Another photo from the last few months that I haven't had a chance to post!

(ps. im trying to raise money to keep working, check my profile for details)

Shot on Canon t5i with an EF-s 17-85mm f4-5.6 @ 3200 ISO

#photography #streetphotography #photographersofmastodon

hey friends! ​:boost_request:​ I've been working hard to get my freelance work back up off the ground after being kicked off disability coverage in March, but ive had 2 gigs this month canceled outside my power, and failed to get a short term contract last night. I'm a diabetic & disabled metis trans femme & photographer, musician, and graphic artist.

I don't have enough time to find additional work before my meds run out, and I really need those meds. December and January are covered, but the gigs that were gonna pay for November are canceled.

Help me raise $400CAD to pay for my survival meds and help replace my broken glasses?

$25/$400

https://ko-fi.com/eclecticmedia
https://paypal.me/arianagiroux

#transmutualaid #trans #disabled #diabetes #diabeticmutualaid #disabledmutualaid #disabilitymutualaid

boosts v. welcome

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/aru1edbcxb8v0c35

I was at the skate park with some at risk kids I have in my life, and had my camera like I always do. One of the kids asked him for some help with a scooter trick, and he stopped his friends from laughing and offered help.

They spent about half an hour working on the trick, all the while this kid is going out of his way to be a positive influence. When he finished, he went back to being a teenage skatepark shithead with his friends: smoking and drinking and what not.

A while later, after he realizes I’m with the kids, he pulls away from his friends and asks my name. We spend a few minutes talking about how lovely the kids are. He tells me about his brother and family, and we chat.

Eventually, he says “can I do a sick trick for you? It’d be fun, and I’ve been whipping them all night”. To which, I obviously said yes.

First try he just fucking cranks out a trick I couldn’t even describe, soaring through the air 6-8ft off the ground like it was nothing! The scooter did at least a full 360 on each axis, and I was shook.

We spent a while taking some pictures, going back and forth between doing tricks the kids wanted to see and the ones he was really challenging himself with.

As we walked away to leave for the night, he said it was nice to meet me and the kids, shook my hand, offered his help freely to the kids, and walked off. No request for the photos, no thanks, nothing. Just a good kid trying his best to make the world a brighter place.

Turns out? The kids are alright yall.

I haven’t been well enough to keep up with social media lately, so have arguably one of my best shots from the summer! My pal says it feels like a thrasher magazine photo!

Shot on a Canon T5i with a 17-85mm f4-5.6 lens.

#skatephotopgraphy #skateboarding #scooter #photography #streetphotography

boost for me? the right lens of my glasses fully fell out again, so now I dont even have the broken pair.

please help a #diabled #trans #queer #diabetic woman keep working and keep making art? #mutualaid makes the dream real

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/aru1edbcxb8v0c35

and im not even mad about my photos being used

im just mad at how normalized it is to do this kind of shit, to just not pay people or not even ask how they feel about it.

im genuinely just so mad. I need to put my energy into something good and productive, but my body is too sore and downtrodden from the shoot/protest this weekend to go and do some art.

ugh.

ive been directly involved in the leadership and service to the queer community of my local area for over 15 years. I have built and burnt relationships. I have put my mind, body, and soul on the line for trans kids. And at no point have I ever asked for anything more than a roof over my head, enough to afford my medications, and to eat a nutritious diet.

I just dont understand how people can pull the ladder up behind them like this. At every turn, every time that I have reached out to another person in community with respect and worked to build something its worked out. It's just so easy!

"hey, wanna do a thing?"
"maybe, but I have these reservations"
"oh for sure! why dont we talk about those and discover what we can do!"

we live in a world wherein we have built platforms and industries around us. how are we using those platforms to tear each other down?

look I come from a local community wherein all the traditional "pillars" of the community are dying. There isnt a single long-standing queer organization that is operating in a way that people feel good about. Whether it be pride boards that pay winners of the awards gala but make losers pay for their ticket, or the queer students organization that has institutionalized racism and labour extraction. The traditional community in my area is dying.

