I ask if this position is hiring for candidates based on skill, or based on personality.
They don't understand.
I pull out a chart and try to explain how many companies hire workers based on personality over skill, which excludes historically marginalised people even if they are highly qualified, including people from different cultures to the hiring manager as well as disabled people, especially autistic people who have one of the lowest employment rates of any disability group due to autistic people and non autistic people lacking an intuitive understanding of each others communication styles.
"It's a fair interview process sir."
I go to the interview.
"Tell me about yourself."
They're hiring based on personality.
You're not running a popularity contest, you're running a business.
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thanks to ableism, heightism, and fatphobia, almost nothing is made to fit or work for my body ever. mobility aids. furniture. clothes. shoes. cars. etc. etc. if any of these do work out for me, they're usually expensive and i have a much more limited selection than abled, average height, straight sized people.
this isn't just inconvenience, either. things like furniture and shoes not being made for me causes me pain and takes a toll on my body, because i physically cant use them properly. making things fit me takes energy and money that i cant afford, but sometimes have to spend anyway. the safety measures in things like cars could injure or even kill me if i were to get in a bad accident.
being short, fat, and disabled in this society is so much harder than it has to be. it's unfair and downright dangerous that our bodies aren't being taken into account when designing almost everything around us. disabled people deserve better. fat people deserve better. people with short and tall stature deserve better.
we're just as much part of this world as everyone else, and we deserve to live in a world that acts like we exist.
Oh my gods what a show. I read the graphic novel back in high school, and so I was decently excited when I saw that it was being made into a movie. But I never could have prepared myself for what I just watched.
I was honestly expecting some inoffensive fluff. A fun summer watch with a bit of heart and some generic positive messaging. Maybe a few unexpected twists, but overall just something to fill the void of a day sans classes. And I am so glad I was wrong, because this film is an absolute gem.
Without spoilers, the themes in it ran so much deeper than anything I had even hoped for, to the point where I only recognized some of them from a gender studies class I just finished a week ago. There were literal manifestations of the internally destructive nature of normative social ideologies. There was cultural imperialism's casting of alternative modes of existence as inferior and transgressive. There were dominant narratives and how seeking to change them from within can all too easily get co-opted by pre-existing power structures.
And those are just the things related to a single uni class I just took which were big enough for me to point out.
Not everything in it gets directly addressed, and I wish that there had been more in the film about how class and race can intersect with all of those other dynamics and each other. The knights and their institute are white in both theme and skin tone, while many of the non-nobles have darker skin tones. The primary protagonist is from among them, and his appointment is a major inciting incident in the film. Again, trying to avoid spoiling things, there was a lot of possible set up there which didn't get fully realized. Some nods were made to it later in the film, but it wasn't the primary focus.
But even beyond all of those, there were more political critiques which did come across loud and clear. Chief among them being a rejection of the liberal notion of "removing the bad apples." Nimona is deeply concerned with systemic critiques and even subtly advocating the notion that sometimes systems need to be torn down before equity can be had. Well, I say subtly because initial advocacy for such is deliberately a bit over the top and hyper-destructive, while the ending heavily implies it without outright stating it. But the last "end credits scene" is literally an 'A' in a heart, soooo....
Anyways, I absolutely loved Nimona, and if you like queer themes, chaotic shapeshifters, social deconstruction, progressive messaging, sci-fi knights, gays who remain unburied, or even just gorgeous animation, then you'll probably like it too
Sometimes shit happens, and sometimes you get angry. Sometimes more shit happens, and you have no choice but to be angry. Sometimes so much shit happens, the anger inside you burns beyond words. Beyond all thought or logic or reason is a burning flame that bleeds into every part of your life. And you know what, that’s okay. There was nothing you could have done to change it; now all that’s left to do is learn how to live with it. Just know, that sometimes the best thing we can do for ourselves is to stop shit from happening to other people.
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Not to make this Tumblr Plight about me but btw we in Finland are currently under the farthest right-wing government in 30 years who's currently doing their all to win the fastest our country's reputation has been ruined worldwide award. Straight up making new law propositions that are blatantly discriminatory if you have any sense.
And then my online home is also destroying itself.
And I'm currently having to move after 5 months of living here because social work straight up told me and my mom they're not giving us any help no matter what we say about how hard our life situation is, even after getting multiple emergency care alerts filed on both of us by other healthcare workers.
How much am I supposed to fucking take before I get violent
[Text of a tweet from @Cal__Montgomery, 20:18 21 Apr 21:
And in the latest round of "insurance - the gift that keeps on giving" I am now going to the emergency room due to a combination of the wounds the wheelchair that they won't replace caused getting infected and 2 lytes being critical.]
So, this is the latest round in the ongoing systemic medical fuckery Cal Montgomery has been dealing with. He's since been admitted again, and that was the last I saw.
I started following him because Mel Baggs thought so highly of him and his activism. (With lots of links and discussion of some of his older writings on hir classic WordPress blog.)
The same terrible systems are trying to kill Cal in the same basic ways that they did kill Mel. He has openly discussed this--and drawn the connections--himself.
Callousness, incompetence, and obstructions to much-needed services keep leading to totally avoidable crisis situations. Whereupon he also keeps getting his competence questioned over stubbornly and irrationally refusing to accept his "fate", and stop being the system's problem anymore.
The situation has looked critical enough for months now (at the very least 😑) that I am honestly always relieved to see his tweets.
Anyway, there is one way you can help, if you are able to. I am sure that Mel would also appreciate it, if sie were here. (And not blame you if you are struggling too hard yourself right now!)
(Cal has approved this fundraiser, but please do not contact him directly at t… Andrew Dell'Antonio needs your support for Help Cal have a
If you don't have any money to spare, sharing this fundraiser would also be a great help.
