ALPHA QUEER

Reflections

my well adjusted siffrin #mysiffrin

(currently on: Act 4 post ghost & sus event)

bonus shitpost ↓

I made this shirt for a lot of reasons. Because pride is inaccessible for me, and a lot of other people with all sorts of disabilities. Because I didn’t have the confidence to wear this shirt at last years pride (my first), or years and years ago when I was ashamed and thought I was unlikable/undatable because of my disability. It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted in the cripplepunk tag, and this is a new blog and a new me. Finding myself as a butch lesbian has helped me in all sorts of ways, and i know it would of taken a lot longer to find myself without cripplepunk.

Making pride accessible is very important to me, and all other disabled lgbtq people. CLEAR walkways, asl interpreters, places to rest, accessible bathrooms, people in the parade actually being cautious of where they’re throwing beads instead of just hurling them… This is a measly list. The bare minimum. There is so much more we can be doing to help.

Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”

Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”

The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.

Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”

Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.

#Queued

Patagonia, which trumpets its Fair Trade and Fair Pay for Labor policies, states on its website that ~1/3 of its garment factories pay a living wage or more, 1/3 pay between 50% and 80% of a living wage, and 1/3 pay less than 50% of a living wage.

Patagonia has one supplier in Bangladesh. It acknowledges that this supplier "has made meaningful progress towards living wages". Patagonia advertises its support for raising the minimum wage in Bangladesh to 23,000 taka per month ($196 USD). The current Global Living Wage Coalition estimate for the living wage in urban Bangladesh is 27,900 taka per month ($238 USD). The current minimum wage in Bangladesh is just 12,500 taka per month ($133 USD).