And new things are popping up around them of course. But ultimately, we are talking about core infrastructure to the survival of our community and every single one of them is being run by skeezy sketchy white people and people who are so stuck in their need to get theirs that they cannot see past their own nose.

and the frustrating thing is: these two stories are just a few that ive heard in recent history. and its always trans people being extracted from.

and im not talking about ensuring people are paid thousands of dollars. I just mean like... a fucking thank you. how can we expect such labour from people, such risk, and not even fucking ask? not even fucking say thank you?

I bought my colleague a coffee today because she needed the community care. I did so from the overdraft in my account, because I am lucky enough to have it. Why the fuck is she out here working with funding and regulatory bodies without the capacity to so much as get herself a little kindness on a hard day?

what the fuck is wrong with our society that we just expect this? that we just treat this like fucking normal? it turns out, nine times out of ten, if you just ask people kindly and treat hem with respect, people will gladly jump on board and help the ship stay afloat.

so anyways... on Saturday I did some photography at the local protest to repeal a bill that infringes on trans kids rights in my province. for context, I started the legal challenge and resistance against it alongside a small team of people.

I was pointedly told by one of the speakers on microphone not to take photos of people and not to post my photos. I was additionally approached by someone designated by the MC's as reps of the committee not to post my photos.

So colour me surprised when about an hour ago the coalition posts my photos without asking me in an official media capacity. On said photos is my full first and last name via a photo credit, and tagged on the official coalition page is my personal instagram.

How is this just expected to be okay? Look, if I was asked and honoured and respected, I would've given higher quality renders without the photography credit tag burnt into the photo. I would've worked out a relationship of mutual respect wherein all I ask is that, if asked for the source, the coalition directs people my way privately.

Just before this, I spent a while chatting with a colleague who is capped at a starvation wage and a maximum of $100 in gifts/month. She also is chairing a trans support organization that pays multiple people full salaries. She is being forced to do the work of the executive director and a number of staff positions. The previous interim executive director stepped down recently. He is able to keep his other job in the org, making a living wage. But my colleague is unable to ask for even a coffee in thanks for ensuring the staff positions stay.

How. Is. This. Acceptable? How can we treat this like the norm? I just dont fucking understand! what the fuck is this pull the ladder up behind me bullshit?

hey folks, im still struggling to find the income to purchase new glasses. I cant keep working without them

please help a #disabled #transfemme #metis #photographer keep working? every bit helps.

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/aru1edbcxb8v0c35

mostly, I just need some online spaces to be in. with winter about to set in my bones won't let me go out to see people

good lord I need new spaces to hang out in

local community got me down lately

furthermore...

why or why not?

am I weird for regularly switching my workflow through multiple setups, ie:

- only laptop, no additional peripherals
- laptop + mouse w/ iPad as media screen
- laptop + second monitor + keyboard and mouse
- laptop + second monitor + iPad as third monitor + keyboard and mouse

all on the same desk where all the peripherals are available at all times?

There’s a job posting for a video editor locally.

What should I make sure is on my application?

Hey friends, I’ve been working really hard to get my freelance photography going. It’s been going well enough that I haven’t needed any mutual aid for a while and I’m really proud of that.

However, I broke my glasses again last week. I’ve managed to tape them back together, but they don’t sit right on my face anymore. It’s causing huge headaches, and making it really difficult to see what I’m doing. I guess the fourth time repairing your glasses isn’t the charm?

Would anyone out there be up to helping a transfemme crippunk fundraise $200CAD for glasses? I can’t keep producing enough income for meds without this?

Goal: $0/$200CAD
Dono links:
https://paypal.me/arianagiroux
https://ko-fi.com/eclecticmedia

Check out my work:
https://arianagiroux.shootproof.com/
https://instagram.com/thatarianagiroux

#transmutualaid #mutualaid #disabilitymutualaid #pleaseboost #quotesokay

its my birthday

send me $5 because you think im cool or something so I can buy something nice for myself because im too poor to buy anything aside from subsistence living?

https://paypal.me/arianagiroux

someone fucking delete me im so over this fucking life

literally doesnt matter what I do or how hard I work it all just results in fucking failure and exploitation and mistreatment.

cant go out in public without being treated like ass, cant work in private without being treated like ass, cant even take fucking solace in my things without shit constantly fucking breaking and not having enough money to fix it

I just want to fucking live a dream of a comfortable life goddamn im so tired of being a fucking burden on my community