Photo of the Day – There is no other word for it, the Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is stunning! At one point, it was sometimes placed within its own genus Agriocharis, but the differences between the two turkeys is currently too small to warrant separation.
This incredible photo was taken by Dušan Brinkhuizen
What’s that famous quote? “There’s nothing inherently liberating in wearing next to nothing. There’s nothing inherently liberating in covering up. The freedom lies in the choice.”
I care mainly that these women have a 100% choice and can wear what they want.
I always remember that bit from Malala’s book about the argument with her mother: She wore the hijab, but didn’t want to cover her face. The mother wasn’t happy.
Again: Personal choices.
This. Iran has completely different politics compared to countries like America and Australia. Compulsory Hijab and the Hijab Ban are two sides of the same coin. I have the full feedrom to take off my headscarf but I don’t. Because I am happy with my choice to wear it.
It wasn’t even that I hadn’t been identified as disabled yet, btw.
That was also the school that automatically tried to throw me into segregated special ed and insisted that I couldn’t attend without Ritalin, pre-ADA–but, my mother offered to sue them. (Problem solved! 😩)
So, no other support was provided, and they preferred to go with the “defiant and aggressive” approach anyway. From the beginning.
The weird denial and lack of backup at home didn’t help that situation at all, of course. Not going off onto that again right now. But, I keep realizing more and more as an adult just how much harm that did.
But, while the details of what they can and can’t readily get away with under the ADA may have changed somewhat? (Though the predecessor to IDEA did go into effect the year I was born. There were regulations they were refusing to follow already.)
The general systemic attitude really, really hasn’t changed. At all. Institutions mostly just use some different words and excuses to keep discriminating. And that was before the current political mess.
I hadn’t thought about classroom exclusion in exactly those terms before.
Never got officially suspended myself, but I did spend a decent chunk of elementary school getting sent to the office, parked out in the hall, or one year sent to the library for hours most days because they had no clue what to do with me.
(At least the library thing was not presented as punitive, and it was one hell of a lot better than staying in the classroom at the time. That teacher actually liked me OK, and was trying to find the least bad solution under not great circumstances. She was also the one who referred me for short-term special ed help when I really did need it thanks to the dyscalculia. Still, the least bad option in that system was sending a struggling 8-year-old to the library.)
I was going to say that at least that wasn’t preschool either, and they waited until I was a little older. But, I didn’t go to any, and that’s not really much better dealing with elementary school kids.
Yeah, repeatedly getting removed from class is obviously not providing someone with the same education as other students. It’s discriminatory. But, I hadn’t considered it as being in quite the same space as official disciplinary actions.
When it’s mostly just sneakier, and makes it easier to pretend that there are No Problems Here on the surface.
Except for reblogging this one a few times, I will probably start positing a lot about other things, and tone down the posts on the job searching stuff. I’m going to revise and consolidate some of the resume type posts I’ve done in the hope that someone knows some leads (even suggestions on what types of jobs to apply for, or keywords to look for in job listings would be helpful).
I people think this is too long, I can put more of it behind the read more.
It would be very helpful if people reblogged this, on the hope that it eventually gets seen by someone who knows someone who could hire me, or at least provide feedback and advice (even more general career advice would be very helpful).
I recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and am staying with various people until things settle down. (for the backstory, see my parents tag, and my job notes tag). I’m kind of interested as a dream job something in the IT or tech field (although I have relatively few formal credentials in this, but lots of knowledge gained as a hobbyist). But I am very flexible in what type of opportunity I could take, as I am primarily wanting to get a decent job quickly. With my main goal being to get some degree of a solid income, and enough financial stability.
But here are some of my skillsets
Education: I recently graduated with a dual degree Bachelor of Science in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Arizona. (posting this here because of its relevance to some advice that people may have) I have a GRE score of 170/99th percentile on verbal reasoning, 159/73rd percentile on quantitative reasoning, and 4.5/82nd percentile on writing.
Writing/Communication/Standard Office Skills: I am a very strong writer, and have good over-all communication skills. A rhetorical analysis essay I wrote placed second in the University of Arizona’s 2013 essay contest and was featured in the textbook, A Student’s Guide to First-Year Writing. I trained and worked as a preceptor (similar role as a teaching assistant) for an Honors College English class, Advanced Analytical Writing and Thinking. Of course, I have experience with the usual standard business/office software. I was a tutor at an university disability center
Tech/Programming: I have substantial knowledge in both IT and programming. I probably know enough for entry level sysadmin/helpdesk jobs. As a hobbyist, I have managed servers and VPSes running software including NGINX, Apache, and MySQL, and I have solid entry level knowledge of the administration of LAMP servers. So, I have a good entry level skillset there. I also have good understanding of the UNIX/Linux command line. I have used Python/R scripting a lot in research internships. Have also taken four computer science classes. Probably, I know enough coding for it to be a supplemental skillset for other jobs, but not enough to be an actual programmer as a primary job task.
Geography/GIS: I am a geography major, I have knowledge of ArcGIS and QGIS, and knowledge of remote sensing methods and spatial statistics/analysis.This is probably my largest formal job skill. The only paid work I had while in college was a year long internship at a lab, where I looked into the carbon residence time of plants in an ecosystem in Southern Arizona using in large part remote sensing methods. Its less job skill relevant, but a large share of my coursework in geography is in human geography, and environmental geography/biogeography.
Biology: I studied a field-emphasis subset of biology, and have very little lab experience but from classes I do have basic lab skills, and basic familiarity with things like PCR and gel electrophoresis. Also, I have knowledge about environmental science (including the policy side like NEPA and Endangered Species Act, having taken a course particularly focusing on environmental law).
Constraints/Disabilities: I do not have a drivers license, so, I am reliant on mass transit. I have issues with visual spatial coordination and accurate handwriting, and can not draw accurately.
@theopjones is a good person looking to get out of a tough, abusive situation. Your inquiry to someone you know about a job opening or even a simple reblog could have a major positive impact on their life.
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