Post No. 2,775 - Some interesting reading/viewing

Here are some llinks that might of interest or value:

• “‘Witches’ are still killed all over the world. Pardoning past victims could end the practice”   https://theconversation.com/witches-are-still-killed-all-over-the-world-pardoning-past-victims-could-end-the-practice-228613   

• “Species living closely together in symbiosis is far older and way more common than you might think”   https://theconversation.com/species-living-closely-together-in-symbiosis-is-far-older-and-way-more-common-than-you-might-think-227217   

• “Nobody Wants to Work?”   https://youtu.be/9X3YSVrck8Y?si=IogHWHRPPr-klJL9   An utterly BRILLIANT rebuttal of the rubbish notion of people not wanting to work - and an excellent perspective on what is important or not, and work conditions/rights   

• “When You're Trans and Autistic”   https://youtu.be/wk0tOe83__g?si=TgkbSZKUyjjnGdue   “I got out of my grade school years unscathed only to have grown ass adults with social media poisoning and too much time on their hands take up the mantle of insecure adolescents who build their identities around harming others. I’m talking about gender criticals, by the way . . . And members of the gender critical cult like to call upon the combined forces of cultural transphobia to . . . dismiss gender incongruence expressed by autistic people as fixation or confusion, particularly in trans people who were assumed female at birth. What they never seem to do is ask us about our experiences or speak to the experts who have . . . because . . . [g]ender  criticals don't actually care about child welfare, human well-being, or medical ethics” . . .  they are trying to Trojan Horse their agenda into social relevance by relying on cis, allistic people to have not done the internal work”   Gender criticals are the genocidal  flat earthers of the sex and gender world   Also from this channel:   “I was a victim of Gender Ideology”   https://youtu.be/iKZq5z7M4ds?si=vzrFKTUppbaMbCWz   and   “Autism, Ableism, and Missouri's Attack on Trans Rights”   https://youtu.be/J50N7pKAHdg?si=PMVLf87GvUBaEFWM  

• “How NOT to get sucked into other people’s power games”   https://youtu.be/MlWNKZbwgi0?si=Kj0t1_PlIY5tRMyk   Interesting   
  

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits (see here for zoom meeting opportunities):  
     https://www.victorzammit.com/May3rd2024/  
  

• my recent posts on my political blog:  
• From the news on:     society generally, the climate crisis, environmental issues, and nuclear threats/issues,     human rights and humanitarian aid,     the war in West Asia,     and     politics & democracy, and international affairs,   and there are some links in this candle;
  
  
• “The Lemkin Institute’s next “Year of Genocide Prevention” webinar will be at the end of this week [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on genocide. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-lemkin-institutes-next-year-of.html  

• also from YouTube:

• from YouTube and elsewhere on neurodivergence: 
• “Coming Out as Disabled Why I Was Reluctant to Share My Invisible Disabilities”   https://youtu.be/MxdWrailavQ?si=9XnnQ5YkTrE9ruoK&t=146   The definition of disability at that time stamp from the USA’s Centre for Disease Control https://www.cdc.gov/   “A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities (activity limitation) and interact with the world around them (participation restriction)”   is worth noting - as is the discussion around this (especially what happens when asking for accommodations), but the rest of the video is also important    
  
  
• from Autism from the Inside:
  - “Asperger's and Autism – What has changed in getting a diagnosis?”   https://youtu.be/YBnsHZHJdIM?si=Q7cGPcXoTJs2uk9n   This is an excellent (brilliant!), very common sensical video on the terms - and community attitudes  
  
  
• from Proudly Autistic:
  - “Mistaking Autism for Shyness (Double Empathy and Miscommunication)”   https://youtu.be/C42IYFoxlfM?si=25NSF8pMZXQo-QBT   Another excellent video from a channel which is becoming an outstanding source of excellent information on autism  
  

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

 

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