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SHANE & ILYA + parallels
I work as a programmer for $35 an hour.
They once forgot to pay me for 8 extra hours that they needed me to work on Thanksgiving weekend. They simply needed me to be present for 8 hours in order to quickly fix any problems that happened during their busiest weekend, and no such problems ended up happening.
When they saw the mistake and paid me for it, the gross pay for that day was $420 (base of $35 x 8 hours x 1.5 for overtime).
The first thing I noticed was how that compared to what I got paid at my warehouse job before I became a programmer. When I started the job at the warehouse, I got paid $10 an hour. For a full time week, I got paid $400.
I got paid more for that one day of doing practically nothing as a programmer than I did busting my ass at the warehouse for a whole week.
So enough about this "I work harder than them so I deserve more pay" bullshit. You're all the working class. In our fucked up system, hard work does not equal more pay. If you want more pay, you need to fight back against the rich assholes who profit off your labor and pay you jack shit, not fight with other people who are underpaid about who deserves to be more underpaid.
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but you cannot spend another year living in fear. Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of judgment, fear of the unknown ā let that s*** fall away. Be encouraged to pop out. You're not made to shrink.
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. Itās easy to understand why people do bad things. Itās like āyeah, ok, youāre selfish and scared and cruel, I get itā. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
āImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.ā
- Simone Weil
Whenever I see an Ivan Aivazovski painting the sea monster in me goes absolutely feral
I see this and I've never wanted to sink a ship so much in my life I'm biting through wood as we speak
God if I saw this in person I'd straight up start slithering. Start writhing
The way he just *clenches fist* makes water light up from the inside. Ugh, I once zoned out in front of one of his larger paintings in a gallery and came to, like, twenty minutes later, smelling saltwater and tasting driftwood.
This is his largest painting ever. It is 2,8Ć4,2 meters large. That is about 9'3"Ć14'1". It took him ten days to paint. This is a guy who painted normal-sized paintings in an hour, two, tops, according to contemporaries.
He was utterly unique.
When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen ā¦
Peter Bence
just peachy
san diego, california
If it works it works.
(P.S bless you fic writers)
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It canāt all be sorrow, can it? Iāve always been alone, so I donāt feel the lack. Itās all Iāve ever known, Iāve never experienced loss because I have never had a loved one to lose. But what is grief⦠if not love persevering?
me at 1am without fail
to walk invisible: the brontƫ sisters (2016) written and directed by sally wainwright
making friends (especially after youāve lost a couple or several ones) can be hard and incredibly isolating. finding people we can connect and be vulnerable with is no easy task, so often we feel like itās a moral failure when things donāt work out between us and someone else. just know there are so many people in this world you have yet to meet who will love you and itās okay to drop all this heavy relationship baggage now. youāre not defined by the people youāve lost.
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16 LGBT+ Books by Transgender and Non-binary Black Authors
As with my LGBT+ List, Iām seeing a lot of the same books on my dash, so I spent a few hours researching some lesser-known books. These books fall across a variety of genres and age group.
Ways you can help
[ID1: Text that readsĀ āBooks By Transgender and Non-Binary Black Authorsā overlaid an image of different colors of glitter forming a rainbow. End ID1]
[ID2: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Freshwater by Awaeke Emezi (2018) with a blurb that reads: A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from award-winning poet Comonghne Felix. This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains
The second book is Pet by Awaeke Emezi (2019) with a blurb that reads: There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creatuer made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her motherās paintings and a drop of Jamās blood, she must reconsider what sheās been told.
The third book is The Death of Vivek Oji by Awaeke Emezi (2020) with a blurb that reads: What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her sonās body, wrapped in colorful fabric,at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one familyās struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts. End ID2]
[ID3: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman by Toni Newman (2011) with a blurb that reads: The life of Ms. Newman has taken her across the United States and through a range of roles, from a drag queen to pro-domme to activist. In I Rise she lays it all out with the hope of bringing attention to marginalized people and the violence inflicted upon them.
The second book is An Unkindess of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (2017) with a blurb that reads: An Unkindness of Ghosts is an Afrofuturist novel centered around inherited trauma and systemic racism, that reimagines the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in space. Likened many times to Octavia Butler, Solomonās unique take on sci-fi examines black identity and the culture of oppression.Ā
The third book is The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, WIlliam Huston, and Jonathan Snipes (2019) with a blurb that reads: The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed over-board have built their own underwater societyāand must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated songĀ āThe Deepā from Daveed Diggsā rap group Clipping. End ID3]
[ID4: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Mannish Tongues by Jayy Dodd (2017) with a blurb that reads: To speak in tongues is to be possessed/overcome by your own body. This collection speaks to these charades of understanding/some things about language, some things about possessions & higher powers.
The second book is The Black Condition ft. Narcissus by Jayy Dodd (2019) with a blurb that reads: The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the authorās gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing the cosmic impacts of our political landscape.
The third book is Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich (2016) with a blurb that reads: Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER attempts to make a space & shape for the little curl who haunts our cultural/personal narratives about blackness & transmasculinity. As a trans coming-of-age text the work is intensely inward-focused, but it resists the imperative of linear autobiography. End ID4]
[ID5: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Transit by Cameron Awkward-Rich (2015) with a blurb that reads: Poetry. African American Studies.Ā āCameron Awkward-Richās wintry collection is full of broken surfaces. Fists surge in bodies, blades cleave skin, but most recurrent, a boy dives into black water.
The second book is Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich (2019) with a blurb that reads: Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
The third book is Donāt Call Us Dead by Danez Smith (2017) with a blurb that reads: Donāt Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood and a diagnosis of HIV positive. End ID5]
[ID6: Two book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton (2017) with a blurb that reads: The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americaās first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narrativesāones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.
The second book is Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah by The Lady Chablis (1997) with a blurb that reads: Born Benjamin Edward Knox in Quincy, Florida,Ā āThe Dollā always knew she was different. At a Tallahassee club, in her teens, she found the drag mother who would set her on the path to stardom. Before long, The Lady Chablis had a headline drag act replete with trademark saucy wit, down-home wisdom, and, of course, breasts. The rest isĀ āMiss Thangā historyā¦. End ID6]
[ID7: Two book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is The Black Trans Prayer Book edited by J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi (2020) with a blurb reading: The Black Trans Prayer Book is an interfaith and beyond faith collection of poems, spells, incantations, theological narrative, and visual offerings by Black Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex people.
The second book is And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueerās Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death by J Mase III with a blurb that reads: This book is an unexpected and lively conversation between the author and reader on grief, Black Trans survival and the arts. Whether you are currently moving through grief mode, love a good poem, or just want some tools to deal with painful experiences, this book is for you. More importantly, this book is for all of us who deserve a place to be honest when things get hard. End ID7]