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  • neuracnutoTransfem•Transgender Chili’s manager fired because ‘personal values and lifestyle did not align’ with chain’s, lawsuit saysEnglish
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    4 days ago

    A large number of transgender job applicants don’t even make it past the interview process, according to Ortiz (Andrew Ortiz, a staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center). Further, he pointed out, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, under Donald Trump, has in fact been weaponized against trans people, dropping cases it had brought on behalf of trans employees and instructing career staff not to process trans employees’ complaints.

    “We have no faith that this EEOC has any interest in protecting the rights of trans folks, and is even doing things to make it easier to treat them poorly,” Ortiz said.

    In an email, Ash Lazarus Orr, press relations manager at Advocates for Trans Equality, said trans people continue to face “major barriers” to employment. Orr cited the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey, an anonymous online survey for transgender people ages 16 and older, which found that more than 80 percent of respondents reported being harassed or discriminated against at work because of their gender identity, more than 10 percent who said they had been fired, forced to resign, or laid off due to it, and a jobless rate among the trans community overall nearing 20 percent.

    “The dismissal of trans employees has consequences beyond the individual,” Lazarus Orr said, “it can perpetuate a culture of discrimination and exclusion that discourages talented trans people from pursuing fulfilling careers.”

  • neuracnutoAnimation@piefed.social•Amphibia Creator Matt Braly on TV Animation: "The Medium Lost All of Its Value Over the Past Decade"English
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    6 days ago

    Streaming revenue seems to be driven by hit shows; gravitational properties that pull audiences into something resembling a monoculture (your Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, etc).

    For a time, HBO found success by becoming known for being a venue where intriguing original entertainment could be reliably found. What you got there was sometimes tremendous, almost always pretty good or, at the very least, interesting (RIP John from Cincinnati).

    Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim is the closest we ever got to a network or streaming platform attempting to give television animation a real shot by aiming for quality programming. I adored how all-over-the-map they were in terms of quality and budgets - they were trying things, and I love that.

    But can I subscribe to Adult Swim? No, I have to pay for Max and subsidize a ton of content I don’t want.

    As much as I love my mature series (Common Side Effects, Scavengers Reign, Pantheon, etc), I do desperately want to support fun, weird and challenging animation aimed at kids and teens: more Amphibia, Steven Universe, Centaurworld, Gravity Falls, She-Ra, Infinity Train, Owl House, Adventure Time, Hilda. Those shows are cultivating the kind of people I’ll want to hang out when when they grow up.

    I don’t know if the Glitch TV model is the answer, but I want to help these creators create and spend less time doing MBA shit to get their work in front of hungry audiences.

  • neuracnutoAnime@ani.social•Announcing Winners of the 2025 Fediverse Anime AwardsEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I adored Apocalypse Hotel and am delighted to see that it won, but CITY the Animation and others are still on my to-watch list.

    I don’t know if this applies to anyone else here, but I felt genuinely unqualified to vote having not seen every one of the series nominated. In fact, I’m not sure if there was any category from which I’d watched all the nominated entries.

    For more participation, I’d ask for perhaps fewer nominees or more time between the announcements and closed voting.

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