deidre

@deidrefrittatas.bsky.social

director. writer. culture critic.

the iced coffee job interview discourse is really funny as someone who's only ever interviewed for coffee shops & artistic gigs where we met AT coffee shops and they bought me iced coffee

If you tie your ethnic identity to corporate initiatives and marketing, you make your identity a product to be kicked to the wayside as a forgotten trend as soon as it stops generating enough money for centimillionaires and billionaires. That's... a less than ideal way to walk through life.

Even beyond the bigotry of its creator, I'm sick of hearing about Harry Potter. Literal decades of hearing about some crap kid book series made by some freak who sublimates her own pedophilia into a "think of the women and children" panic she personally bankrolls. Fuck off.

Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.