mourning the thousands who died of AIDS while Reagan/Bush laughed, cut AIDS research, barred HIV+ people from entering country. never sugarcoat a president’s legacy after death, but especially not on World AIDS Day
god I miss low level bar drama like your friend screaming in your ear that they need to have a cig to process that like some acquaintance’s girlfriend didn’t say hi
Osama and his bird were killed yesterday…💔💔💔 by Israel along with 23 other members of his family including his mom. More than 47% of the population in Gaza are children.
I fucking love when everyone is like ☺️this is a movement about love☺️ and then a Teamster is like TELL THE BOSSES WE WILL TEAR THEM LIMB FROM LIMB AND FEAST ON THEIR REMAINS
I love being Jewish, I love Jewish holidays, I love Jewish rituals, I won’t let Israel take this away from me and turn it into something that means violence and horror
Not in our name
Free Palestine
Chag sameach
for those fumbling around gender + language I think it’s accurate to say abortion bans/limits on abortion are MOTIVATED by misogyny but IMPACT people of all genders (which includes, always, trans people)
Anne Hathaway walked out of a Vanity Fair photo shoot Tuesday morning in support of the Condé Nast Union walk out.
Hathaway was unaware of the work stoppage when she arrived at the New York photo shoot. She was still in hair and makeup when her team was notified by a staffer
who’s going to write about the millennial advertising aesthetic of the NBC anti union Instagram account like bro are you trying to sell me a mattress or convince me to vote against my interests!
just heard someone on the street listing her privileges (?) and she said “conventionally attractive” and I’m SO tempted to tell her not to worry about that one
if you’re gonna Venmo your boyfriend something like “two beers” can you PLEASE put that shit on private!! I don’t need to see something that perverse!!
Normani fucking herself is queerbaiting .... ok .... me doing dishes is acephobic .... when my friend drives to the beach that’s misogyny .... my cat’s taking a nap and that’s literally gaslighting rn
something so useful that
@prisonculture
said in a training I went to - not calling the cops is HARDER and it takes WORK! you have to actively think about what you’re going to do in situations where you might have been taught to call the police
me: actually queer friendships make it so not having a serious partner doesn’t have to mean failure or isolation or loneliness, being single can feel like abundance and still having your needs met
also me: literally where the fuck is my wife
ACTUALLY EVEN NON UNION EMPLOYEES HAVE SECTION 7 RIGHTS TO CONCERTED ACTIVITY AND CAN FILE UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES WITH THE BOARD IF THEY’RE RETALIATED AGAINST BUT IT’S ALWAYS BETTER TO TAKE ACTION WITH AS BIG A GROUP AS POSSIBLE BC THE LAW IS JUST ONE TOOL WE HAVE
you could change your mind now you could say you were wrong this is horrific and monstrous and an attempt at extermination, and if you don’t you will forever be on the wrong side of history and you should not be able to sleep at night
noom ads are like - with noom, I really learned how to think differently (by eating less), it was really all about building healthy habits (of eating less), now I feel so empowered (to eat way less)
NEWS: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term.
it makes me sad when people go into HR because they want to help people! what you’re looking for is to work for a union, HR is always going to be helping the boss! get out of there!
even after getting vaccinated the cdc recommends forming a small committee of your coworkers to train and build over time until you can go public with strong support to win a union
Impact materially in that not everyone w a uterus/who can get pregnant is a woman, but also impact rhetorically in that further normalizing of limits on bodily autonomy is same rationalization for limiting trans people’s access to all healthcare
@DavidTamarkin
David I enjoy your recipes etc but this is really disappointing!! “Full time freelance” isn’t real! Someone working 40 hours/week needs healthcare, sick days, etc. Do you and
@CondeNast
want to exploit writers early in their career?? You should fix this!!
astonishing to see people in the comments complaining about this. Have we actually cheapened LGBTQ rights discourse so much that people don’t think it’s a worker issue?? That they feel corporations with a rainbow slapped on are to be trusted more than calls to unionize? yikes
LGBTQ people face unacceptable workplace discrimination and abuse. I say to the huge corporations rainbow-branding themselves for
#PrideMonth
:
Pay your employees fairly.
Let them unionize.
Support their right to health care.
Do not cheapen the struggle for dignity and freedom.
