“Sleep deprivation. Sleep is important in MS, and being deprived of it is messing with my cognitive skills, as well as aggravating the physical symptoms. As a non white person and more specifically as a Greek this mostly translates into language incompetency and tendency towards laziness.”
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Female DesignerFemale Designer
“The way the day is being structured doesn’t allow for proper rest and MS fatigue is very real. When I experience it I am THAT tired. Sometimes I even fall asleep instantaneously. Again, I am being perceived as lazy and indifferent. Also, MS fatigue usually occurs in the middle of the day, which means I get to start my day in tech utterly exhausted.”
Male BIPOC Admin/DesignMale BIPOC Admin/Design
“…The issues highlighted by the 10/12 tech rehearsal – would come into clear focus when, at age 36, I decided to enter a “soft retirement” of the robust regional theatre career I’d cultivated. It was the year my first child was born. I simply couldn’t afford to maintain a lifestyle that required my regular absence from the home for extensive day and night hours, while sharing with my wife (who also has a full-time career) the responsibilities of raising a child. The extent that I had succeeded to that point already felt, in fact, like an extension of privilege unavailable to artists with a different background.”
Female BIPOC DesignerFemale BIPOC Designer
“I’ve seen a few designers who have survived and figured out their work, life, and monetary balance under the 10/12 tech schedule but introducing their assistant to the culture of overworking and underpay… I know too many designers who have decided not to do so and sees overworking as a form of initiation.”