exactly what i fucking needed
im sorry there are too many dm requests for this text so i will drop here in a thread:
Did u hear 👂about 👂the 👨💼president👹? That’s right, our 👎fuckscist 🇺🇸daddy 🙎♂️has been brought to his 🥺😩knees🥺😩 by that sexy 🥵💃🏻sickening 💃🏻💅🏼lady 🦠hoevid-19👄.
Jun 20, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
one time i was being considered for a panel on media unions and the organizer explicitly told me that she reached out to me because all the other speakers were white but THEN she said "i don't know if you count as a journalist because you do astrology."
i explained that i've worked in media for 5 yrs, mostly as a journalist, and all my organizing experience is in newsrooms. my union work mostly consists of 1-on-1s with unit members who do all kinds of journalism-adjacent work, like illustrators and animators.
Jun 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
finally outed an asian fetishist who assaulted me in college and i feel.....a little bit better? anyway if you need me ill be dissociating the rest of the day try me on signal lol 🤙
feel like ive already contacted ppl who are still in community w him to name, shame, and oust him but JUST IN CASE: brown university alum and fullbright scholar ben boas is an asian fetishist and creep who cornered and assaulted me at a frat party when i was 19 and he was ~24
Jun 10, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
this racist media boiling point has coalesced over decades but especially the last 5 years with the rise of digital media organizing. as the only poc on my bargaining committee for the majority of contract negotiation, i encountered the same problems again and again.
in employee surveys, diversity is a consistently huge concern for staff, yet we don't have the tools to address it because: 1) many pubs aren't unionized and therefore not protected by a contract/don't have collecting bargaining power
Jun 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
new yorkers please don’t fall for this cop propaganda. this guy w a megaphone shows up to marches with a camera crew to lead people in pro-cop chants and is apparently a model who only got that beret yesterday. seems like an opportunist, not a leader.
we have to protect her at all costs. after filming eric garner’s murder, ramsey orta was targeted and harassed by police, thrown in jail and forced to spend time in solitary confinement
ramsey orta has so far spent more than a year in solitary confinement and still faces life-threatening abuse in prison, a hotspot for coronavirus. he's set to be released this summer and @NYGovCuomo has the power to grant clemency but it's clear the state would rather he die
May 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
HAPPY MAY DAY!! it is my honor and privilege to be part of @viceunion, and i'm so happy i got to talk about it with @freedaaron: prospect.org/labor/when-jou…
it would be impossible for me to fully describe the positive impact our union has had on our workplace but i do always return to one story that i hope can illustrate it:
Apr 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
i think about this a lot: the scene in 'jiro dreams of sushi' where his son recalls a childhood memory of mistakenly shaking a bottle of coke before opening it, and being so sad and sorry that the [then expensive luxury] drink exploded and he and his brother couldnt drink it
my childhood regret was the year the furby came out—i desperately wanted one but all the news stories said they were expensive and sold out. i convinced my sibling to participate in a dramatic staged conversation in front of my mother where i pretended not to want a furby
Apr 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
got an email from a self-identified aspiring writer who went to my school and normally i’d love taking the time to respond or do a long phone call but i don’t know what i could say right now besides DON’T DO IT??
ok well i turned it into a generic google doc in case anyone is interested (for context i started applying to media jobs in 2015)
Apr 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
once again i have done the bedtime yoga, drunk the sleepy time tea, listened to the ocean sounds meditation, put lavender in my oil diffuser......and still, sleep evades me
my first thought: what am i doing wrong ☹️
my second thought: if i lose my job i will lose absolutely everything, with zero safety net or family in a way that maybe only one of my friends could even truly understand.
Mar 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
not to sound like a psycho but i’m starting to resent animal crossing. all items, clothes, furniture i come across sucks so my shit is ugly. meanwhile all my friends are out there looking cute and never visiting me & it makes me feel like absolute shit!! am i doing it all wrong??
my house is paid off, the museum is gorge, the gates are open & i have oranges, cherries, coconuts & bamboo.....what’s wrong w me or my island? ☹️
i still don’t even have a bed and feel like i’m not getting as many DIY recipes as everyone else? im on “local” play is that right?
Mar 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
foods good for quarantine include canned meats........filipinos, this is our moment
i just put in a bulk order of spam who wants silog
my power grows with each day i work from home
im sorry there are too many dm requests for this text so i will drop here in a thread:
