Fragment from the She-Migrator series by Oana Maroti

The working in tourism experience is something I can now talk about, as for years it was too traumatic to make sense. When I was most scared, alone, and vulnerable entire groups were sharing with me concentrated xenophobic reactions culminating with the coordinator, who could not hold his misogynist xenophobic ideas for himself and gave me an unforgettable memory.

People around the world are working in an international context, but are they prepared for inclusion, first of all? Do we know what happens when group hate is manifested over and over? How many victims of non-inclusive work groups are, per company? Why is the human rights legislation not known in all business departments?

I had to go to an area where I used to work, and it´s still an unpleasant memory recall. I feel like having survived unnecessary pressure and total disrespect and that when I needed the most support, the reverse happened.

Exclusion was always ugly to observe and that´s why in all the jobs I ever had, especially in transportation or communication ones, I was always interested in product adaptability. I´m trained as an inclusive teacher, therefore I observe and take action if the means of transportation or not adapted to wheelchair travel or if the communication is not facilitated for specific needs. If the employer is intelligent and can understand that with inclusive actions the target is getting larger and the clients will implicitly bring loyalty by responding to specific needs, and that shared experience, the product meeting its functionality that´s company culture. How many cars were sold and so on it´s just billing, quantity. The quality and the value of the product are in meeting the target's needs. The first target in automation is special needs.

From all the public transportation possibilities, the train was always inclusive compared with the new technology. The first people that need transportation methods are those with mobility problems, therefore new transportation design models that do not offer the adapted product to special mobility needs are a strange business from the start. Who lets them start and why?

During another unpleasant contract with an automatic car selling platform, I was unimpressed by the lack of knowledge of such important regulations, like chair adaptability in a new car and finally making that car an inclusive product. I had quite a list of possible clients that were left in oblivion as office ableism is quite regular. The car industry, even if it´s a new industry is anchored in mentalities that never heard about human rights or inclusion. The automotive market likes speed, engine sounds, and luscious metal, but it is so education-wise left behind that for a woman working in the field might result in grotesque. Cars enthusiasts and business owners can have horrible manners. It was like a strange world where people could call and think that offering money to the woman interlocuter is ok and of course business is business, misogynist as long as they pay a fee can keep doing the same over and over. It´s like another world, left behind of responsibilities.

In the eventuality of a more ecological and inclusive response, public transportation methods are imperative, but also is important that the car owners know they are primarily using a device for reduced mobility. During our life is more than likely that we will find ourselves in a situation of low mobility since the human body is quite fragile, so please tell me why not take into account simple human development characteristics and answer to the inclusive need, starting with the design?

Short Story from She-Migrator series

Interviews, tests, exams, meetings, and finally I made it during the last interview for my first remote job, because of a series I´ve been watching in the 90´s.

The job was mine, but I could have skipped such an uninclusive experience, or at most I could have watched it in terror in a Lynch film.

After 2 weeks of wanting to believe I had to confront myself with the bizarrely of the situation, because, for the 2nd time in my life, I was in a money recuperation zone, under a strange concept of recruiting by spiritual membership.

They say company, but is it good?

Often trapped in a violent couple, women are humiliated and the social factor can even double it, supporting the aggressor, thus leaving the victim totally exposed and accentuating the trauma.

The Pelicot case is a complex social reflection of a terribly sick and dangerous group manifestation, where the husband and neighbors are the danger and, therefore, the proximity group. Gisèle fought like a true warrior, and those who support her have my deepest respect.

What can women do when they are accused by their partner of insanity and how many cases like this end up with the woman being hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital? How many of them are still there, trapped and chained?

If an international women's protection program were to be implemented, would it target heterosexual men? Are all group coordinators, media, and educators aware and focused on reducing the superiority of the effect of male mass education and on establishing equality?

Will women fight also this year, following Gisèle´s example and will a consistent support group form for each and one of them that will practically assist them in facing incredible monsters and dangers? Will they know that speaking up will not leave them repudiated and alone? Will women support other women this year, that´s the key question, that makes a yes unstoppable.

From whatever perspective we might look at, women are still unrepresented, almost invisible or secondary in important social practices and ceremonies, and as a result of the underappreciated role model narrative they might be at risk in their personal lives. What happened to Gisèle has a background of dysfunctional masculine education.

Women don´t have why to live unequally and it´s more than important to make them feel protected and always let them choose. Therefore, when will we skip certain teachings and traditions or adapt them to equality for safety reasons and a better life quality?

Many public figures are wrongly portrayed as intelligent. They are intelligent in the sense that they have the birth potential, but without knowing and applying human rights, even the development of VIPs stops and they remain stupid.

A person who is not exposed to the Declaration of the Human Rights and humanist literature, with all the money and advantages, risks becoming and remaining ridiculous.

Now, to be or not to be ridiculous is not a big deal, but self-obstructing one's own rights and those of others is damn serious and severely stupid.

Be intelligent in 2025 and get to know what are the human rights are. The Declaration is available in almost all the languages in the world to read or listen to.

Ancient messengers,
Black and white birds,
Spreading seeds of peace
from the heart of the watermelon.

