Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Y'all have,,, NO idea how much I want a pizza rn. It is taking all of my willpower to save my money and not order one this instant to celebrate getting stuff done today
late-stage capitalism is i want pizza but congress won’t buy me one
wait I haven’t tried
I’m gonna call my congressman and see
Hmm… Ted Cruz isn’t answering. Still a coward, I see,
I’m gonna ask my governor now and tell him Cruz said it was out of his jurisdiction so he’ll feel all important. dude sued the city and is richer than god he can afford a pizza
HDGJDFHGJ SOMEONE PICKED UP,,, this is how it went:
Me: Hello, I would like to request an audience with Governor Abbott
Secretary: I’m sorry. I can relay a message and have him get back to you in a call or email.
Me: Okay, thanks! Due to some recent changes and current economic disparity in Texas, I’ve calculated that Gov. Abbott makes enough a year to buy over 10,000 pizzas, for example. As a display of his claims to make efforts towards rebuilding the middle class, all I ask is that he buy me one single pizza.
Secretary: *incredulous laugh/scoff noise*
Me: That’s less than 0.0001% of his salary, not even taking his enormous wealth into consideration, and will affect my voting decision next election cycle. My paypal is https://www.paypal.me/quinintheclouds
Secretary: …I’ll let him know.
Secretary: *Hangs up*
None of them bought me a pizza. Guess you could say they crust my dreams :((
pLOT TWIST THE SECRETARY SENT ME $15 FOR MAKING HER LAUGH AND CAUSE SHE HATES WORKING THERE,,, THE SUBJECT LINE SAID POLITICAL PIZZA
I scrolled away but had to come back and reblog.
This is amazing
As a person who freaks out about talking to my own family members, I am in awe of the fact that you actually did this
me too, but consider: I was really hungry
“Hmm… Ted Cruz isn’t answering. Still a coward, I see,” is the most powerful thing I’ve ever read.
It is worth noting that not all problems are 100% socially constructed, and therefore this conception of justice is not always an option.
For example, you can strive to reduce disability stigma, and you can give the disabled better healthcare, but people with incurable denegenerative diseases who experience chronic pain and deteriorating health are still going to experience unfair suffering, and the only way to truly fully “remove the cause of the inequality” is to literally invent a miracle cure.
I’m reminded of that post talking about how X-Men is the perfect metaphor for leftist infighting, like that scene from the movie (was it X2? X3?) where Storm says “we don’t need a cure; there’s nothing wrong with us” to Rogue, the girl who literally can’t touch people without killing them.
Which is to say,
I’m concerned people will look at this graphic and leave with the takeaway that pursuing equity is a waste of time, and the only thing that really matters is eradicating the root cause.
Because as important as it is to, for example, fund scientific research to find a cure chronic fatigue syndrome, it is just as important, perhaps more important, to make sure that, until such time as we are able to discover that cure, we ensure people with chronic fatigue syndrome are getting as much support as it is possible to give them now.
My point is, it’s not a matter of equity vs. justice. Pursuing justice is not better and more ethical than pursuing equity.
We need to work towards solving the root problem, but that can take a really long time, time people who are suffering don’t necessarily have, so we also need to improve quality of life for people who can’t afford to wait that long.
We need equity AND justice. We need to strive for BOTH.
So remember that thing I applied for? My application was successful. I was selected to take part in a project at Scotland’s Craft Town, the wonderful West Kilbride. I've been a massive fan of t...
Artists, writers, creators of all stripes: read this. And bookmark it… because you may need to read it repeatedly. It’s on correctly valuing your work. (Pricing, too, yeah. But the issue of value comes first.)
My mentor asked me to decide how much I hoped to earn in terms of my
salary, and to price my work accordingly. I did it the other way around.
I worked out how much I wanted to earn from each individual piece (and
other stuff that I can’t tell you about yet), then I added up how much I
would likely earn over the course of a year and then once I saw the
total I decided that it was way too much, that I didn’t need that much
and that I didn’t deserve that much, so I’d just have to earn less.
Seriously.
And the worst part was that I didn’t see anything wrong with this. In
fact, I thought that earning a good salary for my work was somehow
unfair to the rest of the world. So I reduced the price of the thing I
can’t tell you about yet and went into my meeting with a nice clear idea
of how to avoid earning more than I felt I deserved.
I’m not even joking.
So there we were in our meeting and my mentor patiently listened to
my stream of ideas and plans and hopes and fears about where I want to
take my work and how I want to develop the business side of things.
Once I’d stopped for breath, my mentor told me that she thought my
pricing was too low. I explained that I didn’t think it was. She told me
again, that it was indeed way to low, and I explained that pricing it
higher wouldn’t be fair to people who wanted to buy it. Then she said
something that made absolutely no sense to me. She asked if my feelings
about pricing were somehow connected to something within me, or more
specifically if my feelings towards the people who buy my work were
fulfilling some need within me.
I had absolutely no idea what the hell she was on about. Remember, I
teach this stuff. I am a master at pointing out the root of my students’
issues and creative barriers and I could sort of see what she might be
getting at and why what she said might have meant something to someone
else, but I really had no idea what relevance it had to me.
Until the train ride home.
Here’s what I realised about myself.
I feel bad about people paying for my work because I think that the
people who buy and even those who appreciate my work are somehow being
duped. I keep feeling that at some point I am going to be found out to
be an imposter. I feel bad when my work is considered valuable.
There.
Issue number one; I do not trust or value my talent.
And there’s more.
I worry that I am somehow going to get into trouble for showing off.
I feel that if I openly value my work then people might not like me.
I know.
Issue number two; please like me, please like me, please, please like me…
In a culture where there’s so much pressure to undervalue one’s work because so many people are getting the idea that as much stuff as possible should be free for the taking from the people who create it, this kind of self-examination is vital.
