This Strikes Me as Impractical

A little cat with some big hopes. ♡

And that's without counting -legal- human trafficking: Prison labor.

Miss Rizabelle needs her teeth cleaned. Well, both cats do, but Riza is the one who made the vet say "Oh wow, that's quite a bit of gingivitis" so she's got priority. The thing is, the dental cleaning is estimated at costing $700+, not counting the blood panel they like to have done within two months prior to the cleaning. And the job market is fucked, which means I've been supporting two people and two cats on one paycheck for like 3+ years now and there just is not a spare 1k sitting around to brush the cat's teeth.

I'm trying to get a credit card specifically for paying this, but if anyone has some spare money and are willing to donate it to the cause of Riza's dental hygiene, Rose and I would really appreciate it! We're both writers, which is difficult to offer in exchange for donations, but Rose is a good editor and owns many tarot card sets she could do readings from, if that encourages anything. (Or star charts? Is that a thing people pay for?)

My paypal is [email protected], and I've also got Venmo:

"This is like saying female-owned businesses mean nothing because J.K Rowling is a businesswoman". Incredibly, that's exactly what I'm saying. I applaud this critique for correctly identifying how my stance might be applied elsewhere.

But what I would ask is this: do you not remember how JKR (being a successful female author and businesswoman) was lauded as a feminist hero during the peak of the books' success which allowed her to make a large part of modern feminism incredibly TERF-y because of her influence? Because I think we should all do well to remember that.

Interestingly, this critique then goes on to make my entire point for me, albeit maybe slightly more charitably than I. It goes on to say "queer people are not a monolith" and that we should inform ourselves as to who owns these businesses. Yes! Yes! This is my point! Relying purely on identity politics to judge whether businesses (and people) are good or not is bad!

It closes out by saying big corps "don't count" when talking about queer-owned businesses. Honestly? Yeah, I agree. Most of the time, people are talking about small queer-owned businesses. That is because this post is a joke. I have applied the label of "queer-owned business" to some businesses the label is not usually applied to to point out the limits of identity politics in business.