April 2013
Currently what it sounds like in McDonald’s...
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“Edwin Guzman already lost his job once for union-organizing. But today, he and...”
– The McJobs Strike Back: Will Fast-Food Workers Ever Get a Living Wage? - Sarah Jaffe - The Atlantic
At least three fast food restaurants couldn’t open today because a majority of their workers were out on strike. Minimum wage increase is coming for NY, but the fast food workers aren’t waiting.
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March 2013
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“If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for...”
– bell hooks, “Rethinking the Nature of Work” in Feminist Theory From Margin To Center. Relevant. (via differentclasswar)
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February 2013
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“Broadly, what unites us as a class is opposition to compulsory virtue, to whore...”
– Waging War On Sex Workers, Zoe Schlanger interviews Melissa Gira Grant - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“opposition to compulsory virtue.” Love it.
(via differentclasswar)
“Raising the minimum wage benefits more than just low-wage workers. When people...”
– The Minimum Wage: Popular With the Public, But Not the Donor Class - The Demos Blog - PolicyShop
Mijin Cha makes a great point here that people who follow me are probably already aware of. But looking at it laid out like this raises the question: if raising the minimum wage would actually increase...
“Saying a federal push has made his own efforts to raise the minimum wage in New...”
– Cuomo recasts pay hike debate - Times Union
And here it comes. Cuomo’s got the excuse he wanted not to have to raise the minimum wage after all: Obama’s call for a federal minimum wage hike of $9/hour and indexed to inflation.
We all saw it coming—as Blake Zeff wrote, Cuomo has a history of...
“Today the main barriers to further progress toward gender equity no longer lie...”
– Why Gender Equality Stalled - NYTimes.com
Read this. That is all.
(via differentclasswar)
“But many lower-profile migrants have virtually no voice on the Hill....”
– Immigration Reform Set to Boost Business, Undermine Rights - Michelle Chen - In These Times
Read. Two-tier (or more) immigration policy is probably coming, and it’s not good.
(via differentclasswar)
“As the figure shows, if the minimum wage had kept pace with average wages—i.e.,...”
– Putting a $9 minimum wage in context | Economic Policy Institute
Just so you know.
(via differentclasswar)
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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison, “Jazz” (via ancestryinprogress)
ohhhh, I love this line. I love this entire book. So beautiful.
(via champagnecandy)
one more, because this line is so perfect it gives me chills all over my body.
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“I envy them their public love. I myself have only known it in secret, shared it...”
– Toni Morrison “Jazz” (via sxyblkmn) (via therealkatiewest)
I love this book so much.
(via champagnecandy)
And happy birthday too to Toni Morrison, and I wish I had the free time to spend the day re-reading “Jazz”. This book is everything.
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“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the...”
– Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference (via ethiopienne)
Happy birthday, Audre Lorde. From my favorite piece of hers.
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WatchKylie and Nick Cave (Live “Where The Wild Roses Grow”) (by oba-ryan)
from John Nichols, who knows what I need.
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“However much one cursed at the time, one realized afterwards that one had been...”
– Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, p 104.
I am reading this on my night in, and this paragraph is everything I love about Orwell. Marx might prove that capitalism is horrible and in need of replacement, and countless other thinkers have elaborated and analyzed and planned, but Orwell is the one who makes...
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“Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby...”
– The Traffic in Women by Emma Goldman 1910
oh you know, 1910.
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Hey Tumblr
Looking for a good (the best you’ve ever read) critique of the police as specifically patriarchal institution. Feel like there has to be one out there that I haven’t read that people will go “Duh, THIS PERSON”. Hoping so, anyway. Answers here or in my ask box? Thanks, y’all.
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“No, that waitress isn’t flirting with you.
Neither is the barista at your...”
– Grin and Abhor It: The Truth Behind ‘Service with a Smile’ - Working In These Times
I also wrote about emotional labor as women’s work for In These Times—bonus insights into my own years waiting tables.
