Gotta Get My Hot Leaf Juice

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

"But wait," you say. "They're books. Physical objects. In a building. You don't have to pay to get into the building, or get the books. What do you need accessibility for? They're already accessible?"

Not if you've been hospitalized.

Not if you have poor vision. (Ebooks: Adjustible font sizes for EVERYTHING. Not just the large print editions the library can get.)

Not if the roads are covered in ice, or the library itself is for whatever reason closed/hard to get to.

And the audiobooks! Do you have any idea how many people have cars that don't have CD players, or don't know if they have MP3-CD-compatible CD players, or really don't want to try wrangling an 8-CD-book while driving? THERE ARE A LOT, LEMME TELL YOU. But with Libby, all you need is a bluetooth connection between your phone and your car!

And you can even listen to a whole audiobook on your phone while unable to see because eye surgery! (don't even try to ask if that's common. It's way common. I've had multiple calls re: walking people through setting this up for this reason just this year. Actually, even just this summer. Bad year for eyeballs, good year for Libby.)

Extra bonus points: You don't have to worry about returning materials on time, because Libby handles that for you. Which is great if you're traveling. It's also great because you can even check out more stuff while you're physically in completely different states from your library!

Oh and one other thing. Do you have any idea how much shelf space, say, "every single James Patterson book" or "every single Danielle Steel book" would actually take up? How many entire physical book cases those authors would take up, if a library chose to have every. single. book. they've ever written? Yeah. It's not happening. (Okay. The Library of Congress probably has it. Good luck finding any other library doing it.) But we can get them all in ebook format. Yep. Every last one. And the audiobook version. These two and every other insanely prolific writer out there. Virtual space is infinitely expandable. Aren't you glad?

And to top it all off, the version of Eurydice from the beginning of the musical, before love softened her hard edges and made her trust him, probably wouldn't have followed Orpheus out of Hadestown. Eurydice really does trust him to get her out, because she's looking for the Orpheus she used to know and she's seen the power of his song and worldview.

remote rocketship (remote jobs around the world, updates daily)

hiringcafe

welcome to the jungle (fka otta)

swooped

somewhere (remote jobs)

glassdoor (also allows you to view and post on an anonymous "bowl" for your coworkers to discuss job conditions if you're at a big enough company)

you can also search company site listings with these:

site:boards.greenhouse.io "your position here"

site:*.myworkdayjobs.com "Job Title" "Location"

«Excuse me, I think you may have dropped your book»

Fat people should be able to get clothes that fit us. Fat people should not be denied jobs for being fat. Fat people shouldn't get paid less than our thin peers. Fat people should be able to go to the doctor and get treated without centering weight loss. Fat people should not be shamed for being fat. Fat people should have media representation beyond greedy, gluttonous, and/or otherwise negative characters. Fat people should have the world around us built with us in mind. To name a few.

And like, even if a fat person is unhealthy? So fucking what? Why does that mean we get paid less? Why does that mean we should be ridiculed? Why does that justify treating us as lesser? Even the most unhealthy person alive does not deserve these things, whether or not they "chose to be unhealthy." Disability liberation and fat liberation oftentimes go hand in hand for this reason.