Halfway Measure some of y'all might find helpful:

Rambling in the groupchat about what happens next in your WIP and then Copy+Pasting your rambling into the outline, or just the bottom of your WIP, so you remember what you were doing and have a foot in the door towards finishing it.

Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.

This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn't pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?

Durable medical equipment companies in the US already do this.

DMEs will repossess your medical devices if you rent it through them and lose your insurance or your living situation. This includes feeding tube pumps and higher value mobility devices like motorized wheelchairs. I specify living situation because even with insurance they see homelessness as a liability to the medical equipment.

They have no qualms with letting you die and in the case of feeding tubes, they have no issues with letting you starve a bit faster.

The music is not the worst part of Repo the Genetic Opera, folks!

The article makes clear exactly how fucked up this is. The sorority allows "non-binary" members, but they clearly mean "AFAB people we can pretend are really women". This person was AMAB, so according to them "never qualified."

Yikes.

I'm a nonbinary man who is AFAB and myself and two other brothers, AMAB, in my chapter, one quietly gnc and one loudly gnc and out as gay, were all brothers regarded in the same capacity at the local and national level. Did I face different challenges for being AFAB? Yes. But not once was my gender or presentation an official or explicit reason for any sort of membership consideration. Members may have their own private thoughts, but my chapter leadership by and large and my national leadership nearly unanimously agreed that I was a Brother like any other. I served on various boards and have won awards, like any other Brother of merit and good standing. It was because of my chapter voting together to accept me, my direct impact on the chapter, and my presence as an active member, that Phi Sigma Kappa wrote policy explicitly allowing trans men and nonbinary men and all masc aligned individuals to be considered for membership at the local level. Incidences of transphobia still can occur at the local level and it is up to each chapters regional officers and school officers to manage that. But what Chi Omega has done here is the complete opposite. This young person saw the sisterhood, the kindness, and the fellowship of their local chapter as a refuge after a traumatic event when several sisters embraced them and provided them with comfort and safety. How dare Chi Omega presume that this person is not exemplary of their values simply because of how they were born?

The six guiding principles of Chi Omega are

friendship, high standards of personnel, scholarship, participation in campus activities, career development, and community service

I would love for someone to explain to me how this sister has violated any of that by virtue of their assigned gender at birth. They took on a very important role in their chapter. Their sisters embraced them openly. Chi Omegas own national policy allowed for the acceptance of femme aligned people! But because it was vague, they choose to exclude someone because their version of feminine isn't what they expected at the national level? And for what? Because six transphobes from a chapter that is likely over 50 women oppose their chapters decision to allow entrance to a trans woman, which their national leadership supported? Are we to hold ourselves at the behest and whims of the hateful because they like hearing themselves talk? Bullshit. This entire decision by Chi Omega is bullshit.

Can you link where you saw the WGA asking people to sign this?

Fair question! Sure thing! Legit great instinct to make sure! Here's the tweet I got it from:

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It's both described and linked so that you can be sure it's the real deal, and if you click through you can see it's in response to Kenneth Mejia's tweet about investigating Universal for the Tree Law stuff, hence the specific connection I cite at the start of the post