AND: this contraction is being felt across the cultural criticism landscape, and is unsustainable not just for criticism as a viable career (lol I work at a library now!!!), but also for humanity.

My culture critic comrades @fspnwu.bsky.social are organizing to fight this contraction. Join us!

The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.

Working as a freelancer should be an affirmative choice, but the reality is that many of us take up freelancing after a lay-off while applying for a vanishing number of media staff jobs. We hope this guide for navigating freelance work offers support & solidarity: sites.google.com/view/fsp-res...

It is our position that the media landscape is bleak, but not hopeless. Every day, our members are organizing to build a more just media industry, one that values workers and their labor.

Join our union, and join the fight: nwu.org/join-now

We also condemn Condé Nast’s illegal decision to fire four Condé Union officers for demanding answers about the termination of their colleagues. We stand in solidarity with @nyguild.bsky.social as they address management's blatant union-busting.

The diversity at Teen Vogue directly influenced its vibrant and impactful reporting. Their loss is a blow to a media landscape that shrinks from making space for joy alongside rage when confronting the material realities of young people. Support our fellow workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.