We All Are Born Naked

Applied to an Onlinemarketing position 4 Beauty Product Company X. Got an interview, it went well. I specifically asked if it is required to be into hair/make-up. They said no, it‘s not.

They called and demanded a second video chat interview: on the spot, almost no preparation (4 hrs) and I had to bootstrap an „interview space“ at my current work. I was looking like shit and was rather tired as fuck after a full day of work. It didn‘t go as well...

I didnt get the position, I „don‘t fit in with the rest of the team“. Pretty sure that is due to me asking why they don‘t hire more men or people who are less the make-up addict type.

Context: Im nonbinary and make-up has always made me feel super disphoric 🙃

They called me yet again yesterday and offered me a freelance job as a ....

hold on.....

....beauty blogger.

Because supposedly they need non-conventional viewpoints on it. WTF?

We created a diversity position for you specifically. You can do unboxing videos, be clueless about what the products are and it’s gonna be great fun 🙃.

Unfortunately, you have to understand that we can’t pay you much. You would work full-time hours for us and receive money, wouldn’t that be great? It would be less than an internship salary though.

Also you would gave to sign off your rights to your content to us, both in video and written form. You would have to agree to try every single product on camera on your own skin.

For that purpose you would have to sign in as per contract that you are obliged to show as much skin as necessary for the task at hand. We hope that is okay for …like…people “like you” right?

It’s going to be hilarious, people will love it, we’re trying a new thing where we try to make people laugh with our socials.

Dear make-up company. My application was for another position. Fuck you for even trying to exploit my labour. Fuck you all for repeatedly calling me “one of your lot”, “your sorts” and “types like you” in the interview process. Fuck you for coming up with even the IDEA to put a horrified twenty-something on your socials with the sole purpose of RIDICULE to their gender and identity for marketing purposes.

Go fuck yourself with a cactus, all of you

YAZ LOVES HER!! Yas and the Doctor might become a thing 😱🥰🏳️‍🌈

Yaz: Counting the time 'til midnight?

13th: Nah.. I used to do that.

Yaz: What changed?

13th: I don't count the hours when I'm with you

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Q: How would you describe your gender?" A: loosely

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

The dominant ideas of who is “healthy” and what “health” looks like is ridiculous. In a society where fat people are demonized, people of color’s physical pain is minimized, trans people are medicalized, and disabled people are ridiculed – not to mention that all of the boundaries between “normal” and “not normal” are socially constructed – you cannot call someone “unhealthy” by looking at them.

“Healthy” isn’t thin, white,  male, able-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual, dieting, controlled. Healthy is alive. Healthy is eating. Healthy is hydrating. Healthy is supported. Healthy is Human.

Examine how the ideas of “health” have impacted your wellbeing. Examine the ways in which the bodily norm does or does not match your bodymind. Examine whether the medical profession has historically cared enough about your communities’ lives to define what makes you “healthy.”

not going to uni

taking as much time as needed before going to uni

changing your majors many times before finding what you like

changing your career path

not knowing what you want

attending a community college 

I’m not trying to take this post away from women and make it about Black men but I want to point out that wether it’s patriarchy or white supremacy; those who feel as if they have power over you HATE to see you not smile. They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.