| Bio | https://www.brooklaw.edu/Contact-Us/Lin-Shirley |
| Research | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1398227 |
To all who remember the real struggles and near-misses of earning a degree, as #firstgen, a gender minority of color, or striving to live in the very city you hope to work in.
Please consider supporting today's students, if able, by donating to Women of Color Alliance's Luminary Scholarship by 3/1: https://givebutter.com/the-woca-luminary-scholarship-nnlptx
In a response essay invited by Ohio St. L.J., Michael Nunn '24 + I address activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities.
We engage with Professor Lee Carpenter's argument that for low-wage LGBTQ workers, contradictions between formal equality and power-shifting objectives of organizing.
Social Justice Unionism: Intersectionality in the 21-C Workplace: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5492726
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- use image descriptions
- when you post videos, make sure they're captioned and/or add a transcript. transcript is really the only accessible option for deafblind folks
- when you link a podcast, do also link to the transcript
- don't put more than 2-3 emoji in your username (incredibly annoying for screenreader users)
- use CW's where appropriate. make sure they actually describe what the content is about!
Something that needs more attention on #academic and #science Mastodon: UAW Academic Workers have announced a multi-unit statewide #strike against the #UniversityofCalifornia for unlawful conduct, beginning November 14th. This might be the largest academic worker strike in US history.
Please support my fellow postdocs, grad students, and researchers in whatever way you can as we fight for fair labor rights: https://www.fairucnow.org/support/.
Panelists:
Prof. Ruben Garcia (UNLV, author of Critical Wage Theory (forthcoming 2023))
Bethany Khan (Culinary Workers Union)
Prof. Shirley Lin (Brooklyn Law School, Moderator)
Yanin Peña (Ain't I A Woman?! Campaign)
Chris Smalls (Amazon Labor Union)
RSVP to join by Zoom:
https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1286/18/interior-wide.aspx?sid=1286&gid=1&pgid=3464&cid=4847
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Work Law as Privatized Public Law Series: On Critical Wage Theory
During this period of racial and economic reckoning, calls for racial solidarity in movements for livable wages and safe, dignified work are resurgent. With Professor Ruben Garcia's Critical Wage Theory as a touchpoint, a panel of organizers and scholars will explore crosscurrents in contemporary organizing and the future of public/private tensions in work law.
Nov. 16, 2022
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. EDT
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It’s funny how different the mood is on the two apps.
Here, people are excited and curious, helping each other figure things out, making connections, offering advice, re-assembling communities & networks, and an overall optimism about non-corporate social media.
Back on birdapp, it’s a mix of gloom and doom combined with comments about how awful Mastodon is.
Maybe this will combust, implode, fail, and be forgotten. But I’m glad we’re here together, now. #TwitterMigration
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