IRISH CITIZENSHIP: ACQUIRED.
Sep. 29th, 2017 03:43 pmNext steps: passport application form; working out how to register to vote in the abortion referendum next year (if I even can).
And as a follow-up
Aug. 30th, 2017 02:46 pmSo as best I can tell, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tim has just unfriended me everywhere on the entire Internet because -- I can only assume -- of the post I made yesterday, which disagrees pretty strenuously with his latest post about this twitter thread. I think it forms part of a disturbing pattern of behaviour on his part: I've tried (repeatedly!) expressing concern about his ableism in comments on his posts (as have others), and I've seen similar concerns expressed about his approaches to racism and other areas of oppression. He's point-blank refused to engage, as is of course his absolute right, but I am increasingly scared by how unwilling he seems to be to admit to mistakes or nuance, given ~his position in the feminist community~ and all that shit.
So here's the comment I left on that latest post, which is screened and which I imagine is likely to remain so, because actually I think the content is important.
(I hate that this is, in essence, a "call-out" post? Buttim has been very clear that he thinks call-out culture is a good thing, and I have tried -- repeatedly -- to talk to him about this in his space. It has gone nowhere. So: now I'm talking about it in mine. Because I'm scared, and because I think engaging critically with his position statements actually matters, and he seems to be very keen to prevent that. Here we are.)
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tim has just unfriended me everywhere on the entire Internet because -- I can only assume -- of the post I made yesterday, which disagrees pretty strenuously with his latest post about this twitter thread. I think it forms part of a disturbing pattern of behaviour on his part: I've tried (repeatedly!) expressing concern about his ableism in comments on his posts (as have others), and I've seen similar concerns expressed about his approaches to racism and other areas of oppression. He's point-blank refused to engage, as is of course his absolute right, but I am increasingly scared by how unwilling he seems to be to admit to mistakes or nuance, given ~his position in the feminist community~ and all that shit.So here's the comment I left on that latest post, which is screened and which I imagine is likely to remain so, because actually I think the content is important.
(I hate that this is, in essence, a "call-out" post? But
tim has been very clear that he thinks call-out culture is a good thing, and I have tried -- repeatedly -- to talk to him about this in his space. It has gone nowhere. So: now I'm talking about it in mine. Because I'm scared, and because I think engaging critically with his position statements actually matters, and he seems to be very keen to prevent that. Here we are.)( Read more... )
Remember last time we did this?
You make things seem more possible.
I will, as ever, be unscreening and making up an index as we go. Please nominate yourselves; please nominate each other; please signal boost.
I see you, and you're not alone.
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Status: still open!
Last unscreened: the_quorum
You make things seem more possible.
I will, as ever, be unscreening and making up an index as we go. Please nominate yourselves; please nominate each other; please signal boost.
I see you, and you're not alone.
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Status: still open!
Last unscreened: the_quorum
Prompted by having received an utterly anodyne response from the party that completely ignored all of the actual issues I raised.
So, with content notes for transmisogyny and transmisogynist violence, here's the very brief summary of why -- regardless of party leadership's opinion on that matter -- that poster is Not Okay. (Yes, I have explained this in painstaking detail in reply to the e-mail from the party.)
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So, with content notes for transmisogyny and transmisogynist violence, here's the very brief summary of why -- regardless of party leadership's opinion on that matter -- that poster is Not Okay. (Yes, I have explained this in painstaking detail in reply to the e-mail from the party.)
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[tiny linkspam] Marvel, diversity, Nazis
May. 17th, 2017 02:39 pmShut The Fuck Up, Marvel:
Marvel's Secret Empire kicks off by doubling down on Captain America's Nazi past.
"Shut The Fuck Up, Marvel" is a nearly 30k long essay, a spiritual sequel to The Problems With Comics, a deep dive into the true issues with Marvel's economics and business - and how an obsession with short term profit, the constant renumbering and relaunches and events, all compounded by a complete inability to understand basic marketing techniques or outside audiences, has absolutely destroyed the sales stability of many of their former best selling books, all as they condescend to those who criticize them on their stories, or on how they try to sell comics.
Marvel's Secret Empire kicks off by doubling down on Captain America's Nazi past.
On authoritarianism
May. 5th, 2017 04:44 pmThis is not terribly clearly articulated (i.e. I pieced it together while mostly asleep on a car journey back up from very-nearly-the-farthest-reaches-of-
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... it being the UK release of Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Exhibit A: Nazi Captain America holding Thor's hammer, with an associated discussion of symbology, senior Marvel staff donations to the 45th US President's campaign, etc
Exhibit B: Marvel asking comic stores to change their logos to Hydra symbols and staff to wear Hydra t-shirts.
