#Teuila Blakely

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hey! first of all, free palestine! i know you are taking part in the protest here on tumblr, so i imagine this will only be answered after the 25th.

i am looking for polynesian female fcs in their 40s. could you help? thanks in advance!

Rachel House (1971) Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāi Tahu, White.

Deborah Mailman (1972) Te Arawa, Ngāti Porou, Bidjara.

Nikol Kollars (1973) Kānaka Maoli, Chinese, White.

Kaliko Kauahi (1974) Kānaka Maoli, Japanese.

Monica Galetti (1975) Samoan.

Teuila Blakely (1975) Samoan.

Keala Settle (1975) Ngāti Kahungunu Maori, Ngāi Tahu Maori, Rangitāne o Wairau Maori, Ngāti Raukawa Maori / White.

Simone Kessell (1975) Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Te Rangi / White.

Miriama Smith (1976) Te Arawa.

Jamie Okuma (1977) Shoshone, Bannock, Luiseno, Kānaka Maoli, Ryukyuan.

Shannyn Sossamon (1978) Kānaka Maoli, Filipino, White.

Shavaughn Ruakere (1978) Te Āti Awa.

Tamina Snuka (1978) Samoan, Fijian.

Bic Runga (1979) Ngāti Kahungunu, Malaysian, Chinese.

Anapela Polataivao (1980) Samoan.

Stacey Leilua (1982) Samoan, Unspecified Māori, Unspecified White.

Lei’D Tapa (1982) Tongan.

Aaradhna (1983) Samoan / Gujarati Indian.

Thank you so so much for understanding that this would be posted later, it's now the 25th here so I'm replying and I hope this helps!

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Tessa’s post of KJ’s Mr. Porter photoshoot. 

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Rangers + their parents

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GRAPHIC >> Pink Line: Biological Family  Blue Line: Adoptive Family

Grandfather: Cronus, a Titan who had a number of children that later took up the mantle of God's. FC Robert Carlyle 

Father: Zeus, god of the Sky and Thunder. The only biological parent Hercules has had any contact with since he was taken from Mount Olypmus. FC Daniel Gillies Mother: Hera, goddess of Marriage and Birth. FC Teuila Blakely

Uncle: Hades, god of the Dead and King of the Underworld. The only biological family member Hercules is in physical contact with since he was taken from Mount Olympus. FC Joseph Morgan

Aunt: Hestia, god of Hearth, Home, Architecture, Domesticity, Family and State. FC Jessica Lucas Uncle: Poseidon, god of the Sea, Earthquakes, Storms and Horses. FC Daveed Diggs Aunt: goddess of Harvest and Fertility of the Earth. FC Malese Jow

Father: Amyphitryon, a merchant. FC Panos Mihalopouls Mother: Aclmene, a merchant's wife. FC Arianna Huffington

Together under the watchful eyes of the Gods on Mount Olympus, Amyphitryon and Aclmene raised Hercules in Athens, Greece as their child. They kept his lineage a secret from him until he was eighteen years old and made the decision to pursue his destiny and find his way home to Mount Olympus. 

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Behind-the-scenes shot of J&L'ers Miriama Smith and Teuila Blakely on set for Filthy Rich NZ. Can't wait for the next season!

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TEUILA BLAKELY (COMMANDER SHAW) REPISING HER ROLE IN POWER RANGERS DINO FURY!

FULL ARTICLE HERE : https://thepowerscoopblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/25/teuila-blakely-reprises-commander-shaw-role-for-dino-fury/

not sure if this ever hit tumblr, so here you go

VIA : @thepowerscoop on Twitter

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Through candid interviews and rare archival footage Children of the Migration tells the stories of the Pacific Island immigrants who came to New Zealand from the 1950s - 1980s and changed the cultural landscape of Aotearoa. Presented by David Sa'ena and actor Vela Manusaute, this humorous and moving documentary includes interviews with All Black Tana Umaga, boxer David Tua, actress Teuila Blakely, hip hop artist King Kapisi and poet Tusiata Avia. Directed by Fijian European Lala Rolls.

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09-28 AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - SEPTEMBER 28: Samuel Levi (L) and Teuila Blakely (R) ahead of opening night of Pleasuredome the Musical on September 28, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. ... http://dlvr.it/Pr1Qyk

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Why Privacy Matters

Arguably the most important topic addressed in The Wireless article When privacy settings aren't enough is that ‘technology is changing faster than either the law or social norms, can keep up with’(Whelan. M, 2015). When things like nude pictures, sexual relations and other subjects which are traditionally taboo are combined with social media and modern technology things get tricky.

