It’s scary – Bell, Cineplex, Shaw, and Rogers are trying to censor the internet and force the end of net neutrality in Canada. And worse, they’re trying to do it behind closed doors.
These 4 companies, led by Bell, are pushing to create an internet “blacklist” of certain websites that all internet service providers in Canada would legally have to block. They know this outrageous proposal would never pass, so first, they tried to sneak it into NAFTA negotiations – and now Bell is expected to introduce its proposal to Canada’s telecom regulator TOMORROW.
Critics are calling this move “unprecedented” and dangerous. If these companies get their way, this internet blacklist would have absolutely zero oversight in the courts. We need to stop this urgently.
That fact that anyone working with food in America doesn’t have guaranteed paid sick days is a health hazard to the public.
no but for real, the CDC has said the leading cause of foodborne illness is the lack of sick days for people who work in the food industry and that it costs billions a year to the economy.
Ridiculous lack of worker protections causes a ridiculous lack of public protections
Tarot, Natal charts, and SMALL art commissions available
Hi! So I’m trying to leave my abusive home without having to open a GoFundMe AND I am trying and to get some things I NEED so I’m completely opening some of my commissions – paypal.me/ericamedia
Tarots:
1 card – 1$
3 cards – 3$
9 cards – 10$
Week spread – 8$
Bi-weekly – 10$
Monthly – 12$
Natal/Astrology:
Full natal chart – 25$
Few aspects pop out (3-5) – 10$
Few aspects you want to know about (3-5) – 10$
Few transits (1-3) – 10$
Dractico chart – 30$
Art: These are simple and small clean skect and color skects
you shouldn’t have to reveal some deeply personal thing about yourself, especially if it somehow affects your safety, just so that people will listen to you and stop treating you like shit
You know what I really missed in my life growing up? Autistic rolemodels.
When I was a kid, I often heard adults say things like ‘kids need a rolemodel’, and as I grew older, I read more and more articles about how rolemodels are extremely important in the development of a child. I always found this ridiculous, after all, I had no positive rolemodel growing up, and I did just fine, right?
Lately, however, I’ve begun to realize that a lot of my internalized ableism is grounded in having no positive rolemodel. I have never once believed that I would be able to hold a job in the long term, or that I’d even be able to get one. After all, nobody in my family managed to hold any kind of salary job, and I don’t have what it takes to start my own business, so why would I be able to?
When your family isn’t a proper rolemodel, most kids would turn to celebrities instead. The reason I don’t is simply because I can’t relate to any celebrities or successful people. They are always so charismatic, so social, and when I look at them, I don’t see something I could become, but an impossible dream for everyone who is better at playing the system than I am.
What would really have helped me believe in myself (even if it turns out later that I, in fact, actually can’t hold a job) would have been positive autistic rolemodels. People I could relate to. People who could, metaphorically, look down at me and say: “I’m like you, and here’s what you could become”.
Of course, you do have the odd successful autistic person. However, almost all of them are in the IT/science field, and as someone who is bad at both of these things, that only added to my anxiety (”You can succeed as an autistic, but not you, because you aren’t the kind of autistic we want”). If they are successful in other areas, you often year the narrative of ‘despite their autism’, which only made me more intent on pushing away all of my symptoms. Or better yet, they have their autism completely erased by the media, so that I never even knew they were autistic.
And the fact that I saw no one like me who was grown up and doing well hurt me. It lead me to fear adulthood from a very young age, and it lead me to believe that I was incapable of becoming happy in the future. Hell, I still believe that. I’m still working through the effects of this thought process, figuring out what worries were justified and which ones were caused by internalized ableism. Having no autistic rolemodels hurt me, and it’s still hurting me.
We need autistic rolemodels. We need to give autistic people a fair chance to become successful, and we need to stop erasing or discrediting their autism when they do. Autistic adults can be successful, autistic adults can be happy, and we need to let autistic kids know exactly that.
we also need to rethink ideas of success and doing well, alongside this. autistic people should be able to aspire to anything anyone else does, but we also have the responsibility to question these ideas.
autistic people (or anyone) who can’t work or can’t get a job aren’t worth any less. we don’t have to be good at science or IT or anything in particular. we are already enough.
i think we end internalized ableism by saying “yes, you can aspire to whatever you want. and you are already enough, now, as you are.” both parts of this message are important.
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