SO YEAH YOU HAVE WEINGARTEN RIGHTS EVEN BEFORE YOU HAVE A CONTRACT BUT YOU HAVE TO ASSERT THEM YOURSELF MGMT DOESNT HAVE TO OFFER SO YOU REALLY SHOULD TELL THEM RIGHT NOW IF THIS MEETING COULD LEAD TO DISCIPLINE I NEED MY UNION REP
thinking about two things re Jonah Hill - one is the impact of the “your feelings are valid”-ification of therapy. you can just tell the therapist is telling him “yes say your boundary! stand up for yourself” when he’s literally being like don’t post pics or talk to men
cashier at grocery store didn’t know about paid sick days law so we had a long chat SO for those who don’t know - NYC has paid sick days! you accrue up to 5 days (40hrs) a year and they can’t require dr note unless out more than 3 days. read more:
Are you the selfish person who decided YOUR need to misuse a litter basket was more important than EVERYONE ELSE'S ability to use it properly?
How do you sleep at night?
to couples posting that this year had a lot of ups and downs can you please specify if you mean re your relationship or just the pandemic? it’s more fun for the group chat that way, thank you!
Work has halted at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike. It wasn’t immediately clear how much the supply of Frosted Flakes or other iconic brands would be disrupted.
the $600 unemployment meant some of my members could fight to be furloughed (ie have jobs back eventually) rather than fight to STAY in unsafe working conditions. simply, not extending it will kill working people, the same way poverty kills in our country all the time
it’s butch appreciation day!! as a young queer I was taught that all masculinity is toxic no matter who has it. that’s so fucked up!! sometimes now I feel butch adjacent and that feels nice and sometimes I don’t and that’s fine too thanks
reminder as always! when strikes cause inconveniences that means they’re working! and you say wow, that labor sure is valuable, the owners should really do what the workers are asking for!
hey if people are calling for a rent strike and don’t know how to organize one I think a cool move would be to give them those tools, not mock them! but what do I know!
to the woman on the subway platform at 8am, shouting into the phone, “make my pussy wet then! MAKE MY PUSSY WET THEN!!!” - we see you, and we salute you
shocking straight people with tales of my sordid gay lifestyle such as - once a girl gave me five crystals and each crystal had a poem she wrote with it and when we broke up I threw the crystals in the ocean
sorry one moment of bernie indulgence I just can’t even express how much this is a very specific family member sitting by himself at the event ready for it to be over
me: honestly STOP expecting celebrities to have your back they are always ultimately in alignment w their class interests
also me: ok Rihanna, solidarity queen!!!!
I actually can’t believe that this year I learned that we have so long between election and inauguration bc of some shit about traveling on horseback to the capital what a useless country
wow the NYT is killing it today!! And by killing it I mean contributing to narratives that actually literally get people (trans people, Black people, POC, sex workers) killed
I can’t fucking get over the facts of Layleen’s case shared at the rally today - she was being held on $500 bail, spent a week in the hospital, then was put in solitary where she died. No pride in prisons/ no pride in elected officials who want monuments to Marsha AND rikers open
BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 198 people have been killed and more than 1,600 wounded in Gaza in Israeli retaliation after a Hamas attack killed at least 40.
Workers
@washingtonpost
have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months.
But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.
So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.
it’s nice to check in with friends about capacity sometimes, it’s not emotional labor to be nice to friends, everyone please go organize your workplace or something I’m tired
fucking disgusting that
@NYCMayor
wants to FINE people to enforce social distancing. people are low on $$ right now, police will have to GET CLOSE to fine, and we all know Black New Yorkers will be targeted. idiotic. use the police for something useful like delivering groceries!
have noticed interesting thing lately with language people are using around gender that they think is inclusive but like comes back around and is weird again
ughhh this is I think the natural result of the common way describing mutual aid just as helping people, and not as a political project with the goal of getting people’s needs met so they can be involved in a particular political goal!
what are your favorite and least favorite protest chants!! I love a good ole hey hey ho ho + ain’t no power like the power of the people. I HATE show me what democracy looks like. ok you go ~
we have extremely lost the plot on diversity trainings - talked to someone recently who was asked to describe, in front of their coworkers, their “first experience being gendered” - that’s not your boss’s fucking business!!
I’m sorry this bitch just put out a giant heart that says “HEALING”???? this is like if instead of a Christmas bonus your boss gave you a little reindeer that says “JOY”