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Kate Fortmueller
@kfortmueller.bsky.social
Media industries, labor, and unions.

Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both UTX, 2021), Co-editor, Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social in 2026.

Assoc. Prof @GSU
Proofs arrive in our inboxes tomorrow and @mirandabanks.bsky.social and I will send this out to press before the end of the year!

Preorder w/ UCPSAVE30 for 30% off

www.ucpress.edu/books/boom-t...
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Brief pause from my social media hiatus for shameless self-promotion (and because I love our cover). My book w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social is available for purchase at the UC Press website www.ucpress.edu/books/boom-t...
September 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
June 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congratulations, @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social and Melissa Click! I know it’s on order at my library!
March 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s Oscar Sunday and I’m always thinking about AMPAS’s union busting origins, but in a year when multiple films featuring dance are nominated it’s worth thinking about why choreographers/dance directors are not nominated alongside other nominees. (Interested? Follow @creditthecreator on Instagram)
March 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Excited to dig into my contributor copy and think about some of the possibilities to assign chapters in future classes!
March 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The world is on fire, but @mirandabanks.bsky.social and I just submitted the manuscript for Hollywood Walkout: Creative Labor in the Age of Streaming.
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
2024 was my year of co-authoring and I had a great time interviewing people about themed pickets and writing this with @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Hollywood Unions—available for purchase 30% off from @rutgersupress.bsky.social!

Use code RUP30
December 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Editor copies have arrived!
December 2, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Spotted in the conference wilds! Thanks for sending @petecant.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
And for those who want to follow all the CP folks, apply to CP25 to see some of these scholars in person in Atlanta!
November 11, 2024 at 9:02 PM
For all the feminist media scholars who just joined Bluesky...consider submitting a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025! We're hosting it at Georgia State University and we're looking forward to lively conversations!

fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...
November 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Thrilled to have a book cover (even though I know we have several rounds of edits ahead). Luci and I started talking about this in March 2020, so we've been living with this project for awhile. Excited to see it become a real book!

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/hollywood-un...
April 3, 2024 at 1:22 AM
The SCMS MISIG and Sports Media SIG have a virtual roundtable on the Sports Media Industries in 2024!

RSVP now and you'll get the link as a reminder next year ;)

RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 21, 2023 at 5:15 PM
July 28, 2023 at 12:28 PM