It Is Complicated

Disability is complicated - Access is simple. If you focus on accessibility where do we end up? If we change how we see disability, how does this impact on how we can focus on access.

What new technologies can we use to make spaces more accessible. We talk about Queer House Party and how we work to improve access - and how a recorded live stream of a QHP party is helping make auto captioning better.

We talk about how to include those who are “traditionally not included” using ideas of accessibility.

We also have the absolute fun of looking at a transcript from Acast - the auto transcription of an episode - let us know if you can guess the episode on our Twitter @itiscomplicatd

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Neurodiversity is complicated - brains are complex? If we start with “A” where do you end up? What does it mean when you’re asked to mask your anxiety/autism? 

How we think and process the world is different, and complicated. Building our subjective views of the world.

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Privilege is complicated - based on a tweet by @ExteriorWorld - "are you a pornhub category or are you privileged?" - we examine what is privilege, it’s nuances, the intersections. 

We queers know how to play the Privilege game! How we use and subvert it.

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Trans Normativity is complicated - Is there a "normal" narrative about how to be trans? How does this narrative impact on how we view the notions of Trans and Non-Binary? Is there a "normal" narrative for being Non-Binary? If this develops what does that mean for our future?

Not often talked about, we talk about it here! Here we introduce the topic, and promise to be back to develop the idea more.

Normative for a given value of Normative.

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Mental Health is complicated - we go deep into mental health - why being trans and non-binary complicates discourses around Mental Health. We share a conversation around our different mental health journeys - and where we are now. Is our mental health a logical reaction to the pain and trauma we experience from being not-included in society?

Content warning: contains mentions of self harm, suicide, depression, anxiety and PTSD.

This is an episode to listen to in a good safe place for you.

We both also cry and laugh during the recording. Emotions are fine and complex - go with them - feel them.

Resources if you are impacted by any of the issues we discuss:

Mind - https://www.mind.org.uk/

Samaritans - https://www.samaritans.org/ or call 116 123 in the UK

Trevor Project - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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This time we talk about how arguments are structured? Why are we always asked to debate? How can we engage in the discourse in a way that is healthy for us? Can we use the conversation to educate people? What can we learn from all of this?

Caution - contains latin - used badly by one of us.

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Reading is complicated and so is passing - what does it mean to be read as one gender? How does this change around safety? What value judgments are made about our lives because of these?

How does non-binary fit into this model? Do non-binary people owe you androgyny?

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Employment is complicated - How does being trans or non-binary play out in the job market (hint one of us is unemployed, the other has been through two years of therapy for PTSD from workplace trauma)?

Why do some of us end up with PTSD from our workspaces? How do we recognise this - and how do we keep going? What’s the answer to improving spaces for everyone?

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Voices are complicated - what does our voice say about us? How do we build a relationship with our voice? How do our voices change how we are read?

When do we recognise our voice is ours? How has past trauma around voices impacted on this? 

We talk about how to sound like a cis-woman and why we might not want to do this for complex reasons.

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Coming out is complicated - when should you come out? About what? Why do you have to? Are we required to be “out”?

What does it mean to have to come out multiple times a day? How many times do you need to explain concepts - like gender and pronouns.

When do we stop coming out?

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