"Performing non-heteronormative bodies and behaviours is associated with being perceived as risky, dangerous and deviant. The correlation between queerness and deviance leads to a number of detrimental consequences, including police over-policing and criminalizing young LGBTQ+ individuals in public spaces, queer people underreporting hate crime incidents for fear of secondary victimization, and overall scepticism and mistrust towards the criminal justice system."

A study published in 2021, conducted in Europe, by Rachele Girardi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2021.1979481

#stateViolence #performance #lawAndOrder #civilRights #precarity #gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transGender #queer #TransLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #abolitionism #research #sociology #London #Europe #police #policeViolence #UK

"More veterans die by suicide every two days than were killed in action in 2019."

Dean Spade: "Where there are U.S. military bases, there is intense sexual and gender-based violence. This includes sexual violence towards women living near military bases, towards sex workers of all genders, towards women inside the U.S. military, and harassment and sexual violence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans. This is just a normal part of what U.S. militarism is. It's inseparable from the culture. Rape as a tactic of U.S. militarism is as old as U.S. militarism itself, going all the way back to the systemic rape of Indigenous people to colonize and settle North America."

"Trans inclusion in the military, like marriage equality, does nothing to redistribute wealth, stop police violence, housing and health care crises plaguing queer and trans communities."

“When it comes to trans advocacy, we want to ask what reforms will save trans people’s lives. The answers are clear: access to housing, income, food, childcare, health care. Military inclusion advocacy does not make the list.”

"What is effective and pragmatic is whatever reduces contact with the police".

by Wren Sanders, 2021, https://www.them.us/story/case-against-lgbtq-military-inclusion-explained 🧵

#pinkWashing #veterans #military #performance #authority #advocacy #livesWorth #civilRights #grievable #grievability #precarity #precariousness #gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transGender #queer #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #abolitionism

"If “living paycheck to paycheck” means having less than a month’s worth of income saved in cash, then calculated in this way, the “60%” factoid gets it exactly right: the share of working-age, non-business-owning households living paycheck to paycheck was:

63% in 1998
63% in 2001
64% in 2004
64% in 2007
67% in 2010
64% in 2013
61% in 2016
59% in 2019
In other words, Bernie nailed it.

What led the above-cited pundits to the erroneous conclusion that it was Bernie who erred?

The most important factor, quantitatively speaking, is slightly technical and takes a bit of explanation. If you want to use household wealth data to determine what share of Americans “live paycheck to paycheck,” you have to exclude business owners from the analysis. This isn’t just because — to state what should be obvious — business owners can’t “live paycheck to paycheck,” no matter how poor they are, since they don’t receive a paycheck.

The more important point is that including business owners in the data distorts the analysis quantitatively. Business-owning households typically report extraordinarily large holdings of cash assets — far out of line with their incomes or net worth. And while there’s no way to prove this with certainty, it’s pretty clear the reason is that a significant proportion of the cash balances they report as household wealth is actually, in functional terms, working capital for their businesses."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bernie-sanders-paycheck-savings-debate

#USA #Bernie #Inequality #Precarity #Poverty #Economy #Economics

I'm not even sure if the #music industry itself is dangerous - especially as construction and agricultural workers also have high #suicide rates - its more the #precarity of the work and income and that a fun/dream job can just disappear at any moment..

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/07/high-suicide-rates-show-music-industry-profoundly-dangerous-researchers-say

[Canada] 80k+ people in Ontario homeless in 2024
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/more-than-80-000-people-in-ontario-were-homeless-in-2024-new-report-finds-1.7169953

* Association of Municipalities of Ontario
* 40K (half) of those people homeless 6+ mo.
* 25% more people in shelters/streets cf. 2 yr ago

Reports on Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis, Water & Wastewater Utility Feasibility
https://www.amo.on.ca/policy/health-emergency-and-social-services/reports-ontarios-homelessness-crisis-water-and
https://www.amo.on.ca/sites/default/files/assets/DOCUMENTS/Reports/2025/2025-01-08-EndingChronicHomelessnessinOntario.pdf

#Canada #Ontario #homelessness #AffordableHousing #precarity #poverty #inflation
#capitalism #corportations #PrivateEquity #WealthTax
#SocialDemocracy

[Vancouver, Canada] Works from artists who experienced homelessness spotlighted in new exhibition
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/works-from-artists-who-have-experienced-homelessness-spotlighted-in-new-exhibition-1.7167993

From the Streets of Our Unfair City: Artists Who Have Experienced Homelessness
https://www.outsidersandothers.com/from-our-unfair-city
* exhibition featuring artists that have experienced homelessness
* “homeless” not “unhoused” use: it's how these artists identify

#Canada #BritishColumbia #Vancouver #TheArts #art #artists #OutsidersAndOthers
#homelessness #poverty #inflation #precarity #AffordableHousing

U.S. Homelessness Crisis About to Get Lot Worse
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/02/the-homelessness-crisis-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/homelessness-record-high-levels-hud
https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_24_327

U.S. HUD
* homelessness rose 18% 2024 cf. 2023
* 150k+ children exp. homelessness
* 140k+ people 55+ unhoused in U.S. 2024
* 1/2 older Am. live in places not meant for humans

