Life on Queen Street

I love Once Upon a Time.

I love the fact that it’s a show with three female leads, each with their own share of agency within the narrative, each modeling a different performance of femininity. I like that despite having three ‘strong female characters’, Once Upon a Time has made Emma, Snow, and Regina smart as well as physically tough. And I really like that in a genre that so often treats motherhood as the end of the adventure or fodder for tragedy, Once Upon a Time positions motherhood (and all parenthood by extension) as a heroic journey that, like all great quests, involves the active choice to take up the responsibility.

And because this is a fairy tale story, sometimes that means struggling to parent your newly-discovered 28-year-old daughter who is also your best friend and roommate - thanks to the Evil Queen’s curse stripping you of your memories and freezing you in time - and who has an oft-stated weakness for dating the wrong guy.

Hook doesn’t need to worry about giants or evil sorceresses. He needs worry about how Snow White is ready to cut off his other hand just for looking at Emma.

• Thu, 16:35: RT @shitrobfordsays: "We are building bike lanes." http://t.co/lUB7YgyT
• Thu, 16:42: RT @natnewswatch: Majority-governing Tories shut down Wheat Board debate, third time to use closure since House resumed http://t.co/gAY1 ...
• Thu, 17:15: Parliamentary dictatorship in action: Harper forces closure on 3rd bill as Cons vote to kill Wheat Board: http://t.co/eQCWkjG8 #cdnpoli
• Thu, 17:22: "Not one rookie went into... [McGuinty's] much smaller cabinet" ...as long as you don't count Ted McMeekin, Min, AFRA: http://t.co/UmasLjrq
• Thu, 17:24: With headlines like this, I question the future of satire: "Dictator found hiding in a sewer waving a golden gun" - http://t.co/Yth4m9O9
• Thu, 17:50: I take it back - McMeekin has been in Cabinet before but was dropped January 2010 from Consumer Services: http://t.co/ywYxq28N
• Thu, 18:02: RT @stephenfgordon: Re: http://t.co/0VglE1li Calling for higher taxes on *other people* is not a challenge to anti-tax sentiment. It's a ...
• Thu, 18:27: Just where does "being Mayor of Toronto" rank on Rob Ford's priority list, anyway? http://t.co/f2pYhvbn via @metromorning #TOpoli
• Thu, 18:30: RT @dgardner: Every demo where the 9/11-was-an-inside-job people show up is discredited. I'm beginning to think 9/11-was-an-inside-job i ...
• Thu, 18:42: +1 MT @common_st Soon Harper will wonder why all his base are belong to us.

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• Mon, 11:37: Have you seen Belinda? Fort Frances OPP Seek Help Locating Missing Teenager http://t.co/rYtim75j via @netnewsledger
• Mon, 11:46: RT @mgeist: RT @rsingel: U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show http://t.co/0I4K6iTG http://t.co/LDBVBDPV
• Mon, 11:48: RT @EllenBarkin: Fuck you twitter bird without a fuckin' face. I just verified my own fuckin' self. http://t.co/oonl9Cfw
• Mon, 11:55: I get that certain people like to salt their oatmeal but I think the knife and the pepper is a step too far, Tim Hortons. #apostraphewanted
• Mon, 11:59: Not even m'Irish granny's oatmeal requires a knife (well, perhaps to fight your way out of the kitchen). (Irish cooking: not for the weak.)
• Mon, 12:00: RT @BchRivMirror: Longtime local MPPs look to the future, re-examining OMB a priority for @Peter_Tabuns and @ChoosePrue - http://t.co/ ...
• Mon, 12:17: Rosie DiManno being amusingly trenchant on the need to recognize & regulate TO's rub ‘n’ tug industry: http://t.co/Sdj4eLrH #TOpoli
• Mon, 12:29: RT @jm_mcgrath: Oh yes, and Waterfront Toronto's Port Lands plan that Ford tried to kill won an important award last week. http://t.co/b ...
• Mon, 16:59: Limbaugh's decision to defend the LRA to smear President Obama is a low point in a largely subterranean career: http://t.co/tZ0WXBQQ
• Mon, 17:01: RT @kiwinerd: Let’s all boycott Michael Bryant’s book (to deprive him of revenue) and ignore him completely (to deprive him of media att ...