(via differentclasswar)
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“Jean Anyon, professor of social and educational policy at the City University of...”
– What You Need to Know About the Seattle Teachers’ Rebellion and the Deeply Flawed Test That Inspired It | Alternet
I wrote about the Seattle teachers’ test strike—originally for the PSC-CUNY staff paper, the Clarion, and reprinted a longer version at AlterNet. Thanks to both editors, Peter Hogness...
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rgr-pop:
Like, all those times women’s studies seminars tried to come up with tangible steps toward dismantling patriarchy
and somehow NO ONE ever thought of
“Beyonce performs at the superbowl, blows the power out, ends the superbowl.”
Beyonce is in fact the end of patriarchy.
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Journalism
Like, fine, you don’t like me or think my work is worthwhile, I really don’t need you to repeat the things I hear in my head over and over again.
But this isn’t about me.
When you say “journalism is 100% plagiarism” or approvingly reblog that statement you’re denigrating the work of a whole bunch of people who put their lives on the line at times, who spend...
very filled with dreams: rgr-pop: what I’m saying... →
isabelthespy:
rgr-pop:
what I’m saying is that journalism is 100% plagiarism
#always saying this #YOU GOT YOUR IDEAS FROM SOMEWHERE THINK PIECER #cite #theory
like there are ways to make this not true but so few people utilize them ;_;/this is why i’m not sad about the fall of…
oh yes please denigrate an entire profession thanks so much I’ll just quit my job now and do what...
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Just Pointing out
blackamazon:
Beyonce had an all female performed , multiracial, international music performance
but feminism writes letters to her daughter about why mommy and daddy aren’t really women positive.
Lena Dunham shits on feminists, race baits, queer baits, and is an islamophobe
but they publish tome up on tome about how they need to defend her right to be obnoxious
this for-fucking-ever.
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“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their...”
– [x] (via neighborly)
relevant to friggin’ everything lately.
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“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and...”
– The Point is not to Interpret Whiteness but to Abolish it (via ninjabikeslut)
This is interesting—I’ve been reading Joan Walsh’s “What’s the Matter With White People” (which let me tell you gets me some great looks on the subway in Brooklyn) and one of the things...
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“The right way for a white girl to be angry is to turn her anger inwards. She...”
– “Shooter Boys and At Risk Girls”, my latest column for Vice. http://m.vice.com/read/shooter-boys-and-at-risk-girls (via mollycrabapple)
January 2013
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Can Women Have It All? | New Republic →
This is not the first time I have thought that the New Republic takes my Twitter feed as assignment desk. Yes, this is in fact an article about how Beyonce Has It All.
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unasenoraviejaenfuego:
searchingforknowledge:
basedandbiased:
caricapapaya:
Outtakes from Beyonce’s GQ February 2013 Cover Story: Photos: GQ
From an outtake that didn’t make the GQ story:Ed Burke, Beyonce’s visual director and the co-director of her new film, knows precisely when his boss first realized she needed to exert more control over her realm. It was in 2005, he says, when MTV...
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unasenoraviejaenfuego:
searchingforknowledge:
basedandbiased:
caricapapaya:
Outtakes from Beyonce’s GQ February 2013 Cover Story: Photos: GQ
From an outtake that didn’t make the GQ story:Ed Burke, Beyonce’s visual director and the co-director of her new film, knows precisely when his boss first realized she needed to exert more control over her realm. It was in 2005, he says, when MTV...
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she...”
– ― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. (via nekkamarose)
and what Barbara said.
bitchouttahell:
shout out to all of the custodians, cooks, garbage truck drivers, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, waiters, and every one else whose jobs and entire fucking existences get shit on by the same people who wouldn’t know what to do with their lives if they had to do anything for themselves
solidarity, always.
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So Tumblr, if I wanna use your video tool now I can’t type any commentary on it? Um. That sucks.
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