February bookmarks

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February was a complete write-off for me. It wasn't a good month but to my surprise I bookmarked a lot of things in the first two weeks of it. I also created an account in TikTok as if I don't waste enough time already looking at memes.

Bookmarks from February

Why We Need to Talk About—and Recognize—Representation Burnout - by Martha Tesema.
Don’t feel like an expert? Share anyway. - by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Exclusive Design - by Vasilis van Gemert
Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them - by Katarzyna Szymielewicz
Accessibility Reviews - by Adrian Roselli and Tobie Langel
ASCII renderer - by Tommy Li
Tokimeki Unfollow - by Julius Tarng
TRUST the Process: How to present your best, when you’re at your worst - by Tatiana Mac
These Comics About Work Anxieties Are Painfully Real - compilation by Arianna Rebolini and comics by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
The end of the celebrity designer - by Tim Van Damme
A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1] - by David Swallow
A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 2] - by David Swallow
"My background pattern resources" - by Wes Bos
Statistics - Children and Young people victims of crime and violence 2013-2017 (in Portuguese) - by APAV (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima)
Web Components Club - by Andy Bell
The "C" is for accessibility - by Evangelina Ferreira
Progressive Vue Toggle - by Andy Bell
CSS Reference - by Jeremy Thomas
Complete guide to accessible video and audio for the web - by Stefany Newman
Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back! - by Bryan Robinson
Awesome Leadership and Management - by Lauri Apple
Your words are wasted - by Scott Hanselman
The Best Way to Ride Out Air Turbulence - by Cynthia Drescher
Using persona profiles to test accessibility - by Anika Henke
MIDI CITY 2000 - by Monica Dinculescu
You guys - by Baron Schwartz
CSS Doodle - by Yuan Chuan
Front end wizard - by Kieran Venison
Pure CSS Still Life - Water and Lemons - by Ben Evans
"TIL" RSS Feed - by Sara Soueidan
Quick Note on high contrast mode - by Scott O'Hara
CSS Night Cat - by Steve Gardner
Ryan Adams, misogyny and “sensitive” masculinity - by Anna Leszkiewicz
Slapping Back Imposter Syndrome - by Alice Goldfuss
Micrometa 2 demo page - by Joschi Kuphal
Look Ma, No Media Queries! Responsive Layouts Using CSS Grid - by Juan Martín García
The Colors of Motion
CSS selectors cheatsheet - by Nana
IndieKit - by Paul Robert Lloyd
Using CSS Grid the right way - by Violet Peña

Things that made me smile one way or another

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Portuguese lunch with my Portuguese girl @ines_opcoelho 😻

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My only note about the B word

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I feel nothing but anxiety at the moment. I have little energy to describe what I am feeling and explaining why everything is bad regarding Brexit. But I have one note that has been bothering me. Whenever I tell people that I am worried about Brexit, the response is usually: “don’t worry, you will be fine”.

In the past two years, when there are discussions about Brexit and how its campaign was around immigration, and when I tell people that I am an immigrant and it affects me, I hear back “yes but you’re one of the good ones and this wasn’t about people like you”.

As well meant as it can be, I need people to understand how dehumanising this statement is. To me, it means that in “their eyes” I’m still “one of them” but accepted because I’m “good”.

This is what “good” means: I speak English, I always had a job, I don’t claim benefits or use the NHS. This is what people perceive “as a good immigrant”. All this plus my skin colour and country of origin privilege.

For the past two years I’ve been biting my tongue but all I want to ask you is: what happens when I stop being a “good one”?

What happens when and if I have an accident and may not be able to work ever again?

What happens when and if I have children and I need support?

What happens when I get older and need to use the NHS?

Is this my new status of constant probation? I am not fine. I am worried for everyone. I need people to stop telling me to stop worrying. Everyone who says this has absolute no experience in discrimination or exposure to the lengths people go to hurt other humans.

P.S.: I hope it is implied that I don’t believe in the concept of “good” or “bad” immigrants and I don’t believe “I am one of the good ones”. Please don’t bother arguing with me and denying that the campaign was mostly about immigration.