I am grateful for your voice and for your enduring commitment to saying the thing that needs to be said.

Also, if "liberal feminism" really had ruined the workplace, trust and believe that Ross Douthat wouldn't still have a column at the NYT paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars to spout "He-Man-Woman-Haters" garbage.

Feminism is a movement for radical liberation, for dismantling gendered hierarchies and challenging white, cis, heteronormative privilege and supremacy. "Conservative feminism" is trad wife bullshit wrapped up in language of capitalistic power. That isn't feminism––it's co-optation.

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

This sounds about right 😂

I am so flipping excited for this!!!

I’m here bb!!!

Diana, you and I both know what happened here. You can try to spin this, but I watched it unfold. The staff didn't fire me as a consultant--the Interim ED that you all appointed and then had fire everyone else did. But go ahead.

In the last 5 months, the Apiary Board appointed one of their own, Odile Schalit, as Interim ED and another member, Diana Parker-Kafka, whose term is supposed to end this year, as Board President. It's hard not to see today's mass firing of all staff and organizational pause as their ultimate goal.

In repro, we see a lot of abuse and toxicity, and there's a pressure to "keep quiet" so that we don't hurt the work. But the work isn't hurt by demanding that our leaders abide by the values we espouse. It's hurt by Boards like Apiary's refusing to reflect and treat employees with basic respect.

I saw a Board member verbally abuse a staff member over text message. I heard Board members call the staff was "hostile" for wanting to live out anti-racist ideals. The Board appointed their own member as Interim ED just a few months ago, all while promising to support staff. Today, they fired them.