1. Public support
2. Write your MP (that’s still works)
3. Any sort of safety precautions/make our lives easier is welcome
That’s how the average person can help. But what about the people in news media with power? They are silent #16DaysofActivism
2. Write your MP (that’s still works)
3. Any sort of safety precautions/make our lives easier is welcome
That’s how the average person can help. But what about the people in news media with power? They are silent #16DaysofActivism
https://twitter.com/elsthomson/status/1600191715620835329
Earlier this year I called on the most protected and powerful in journalism to speak out publicly for us—white men and white women—and most of them ignored me and refused. Yet these are the same ppl who will talk about #GBV on Dec 6 as though this isn’t ongoing in their backyard
These voices are those you see on Tv regularly. Many of those white men denied and discredited our experiences like a certain @CBCNews Parliamentary reporter who said that “the PM gets more hate”. I have yet to see any repudiation by management. JSP doesn’t exist for them
No action from authorities we’re supposed to trust in and all newsrooms have to offer is “get off Twitter” which doesn’t matter because this is an EMAIL campaign. Should we disable email too? Much of #cdnmedia understanding of what is happening to us is rudimentary at best
#16daysofactivism belongs to us too as does #December6. It also belongs to the Indigenous communities in Manitoba mourning a white supremacist serial killer who #cdnmedia east of Timmins seem to ignore. There have been no federal politicians who give enough of a shit
White men and white women who are salaried and not freelance have institutional protections that @TheHillTimes has refused to extend to me. As the industry relies more and more in freelancers, who are more likely to be marginalized, this problem will only get worse
The labour practices of the media establishment put us in peril: they rely on our Twitter presence for clicks, then hang us out to dry when shit hits the fan. Just like our resource industry our media industry is an extractive one and it’s getting worse
In this country only certain women deserve support and care with unblemished patriarchal records, who shut the fuck up in front of power and authority and who are white and servile. Many of you fucks have tone-policed and gaslit me into believing that I brought this on myself
Let me introduce you to your #misogynoir. You all used particular events to further silence and gaslight me into believing I deserve my harassment and humiliation and abuse. Go fuck yourselves. You are the problem. And I see your racism and misogyny from here from comments
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