Teuila Blakely posing for the campaign she fronts #mybodymyterms on https://www.villainesse.com/mybodymyterms.

New Zealand actor Teuila Blakely is now known for her scandalous video of performing a ‘sex act’ on rugby play Konrad Hurrell on Snapchat which eventually got leaked to Twitter and further in 2014. Blakely admits she ‘did know about the videos, I did know that they weren’t entirely private’ so you kind of have to take responsibility for that.” (Whelan. M, 2015). This has emphasized the widely believed culture in media that if you share a content you have to be okay with it being public; “don’t put anything online you wouldn’t want plastered on the side of a bus.”. However is this just a hazardous ‘norm’ that people are sharing content they had no business sharing and excusing the behaviour by blaming the victim? This could be considered destruction our own privacy rights online by excusing it a ‘norm’ for any content to be shared.

@linh_ludu’s Twitter response to the most boundary-crossing way she has been contacted by someone.

The Wireless article also mentions Twitter user @linh-ludu who received a text from an older male that had gotten her number of her resume. This could seem creepy but not ‘that bad’ as she did put her number there in the first place. However, what would you think if he showed up at her house?  This seems a lot ‘creepier’ but in reality is pretty similar acts of making contact with her from information she had given him for professional use. However, due to being more of a social norm to text a stranger than show up out their house, one is dismissed as ‘weird’ and the other stalking.

The ‘norms’ of social media are becoming increasingly complicated in deciphering what is right and wrong. This is a topic that needs to be addressed as it is ultimately putting people at risk of thinking a harmful situation is normal and ultimately causing the self-destruction of our own privacy rights.

References:

Whelan. M.(2015, February 26th). That's just creepy: When privacy settings aren't enough. Retrieved from http://thewireless.co.nz/

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Who owns the content?

It is an odd sensation, the feeling of lost sovereignty over self that comes with posting content online. Shrouded with social acceptance and normalisation, this feeling has become a norm of online privacy affordances. There seems to have been a collective social agreement that once content is posted or shared on an online platform, it no longer belongs to the individual but is an article of public possession, free to be acquired, interpreted, shared and edited by absolutely anyone. 

Who does posted content belong to? The content subject? The sharer? The appropriator? (Image source: Alamy) 

As quoted in Megan Whelan’s Wireless article, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in 2010 that privacy is no longer a social norm, it is no longer achievable nor expected within the affordances of the internet. I wholly agree with Zuckerberg’s statement, yet the reality of this does not sit right with my ethical compass. Elements of respect for boundaries and contexts are missing from the conversation of ownership. The case of actor Teuila Blakely, as examined in Whelan’s piece,  demonstrates the normalised attitude of acceptance towards privacy and ownership disempowerment. Videoed partaking in a sex act with a prominent rugby league player, the content of Blakely spiralled its way to Twitter and eventually to mainstream media outlets. 

Blakely and friend Konrad Hurrell, who also featured in the leaked video.

Blakely claims an acceptance of the culture of sharing explicit content in a small circle, saying that the act of sharing the content made her the one responsible for the fact of it leaking to greater media. Whilst I admit that Blakely is correct in acknowledging the reality of sharing norms, I believe an ethical boundary was crossed in sharing the explicit content of her to a greater audience without her prior knowledge and permission. 

Whilst Blakely accepts the nature of sharing content, she was unprepared for and at the online backlash she copped as a result of the video being shared to a wider audience without permission. (Source: NowToLove blog) 

It seems internet users are conditioned to accept shifting boundaries and no longer question the emotional, social and psychological ramifications the act of sharing and recontextualising another content can have on the individual.  

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Snapchatting (Ir)Responsibly

Photo credit: Apple Insider x

Snapchatting and sharing most details of our lives has become such a norm in society that people never seem to bat an eye at it.

That is, until that shared information spreads further than was originally intended, which is something that happened to Snapchat user Teuila Blakely.

All screenshots from this article by Megan Whelan.

Snapchat’s platform provides the illusion that everything posted in that space is temporary, so it can be jarring when something very private extends past who it was originally meant for.

There is much discourse about whose fault it is when something like this happens: the person who posted the content originally, or the one who re-posted it for others to see.

Teuila believes that the responsibility rests on her for posting the act in the first place, and I absolutely agree. In a perfect world, people would ask permission before re-posting content. However, this world is not perfect, and it is better to be safe.

