RantWoman is called to banish most of the yucky topics festival of her binge blog hyperawareness month. RantWoman means to spin a yarn about having fun with trivial pursuit even when the online version is less than accessible and the topic is something RantWoman knows nothin about. See RantWoman's other blog and probably not tonight.
Meanwhile, RantWoman appreciates this photo of Sadako in the park across the street from....
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| Sadako in Peace Park |
30th
Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
(RantWoman)
NPYM Virtual Annual Session 2020
IG 61, Friday
July 24, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Welcome and a
few minutes of worship
Intros
Name, where you are from
Choose at least one of:
Pronouns
What you are wearing
Any access needs
A Fun Fact about you,
maybe disability-related
Something you hope to
take away from this interest group
A specific question
related to ADA issues
Anything on your heart
that seems relevant
Recording and Transcript: Yes / No
Zoom and flow of Interest group.
If you have video,
please turn it on while speaking
Please use Raise hand which is *9 on phone
Please be sparing about
chat to everyone.
Suggesting resources is cool
Saying goodbye if you need to leave early is fine
If there is someone who can only use the chat, listen.
Brave
Space / Confidentiality / Narrative Theology
A short history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990
Important concepts
Public
accommodations
Reasonable
Accommodations
Minimum
standards vs good practices for inclusion
Today
Ask Friends for examples and thoughts about how these
terms apply to specific situations
Closing worship
Community and Disability: the language we use
IG 70 Saturday July 25, 3:30-5:00 pm
(RantWoman)
NPYM Virtual Annual Session 2020
Welcome and a few minutes of worship
Intros
Name,
where you are from
Choose
at least one of:
Pronouns
What
you are wearing
Any
access needs
A
Fun Fact about you
Something
you hope to take away from this interest group
Anything
on your heart that might be relevant to this interest group
Recording
and Transcript: Yes / No
Zoom
and flow of Interest group.
Please
use Raise hand which is *9 on phone
Mark
is host and will also help recognize people waving hands
Please
be sparing about chat to everyone.
Suggesting resources is cool
Saying goodbye if you need to leave early is fine
If there is someone who can only use the chat, listen.
Brave
Space / Confidentiality / Narrative Theology
Community is a core Quaker value but what exactly
does community meane especially when community needs to embrace difference and
work with people’s varying gifts and challenges, address matters of privilege
and structural inequality?
The terms we started with (Ask for help finding a
definition off the internet)
Allyship
Solidarity
Spiritual
Accompaniment
Ask Friends for examples and thoughts about how
these terms apply to specific situations
Closing worship
Dorene’s
Access needs:
Pay attention to others’ access
needs. For example,
People who lip-read can
leave Zoom in active speaker mode.
Please remember to turn
video on before speaking if possible.
I cannot see faces very well especially in Gallery
View. So let’s all watch for each other and help hold moments of distress.
Screen share visual accessibility is very limited
for me so I always like or files shared in the chat.
I am unlikely to use screen share myself. I use 4x
screen magnification which I can turn down if needed. However, even at 2x, me
moving around on the screen can give other people vertigo. But I am happy to
email people before or after with what I have presented.
Why do I ask what people are wearing?
I have been going to a series of webinars called
CripCamp. Crip Camp is about the intersection of disability and BIPoC issues.
All sessions have both ASL interpretation and a live transcript. They now use a
model for chat of write in questions, someone reads and then presenters answer.
I
have discovered that one of the most fun things about the panel intros at the
beginning of the session is when people describe what they are wearing. So as
another way to connect, let’s try it.
I only want to know that you
are zooming in your sleepwear if there is something really interesting about
your sleepwear.
For myself, I have been
Zooming all week with the American Council of the Blind virtual convention. So
today I am wearing last year’s state convention T-shirt which is black. The
front has yellow lettering that says WCB on top and We Are Community under a
picture of 3 different-colored hands grasping each other around a circle. I am
also wearing a denim skirt because wearing skirts cuts down a little bit on
getting misgendered in public. And I am wearing awesome compression socks with
a grey, red, and white design because who says compression socks have to be
boring and because good shoes and socks are a vital part of my transportation
infrastructure.
RantWoman is seizing on #pandemic time to do a bit of cleaning out, in this case of her drafts folder. RantWoman intended to post this in October during, among other things, LGBT... history month.
As usual, the post is likely to be half content and half observations about the conversation venue(s).RantWoman does not want to scare anyone out of the conversation. RantWoman has other process concerns which mean she will address aspects of the conversation rather obliquely. This conversation came with some verbal acoutrements which RantWoman thinks could be worth weaving further into the conversation except that RantWoman can make plenty of the pieces that stick out for her.
This is a really interesting article.
The article is about someone making a movie. In the course of making the movie he spends a lot of time looking at the lives of tennis stars (and famous lesbian role models) Billy Jean King and Martina Navratilova. RantWoman does not have much of a head for professional tennis, even less than for softball which "all" lesbians in good standing are supposed to care about. (Does the sport involve a ball smaller than RantWoman's head? Is one supposed to hit the ball? Are attributes such as depth perception and basic agility an advantage? If the answer to any of these questions is "yes," RantWoman is already out of there.)
