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davis_squareSunday, February 22, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
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What is the Time Trade Circle?
The Time Trade Circle is a grass-roots, community-based group whose members exchange services. The Time Trade Circle lets us share our own skills and get help from others who offer things we need. When you spend an hour helping another member, one hour is credited to your account. You can spend your hours getting services from other members. The Time Trade Circle's mission is to create and strengthen informal support systems in the community.
To join, you attend an orientation and sign up (no fees).
For more info, see
http://timetradecircle.org/
email: TimeTradeCircle@gmail.com
call: Katherine Ellin, 617-868-9855
Location is in walking distance of Davis Sq. Limited disability access parking available. Meeting room and restroom are wheelchair accessible. For the health of those with allergies and chemical sensitivities, please refrain from wearing scented personal products.
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Date: 2009-02-11 01:03 am (UTC)How about the noses of those who are grossed out by other's BO?
Date: 2009-02-11 01:40 am (UTC)Re: How about the noses of those who are grossed out by other's BO?
Date: 2009-02-11 05:28 am (UTC)Re: How about the noses of those who are grossed out by other's BO?
Date: 2009-02-11 06:53 am (UTC)Re: How about the noses of those who are grossed out by other's BO?
Date: 2009-02-11 12:02 pm (UTC)Re: How about the noses of those who are grossed out by other's BO?
Date: 2009-02-11 02:29 pm (UTC)Re: How about the noses of those who are grossed out by other's BO?
Date: 2009-02-11 09:46 pm (UTC)Re: building a welcoming community
Date: 2009-02-11 06:01 pm (UTC)That actual number of people with scent allergies hardly matters when dealing with an individual who has one. The question is whether to actively welcome them, be indifferent (saying "people will use whatever scents they like, you have to take your chances"), or go out of your way to be insulting. It's reasonably common to be insulting about invisible disabilities. "If you say my perfume makes you sick, you're probably lying about it. Or maybe just too stupid to know your own body." Saying we're only probably lying, rather than just lying ("grossly overstated" rather than "invented") doesn't make it much less insulting.
My problem with perfume is not technically an allergy, it's a migraine trigger. I still go out of my way to avoid it. As I said above, I appreciate groups that try to welcome people with chemical sensitivities. Part of that is because they're welcoming me personally, of course. Another part is that I can see they are being courteous and welcoming as a general thing. I also think it's good that the Time Trade meeting space is wheelchair accessible. I expect there are only a few Time Traders who use wheelchairs, and I (who have no trouble walking) would never dream of challenging whether they really need to use them. I'm glad the Time Trade Circle is trying to build such a welcoming community. I can see it troubles some people, just as some people are troubled by noticeably gender-inclusive language, but I don't especially want to be in community with people like that.
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Date: 2009-02-11 07:02 pm (UTC)Re: building a welcoming community
Date: 2009-02-11 07:06 pm (UTC)Re: building a welcoming community
Date: 2009-02-11 08:17 pm (UTC)Most of the time I try to just ignore you, cuz, yanno, don't feed the trolls and all, but this going a little too far. WTF is it to you if a community has a commitment to disability access that includes allergies and scent sensitivities? It's not like you were planning on going anyway, and even if you were it's not like it's so damn hard to just not wear your precious perfume/cologne for one day!
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Date: 2009-02-11 02:25 pm (UTC)Mod Note
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