Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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One way to dramatically improve the lives of people with disabilities is by understanding time in a way that considers how people with disabilities experience barriers — something known as “crip time.”

Julia Dobrowolski • Reimagining time will help employers better support workers with disabilities

Time @ Work

A broad definition of trauma is useful; an open-ended one isn’t | Psyche Ideas

Ahona Guha psyche.co

Emotions @ Work

Media & Culture and Literary Criticism

Principles

permacomputing.net

Broken Links

When we place our faith in hard work, we’re wishing for the creation of character; but we’re also hoping, or expecting, that the labour market will allocate incomes fairly and rationally. And there’s the rub, they do go together. Character can be created on the job only when we can see that there’s an intelligible, justifiable relation between past... See more

James Livingston • What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? – James Livingston | Aeon Essays

Labor Under Capitalism

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

The Mythical Norm

During it, we learn to adopt a story about ourselves—what our value is, what beauty is, what is harmful and what is normal—and to privilege the feelings, comfort, perceptions, and power of others over our own.

Melissa Febos • Girlhood

The Mythical Norm

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus

Dylano | Essayful • Tweet

The Mythical Norm

Taken together, the union of all your ways of potentially or actually being at home in various areas of your life, online and offline, constitute how you are at home in the universe itself, and on the planet in particular. Along each dimension, you might exist anywhere from nascent, to viable, to disintegrated conditions of identity.

None of us is... See more

Venkatesh Rao • Digital Homelessness

Broken Links