I am very serious when I say, cancel your subscriptions now. Don’t cross the picket line.
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that’s not actually helping them at all, you’re just giving the studios another reason to point at their subscription numbers and say ‘see? we can’t afford to pay the writers and the actors!’
By canceling your membership, you’re not helping them at all.
congratulations, you’ve played yourself in not playing a role in the strike.
You’re not being serious, you’re being ridiculous!
Just, a little strike 101: if the union calls for a boycott, you boycott. If they don’t, you don’t. Sometimes not boycotting puts more pressure on services striking workers would normally provide, so metes it proves value in other ways. Do what the union asks. Simples
controversial opinion,apparently, but I think being able to sustain yourself and not only survive but also thrive, to be able to live with dignity and have your needs met regardless of your societal standing, should take precedence in “queer activism” than anything including pride parades with corporate floats and allying one’s country with NATO and the EU and the “west” to become more “civilised and forward thinking”. if the material conditions don’t improve, painted rainbows on the streets and a corporate pride float every June do nothing. it’s not even a band-aid on a stab wound, it’s gaslighting the person bleeding that they are actually fine.
I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise scrutinized. She brought race into it. A Nigerian man, who was just a person in his country, was healthy as anything. He got to the U.S. and within a year, his doctor told him he was suddenly pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure. He never had those things in his country. He learned that being Black in the U.S. is a very different experience than being Black in a Black-centric country. The author elaborated more about those in poverty, women, and being a minority in general. Having that “fight or flight” triggered in the body, sometimes for hours or days or weeks at a time, degrades the body’s natural defenses, making them more vulnerable to disease.
I think Joan of Arc’s fursona would be a dog called Joan of Bark, but my partner thinks it would be a phoenix, which seems insensitive to me, but neither of us are furries, so I guess we don’t really get a say either way.
I promise I’m not trying to be pretentious here.
Jeanne d’Arc’s last name is d’Arc. An overly-literal translator insisted it stood for “of Arc”, and that’s why we know her as Joan of Arc. At the time, she was more commonly known as “Jeanne la Pucelle”, meaning “Joan the Maiden” or “Joan the Virgin”.
anyways since her main attack strategy was “hit them until they stop moving” I think she’d be a gorilla.
*taking notes* What else do you know about this beautiful world?
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