Racism, Privilege, Work Rant
I pull the "as a person of color" card out very rarely (like at most once a year) because honestly I have so much fucking privilege relative to the spectrum of people (esp trans people) of color.
So I only use it if there's some ridiculous fuckery happening and I need to remind people that no I will not be party to your racist bullshit.
So anyway I did it like twice or maybe three times this week at work I've lost count.
Racism, Sexism, Work Rant
I mean it's not like it's "there's literally a dude circulating memos about why women and/or colored folks are terrible" bad, but it's at "the administration refuses to acknowledge that they need to make policy changes because things are going great look at these cis white men" bad.
This is especially terrible because we're in an industry that's like 70% women.
Racism, Sexism, Work Rant
Despite how much the admin doesn't want to admit it they aren't listening to women and women don't talk to them about problems because they know it's useless. And when the women quit after 2 years they "oh she must have quit because of her baby" or "she is Southern so it was hard for her to adjust to the culture" or "she got offered a better job elsewhere".
But hey guess what I've talked to all of them and they just don't want to work for a pile of white dudes.
Racism, Sexism, Work Rant
So anyway, I know how this place treats women. I don't want to know how it treats trans women.
Incidentally we have a trans candidate interviewing and I've scheduled a time where I get to say "so you're a grown man and you get to make your own decisions but I need to tell you why I'm not out here".
Those will be fun times.
Okay I'm done ranting now maybe I'll actually go to bed or something.