this came to my mind instantly after I saw them
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women in S.T.E.M (smuggling, treason, embezzlement, murder)
My first thought was, “It’s STEAM now, they’ve added arson” and I check the notes and like 15 other people have had the same thought. Well done everyone
I tried to find something about this to reblog and share, but I didn't see anything so I wanted to put this out there. More than 1000 authors have all signed a petition to stand in solidarity with trans rights and essentially condemning J.K. Rowling's TERF views.
This includes Stephen King (which coincides with his Twitter drama with Rowling from before), Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and more big names in the industry.
Look at those beautiful trans supportive authors!
The Google doc with the letter and a list of the authors who signed it can be found here:
Here is a link to an LA Times article:
And here is a link to the Guardian article:
I thought, given all the sincere disappointment I've heard from people who loved her books, at least this gives you an alternative source.
Trans rights are human rights!
Just keep in mind that any of these letters, whether you sign them is not just “if this person agreed with this, they would have signed.” It’s also “was this person offered the chance to sign?”. I would have signed this letter in a heartbeat. It was not offered to me.
So please don’t take absence as a statement of anything other than absence, unless the person whose name you’re not finding has said something to the contrary.
I was going to make a comment about how Vox Machina had so many fridged moms, versus the Mighty Nein who had a much more refreshing set of backstory situations there ranging from “general dead/absent parent backstory, but never targeting their moms specifically” all the way to multiple characters who had happy, healthy relationships with their still-living mothers, but then I realized:
AND, arguably even FUNNIER:
The Mighty Nein finding and rescuing Vilya so she could return home to her family means that they swerved so hard away from the fridged mom trope, they managed to give one of Vox Machina their mom back, too
It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.
Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266
Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.
In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.
Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.
Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…
I got so angry while reading her side of it
good for her tho like Nicole you icon <3