Snapchat allows for screenshots to be taken of all received snaps, which affords the opportunity for information to spread further than was originally intended. In addition, the Internet affords for that information to spread like wildfire.

If you can’t live with the consequences of private information potentially being leaked, chances are you shouldn’t have posted it in the first place. There is always an opportunity for online information to get into the wrong hands.

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Tupa’i’s post about the premiere

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Beast Morphers characters in “Beasts Unleashed”

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Internet Privacy: No Such Thing

Teuila Blakely has a forward-thinking perspective on privacy in the social media age. When institutional platforms like twitter and snapchat afford mass sharing of private content and normalize this behavior it's hard to make a case for persecuting those who take part in such behaviors.  While there will always be an ethical conversation to be had the fact remains that if humans have the tools to do something, they will do it, and when made as easy as a single mouse click, why wouldn't they? The specific instance in question is a video of Teuila "sharing a sex act with Warriors rugby league player Konrad Hurrell" that was passed around a circle of snapchat users that eventually found its way to twitter. I agree with her statement when asked about the video that "You do have to go ‘if it did come out, could I live with that?' and I did" in an age where you can safely assume that everyone around has an HD video recording device on them at all times, that you are being recorded at all times, and that these recording could be "published" online without you knowing it. I think that trust in who you keep around you and trust in yourself to conduct yourself in a manner that you would not be ashamed of is essential to maintaining "privacy" in the social media age. As Megan Whelan's article indicates, no matter how private you think your online presence is if someone looks hard enough they'll be able to find everything you've ever put online and lots of things you thought you never did.

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J&L'er Teuila Blakely as Commander Shaw of the Grid Battleforce in Power Rangers, Beast Morphers!

https://thepowerscoopblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/teuila-blakely-cast-as-grid-battleforce-commander/

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The Privacy Horrors of Facebook: Week 9

Facebook is by far one of the most used social platform for me personally. I’ve had it and used it for communication for an insane amount of time, making my profile in year 6, meaning 8 years ago when I was 11 years old. Using it as young as 11, I didn’t understand privacy at all, I just used Facebook for the fun games and to talk to my friends, since reading the week 9 reading, and writing this blog, it has only come to my concern that my Facebook privacy settings may be public. 

It was clear I didn’t quite understand how to use Facebook back then, so setting up my profile, I wouldn’t have been aware of all the implications and privacy meets. Back then it was socially normal to just use Facebook for games and to be silly, however since then I never made a new profile nor changed any settings, so I wouldn’t be surprised if 11-year-old Nina never protected her privacy simply because she wouldn’t have known how, and the social norms have most definitely changed from playing games, to communicating friends, stalking people, uploading photos/videos so my privacy these days should matter.

 After stalking my own account on Facebook, I was shocked, developing a sick feeling in my stomach while scrolling down on all my content that I thought only my friends would be able to see. I discovered that people could follow me, and that I currently have over a thousand followers, that aren’t my friends on Facebook, but they can still follow my posts and read my content, knowing that over a thousand strangers, or friends through friends have been following me, makes me feel unconfutable. I also noticed the public can access and see 940+ photos that I’ve either uploaded or been tagged in. Being a teenager at University I obviously have many photos I probably wouldn’t want everyone seeing, well little did I know, everyone can see them, things such as birthday posts others have posted on my wall, embarrassing photos and videos are all public. For 8 years, I have been wrong about my privacy settings, I experimented a little while stalking myself, and looked up my phone number, it was a surprising shock that my name popped up, I don’t remember linking my phone number up with Facebook, and this is another breach of my privacy, that people can access my personal phone number. Actor from Shortland Street Teuila Blakely stated that “people can be very careful about privacy settings, but people circumvent them”. It is possible to change your privacy settings on social platforms these days, however like me, we just don’t do it, which I can relate to immensely. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook “famously said in 2010 that privacy is no longer a social norm” and that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, Teuila backed this statement up with her own opinion that she feels like she has “the right to a private life” but she also feels like “in this day and age, is there any way of actually protecting that?”. I can relate to this, as now days everything is displayed on the internet, and somehow nobody cares, for 8 years it has never crossed my mind to check my privacy settings. After researching this, I am going to change my settings to be more private as it all scared me. Since researching this, I’ve talked about the issue in casual conversation, I got into a conversation with my step dad, he told me that he interviews clients, and as part of the process he stalks them on Facebook, he told me he’s declined hundreds of applications due to the content he has found on their account. This has all influenced me to change my settings and save my privacy, as I’m growing up and will eventually need a stable job, This research has been a wakeup call to change.