Like. Especially maybe don't give them opening-weekend money for this shit, please?
Exhibit A: Nazi Captain America holding Thor's hammer, with an associated discussion of symbology, senior Marvel staff donations to the 45th US President's campaign, etc
Exhibit B: Marvel asking comic stores to change their logos to Hydra symbols and staff to wear Hydra t-shirts.
Like. Especially maybe don't give them opening-weekend money for this shit, please?
... presented as a series of e-mails, sent/received over the past week or so.
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ANTHONY NOLAN. AREN'T THEY GOOD.
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ANTHONY NOLAN. AREN'T THEY GOOD.
As discussed by rydra_wong, tomorrow afternoon Inclusion London and Disabled People Against The Cuts are hosting a briefing and discussion session regarding the UN finding that the UK government was engaging in grave and systematic violations of the rights of disabled people.
You can use WriteToThem to find, and write to, your MP, in order to draw this session to their attention and urge them to attend. The event details are:
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(If any of you have the cope to adapt this for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
spoonlessactivists, please by all means go ahead and do so.)
rydra_wong, tomorrow afternoon Inclusion London and Disabled People Against The Cuts are hosting a briefing and discussion session regarding the UN finding that the UK government was engaging in grave and systematic violations of the rights of disabled people.You can use WriteToThem to find, and write to, your MP, in order to draw this session to their attention and urge them to attend. The event details are:
Grave and systematic violations – What next after the UN disability inquiry? Briefing and Discussion
Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament
2.30 – 3.45pm Tuesday 24th January 2017
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(If any of you have the cope to adapt this for
spoonlessactivists, please by all means go ahead and do so.)- Teal cakes, via azurelunatic
- a cardamom bun recipe I want to get around to trying
- "Kitten-sized extinct 'lion'"
- Geoscience Australia partners with Google to showcase Australia's natural history (thank you to
elizabeth_fitz for bringing this to my attention!)
- The importance of being disabled, a Graun article by James Beddard, who me_and and I saw in Threepenny Opera last weekend; I was initially dubious about Wheelchair Use On Stage (not least because last time I saw it and it wasn't me it was in Wicked; and in this instance, people were swapping around who was using the chair, but... yeah, no, disabled actor playing a role in the National Theatre)
- UK Border Control being unsurprisingly but still terribly awful, on which topic I really need to work out a phrasing to write to my MP, for all the good it will do
- Who, if not you? is a guide on addressing racist abuse/violence in public, which I have seen linked around a fair bit in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
... because I have just made P read it, and then we stayed up til 1am talking about it, and I haven't talked about it here yet because Too Many Feelings, which I will now attempt to sketch.
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ON THE UPSIDE
Jun. 29th, 2016 01:39 pmI have just received an appointment letter for the thoracic medicine clinic! Lung stuff investigation now scheduled for the end of July.
demanding scans and tests and NOT CONTRIBUTING and
As I said in the other place...
Jun. 24th, 2016 11:52 am... the time from waking up to the first hate speech directed at me by a Leave voter was three hours.
She was an NHS employee providing me with necessary medical care.
She told me that Leave was a good result for the NHS -- because it can't cope with all the people who don't work, don't contribute, demand scans and MRIs, expect free prescriptions, even expect free paracetamol rather than buying it themselves.
She was cutting a dressing off my hand.
She asked me what I thought.
I thought: every single one of those things you listed describes me. I thought: I have just been told by a medical professional that I don't deserve care. I thought: there is no way I'm telling you you just described me. I thought: I'm terrified.
I'm white. I'm third generation. English isn't my first language but people can't tell unless I tell them and I certainly *sound* posh. I don't look Jewish until you put me in a room with the rest of that side of my family. I can, if necessary, leave the house without a wheelchair.
I pass. This is what I got while passing. I am terrified for the people who can't.
She was an NHS employee providing me with necessary medical care.
She told me that Leave was a good result for the NHS -- because it can't cope with all the people who don't work, don't contribute, demand scans and MRIs, expect free prescriptions, even expect free paracetamol rather than buying it themselves.
She was cutting a dressing off my hand.
She asked me what I thought.
I thought: every single one of those things you listed describes me. I thought: I have just been told by a medical professional that I don't deserve care. I thought: there is no way I'm telling you you just described me. I thought: I'm terrified.
I'm white. I'm third generation. English isn't my first language but people can't tell unless I tell them and I certainly *sound* posh. I don't look Jewish until you put me in a room with the rest of that side of my family. I can, if necessary, leave the house without a wheelchair.
I pass. This is what I got while passing. I am terrified for the people who can't.
