The answers to this tweet are the answers to every other "passion economy" job query: it will use your love for the vocation as a means to exploit you; it will acquaint you with white (and male) privilege in ever-more alarming ways; it will disillusion you & radicalize you
If you are teaching students who aspire to this path, it is your moral duty to teach them about the necessity of labor protections, full stop
If you are an advisor to students interested in grad school: the deciding factor should be the existence of a union. Prestige can go fuck itself if you're not going to get a job anyway; at least a union will help decrease or eliminate their student loan debt
If you a journalism advisor: sure, prepare them for multi-media jobs and branding of the self, but direct them to jobs at unionized shops
Some of your students will understand importance of unions but some will come from families that were either anti-union/never talked about them. Journalism is a *trade.* Frame it that way & use examples from the very fucking recent past to underline why protections are necessary
I think I am just fed up with advice that says "don't do it" instead of "there is a way forward for this profession, and it is through robust labor protections and also by the way decoupling it from private equity and exponential growth"
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Scandal, historically speaking, occurs when there is a rupture in the status quo and attempts to immediately repair or narrativize it fail. The monarchy has been able to absorb & withstand massive scandals in the past but I don't know if it has the fortitude to absorb this one
There are no new romances, no new babies, no deflection. There is only an ailing Great-Grandfather. I'm not trying to be callous; I'm just thinking of how these narratives actually function
Also worth thinking through the fact that Oprah is maybe the only nationally trusted "confessor" (I mean that rhetorically, Harry and Meghan had nothing to atone for) and there doesn't seem to be successor, at least not at this point
Wrote about the bewildering mix of excitement and hesitancy as we start to make plans (plans!) again for the not-so-far future — and making room for all the unexpected ways grief is going to come for us in the months to come:
How do I articulate unspeakable excitement to gather again *and* having no idea how my mind and body is going to react to a social life? The closest I can get = being so so so excited for the first day of school but we pull up to the front door & I can't get out of the car
Someone just commented that they feel ready to lick their friends, which is a perfect encapsulation of how weird we're all going to be for, like, at LEAST six months
Knowledge workers have embraced our own deskilling, and the subsequent de-valuing of our labor, and rebranded it as personal productivity. We have downloaded so many fucking apps and read so many life hacks, all in service of our continued debasement:
Off Twitter all day but I heard the North Idaho siren and must answer the call: there are many parts of North Idaho that are not what my family would call "in the toolies" but this company is IN THE TOOLIES
Look at this website. The copyright was last updated in 2008. The design is straight out of.....2002? They are the people you call when you live in the woods and no other company will get you internet. Based in Priest River, serving Priest Lake.
I used to go to church camp in this area and it's the sort of place where you'd be out hiking and find an RV in the middle of nowhere and shut the fuck up v quickly and back away. It's prime American Redoubt real estate.