#homelessness #USA #HUD #discrimination #SCOTUS #GrantsPass
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity #libertarianism #billionaires #inequality #WealthTax

U.S. Homelessness Spiked by Jaw-Dropping Amount in 2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/189699/us-homelessness-2024
https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-population-count-2024-hud-migrants-2e0e2b4503b754612a1d0b3b73abf75f

*soaring homelessness in U.S.
* 2024: +18.1%
* 2023: +12%
* mostly due to devastating lack of affordable housing
* communities incr. anti-homeless
* so/self-called "greatest nation on Earth" 🤨

#homelessness #USA #discrimination #SCOTUS #GrantsPass
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity #libertarianism #billionaires #inequality #WealthTax

[Canada] Homelessness skyrocketed in Regina 2015+
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113675138100708522

#homelessness #Indigenous
#Canada #Saskatchewan #Regina
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity

SCOTUS Anti-Homeless Ruling Formalizes Segregation of the Poor
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112865148110226018

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson

#USsupremeCourt #SCOTUS #GrantsPass #conservatism #GOP #fascism #homelessness #HumanRights #discrimination #AffordableHousing #precarity #poverty

[Canada] Homelessness skyrocketed in Regina 2015+
https://regina.ctvnews.ca/alarmingly-high-homelessness-in-regina-up-255-per-cent-since-2015-according-to-study-1.7150066

* 2024 point-in-time homelessness count: 824 people in Regina exp. homelessness
* up 255%: 232 in 2015 to current 824 in 2024
* 63% of them completely w/o shelter
* despite only about 10% Regina’s pop., 75% Indigenous
* 30% of 824 live w. children; 37% of which under age 5

#homelessness #Indigenous
#Canada #Saskatchewan #Regina
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity

“But after her #asylum #petitions to the #US were #rejected, they were #loaded onto a #deportation #flight. Now, she’s back in #Honduras within reach of the same #gang, #stuck in a cycle of #violence and #economic #precarity that #haunts #deportees like her.”
Life for #deported people is #horrific.

https://apnews.com/article/honduras-trump-mass-deportations-central-america-immigration-c28e71c590a9f3df2d607df13b956656

[1/x] trade unions, labor movement
parent: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111014522809159266

#TradeUnions #LaborUnions #TradeAssociations #unions #LaborMovement
# WorkersRights #solidarity #RightToStrike
#UAW #CAW
Canada #CUPE #CUPW #TenantsRights
#poverty #precarity #inflation #affordability
#capitalism #corporations #greedflation #libertarianism #UnionBusting #RightToWork
#billionaires #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #WealthTax
#fascism #Christofascism #antiLGBT #Trump2 #Project2025 #RepublicanParty #Poilievre

"For almost two weeks, 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been striking against concessions demanded by Canada Post. The CUPW is fighting for wage increases that match inflation, pension protection, and safe working conditions. The union warns that Canada Post’s push for part-time work and contracting out reflects a broader race-to-the-bottom in labor standards.

The dispute is about more than postal workers — privatization and precarious work threaten union gains across different sectors. Amazon’s anti-union model, with its reliance on gig workers and independent contractors, has set a dangerous precedent for other companies, including Canada Post. By driving down wages and undermining labor protections, Amazon is pushing an approach that threatens workers everywhere. The CUPW’s vision for a revitalized, publicly oriented postal service is in direct conflict with Amazon’s corporate model, which erodes workers’ power and public goods alike."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/amazon-anti-union-canada-post

#Amazon #Canada #LaborMovement #PostalWorkers #Privatization #Precarity #AntiUnion #Unions

The Power And Prescience Of Octavia Butler's 'Parable Of The Sower' : 1A : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/1210938285/1a-10-08-2024

#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #ScienceFiction #USPol #OctaviaButler #MAGA #bookstodon #dystopian #precarity #Change #resistance #LongArc #AlternateHistory #classism #racism #feminism #TheCultingOfAmerica
#AltRight #Christendom #dominon #ChristianRight #religion #ideology

Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service https://www.404media.co/men-stole-over-1-million-from-doordash-delivery-drivers-by-impersonating-them-to-customer-service/

Two men stole over $1 million in wages from DoorDash delivery workers by impersonating them to customer service representatives and hijacking their accounts, according to a recent indictment.

#doordash #fraud #socialengineering #precarity #precariouswork

#Kenya is one of the world's largest producers of cut flowers. Most are exported to the Netherlands and then sold throughout Europe.
The state is accelerating concentration of agricultural and horticultural production for big firms. How will small producers and peasant farms respond?

"The mandatory rules, which the government has stated will be ‘anchored in law’, will mean only large farmers, companies, and importers will be permitted to supply fruit and vegetables in Kenya, with any trader buying fruit and vegetables from uncertified farmers facing stiff penalties.
"The penalties will apply to [any] buyer who purchases fruit and vegetables from any farmer who has not been certified as having implemented the 55-page, mandatory, KS1758 Kenyan standard."
https://farmbizafrica.com/govt-to-ban-over-3m-farmers-from-selling-vegetables-in-kenya/

Thank you @cybeardjm for the heads-up and @danahilliot for the comment.

#agriculture #subsistence #food #sovereignty #flowers #reliance #globalization #business #manpower #precarity #landGrabbing #landGrab