I was honored to join Nabila and the rest of the presenters on this panel to talk about the work that National Writers Union / Freelance Solidarity Project members have done on organizing around generative AI issues! (print out a zine version of our Princples & Policy Platform here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z4jQQB…)

Need help tracking your hours for the #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge? Use this sample tracking tool: bit.ly/trackoftime. Have a better system? Tweet us with the tools you use, and we'll share them here!

“Think less Wolf Hall and more Blackadder; less Mary Queen of Scots and more The Princess Bride.” Alexis Gunderson @alexiskg.bsky.social takes you behind the scenes on the set of My Lady Jane. lithub.com/teenage-queen-…

We're helping lead campaigns to get similar laws passed across the country. Join us? freelancesolidarity.org/freelance-isnt…

Here's my remembrance of Jane McAlevey, a force of nature who so many of us learned from and loved. jacobin.com/2024/07/jane-m…

As the campaign heats up and campuses re-open for the fall, It is crucial that Harris’s campaign figures out how to talk to and about people who are horrified by US policy in Gaza.

To give some insight into "modest honorarium" note: There are currently 4 entries for LARB in the WPW database ($0.03-0.06/wd), and 1 in the Freelance Solidarity Project rate sharing portal ($150 flat for 2k words). If you're a book critic who has contributed at LARB, pls add your rates!

It’s the last day of our crowdfunding campaign and we’re still $40k from our goal! If you care about local news, community-centered journalism, and worker-run outfits then it would mean the world if you donated, told a friend, dropped it in the group chat, etc.

I will say seeing the disparity in how white NY media journalists are trying to protect Olivia Nuzzi from the consequences of her own actions juxtaposed against how they stayed silent when a Black journalist signed a petition last year speaks volumes.

Le Guin as always

been thinking about this one a lot.

“What I suspect,” he told me, “is that American media in general thinks of itself as separate from the ends and goals of American power. And I don’t think that’s true.” on our moral responsibility: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Wow, it turns out I played a role in pushing Ta-Nehisi Coates to look more deeply into Palestine. I was the woman who yelled on the mic about Palestine and got shouted down at his event with Jeffrey Goldberg, it was at the Sixth & I synagogue in DC I think in 2014. That was

We are THREE RATES AWAY from hitting our goal of 1k by October 1! If you've been paid for an assignment that you haven't yet added to the Freelance Solidarity Project rate sharing database, consider this your bright flashing sign to do so now! freelancesolidarity.org/actions-campai…

Okay okay we are getting word that one of our comrades has their rate submission ready to go to be lucky number 1,000, so make that TWO RATES AWAY from our big round-number goal.

Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars were born in Australia and New Zealand. Some great TV is from there too. Here are the best best binges from Down Under. trib.al/N4mbSuB