I’ve been thinking a lot about professionalism and how it is used to hide other, less…socially acceptable -isms, including ableism. How many of us who are neurodivergent have been told, explicitly or implicitly, that we aren’t professional enough?
Otter.ai is being a pain again, so as soon as they figure out how SSL works or how to make it work consistently on their site, I’ll have a transcript. Sorry.
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Re: Dressing like a clown for a presentation at school.
This resonated with me because once I dressed in full medieval fool”s motley for a presentation I was giving in a class in highschool (KCI in Kitchener, On). Not for the hearing only what I want to hear thing, but just doing what I thought most appropriate and to act in a manner which would constitute my own happiness without reference to what my schoolmates might think appropriate. To be fair the talk was on fools in the middle ages and I did the whole thing while juggling.
But, I also wore the outfit for the rest of the day to different classes with different teachers and students without explaining it to them to at all. I mean, why would I change out of the costume when done the talk?
Right? Why would you change? I once wore a neon orange baseball cap for like a month for no particular reason other than I thought it was cool (which, it was so not!).
My post-pandemic version of sartorial elegance is to wear t-shirts and jeans, to everything. The t-shirts either have funny TEI markup on them or quotations from early drama. That way my work colleagues can never say they aren’t work appropriate or are unprofessional or something. 😉 Catching up on episodes of your great podcast!