But RantWoman digresses. What interests RantWoman more is public figures and image. Navratilova apparently caused great controversy by hiring Dr. Renee Richards who is transgender as her trainer. The prevailing view seemed to be "we helped you escape Communist Czekoslovakia and you should show your gratitude by not doing anything controversial." Navratilova, on the other hand embodied an "I'll take my freedom on my terms, thank you very much" point of view.
Another point that sticks in RantWoman's mind is about body image: Navratilova over time acquired a very masculine appearance. It might occur to RantWoman to explore the question of whether the choice to do this had anything to do with gender identity or whether that also came from a professional sports culture in Czekoslovakia. RantWoman has no idea whether doping was as widely taken for granted in the Czekoslovakia of the day as in the Soviet Union or East Germany, but if RantWoman had extra time to graze in odd info streams, RantWoman might think to read more in connection with this question.
Third point of controversy: RantWoman is going to make readers read the whole article to digest Navratilova's views about fair competition, hormones and when people should be allowed to compete in sports events corresponding to their gender identity. RantWoman has not really thought through the issue well enough to have an opinion, but here the voice of someone who has been dealing with a transgender identity for a long time including in school where questions of fair competition loom very large. Here RantWoman apologizes: she sort of aspires to have a more cogent opinion, but so far, thiking of many public school realities RantWoman has not been able to get past "Gee, it could be kind of hard trying to be a supportive parent of a transgender child." RantWoman is going to leave this reflection there with one note: one of RantWoman's college housemates announced on Facebook awhile ago that her middle child has come out as transgender. So now RantWamn has ALL kinds of questions.
RantWoman meant to get this posted during her October binge blog. The theme tie-in is the article recommendation about opinion bullies. The piece seems topical to many quests for paths to respectful disagreement and thoughtful discussions. In Light and Faithfulness, RantWoman
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| Two Enormous Candy Corns |
Five ways to protect yourself from opinion bullies
RantWoman's #DEAM #PedestrianSafetyAwarenessMonth Domestic Violence Bullying Domestic violence Arts and Humanities Awareness / Celebration Month daily binge blog promises are proving a little too daunting. So if offerings look even less polished even than average, please remember this is blog as quaker journal. If readers want polished....
That said, here is some commentary RantWoman penned in an email.
RantWoman is just going to dump this item for historical record.
White Cane Day Facebook Events organized by the Department of Services for the Blind.
A couple queries to find things RantWoman has written
searching on White Cane day
RantWoman has several white canes. All of them are named Thwack or more formally Ambassador Thwack. For more on RantWoman and the Thwacks see Searching on Ambassador
October Binge Blog themes: Arts and humanities. Also #NDEAM even though RantWoman is not called to spell out how.
First, ENJOY SOME ART. This painting is by a lovely woman who attends.... |
| Venus Ascending Helen Drummond |
Next check out the annual Women Painters of WA show, this year all virtual at Wenatchee Valley Museum
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| The postcard image for the show |
If you just want to look at and think about cool women doing cool art, stop here. If you yearn for further treks on Planet RantWoman, Please READ ON!
RantWoman, MUST YOU turn perfectly lovely occasions like a wonderful art exhibit by a number of different interesting women into more Snit Fits?
Why do you think RantWoman penned the content warning above. If you really don't want to read the snit fits AND you have no vision of snit fits being transformed by art or otherwise, then bye!
ON THE OTHER HAND, here is a glorious and sacred invitation to walk alongside RantWoman about all kinds of transit-dependent, completely impatient with car culture twitches, trip chaining travel patterns and blunt reminders of ways other people's fantasies disproportionately impact and in RantWoman's mind place undue burdens on RantWoman.
RantWoman reminds readers that one VERY important point of Sundays and seeing people in person / on Zoom is to see a whole bunch of people who are dear to RantWoman but who all live at different two-bus distances from RantWoman. The Friend who sent R antWoman the painting is one of them. RantWoman considers Sunday bus rides to Meeting part of sacred preparation. RantWoman cannot though fit a lot of individual two-bus distances into the rest of her week. And RantWoman has NO sympathy for people who don't want to see RantWoman and cannot appreciate that there are people RantWoman does want to see.
And while RantWoman is stuck on gender-specific hiccups in the space-time continuum, RantWoman would say that demanding FOR MONTHS to meet in person when RantWoman wanted to meet by conference call is another exciting moment of utter ableism. RantWoman was TRYING not only to avoid undue burden on herself but also to save someone else the need to drive around in the local traffic mess. But sure, Friend, if you LIKE being stuck in traffic everywhere.... Maybe there are circumstances RantWoman does not understand, but RantWoman thinks it can also be perfectly fine for everyone to be on the same footing visually. Plus now there is Zoom so there is another set entirely seeing hearing other accessibility issues....
RantWoman, chill. Look at some art. Write some other stuff. Write an email to the non-commute transportation forum where the trip chaining AND the Travel to Sunday worship topics came up. Save thoughts about transportation and racial justice for ... webinar... another blog.
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