Links: Queer Ecology

[sonia]

All Ecology Is Queer by adrienne mares brown and Amy Ray.

To me, queer ecology means being with the true fluid, adaptive, post-binary nature of the world.

A wonderful conversation about queerness and deep belonging in the world.

What 18F means to me by Angelique Weger.

The team from 18F I worked with was deeply caring – for our mission and goals, for the sustainability of our Maryland team and for me as a leader. They were strong experts and valuable teammates.

Alt 18F "We're dedicated to the American public. And we're not done yet. I worked with people from 18F. They were skilled, kind, and dedicated to making government work better for all people. I feel speechless and heartbroken about the way they were shut down. I'm glad they posted this alternate site since 18f.gsa.gov was abruptly deleted.

Prevention is better than burnout by creatrixtiara at MetaFilter, via jesse_the_k.

Keep in mind that paid work is not real work. Paid work is what you do to gain money, and job security. The end goal is not to actually get useful things done. Often you can do useful things while doing paid work, but the goal of earning is primary and the actual useful stuff is secondary. When you wash your own dishes you are really working. The goal is to have clean dishes. When you are doing paid work, the goal is to keep your wages or your salary coming in.

Comments

[silveradept]

Queerness has a large role to play in moving away from the lenses of domination and exploitation and more toward accessibility and cooperation.

18F did a lot of excellent work, and did an even better job of sharing their work with others. It's foolish to get rid of them, but foolish is the baseline for so much of what's happening in the U.S. these days.

The rest of the thread is good in the MeFi article, but the quoted part is some of the best of it, and understanding the difference between the work you do for pay and the work you do for real is helpful.

[sonia]

Thanks for your thoughts!