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In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it,” the late anthropologist and activist David Graeber wrote, in 2018.

Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?

OUR STRUGGLE FOR THE WAGE OPENS FOR THE WAGED AND THE UNWAGED ALIKE THE QUESTION OF THE REAL LENGTH OF THE WORKING DAY.

Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Emma Goldman.

Nell Irvin Painter • The History of White People

Unlike in book and magazine publishing, scientists who publish in journals remain unpaid by publishers for their work. Instead, academic papers are part of the research output that universities and research funders look at when allocating funding and promotions. On the other side of the equation, journals profit from their reputation – in filtering... See more

Saloni Dattani • Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress

The real world is changing to absorb the skills of such students, and a Social Justice industry already worth billions of dollars is forming, all dedicated to training our companies and institutions to enact and police The Truth according to Social Justice.

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

With this attitude in mind, we advocate two approaches to the problem of reified postmodernism. First, we must oppose the institutionalization of its belief system. Because the Social Justice movement is not officially a religion and because genuine social justice aims are in keeping with antidiscrimination legislation, it has been allowed to bypas

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

When Your Profession is On Fire

Anne Helen Petersen open.substack.com

8 SOCIAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Early on in my career, working at very traditional newspapers owned by corporate chains with no unions, I was struck by the sense of powerlessness that was drilled into us as cub reporters. We were supposed to be ruthless and fearless, hold the powerful accountable, while quietly sucking up the daily humiliations of our own workplaces. Don't questi... See more

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Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?

Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Nell Irvin Painter • The History of White People

Saloni Dattani • Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

When Your Profession is On Fire

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Delia Cai • Deez Interviews: Diana Moskovitz on Defector Media + how it feels to build your own workplace