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[inanidealworld]

I found a job!

Hi! So I don’t post much on here anymore, but just a wee update for anyone who wants to know.

More than a year after graduating from my master’s degree (and a year and a half of job searching) I have finally found a job!

Honestly this last year was kinda hell. I was being discriminated against because I needed part-time work because of my chronic pain. It was really shitty.

But I’ve finally got a job, starting at the end of this month, in my area of study (human rights law). It’s a low-level clerical starting position, but it’s really secure employment, all my accessibility needs met, prospects for advancement, and I get to be doing something kinda important? I get to help people? This is honestly all I wanted and I’m so excited and a bit nervous. I can’t wait to start!

So I guess, if you’re in a similar position, esp in the current self-isolating, job-losing shit storm, that sometimes you have to hold out for longer than you thought you could, and keep fighting even for things that shouldn’t need fighting for, and it all feels really shitty. It really does. But I hope it works out for everyone else too. I hope it works out for me.

And I’m totally going to bring my “ableism is trash” mug into the office. It’s gonna feel great.

[thunder-kate]

Hey you ♡

[inanidealworld]

So I am now a Master of Laws, that is a Thing now. Specifically, I have a Master’s degree in Human Rights Law. Someone hire me plz.

[inanidealworld]

Hello all! It’s been a while. Just wanted to share some good news for once! I finally finished my dissertation, which means after two years (a year longer than is usual) I have completed my master’s degree in Human Rights Law, and while I won’t know my results for a little while, I am now finally done with higher education, I think. Never again. I’m proud though. 

My dissertation, which was 15,000 words, was entitled ‘The Right to Autonomy: Autonomy, Privacy and Disability in the ECHR’ and, regardless of the grade it receives, I’m actually very happy with it.

All the best,

Kate <3

(also, feel free to respond and share your own news, good and bad, I have not being paying attention on here for a while and I’d like to know how you all are doing)

[inanidealworld]

I just had a horrible day. I feel sick to my stomach and so angry. I’ve been crying like crazy.

I hate ableist assholes. Like … I’m registered with the disability office in my university. When looking for accommodation, I said I was disabled. They put me on the top floor of a building with no elevator. I have a bad back. It makes my life unnecessarily difficult. I was able to get assistance when moving in, but I’m moving out tomorrow, and when looking for similar help to get all my stuff down two flights of stairs I was treated with nothing but condescension, rudeness, exasperation and dismissal (I emailed them two days ago and they never got back to me, then called them today and they act like I’m such an asshole for giving them such short notice???). I don’t know what they expect me to do. I kept being reminded that there’s “a lot of students moving out tomorrow” and “that’s not our job”. They have people who they get to help people moving from term-time accommodation to summer accommodation, but just helping me get stuff to the car is out of the question. I’m treated like a nuisance. The disability office tried to ask on my behalf, said it should be fine, but when I called I was told “It’s all very well for [disability officer] to say that, but we just don’t have the people.” I just can’t do it myself, it’s impossible.

This is ableism. Treating these problems as if they’re only my problem, that they’re not worth concern, that accommodations cannot be made, and if they are they’re a HUGE inconvenience, or a favour I have to grovel and beg for. That is ableism, and it’s not ok, and it made me feel so small, and so angry, and so powerless.

And these kinds of things happen to me fairly regularly, and those with more severe disabilities have an even worse experience.

Luckily for me, my girlfriend was around during these phone calls, and ended up calling them back to yell at them and got them to concede, because I was getting way too emotional for it. It’s great to have someone in your corner, ready to go to bat for you. She’s amazing. But it shouldn’t be necessary.

[morethanweseem]

Kate do you have a favorite trick arrow?

"Oh it's definitely the bola arrow. It's this cool one that like there's these wights and they release and wrap around what you're shooting at. To like knock people over or I guess you could do it to pack. Like a rug. Someone else would have to hold the rug up I think. That's not important." Kate waved her hands dismissively. "Anyways. Bola arrow. Final answer."

[rebelliousfamily]

"I'm just saying that the Hunger Games changed my life. So cool to see a badass female character that loved archery."

[thisiscalm-and-itsdr]

Season 10 Episode 15

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Kate’s Bruce, Meg, was going to meet with a “boy”.