I know this app is notoriously no fun, but my bestie Dan James released his comedy special & you should take a break from doomscrolling to watch it youtu.be/fHEElS1hl0Y?...

New article out in the Canadian Journal of Communication about the definitions, opportunities & limitations of queer safe(r) spaces in the comedy industry cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Saint John is continuing to respond to a homelessness crisis by criminalizing homelessness. The money being spent on private security could go to actually addressing the systemic issues at hand, but no no small business owners are the REAL victims www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yes, let’s trust AI

the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'. even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become. they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

📄 Pub alert! ✨ My piece with @madzbrutal.bsky.social is out in the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies @transstudies.bsky.social 🦇 We analyze how gender critical forum users on Ovarit and Mumsnet were radicalized through anti-trans media literacy and storytelling practices. doi.org/10.57814/wjd...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

📚 New Book Review in Feminist Media Studies: "Sex Work in Popular Culture" by Lauren Kirshner 📚 Kirshner's book is infused with a deep and unabashed respect for sex workers and a fierce critique of capitalism. Highly recommend! Review Link: tinyurl.com/ymezvrdk Book Link: tinyurl.com/5drdze2v

New Post on Substack: "So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You" I discuss how Section 107 requires the Minister to believe that ordering the end of strikes will "promote settlements." It is now clear that the opposite is true. thelawofwork.substack.com/p/so-long-se...

Today. Locked out. This was an especially dirty move by Dal when the faculty were in the process of voting in the latest offer. Join a picket line and definitely don’t cross one. #solidarity

Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/air...

CUPE's strategy appears to be working, as Air Canada has returned to the bargaining table. ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #canlab #aircanadaflightattendants

Absolute Scum over at @aircanada.bsky.social Stay strong @cupescfp.bsky.social! Flight attendants are making history

It’s kind of beautiful that our collective hatred of Air Canada is building class consciousness

Good time to repost our piece from last year tracing history of federal government’s cute misuse of S.107 of Canada Labor Code to end strikes simply by emailing the CIRB and ordering it to ban the strike. Story begins with #AirCanada flight attendants in 2011. lawofwork.ca/the-mysterio...

@cupescfp.bsky.social & the Air Canada flight attendants are defending every single Canadian’s right to strike & bargain.

Tell me again how ‘great’ Carney is. Canada Post and now these seriously underpaid workers for A PRIVATE COMPANY ordered back to work. I guess our constitutional right to collective bargaining is only ‘protected’ some of the time.

"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike." Amazing that flight attendants are standing up this back to work order. Shame on @aircanada.bsky.social

@aircanada.bsky.social does not pay their flight attendants for essential duties that they perform. The quality of the Air Canada flight experience has plummeted & flight prices have skyrocketed, but AC can't be bothered to properly pay their crew. Take action here: unfaircanada.com

New article out in Media Industries on how media workers tackle equity from below via collective bargaining, co-authored with @madisontrusolino.bsky.social and Natasha Grzincic. Open access: journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

New publication out in Media Industries looking at how CBAs are used to address issues of equity and diversity in digital media workplaces. "Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining." Co-authored w/ @nicolecohen.bsky.social & Natasha Grzincic.

Big News from the East Coast: in January 2026 I’ll be joining the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John as an Assistant Professor (LTA) in Sociology. I can’t wait to join UNBSJ’s wonderful community. Thank you to everyone who helped me get here.

📚 🌟 New Publication 🌟 📚 In “A labour of love: cancel culture as an accountability practice in the comedy industry,” Diandra Ships & I disentangle comedians’ demands for safety from the narrative of ‘cancel culture’ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPZPR...

cultural work is work writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics happy may day!

📚 🌟 New Publication 🌟 📚 In “A labour of love: cancel culture as an accountability practice in the comedy industry,” Diandra Ships & I disentangle comedians’ demands for safety from the narrative of ‘cancel culture’ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPZPR...

Toronto: get tickets to the launch of the Zine “Movies Men Ruined for Me” at The Revue on May 30th! I have a piece in it about terrible millennial men trying to seduce me to American Beauty (1999) revuecinema.ca/films/revue-...

USA: After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience www.fastcompany.com/91321619/aft...

I sat beside a talker on the plane who told me he was "undecided" on who to vote for. When I told him Poilievre was a transphobe, he said he didn't know that bc he was only focusing on the "economic" policies. Oh yes, bc economic policies famously have nothing to do with issues of social justice

This summer, I'm offering a free academic writing group that meets semi-regularly on Tuesdays from 1-3 pm ET. The first session is on April 22. I hope you'll join! Full schedule and registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Xbtfj53ERJKa4dLeKmGxiQ.

Congratulations to all part-time and sessional faculty in the college system who voted overwhelmingly to unionize and join OPSEU! opseu.org/news/after-2...

10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

Plane read ✈️ 📖

McCarthyism for the 21st century

Starbucks union-busting continues to be absolutely wild. Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org from a former barista!

Call for Papers Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

@karendewartmcewen.bsky.social is helpful & aspirational! Check out her free (and paid) services

The ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social. Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky

The University of London Press is now accepting for new proposals for short-form books (20,000–30,000 words) on Digital Cultural Heritage on themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #BDCAM25

Breaking! Video Game Workers Vote to Authorize Strike at Microsoft. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Amazon producing a movie where the “hero” protects one of the most heinous capitalist institutions is just too much.

PLEASE PARTICIPATE & SHARE! All 2SLGBTQ+ ppl in Canada (16+) are eligible to complete the survey! Link: smuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New film review up in Films for the Feminist Classroom. I review two films on LGBTQ+ comedy: 1) Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement. Directed and distributed by David Pavlosky 2) Julia Scotti: Funny That Way. Directed by Susan Sandler.

Currently reading @ericblanc.bsky.social

Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States. Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks. Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.

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Currently reading (with Robot the cat)

Culture is bad for you is doing a book tour! @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social or me in Bristol 24th March (in person), Manchester 27th March (in person), Edinburgh 1st April (online & in person) & Sheffield 9th April (in person). Details/tickets manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/

Vancouver friends: my amazing PhD supervisor @nicolecohen.bsky.social will be giving the Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture this year! I highly recommend attending!

If anyone I know is in Toronto at the end of the month, swing by to hear me talk about some ideas I am exploring in relation to platform work and digital labor.