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more now i want to talk about the constant harassment, the sexual assault and violence, and the straight up bullying and sabotaging that women in trades experience. especially women of color, especially lesbians, & trans women. hr does nothing to protect them. instead yr told to have "thick skin" to work in the fields, like getting assaulted on the job is normal; but only for women? a 20yo welder in Minnesota was just murdered by her coworker because he "didn't like her." her story of being ignored until the worst happens is too common in this field. women in trade are bullied or harassed out of their places of work by coworkers, customers, their stations and tools are sabotaged by their men colleagues, they're overlooked, underpaid, or ignored for jobs, we're made to feel unsafe by them until the only thing you can do is leave. very little has changed in the trades for years. please listen to tradewomens stories more than ever.

it's kind of crazy how utterly assimilated the LGBT movement is into liberal politics and how much it aligns itself with the logics of capitalism, to the point where it's not even a proper political movement anymore, it's a Community® now that is held together with various commodified identiy signifiers. we have to make five billion flags and micro-labels (to make more flags) and buy Gay Product and consume Designated Gay Media* and support Queer Business as the pinnacle of activism. we need to get the stupid shark plushie, made by the company that is actively helping the rapid destruction of old growth forests in my home country, and make it part of our identiy. buy your identity in stores today!

working in industry does sort of feel like being in the cult of a machine god. like my entire livelihood depends on the day to day functioning of this deeply esoteric machine - there’s one guy on site who mostly knows how it works and a handful of guys in the whole company who deal with the things directly. you can’t google anything about it - any helpful information is buried in service manuals thousands of pages thick and illegible to the VAST majority of people, even our own staff who work with the things every day.

Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.

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