Various links, FEELINGS edition
Via 
spiralsheep: Men and Women in Public Spaces, by
brigid. A really excellent summation of why "just talking" to an unfamiliar woman in public is not a harmless or neutral act.
How to keep someone with you forever, by issendai. Efficiently outlines the hallmarks of a "sick system" that keeps people in an abusive situation, whether that situation be an intimate relationship, a friendship, or a workplace. A hard read, but a good one. I feel lucky that I have never been in a truly dire abusive situation, one that I didn't feel I could get out of, but I think all of us can probably recognize elements of this list somewhere in our lives (academia can definitely be a sick system). May be triggery.
Via the comments to the above post, I think: A Year In Waiting, by bigbigtruck @ DA. An amusing, and at times infuriating, comic series about the artist's stint as a waitress in a Texas restaurant/bar. Really highlights a lot of the properties of sick systems outlined in the above post as they pertain to low-wage jobs and workers; and the sad thing is the extent to which we all accept these things as normal. (Warning for disturbing, possibly triggery content in Part 11.)
GivesMeHope.com. Can't stop reading, can't stop crying. Yes, I'm a sap.
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spiralsheep: Men and Women in Public Spaces, by
brigid. A really excellent summation of why "just talking" to an unfamiliar woman in public is not a harmless or neutral act.
How to keep someone with you forever, by issendai. Efficiently outlines the hallmarks of a "sick system" that keeps people in an abusive situation, whether that situation be an intimate relationship, a friendship, or a workplace. A hard read, but a good one. I feel lucky that I have never been in a truly dire abusive situation, one that I didn't feel I could get out of, but I think all of us can probably recognize elements of this list somewhere in our lives (academia can definitely be a sick system). May be triggery.
Via the comments to the above post, I think: A Year In Waiting, by bigbigtruck @ DA. An amusing, and at times infuriating, comic series about the artist's stint as a waitress in a Texas restaurant/bar. Really highlights a lot of the properties of sick systems outlined in the above post as they pertain to low-wage jobs and workers; and the sad thing is the extent to which we all accept these things as normal. (Warning for disturbing, possibly triggery content in Part 11.)
GivesMeHope.com. Can't stop reading, can't stop crying. Yes, I'm a sap.
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