reclaimingthelatinatag:

nezua:

soniasaraiya:

To all the women who quietly made history.

This reminds me of this:

Finally, and this is important: even those women who weren’t inventors and intellectuals, even those women who really did spend all their lives doing stereotypical “women’s work”—they also built this world. The mundane labor of life is what makes everything else possible. Before you can have scientists and engineers and artists, you have to have a whole bunch of people (and it’s usually women) to hold down the basics: to grow and harvest and cook the food, to provide clothes and shelter, to fetch the firewood and the water, to nurture and nurse, to tend and teach. Every single scrap of civilized inventing and dreaming and thinking rides on top of that foundation. Never forget that.

Which is by the Reclusive Leftist, which I found through this excellent post, with comments, via meganwest.

Bisabuela Juanita, Abuelita María Lucha Quintana.

so powerful

This is all so true and important, I’m often horrified to see how little value is given to so many important work, I Hate the vicious circle, woman are devalued so jobs that are devalued are given to them, job is made by women, since women are devalued, job is devalued.

I also hate how this capitalist system is driving the world to death because of it’s devaluation of this kind of work.

tal9000:

[Image text: “my math teacher staples burger king applications to failed tests”]

babstheartist:

lost-in-the-moment:

teaching: you’re doing it right.

Because children with learning disabilities don’t exist.

Fuck that teacher yo.

Not to mention the assumption that working at Burger King is an unworthy job being just a little classist.

And also, some of those disabled people could have a condition that prevents them from working in burger king (I think it’s a job that would really be to difficult for me to do for exemple, with my sensory troubles, constant interractions with clients… having to be good at organization… not to mention how clumsy I am (I don’t know if it counts as dispraxia)

… And in general, this attitude is so shitty I mean, the clear idea here is humiliation (with like said before, a very strong classist, elitist bia) and that’s not the way you teach, shame is not the way you get people to learn something.

chavisory:

paisleytie:

From an article about a university program for autistic students:

If they don’t learn social skills, most people with autism flounder, according to a study the state Department of Public Welfare released Thursday. It found more than two-thirds of adults with autism are unemployed, and just 6…

This is among my hugest pet peeves—that people assume that our underemployment is due to our social ignorance, rather than from a certain quality of social fluency being physically impossible to carry out, on top of things like multitasking issues and sensory issues and coworkers and supervisors misinterpreting and misconstruing our best efforts.  It’s that so often every workplace factor that is completely extraneous to the actual job is held against us.

for Chavisory’s comment.