@CatieOsaurus Most of the aspects of a regular workplace are harder for ND people. Lights, sounds, and bodies can all go from normal to TOO LOUD very quickly, most of us have to shoulder the burden of accommodation when this happens, and it’s *more work* to do it.
On Transgender Day of Visibility, I think about how often visibility is granted to transgender people but not a voice.
How many newspapers, TV networks, legislative chambers, and more grant trans people "visibility" but no agency.
How our stories are so rarely told by us.
@MarketingBully_ What really chaps my ass is the “rolled a 1 today”. Rolling dice is an act of fate/coincidence. Making a poor decision is 💯 willpower and we all have to take responsibility for those choices, especially when they hurt other people. Period. Full stop.
@Jwhitbrook This is not a good sign. By saying the show is “just for kids” they’re basically admitting that the story’s handling of VERY mature subject matter like genocide, grief, propaganda, etc etc just flew right over their heads. Not everything needs a dark, gritty reimagining, bros.
i suspect that for many of us, the experience of watching a genocide unfurl in real time on our phones all day long, for months—then watching people in power dismiss what we can see—has broken a lot of the social contract for us. no more business as usual, no going back.
Israel isn't relentlessly murderous and abusive because it's run by Jews, it's relentlessly murderous and abusive because that's the only way to maintain an ethnostate that was abruptly dropped on top of an already existing civilization. This would be true if it'd been a Mormon state or a Romani state.
Take any already existing country with its own ethnic and religious makeup and its own relationships with surrounding countries and drop a brand new artificial ethnostate on top of it with a deluge of immigrants who are designated special and above the people in that region, and you're going to get a ton of violence. You're also going to see the dominant group espouse supremacist ideological beliefs to justify why it's fine for them to be placed above the other group and receive better treatment by the state. These things would happen regardless of what those respective ethnic and religious makeups happen to be.
How can we be sure of this? Because we've seen it happen time and time again in other settler-colonialist projects throughout history which had nothing to do with Jews or Muslims.
It's not about Jews and Judaism, it's about the nature and character of the ethnostate which got placed overtop a pre-existing civilization in the 1940s. The religions and ethnicities are interchangeable with pretty much any other in terms of how much violence would be necessary to institute and maintain such a state.
Important point here: While explaining how 21 of its soldiers got killed by the very mines they set to demolish Palestinian buildings, the IDF admitted for the first time they're destroying parts of Gaza for the express purpose of depopulating it.
https://t.co/tMbbQgpVSd
Officials in Gaza have m said they’re not able to keep track of death count anymore. Some areas have been out of reach. There’s no real functional hospital. Limited to no emergency services. People dead under the rubble.