Wanna write something abt my privileged work conditions the decade before the pandemic that I want all office workers to have post pandemic:
I have an office.
I go there for mtgs & to work as I want.
If I need to work elsewhere, I do.
All office workers should get this.
Personally, I don’t like working at home at all (pre-pandemic, I never wrote any of my articles or a word of my dissertation where I lived). But I like having flexibility. The pandemic shouldn’t return to “normal.” Office workers should have a desk AND offsite flexibility.
Mostly, I miss working in libraries and can’t wait to return to them
I think a lot of people will want to get out of the house! And yes, office meetups for some things will be generative.
But I have been VERY high functioning having freedom to work w others or alone at home (or at the library or outside) for a decade. Hope others will get this.
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I just heard an activist on Democracy Now saying "we'll have their back" in regards to Delta maybe losing fuel tax credits for being against the Georgia voter suppression bill, and I HATE this dynamic. I hate how corporations get activists to protect their tax breaks. Depressing.
Delta should pay fuel tax! Atlanta is one of the most unaffordable cities for housing in America. Jet fuel leads to climate change and asthma, which harm Black Georgians. I wish activists would stop this Devil’s Bargain, where corporations “help” Black voters w trickle down econ!
Activists shouldn’t sell corporate support for Black voting access by giving cover to corporations NOT paying their fair share of taxes (and thereby increasing Black homelessness and asthma in a city like Atlanta!)
Much bigger fan of the idea of breaking vaccine patents to get the world to herd immunity across borders than the idea of creating vaccine passports that only allow those w the privilege of getting a vaccine to cross borders (as same borders are used to deny vaccines to others)
The idea that "I need a vaccine passport so I can go on vacation!" isn't really morally justifiable if you want go to and from a place where you know that most don't have vaccines and you want to prove that you do and thus should be able to cross borders.
Vaccines are largely state administered and controlled. Powerful states (the US and the members of the EU) are keeping vaccines from moving into production as quickly as they could (fighting the TRIPS waiver) and saving lives across borders.
1. Greenwald is operating from a common paradigm of domination: That threatened violence isn’t itself violence.
But let’s zoom out: if a man tells his wife “I am going to break all your teeth if you don’t do the dishes now” and she does them, isn’t that a form of violence?
2. Similarly, last summer, I got my most explicit death threat yet: a person wrote detailing where they were going to shoot me, giving a specific locale that showed they knew where I spend time.
They didn’t actually shoot me, but isn’t that violence?
3. When reporters, activists, academics—especially women, people of color, trans people—are threatened with murder, rape, the loss of livelihood...when we lose sleep worrying that someone has pinpointed our location and said they will kill us...they don’t have to ACTUALLY kill us
You are a hack who for yrs made your living by showing up in a studio for an hour a week & reading things your staff prepared for you so ppl would mistakenly think you’re clever. Actual inquiry doesn’t work this way, but hopefully you feel better dumping on someone’s monograph.
It’s a bit rich that someone whose livelihood came from others distilling and synthesizing information for him is going after people who deconstruct & think deeply about literature.
Something similar here to “cancel culture” hysteria: Few people get angrier about any kind of critical rigor than white man like @KBAndersen who’ve has everything handed to them. Bc everything they know has been chewed up for their unthinking digestion so they can hold power—
I’m done. “Diversity,” a word that totally obscures racist power relationships, is beyond parody; the shark has jumped over the moon (along with the cow), the horse has been beaten into ground meat. It’s a word I never want to hear again.
Buckingham Palace will engage in a “listen and learn” tour about “minority rights” 😆. Are they going to bring in Robin DiAngelo?! Are Elizabeth and Charles going to be lectured and then have to go into a break out group to reflect on their white privilege????
1. TEAR AND JOY: @TheSamhita, who was the heart and backbone of @TeenVogue for the past few years as its Executive Editor, is moving on. Great for her, a big loss for Condé + TV's readers.
2. Executive editors don't often get the acknowledgment they deserve that EICs do, but they often hold publications together . and make them fly. @TheSamhita was so important in making Teen Vogue what it was: a unique, cross-generational publication
3. that treated teens and adults with respect and harnessed journalism's greatest power: to let readers and writers discourse about the important matters of our lives.