Iria Vasquez-Paez
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I have a B.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State. Can people please donate? I'm very low-income. I need to start an escape the Ferengi plan.
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I'm An Alcoholic
Hi, my name is Iria, I’m an alcoholic. This is a piece on why you do not offer a sober person alcohol in any manner. You do not bring alcohol to the house of an alcoholic who doesn’t want alcohol to exist on the inside of the house. This is a rule of my house. I do not drink alcohol anymore. I am no longer an alcoholic after all. I also got rid of the pot smoking boyfriend, and the pot-smoking friend who thinks that keeps her stable as a rapid cycler.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Proof
On the Eve of April 1st
Welcome to abelism awareness month. Let me refresh some of your disability etiquette. Nobody thinks to treat disabled people as a whole person. They are too busy staring at the wheelchair, the medical device, or the hearing aid. Asking about somebody’s disability directly is quite rude in our community as is blatantly running into a medical device like a woman who ran into my device in yoga class once, nearly dislodging my infusion set. Abelist thinking is not always talked about. If you know a wheelchair person, asking them how they wound up in a wheelchair is just plain rude. Yes, you are curious. Don’t point out disabled people’s stuff.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Non Pagans Are Suspicious
We pagans are an altruistic lot, what with giving each other rides to covens as well as events. We pagans do our best to help our species as much as the rest of humanity does. But then there are some people who are perpetually suspicious of good intentions. The sorts of people who are cynical and don’t lift a finger. I’m contemplating volunteering at a soup kitchen sometime soon. I need to do something with my time other than writing. So yes, I have to go volunteer at places like my local mental illness support group branch.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Futurism
Immigrants Have Trouble Assimilating
This is flat out because Americans who have been here longer cause problems for them. It is the pecking order. Immigrants have a hard time adapting sometimes; it doesn’t matter what country they move to. Their new country has different customs, as well as needs. Americans are pretty much able to give any new immigrant problems. Somebody from Mainland China, for example, has trouble adapting to driving habits in California. They drive differently in China, according to my family who has been there. You have to cross the street at a time that is good for you.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
Disability Rights and Working
I have been working from home since I moved elsewhere from where I used to live. I’ve heard it said that there used to be a work from home stigma attached but many in 2018 do work from home at a solid job. With my knee healing up, I can’t afford to work out of the house just yet. I might be able to tolerate a job I have to sit down at. But the nutritional supplement store is a standing up job. I would keep my shifts short starting out. I wrote in my last survey for my job training school that nobody wants to hire someone with multiple chronic illnesses or disability outright.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Journal
Why Abelism Is Not Called For
Ableism sucks. Do not throw your abelist nonsense around. I can multi-task at home. I can multi-task elsewhere. But I cannot work full-time until I sleep the whole night properly. Really, if my family expects me to jump into full-time work, well, that is dangerous. No, thank you. I have to start part-time and work my way up. I applied at a nutritional supplement store within walking distance from home at a mall. So yes, I need to work part-time. There is an insurance gig coming for me that I have to pay up $200 for, so if you read my work on this website, please donate. The insurance gig can be very part-time.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Fine, Thanks
Alright, abelists, as April is coming up and as it is Abelist Awareness month, I’m going to do quite a bit of fine ranting next month since I have stuff to say to everybody who has ever been an abelist in my life or an abettor to abelism. To expect disabled people to say “Thanks, I’m fine,” is ridiculous. We are fine only if we have enough spoons to appear to be fine. Sometimes “fine” is not the way we chronically ill feel, mmm k? Chronic illness is a drain. I don’t always sleep the whole night but for some reason I wake up feeling energy as well as rested.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
The Finer Points of Merit
Merit means to be judged by your skills and accomplishments. To be judged on merit also implies you are judged by the content of your character. Merit means that you can rest assured that hard work is rewarded. Jobs hire based on merit, not looks. Merit means that you get into an educational program of your choice based on your hard work, not your affirmative action clauses. We would like to build a society based on merit exclusively and not how much money you have. As it is now, we are eroding our civilization by not relying on merit.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
World War 2 and World War 3
World wars usually get started because one country is busy invading another country. World War 2 happened because Hitler got intense about his desire for global domination, which resulted in how he signed treaties with Mussolini and Japan, other fascist world powers at the time. Hitler decided he was Führer (supreme leader). Hitler was a delusional occultist and statesman because he wanted power unto himself. He wanted to take away the powers of the common people in his bid for global domination. Hitler roped the former Soviet Union into helping him by signing a treaty with the Soviets since Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
Modern Genocide
This article covers genocide after 1970 as per from 1975-1979 Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge, which brutalized Cambodia, resulting in the deaths of 25 percent of the population from starving them, overwork, and execution. The 1975 withdrawal of U.S troops from Vietnam led to a vacuum that Pol Pot took advantage of in order to rid Cambodia of western influences such as Western culture, city life, and religion, since he was inspired by the Mao Cultural Revolution in China to go after intellectuals, former government officials, as well as Buddhist monks. In 1992, other genocidal situations included the Bosnia and Herzegovina ethnic cleansing by the Serbians because of Slobodan Milosevic.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
The Rise of the Fourth Reich
Neo-Nazis view the 4th Reich as the rise of neo-Nazi Germany into power once again. They actually look forward to this. Some theorists believe that Germany is into a covert rise of the neo-Nazi agenda (Wikipedia). Neo-Nazis want the Aryan race to be at the forefront of anything they do. The German neo-Nazis want Germany to acquire nuclear weapons, which sets Germany back to its ways in 1937. Nazis would like a “pan-Aryan world empire” which encompasses all land populated by predominantly European-descended peoples from Europe to Russia, white people’s America, Australia, the Southern Cone of South America, New Zealand, and South Africa; basically anywhere there are white people. The Fourth Reich has risen without many shots being fired, if you believe the paranoia.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
The History of Genocide
The two world wars were about fighting the Nazi genocidal agenda. The term “genocide" came from Raphael Lemkin in 1948 after he fled the Nazi occupation of Poland, arriving in the United States. Lemkin had been horrified the Turks slaughtered the Armenians in World War 1. Lemkin felt he had to come up with a term to describe what the Nazis had done. The term “genocide” comes from “combining genos, the Greek word for race or tribe, with the Latin suffix cide, “to kill.” During the Nuremberg trials, the term “genocide” first began to be used in the charter of the International Military Tribunal set up by the Allies in Nuremberg, Germany.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
