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#MeToobin Reveals How Little We’ve Moved the Needle on Workplace Harassment
A wide swath of people still shrug at or even delight in the spectacle of a man turning the workplace into an environment for sexual gratification without consent.
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Which Millennials Get to Be Burned Out?
Can’t Even manages to gather research on the specificities of white, middle-class millennial burnout, but it fails to provide a truly structural and historical view of the issue of work and millennials.
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Wildcat Strike: Sports Show the Possibilities of Collective Action
While a boycott is a consumptive act of resistance, a strike is an action grounded in labor resistance.
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The Long Feminist History of Fighting for Universal Childcare
The erasure of childcare as a feminist agenda point has had various consequences.
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To Be Young, Messy, and Black: “Luster” Depicts Millennial Black Girl Angst
Edie refuses to practice tokenism to secure financial, personal, creative, and romantic stability.
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As Struggling Creatives Join Sex Work, What Do Long-Term Sex Workers Lose?
Even if they don’t practice sex work, many creatives tap into sexuality as an extension of self, exploring it in sculpture, photography, and performance.
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Very Online: Twitter Has United Freelance Writers and Fair-Pay Advocates
“People are reading more content, and there are more freelancers, but there are fewer editors and staffers, and less money.”
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Trial by Firing: Are Unions the Cure for Post Traumatic Press Disorder?
The vulture capitalists currently doing their damndest to gut and consolidate the media cannot be trusted.
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Memes to an End: Making the Case for the Living Wage on TikTok
Customer-service workers are sick of being abused and devalued, and while their skits are funny, they’re also communicating a shift that needs to happen in a society that prides itself as progressive.
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Work with Benefits: COVID-19 Illustrates the Pros of Remote Work
Put disabled workers first for once; we’re the ones who have the best hacks for surviving social distancing like pros.
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