From my perspective as an elder, the weeks and months of people urging Sleepy Joe to go revealed a clear bias against older people as no longer being capable of holding down serious jobs. There is no official retirement age in Australia (apart from judges who must stand down at 70 and Ca...
Fiberwire spilled out from conduits, evidence of crude repair jobs. Dirt and grime clung to nooks and crannies. The air smelled of sweat and worst. A purple-haired man with all-black eyes met me at the airlock. “You are the Friend?” he asked. He carried a large walking stick with ...
The jobs provided for disabled people often involved being given someone with a disability to work with for the day with no training in how to do that and continued pressure to meet quotas. I remember being pressured to meet my quotas while a a woman with down syndrome asked if I would ...