMOUR GOT OUT THAT IT MAY BE IN QUESTION. I WILL NOT DENY THAT I DID MEET SOME LOVELY AND SINCERELY GOOD PEOPLE ON THIS REVOLTING ROAD TRIP BUT EVEN THEY WATCHED ON AS I WAS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AND DID NOTHING TO STOP THE ORGANISERS FROM ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME, SO IN MY MIND THEY ARE NO BETTER. I LEFT ON THE FOURTH DAY AND BELIEVE IF ANYONE ON THIS THING HAD ANY DECENCY THEY WOULD HAVE PUT A STOP TO THIS VILE DRUNKEN AND DISCRIMINATIVE BEHAVIOUR AND WOULD HAVE LEFT AS I DID IF A REASONABLE RESULT WAS NOT ACHIEVED. I HAD DAMIAN THE CLOWN RING ME THE OTHER DAY ON SATURDAY 18/10/08 A FULL 10 DAYS AFTER I LEFT THE BASH TO ASK ME WHAT WAS I DOING? (I HAVE GONE TO THE MEDIA , CHANNEL 9 A CURRENT AFFAIR ON AIR TONIGHT AT 6.30PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME) HE HAD SEEN THE ADVERTISEMENT ON THE SHOW AND FINALLY HE WAS CONCERNED AS TO HOW I WAS AND LET ME KNOW IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT I WAS SELFISH AND WAS RUINING THE GOOD NAME OF VARIETY. WHAT A JOKE , I TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS NOT ME THAT WAS RUINING THEIR NAME IT WAS HIM AND ALL THE BINGE DRINKERS AND DISCRIMINATORS THAT WERE RUINING IT'S NAME AND THAT THEY SHOULD ALL TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN THE MIRROR AT THEMSELVES AS IT WAS THEIR BEHAVIOUR THAT WAS IN QUESTION NOT MINE. I HAD SENT HIM A TEXT THE DAY I LEFT WANTING A RESPONSE AS TO WHY I HAD BEEN PUT THROUGH SUCH AN ORDEAL AND WHY NO ONE HAD GIVEN A SHIT TO EVEN RING OR FIND OUT WHERE I WAS OR IF I WAS DEAD OR ANYTHING. I WAS SO DISGUSTED THAT WHEN I GOT HOME FROM A DAY LONG HORRIBLE JOURNEY FROM MUDGEE TO LITHGOW ON BUS AND THEN LITHGOW TO SYDNEY ON A DISGUSTING TRAIN AND THEN AFTER QANTAS PLANE BEING GROUNDED FOR ELECTRICAL FAULTS AND 2 HR DELAY I FINALLY GOT HOME TO BRISBANE EXHAUSTED AT AROUND 6.30PM. AFTER SLEEPING LIKE A LOG I AWOKE WITH THE RESOLVE TO GET JUSTICE VIA THE MEDIA FOR WHAT I HAD BEEN PUT THROUGH AND A CURRENT AFFAIR ARRIVED AT 11.00AM AND FILMED UNTIL AROUND 3.30PM AND THE REST IS HISTORY. AT THIS STAGE IT IS BEING AIRED TONIGHT AT 6.30 BUT WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED AS TO ANY CHANGES IN ITS SCHEDULING. I WILL BE POSTING THE FULL STORY WHEN EVER I HAVE THE CHANCE BUT UNTIL THEN I WILL ADD THE VIDEO OF WHAT VARIETY IS SUPPOSED TO STAND FOR AND WHERE IT BEGAN AND WHAT IT DOES FOR CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD. IT IS JUST A SHAME THAT A FEW IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE HAVE HIJACKED THE CHARITY AS AN EXCUSE TO PARTY AND EXHIBIT REVOLTING BEHAVIOUR IN THE NAME OF CHARITY AND ALL THE WHILE PATTING EACH OTHER ON THE BACK FOR WHAT APPEARS TO BE GOOD DEEDS THEY CONGRATULATE THEMSELVES FOR DOING. DAMIAN THE CLOWN TOLD ME ON THE PHONE THAT THEY HAD RAISED 1.9 MILLION DOLLARS IF I HEARD CORRECTLY ON THIS PARTICULAR VARIETY BASH AND HOW DARE I DO THIS TO THE CHILDREN, TO WHICH I REPLIED THAT I WAS DOING NOTHING WRONG BY THE CHILDREN AND THAT IT WAS HIM AND HIS VILE GROUP OF YOBBO RIFF RAFF THAT WERE RUINING IT FOR THE CHILDREN AND I TOLD HIM THAT RAISING MONEY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN WAS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR BAD BEHAVIOUR AND BINGE DRINKING. THE WHOLE THING IS A DISGUSTING MESS AND I NEVER WANT TO EVER INVOLVE MYSELF WITH THESE SORTS OF PEOPLE EVER AGAIN. MORE TO COME....


Copyright (c) Robyn Whittaker. 2008