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• Tue, 11:23: Avril Lavigne, Twitter? Srsly?
• Tue, 11:41: The Preem's official campaign photo (top - http://t.co/vRcEfrMv ) reminds me of Grandma's pic of the Sacred Heart. The eyes! OMG, the eyes!
• Tue, 11:54: I gave my McGuinty campaign button to my admin as a joke... she's quite taken with it and is wearing it around the office. #petardmeethoist
• Tue, 11:59: Dear @TOMayorFord, it seems that you need another reminder: it is an offence to use a hand-held phone while driving: http://t.co/iL5Bjrv6
• Tue, 12:23: RT @balkissoon If only Mayor Ford had a big enough office budget to afford a hands-free phone.
• Tue, 12:29: RT @jm_mcgrath: For the record, decided *not* to go with this Flickr pic for the "Rob Ford caught talking while driving again" post http ...
• Tue, 13:22: From @inklessPW: What really goes on in Ontario schools: http://t.co/HvDLu65Q #voteON
• Tue, 13:49: Apple, I don't need to "find my friends". They're my friends - as a rule, they're happy to tell me how to find them personally.
• Tue, 14:11: As renewable capacity increases in Europe, coal and gas plants become less and less profitable: http://t.co/epaxUTcg via @grist
• Tue, 14:18: TGAM hates Horwath's platform So. Much. they devote an entire editorial to fanning the flames on the side of their face http://t.co/kOp9oUp2

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• Чт, 17:58: Rob Ford should get down on his knees & thank God for TOians who want to pay taxes for libraries: California and Bust - http://t.co/8bw5E5n5
• Чт, 19:31: How many real NDP voters do you suppose use "tree-hugger" as a perjorative? http://t.co/9Satd3w9 #astroturf
• Чт, 19:39: Reading a play-by-play of a student union debate at my Halifax alma mater via Twitter. It is so very strange, living in the future.
• Чт, 21:53: Tonight, I see @gordperks in a completely new light: RT @emmamwoolley Gord. Perks. (Scroll down.) bit.ly/p404zl
• Чт, 21:57: Support Toronto Citizenship, add a #twibbon now! - http://t.co/BQDGVS2o - Create one here - http://t.co/5sptUd4o
• Чт, 22:41: .@madhatressTO I like the way the article makes it very clear that it was "fake Batman" because, duh, Real Batman never leaves Gotham.
• Чт, 22:42: RT @SBSNews: A fake Batman has marched into a Christchurch police station demanding to know what emergency triggered the bat signal http ...
• Чт, 22:45: RT @kiwinerd: @lifeonqueen never let it be said that the New Zealand a police do not have a sense of humour.
• Пт, 11:07: RT @mgeist: Doc Org:"Digital locks provisions lock up cultural objects so they cannot be accessed 4 legal purposes" http://t.co/9pN4Iqj3
• Пт, 11:13: Is it not strange that a min, Min of Foreign Affairs no less, demand "Canada" dropped from his business cards? http://t.co/XJQHA0Id #cdnpoli

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• Tue, 14:18: Wolf-dog crosses - a bad idea: http://t.co/J750KBGI via @electricland (still - you're 50x more likely to be killed by a dog than a wolf)
• Tue, 14:23: Oh, goody. Back from coffee w/Dad in time for Adam Vaughan's speaking time. Political theatre is the best theatre. #TOcouncil
• Tue, 14:24: TO 1842: "Men are weighed by their dollars... [valued] by their dollars." ~ Charles Dickens via Adam Vaughan. How little life has changed.
• Tue, 14:26: Vaughan now quoting all #EXcomm members' opposition to individual cuts - collectively condemning all proposed cuts in Core Service Review.
• Tue, 14:28: "When the Mayor says 'raise taxes' that's a conversation we should have and we should have it today," Adam Vaughan, the petard of #TOcouncil
• Tue, 14:28: RT @nowtoronto: Cllr Vaughan lists all the cuts Ford's allies have opposed. "It's not us who have blinked. It's the mayor's executive" # ...
• Tue, 14:30: "The wild and rabid Toryism of Toronto is appalling." Charles Dickens via Adam Vaughan, #TOcouncil
• Tue, 14:33: I seem to recall the Province of Ontario offering to pay for something to move ppl in TO... I think they called it #TransitCity? #TOcouncil
• Tue, 14:35: Cllr Shiner, if #TOcouncil's spending is out of control, perhaps Rob Ford's first act shouldn't have been to spend $100 on cutting taxes.
• Tue, 14:36: Also, anyone know but isn't the $13 billion figure Shiner's quoting include the capital budget? #TOcouncil

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