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My latest video on thought terminating cliches, the difficult things people dont want to think about in art and not if but how we should engage with bigoted art and artists. Please consider sharing cause the algorithm definitely wont be a fan of some of the subject matter:
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Youtube is suppressing queer creators agaaaain
everyone speak up
ot, wonder1and, yukko, all of em losing money and viewership and most importantly being swept under the rug by a conservative algorithm
Soon trans and other queer media will be even more inaccessible if we don't do something and set a precedent of gagging us
idc if your trans, gay, ally, or anything, speak up and go also watch some gay videos
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Having survived and escaped a truly horrible job has really changed my perspective on a lot of annoying workplace practices, to the point that I have to bite my tongue to stop me from being annoyingly positive at coworkers who are (not unreasonably and good-naturedly) grumping.
'We have too many staff meetings.' -> "OH MY GOD WE HAVE REGULAR STAFF MEETINGS. Where management tells us about things that are happening and we are encouraged to provide input!!!"
'We weren't given information on [important thing] until almost right before it happened.' -> "WE WERE GIVEN INFORMATION ON [IMPORTANT THING] BEFORE IT HAPPENED! And then management explained why it wasn't provided sooner, apologized, and committed to doing better!"
'We're required to do too many trainings.' -> "WE HAVE TRAININGS!! We are encouraged and given funding to go to trainings, even!!"
'We have too many over-written procedures for things, it needlessly clogs up the process and creates unnecessary work.' -> "WE HAVE FORMAL PROCEDURES FOR THINGS!!! Procedures that are actually followed!!!"
'This mental health exercise/training was cringy and annoying' -> "MENTAL HEALTH IS ACKNOWLEDGED AS A THING THAT EXISTS. And if we request accommodations (legally required or not), we aren't flatly denied and then have the request used against us!"
'This workplace conflict was not handled particularly well.' -> "I HAVEN'T SEEN A SINGLE STAFF MEMBER ASSAULT ANOTHER STAFF MEMBER! And it seems like there might actually be consequences if that happened!!!"
It's disability pride month, let's talk about epilepsy!
As someone who started experiencing seizures in her 20s, and officially got diagnosed a year ago now, I find there's a lot of misconceptions out there about what causes seizures and what they can look like. For instance, did you know only 3-5% of the US population with epilepsy is photosensitive? Despite this, it seems to be a prevailing idea that everyone with epilepsy is photosensitive!
I have what's known as Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, one of the most common types of focal seizure. Focal seizures are when the person experiencing the seizure remains awake & aware, or has partial awareness. In my early 20s I started having these odd experiences; it would start with intense visions of deja vu from a dream or previous experience, then I would get a pounding migraine and nausea for several hours after. (I would later learn these deja vu visions are what's known as Auras, and serve as the brains warning mechanism for an imminent seizure.)
At first I thought these symptoms were due to the stress of college. I went to therapy, tried seeing general practice doctors, but nobody seemed to know what could be causing these symptoms. After some real gatekeeping by my primary doctors I finally got a referral to a neurologist, who was the first person in the medical field I saw who actually believed me. Though we weren't able to get a diagnosis from tests, the next month I had my first ever tonic clonic (unconscious seizing) full body seizure in my life. I was extremely fortunate that once I got on medication, that was enough to mostly eliminate my symptoms, though that is not the case for many.
For my own epilepsy, my triggers involve being in situations or scenarios that are familiar - whether to a dream I had or something irl. And yeah, that's about as difficult to avoid as it sounds. From an outside perspective it can look like I'm intensely dissociating or zoning out, usually with some trouble breathing that goes away after a couple seconds. If any of my experience sounds relatable and you haven't been checked for epilepsy, I strongly recommend looking into it! And if you are seeing this and you have epilepsy, it would be nice to hear about other people's experiences and how it manifests.
