Gwen
@gwenfulton.bsky.social
Working class storytelling. Race, class, gender, & the South. 🥖🌹
Workingclassstories.substack.com
Workingclassstories.substack.com
After the third day of CBP and ICE chasing people across Charlotte, hundreds of community members are filing into Dilworth United Methodist to find out how they can protect and defend their communities. @siembranc.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
After the third day of CBP and ICE chasing people across Charlotte, hundreds of community members are filing into Dilworth United Methodist to find out how they can protect and defend their communities. @siembranc.bsky.social
Kudzu, mountains, sky. North Carolina.
September 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Kudzu, mountains, sky. North Carolina.
It is an authoritarian playbook, not just an "echo." This is no longer something that "could happen," it is happening. Responsible writers should be writing in the present tense.
August 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It is an authoritarian playbook, not just an "echo." This is no longer something that "could happen," it is happening. Responsible writers should be writing in the present tense.
I used to love a good thunderstorm, as any Southerner would, but now each one feels like a potential catastrophe for our towns. Working class people are getting hemmed in by climate change.
My latest on Working Class Storytelling: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/higher-gro...
My latest on Working Class Storytelling: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/higher-gro...
July 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I used to love a good thunderstorm, as any Southerner would, but now each one feels like a potential catastrophe for our towns. Working class people are getting hemmed in by climate change.
My latest on Working Class Storytelling: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/higher-gro...
My latest on Working Class Storytelling: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/higher-gro...
The @cityofgreensboro.bsky.social tore down our long standing neighborhood open food pantry, destroying 8 community fridges. They never contacted one person in the neighborhood about the concerns. Then they posted about being "a village." Links to screenshot sources below. 🧵
June 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The @cityofgreensboro.bsky.social tore down our long standing neighborhood open food pantry, destroying 8 community fridges. They never contacted one person in the neighborhood about the concerns. Then they posted about being "a village." Links to screenshot sources below. 🧵
My kid had to go get his badge for his summer job downtown. Grateful for the workers who make our city tick. #greensboro @cityofgreensboro.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My kid had to go get his badge for his summer job downtown. Grateful for the workers who make our city tick. #greensboro @cityofgreensboro.bsky.social
I'm out in southern New Mexico this week, talking to and learning from local people who are organizing in their hometown, righting wrongs, and imagining better futures. Our movements will succeed if they are local, broad, demanding, creative, and refuse to leave anyone- ANYONE- behind.
May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm out in southern New Mexico this week, talking to and learning from local people who are organizing in their hometown, righting wrongs, and imagining better futures. Our movements will succeed if they are local, broad, demanding, creative, and refuse to leave anyone- ANYONE- behind.
This moment in the South is so delicious. These eastern scrabble forests smell so sweet.
May 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This moment in the South is so delicious. These eastern scrabble forests smell so sweet.
Another photo of the water in Three Rivers, Michigan. This is why locals have been organizing to hold their government accountable.
Good news is that they are winning— so far. Here’s the story I wrote about this last week in case you missed it: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
Good news is that they are winning— so far. Here’s the story I wrote about this last week in case you missed it: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
April 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Another photo of the water in Three Rivers, Michigan. This is why locals have been organizing to hold their government accountable.
Good news is that they are winning— so far. Here’s the story I wrote about this last week in case you missed it: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
Good news is that they are winning— so far. Here’s the story I wrote about this last week in case you missed it: workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
DHHS in Guilford County, NC today.
April 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
DHHS in Guilford County, NC today.
I could say all the things, issue all the warnings, but we already know what this moment means. I don't need to lecture you, you know too.
April 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I could say all the things, issue all the warnings, but we already know what this moment means. I don't need to lecture you, you know too.
North Carolina is truly wonderful.
April 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
North Carolina is truly wonderful.
Organizing worth following: There's lead in the water in Three Rivers and the residents who pay for it to run through their taps are fighting to get things set right. Learn from their work here:
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
April 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Organizing worth following: There's lead in the water in Three Rivers and the residents who pay for it to run through their taps are fighting to get things set right. Learn from their work here:
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/bad-water
As Musk works to clear the way to privatize public goods, in small-town Wisconsin, local residents are foiling their governments' plans to sell off their community-owned nursing homes at every turn.
File this one in your "local organizers to learn from" folder!
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
File this one in your "local organizers to learn from" folder!
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
March 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As Musk works to clear the way to privatize public goods, in small-town Wisconsin, local residents are foiling their governments' plans to sell off their community-owned nursing homes at every turn.
File this one in your "local organizers to learn from" folder!
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
File this one in your "local organizers to learn from" folder!
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
Greensboro graffiti > your town. Prove me wrong.
February 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Greensboro graffiti > your town. Prove me wrong.
"Medicaid is why each of us is alive," explains a hardworking mom of a family with serious health issues. workingclassstories.substack.com/p/we-cant-wo...
February 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Medicaid is why each of us is alive," explains a hardworking mom of a family with serious health issues. workingclassstories.substack.com/p/we-cant-wo...
This Valentine's Day, I'm launching Working Class Stories, a new Substack that will bring you tales from working folks from all over the country who are organizing to make their hometowns and communities better.
But first, a love letter to my one true love- us.
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
But first, a love letter to my one true love- us.
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
February 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This Valentine's Day, I'm launching Working Class Stories, a new Substack that will bring you tales from working folks from all over the country who are organizing to make their hometowns and communities better.
But first, a love letter to my one true love- us.
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
But first, a love letter to my one true love- us.
open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
Greensboro, NC! Nobody is scared here! 🇲🇽 ❤️
February 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Greensboro, NC! Nobody is scared here! 🇲🇽 ❤️
Greensboro, NC! Nobody is scared here! 🇲🇽 ❤️
February 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Greensboro, NC! Nobody is scared here! 🇲🇽 ❤️
He's here, carrying banner
January 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
He's here, carrying banner
Red sky in the morn... Here's to hoping NC gets snow again!
January 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Red sky in the morn... Here's to hoping NC gets snow again!
First Day hike @ Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge outside Wallis, Texas
January 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
First Day hike @ Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge outside Wallis, Texas
Huge for NC! LFG!
Amazon workers filed for a union election today in Garner, NC!
Amazon workers filed for a union election today in Garner, NC!
December 23, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Huge for NC! LFG!
Amazon workers filed for a union election today in Garner, NC!
Amazon workers filed for a union election today in Garner, NC!