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J. she/they, 30s, pnw. also known as myownremedy on ao3.
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podcastenthusiast

Not my posts but an interesting thought.

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beatrice-otter

[image description: screengrab of a series of tweets from @ rootsworks: “When I was in college, part of our university’s graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning.

One of my service learning classes involved work at a local homeless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms.

Our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot–like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

And it’s not because they disrespect your work or don’t value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control.

When you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can.

Which results in trashed bathrooms.  It’s control exercised over the one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

I see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them

or holding the creators within their communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

I just see trashed bathrooms. ‘These are the people my voice will reach,’ they rationalize, ‘so these are the people I’ll hurt.’

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems.  Stop using them to dismantle people.”]

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anemonemimesis

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems. Stop using them to dismantle people.

#I genuinely think about this post so often#it really changed how I thought about the issue#homelessness#reference#queue it
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withbroombefore

The chain cable sweater is done! It is indeed intended to be a crop top, by request of the recipient. The yarn is 100% alpaca so it's super soft and cuddly.

The chain cable came from this video tutorial. There's no written pattern, so here's the instructions I transcribed (just for the cable, not for the sweater itself). It's a bit fiddly and you need to be careful about row counting, but it came out looking so good!

Chain cable

9 stitches across

  1. Knit right side/purl wrong side for nine rows
  2. Chain (RS):
  3. K 6, turn, (slip 1, p 2, turn, slip 1, k 2, turn) x 2, slip 1, p 2, turn
  4. Transfer 3 stitches to cable needle and hold in front
  5. Put next three stitches on cable needle also and hold in front
  6. Transfer 3 stitches from right needle to left needle
  7. Knit last three stitches from cable needle
  8. Knit first three stitches (with short rows) from cable needle
  9. Knit 3
#knitting#reference#queue it
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you know, I complain a lot about my union because forming a coalition and building solidarity means you will disagree and navigate a lot of conflict, but I will say that it's also some of the most rewarding and important work I've ever done.

#tbd#union tag#yesterday i ended up confronting management--like executive suite level--about the transphobia in the agency#and it didn't go well. unsurprising.#and i got a little direct! i always advocate for pushing in a kind and professional manner but this time (:#this time I pushed harder and I told them why and how unacceptable this was#and got no where except for the head of HR looking upset that I was pushing him to take action#anyway i don't feel like we got anywhere other than putting them on notice (which sometimes IS critical to work getting done)#but we caucused after that convo and my union mates went from 0 to 60 on workshopping how to support me#and other trans colleagues in my department#like i was so warmed and surprised to see how everyone showed up for us#even though sometimes we butt heads and have significant disagreements#that's solidarity. that's the work.#and then in our union meeting someone announced a name change and everyone was like 'cool' and started using it immediately#action matters so much more over empty words#and i do see my job--my position--as someone to push (and be pushed) for action over empty words#and sometimes it takes over a year for that action to happen but when it does? indescribable#it is clear that executive level management will not budge on this unless we continue to show up#and we will.#people don't inspire change. a network of relationships--a give and take--lead to change. change comes from action#building that relationship sometimes IS the most effective action you can take#when we talk about building community we are talking about the action. the actions of care & time & listening & connecting#assembling everything you know & all you can do to figure out how to make this moment & this place & this life better#it's not about paying dues it's not about striking it's about showing up sitting down listening and forming a plan of action.#anyway#currently#transphobia tw
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