ohai Monday! back to yeeting job applications at the sun/writing away for rejection letters (no train hosing shifts until June afaik).
...yes there's an interview next week, which is great!
I've also heard too many times now "you have great experience, an amazing track record, present really well, and we are not hiring you".
"Performing non-heteronormative bodies and behaviours is associated with being perceived as risky, dangerous and deviant. The correlation between queerness and deviance leads to a number of detrimental consequences, including police over-policing and criminalizing young LGBTQ+ individuals in public spaces, queer people underreporting hate crime incidents for fear of secondary victimization, and overall scepticism and mistrust towards the criminal justice system."
A study published in 2021, conducted in Europe, by Rachele Girardi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2021.1979481
#stateViolence #performance #lawAndOrder #civilRights #precarity #gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transGender #queer #TransLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #abolitionism #research #sociology #London #Europe #police #policeViolence #UK
"More veterans die by suicide every two days than were killed in action in 2019."
Dean Spade: "Where there are U.S. military bases, there is intense sexual and gender-based violence. This includes sexual violence towards women living near military bases, towards sex workers of all genders, towards women inside the U.S. military, and harassment and sexual violence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans. This is just a normal part of what U.S. militarism is. It's inseparable from the culture. Rape as a tactic of U.S. militarism is as old as U.S. militarism itself, going all the way back to the systemic rape of Indigenous people to colonize and settle North America."
"Trans inclusion in the military, like marriage equality, does nothing to redistribute wealth, stop police violence, housing and health care crises plaguing queer and trans communities."
“When it comes to trans advocacy, we want to ask what reforms will save trans people’s lives. The answers are clear: access to housing, income, food, childcare, health care. Military inclusion advocacy does not make the list.”
"What is effective and pragmatic is whatever reduces contact with the police".
by Wren Sanders, 2021, https://www.them.us/story/case-against-lgbtq-military-inclusion-explained 🧵
#pinkWashing #veterans #military #performance #authority #advocacy #livesWorth #civilRights #grievable #grievability #precarity #precariousness #gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transGender #queer #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #abolitionism
"If “living paycheck to paycheck” means having less than a month’s worth of income saved in cash, then calculated in this way, the “60%” factoid gets it exactly right: the share of working-age, non-business-owning households living paycheck to paycheck was:
63% in 1998
63% in 2001
64% in 2004
64% in 2007
67% in 2010
64% in 2013
61% in 2016
59% in 2019
In other words, Bernie nailed it.
What led the above-cited pundits to the erroneous conclusion that it was Bernie who erred?
The most important factor, quantitatively speaking, is slightly technical and takes a bit of explanation. If you want to use household wealth data to determine what share of Americans “live paycheck to paycheck,” you have to exclude business owners from the analysis. This isn’t just because — to state what should be obvious — business owners can’t “live paycheck to paycheck,” no matter how poor they are, since they don’t receive a paycheck.
The more important point is that including business owners in the data distorts the analysis quantitatively. Business-owning households typically report extraordinarily large holdings of cash assets — far out of line with their incomes or net worth. And while there’s no way to prove this with certainty, it’s pretty clear the reason is that a significant proportion of the cash balances they report as household wealth is actually, in functional terms, working capital for their businesses."
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bernie-sanders-paycheck-savings-debate
#USA #Bernie #Inequality #Precarity #Poverty #Economy #Economics
I'm not even sure if the #music industry itself is dangerous - especially as construction and agricultural workers also have high #suicide rates - its more the #precarity of the work and income and that a fun/dream job can just disappear at any moment..
(13/?) So with all that in mind--with my history of #leftist #activism and the resulting #trauma from it, as well as the general state of #precarity of life in the US and the sense that protests aren't really effective--I'm asking myself what I need to effectively resist #Trump & #Musk's #coup and #fascist oppression. What do I need to be effective and do the work required sustainably? Just because I know what I might need doesn't mean I'll get it, but understanding my own needs feels like a start.
What I needed while doing #leftist #activism during the first Trump term was care. I needed someone to buy groceries and cook and clean and do what #Marxists call reproductive labor for me. I needed someone to take care of my basic needs.
If you know someone who is doing #activism right now, ask them what they need, and one thing you might offer is to cook a meal for them or do chores for them. It might help
(6/?) And I am coming at this from a place with a lot of #privilege. I have a job that pays me enough to live decently (until inflation catches up to me and #Trump crashes the #economy). I'm educated. I'm white. I am looking for something to plug into (this is not the time or place to try to sell me on your group or whatever you're doing though and if you try, you're missing the point of this thread and I will block you). I do have little things, here and there, that I could give, even now after all the exhaustion and #trauma. There are a lot of people who are stretched even thinner than me, people who don't have the privilege that I have.
A lot of people in the US were already overwhelmed with the demands of daily life even before Trump came into office
#USPol #USPolitics #MovementBuilding #Fascism #Fascist #Coup #Capitalism #Precarity
[Canada] 80k+ people in Ontario homeless in 2024
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/more-than-80-000-people-in-ontario-were-homeless-in-2024-new-report-finds-1.7169953
* Association of Municipalities of Ontario
* 40K (half) of those people homeless 6+ mo.
* 25% more people in shelters/streets cf. 2 yr ago
Reports on Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis, Water & Wastewater Utility Feasibility
https://www.amo.on.ca/policy/health-emergency-and-social-services/reports-ontarios-homelessness-crisis-water-and
https://www.amo.on.ca/sites/default/files/assets/DOCUMENTS/Reports/2025/2025-01-08-EndingChronicHomelessnessinOntario.pdf
#Canada #Ontario #homelessness #AffordableHousing #precarity #poverty #inflation
#capitalism #corportations #PrivateEquity #WealthTax
#SocialDemocracy
[Vancouver, Canada] Works from artists who experienced homelessness spotlighted in new exhibition
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/works-from-artists-who-have-experienced-homelessness-spotlighted-in-new-exhibition-1.7167993
From the Streets of Our Unfair City: Artists Who Have Experienced Homelessness
https://www.outsidersandothers.com/from-our-unfair-city
* exhibition featuring artists that have experienced homelessness
* “homeless” not “unhoused” use: it's how these artists identify
#Canada #BritishColumbia #Vancouver #TheArts #art #artists #OutsidersAndOthers
#homelessness #poverty #inflation #precarity #AffordableHousing
An art exhibition that aims to abolish misconceptions around what it means to be homeless, while promoting the work of local, often overlooked, artists, has just launched at a downtown Vancouver art space.
U.S. Homelessness Crisis About to Get Lot Worse
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/02/the-homelessness-crisis-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/homelessness-record-high-levels-hud
https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_24_327
U.S. HUD
* homelessness rose 18% 2024 cf. 2023
* 150k+ children exp. homelessness
* 140k+ people 55+ unhoused in U.S. 2024
* 1/2 older Am. live in places not meant for humans
#homelessness #USA #HUD #discrimination #SCOTUS #GrantsPass
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity #libertarianism #billionaires #inequality #WealthTax
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