#carers

[phleb0tomist]

if you need full time care i love you. if you need part time care i love you. if it’s not safe for you to be unsupervised i love you. if it’s not safe for you to cook i love you. if you can’t dress yourself i love you. if you can’t toilet without help i love you. if you have uncontrollable behaviours unless someone is looking after you i love you. if someone else has to maintain your medical devices i love you. if you rely on informal or unpaid care from family or friends i love you. if you rely on formal care from professionals i love you. if you live in a group home, institution, or supported living i love you. if you’re embarrassed to admit you have carers i love you. if you talk about your carers with pride i love you.

if you need care i love you.

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[bootdork]

Petition: Make students studying less than 35 hours a week eligible for carers allowance

The DWP states that anybody in “full time” education, even if they only attend classes 2-3 days a week, is not eligible to receive carer's a

The DWP states that anybody in 21 hours or more of education is not eligible for Carer's Allowance. Studies show that young adults who receive Carer's Allowance are 3x more likely to not be in education, employment, or training (NEET). This system is forcing vulnerable, working-class young adults to pick stagnation over living life because we are not allowed to choose anything else if we want financial support.

If you are a UK citizen, please sign and share. This one is particularly important to me, and will become extremely important as our population continue to age and individuals who want to be studying are forced to either abandon their own futures or abandon their loved ones. Thank you! Beijos!

[ableist-log]

in good news however, my care agency is going to be hiring workers who are able to provide personal care!! (this is things like showering, dressing, grooming)

there's a huuuge gap where i live for queer-safe workers, the vast majority of whom do care work casually and don't provide personal care.

my care agency is a big queer org, involved in lots of different things, and my care coordinator and i have been trying to hire people to support me with personal care tasks for the better part of two years.

there just. isn't anyone around who can be counted on to be safe around trans bodies and willing to perform more intensive care work

apparently my case got elevated all the way up to the ceo, and my care coordinator was explaining to him how we'd contacted every other queer care org in the city and been denied due to a lack of workers with appropriate skills like a dozen times. and the same in reverse for mainstream orgs, skilled workers but dangerous lack of queer awareness.

anyway the ceo was very supportive and created a new position they're hiring for! my coordinator said i didn't have to be involved at all but i am excited to 'test-run' whoever this new person is. they're hoping to get someone from community and who is already very experienced. 🤞🧿

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[eldrytchcryptid]

*complains about something a carer has done that I asked them not to*

*gets ignored*

*repeats myself*

*gets ignored*

*says it again but is far less polite and stern about it*

Carers: "You're being so unbelievably rude!"

[thatpollguy]

When you were a child, did your parents/carers buy you toys that were stereotypical for your birth gender (e.g. Barbie dolls for girls, action men for boys)?

Yes, because I wanted the toys stereotypical of my birth gender

Yes, because they wouldn't let me have toys stereotypical of the opposite gender

Sometimes, because they bought me a mix of "girl's" and "boy's" toys

No, because I wanted toys stereotypical of the opposite gender and they let me

No, even though I wanted toys stereotypical for my birth gender

They didn't buy me toys at all / I only got hand-me-downs from siblings

Other (nuance appreciated in comments)

Voting ended onJan 12