The personal is political, and that
Jan. 26th, 2016 12:57 pmLast night I was feeling vaguely guilty for the part where I was sitting around knitting and reading short stories after dinner, while A tidied gently and handled some paperwork he needed to get done.
Today Why time is a feminist issue came across my dash again:
Which was a useful coincidence.
(I'd done and hung out the laundry, and put the previous round away. I'd gone out and bought groceries. I'd planned and made dinner and dessert; I served up as he walked in the door from work. We'd been trading executive function and social mammal reinforcement all day. And I still felt like I didn't ought to sit around knitting for an hour, especially not if he was doing housework, because I should be helping, because of course I did, because the patriarchy. It is, I find, very helpful to end up in situations where this discomfort arises, the what-should-I-be-doing-to-help, and the answer's nothing, keep on with what you're doing, I've got this.)
Today Why time is a feminist issue came across my dash again:
What I didn't know at the time was that this is what time is like for most women: fragmented, interrupted by child care and housework. Whatever leisure time they have is often devoted to what others want to do – particularly the kids – and making sure everyone else is happy doing it. Often women are so preoccupied by all the other stuff that needs doing – worrying about the carpool, whether there's anything in the fridge to cook for dinner – that the time itself is what sociologists call "contaminated."
I came to learn that women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow.
Women aren't expected to flow.
Which was a useful coincidence.
(I'd done and hung out the laundry, and put the previous round away. I'd gone out and bought groceries. I'd planned and made dinner and dessert; I served up as he walked in the door from work. We'd been trading executive function and social mammal reinforcement all day. And I still felt like I didn't ought to sit around knitting for an hour, especially not if he was doing housework, because I should be helping, because of course I did, because the patriarchy. It is, I find, very helpful to end up in situations where this discomfort arises, the what-should-I-be-doing-to-help, and the answer's nothing, keep on with what you're doing, I've got this.)
Hello UK folk
Jan. 25th, 2016 04:11 pmI've put together a petition requesting that government bodies include a non-specific gender-neutral honorific such as Mx in all preset lists of titles. I'll be very grateful if you sign & signal-boost.
The very short explanation is that I think it's ridiculous to have a list that includes "Wing Commander" but not "Mx" (as is the case when using the fill-in-on-a-computer version of the ESA application form).
The slightly longer version is that applying for benefits etc ends up with me being misgendered a lot, which is rather uncomfortable, and last week ended up with me being addressed by my grandmother's name (I am not Mrs B. My mother is not Mrs B. That's... very much my deceased grandmother, thanks.) On top of that, a lot of places -- including banks -- make the (completely spurious) claim that they can't offer Mx as a title because HMRC doesn't: if the government can be persuaded to set an example, a whole lot of other institutions and organisations are suddenly going to have to fall into line.
(Last week I realised, slightly to my astonishment, that I hadn't seen this done; and a trawl of petitions.parliament.uk didn't show anything up. So here we are.)
The very short explanation is that I think it's ridiculous to have a list that includes "Wing Commander" but not "Mx" (as is the case when using the fill-in-on-a-computer version of the ESA application form).
The slightly longer version is that applying for benefits etc ends up with me being misgendered a lot, which is rather uncomfortable, and last week ended up with me being addressed by my grandmother's name (I am not Mrs B. My mother is not Mrs B. That's... very much my deceased grandmother, thanks.) On top of that, a lot of places -- including banks -- make the (completely spurious) claim that they can't offer Mx as a title because HMRC doesn't: if the government can be persuaded to set an example, a whole lot of other institutions and organisations are suddenly going to have to fall into line.
(Last week I realised, slightly to my astonishment, that I hadn't seen this done; and a trawl of petitions.parliament.uk didn't show anything up. So here we are.)
Just about all of you have pointed me at Translating Gender: Ancillary Justice in Five Languages, for which I am grateful! But having told jedusaur I'd liked it give or take disagreeing with a couple of the approaches taken, I completely failed to actually elaborate on what those points of disagreement were.
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So there's this thing
Nov. 25th, 2015 05:46 pmwhere I will abruptly realise that one of the men I love simply does not know something that so thoroughly permeates my experiences of the world that I barely even think to mention it.
Content notes for misogyny and gender policing and violence and all that good stuff.
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Content notes for misogyny and gender policing and violence and all that good stuff.
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Content note for consent issues, and what's going on in UK politics at the moment. You will note from the part where I've disabled comments that I don't really want to talk about this further.
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(Cis friends, by all means ask me questions to clarify, but maybe consider sitting out of actually having an opinion in comments on this one. Anon comments are permitted but will be screened; I expect to unscreen unless otherwise requested.)
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