Columbidae, Corvidae,
Color doesn´t matter,
to connect against war it does.

Imagine creating resolution lists, with Exercise More at the top and Stop Conflicts not being a priority. Why is it even called a resolution list?

Imagine a bunch of people opening presents, to celebrate the birth of a guy whose home is under attack and its people die of cold and hunger.

Imagine jolly Christians watching the fireworks, reminiscences of bloody conquests, while the central place of their whole spiritual narrative is turned to pieces.

People do not like to read, and many cannot understand what´s written so they end up thinking absurd things someone else tells them. And when people don’t fight fake news and get to believe in translation errors and aberrations, they can even end up committing genocide, as the mind is set to combat a bizarre idea of evil. Only that, shooting at the roots is like destroying yourself and this important aspect is included in that book.

Open your book, read it carefully,

Exercise More the Brain,

Each conflict is made and can be unmade!

From the underground to the surface

We want peace!

There must be an error in the matrix.

Stop the war!

Glasses on, computer on.
The online world,

disturbing direct human vibe.
Illegal speeches normalized.

A girl saying:
It´s difficult to stimulate myself to learn and spend all day at school forming a career when only idiots appear in important positions.
- So, I checked the news–

Cat on the desk.
Fake alpha males and their creepy groupies are all over the news.
Around them, pain.

Starting November a small Eastern-European country
that was silenced until recently
voted a capable woman.

Immediately after, a ¨big power¨, a country that prides itself of being big
voted an incapable man.

If you know Star Trek series, video-games like Final Fantasy, Dungeon and Dragons or movies like Alien, maybe you would like to know what plot inspired all of them, and on what the legendary monsters or gods are based on.

In 1950 The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A.E. van Vogt was published. It was a fix-up of four SF short stories fast published in different European languages and immediately started an influence that we can admire even now.

The title just added the word ¨space¨ to The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin's book about his five-year voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. The reference to Darwin is direct and for those familiar with the Luceafarul myth or Zburător or sburător (Romanian word meaning 'flyer') is a supernatural being in Romanian folklore, described as a "roving spirit who makes love to maidens by night".

The book was republished in 1952 under the title Mission: Interplanetary.

If interested in finding more about the myth, check: Zburătorul ('The Flyer/Flying Incubus) and Luceafărul (The Evening Star)

Having a big appetite for mythology, ancient arts and literature interest I´m easily attracted to repetitive intercultural characters, because I see a pattern of communication there, if we can recognize the same characteristics. In this case, the alien is a negative character, but in other stories it´s a neutral or even positive character, a super-hero. Eider way it´s quite important to recognize the alien character as an ancient ambivalent myth and one of the 4 main influencers world-wide.

A few years back I have found in a second-hand market a 1984 magazine (that´s the name) released in may 1983 that contained El viaje del Beagle Espacial as a comic in Spanish after A.E. van Vogt´s SF novel with drawings by the magnificent Luis Bermejo, well known Valencian illustrator and script (novel adaptation) by Rich Markopoulos. Bermejo makes a wonderful work with his black and white graphics, visual poetry for someone like me. Finding his dark illustrations in a flea market made a little immigrant women super happy. This comic is a part of my small treasure as I don´t own anything of valuable, besides my brain and a few books.

1984 was an adult magazine and horror stories or science fiction stories were published in adult magazines. It´s funny because today these monster stories have a younger target, whilst erotic narrative is specific to the adult public. Anyhow, as a comics fan that didn´t had comics in their childhood I´m glad with what adulthood reserves and having access to books, specially illustrated was a dream that I´m now enjoying with any occasion.

The majority of our stories, around the world are having similar narratives and the same ancient folk poetry characters apear in other places.

A.E. van Vogt was severely criticked by his rival that affected his reputation as a writer. The critique mocked him saying that he´s way of cutting the text was easy writing and that a writer using dreams for it´s writing is also super wrong. As a conclusion the critique was an imbécil, too classist to play with text or understand creation, also he might have been just envious and eager to end his so called rival´s career, even if in writing is not like in fighting.

At one point Philip K. Dick was asked what kind of authors influenced him and he pointed out A.E. van Vogt writing style, that inspired him. ¨His plots are marvels of interlocking pieces.¨ said P.K. Dick.

In fact, A.E. van Vogt was from an immigrant family and at home he used to speak Plautdietsch, a mix of Slavic, Dutch and German. This is an important aspect in a writer´s style as, having to express in an extra language things that do not exist in that language will implicitly interfere with the classic ways of expression. In this case something new was needed and Vogt developed this text cutting as a shortened version of saying a story.

If you ever tried to tell a story in another language, maybe you know that it can be a nightmare, that makes you feel like an alien, on a distant planet. Unless the others make an effort to understand, which is not to be seen until today. Immigrants adapt the way of communication, making the sentences more concentrated, in an intent of sending the correct message.

What´s the most curious about these language adaptations is that while immigrants make their pass through that language, they enrich it, developing new versions of it, personalizing it. A.E. van Vogt wasn´t always van, he changed the name at one point and judging by what happens still today, that people change their name to seem from another country to work in Customer Service I would say that this writer was an immigrant with a though life and wanted to make it better.