Spending Sunday thinking through queer precarity
Madison Trusolino
@madisontrusolino.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar & Incoming Assistant Professor in Sociology (LTA) at UNBSJ | Studying Labour Organizing in the Cultural Industries | Eyeliner aficionado https://www.madisontrusolino.com
Solidarity forever with the workers at DC's cat cafe who were put out of work by their union-busting owner after they announced they intended to unionize. www.popville.com/2026/02/crum...
Crumbs & Whiskers, DC’s first cat cafe, temporarily(?) closed in Georgetown, Staff says this happened right after they decided to form a union. - PoPville
photo by Ryan Maxwell Ed. Note: There is no announcement about a temporary closure on the Crumbs and Whiskers website (or socials), having said that, appointments are not available to visit until Marc...
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🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent
In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.
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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?...
Dan James: Community Service | FULL SPECIAL
YouTube video by Dan James
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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/...
Saint John launches 2-year security pilot program to address city public safety concerns | CBC News
Saint John is launching a two-year, $780,000-per-year security pilot in crime-affected areas starting in early February. Guards will focus on de-escalation, not arrests, with oversight from the city.
cbc.ca
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...
“I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as GC” - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Following the closure of the anti-trans subreddit r/GenderCritical, gender critical (GC) internet users have migrated to more obscure, invite-only spaces. A side-effect of this GC dispersal is that ac...
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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...
So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You
Why it is time to retire Section 107 to the Labour Law history books
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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
Dalhousie Faculty Association@dalfaculty.bsky.social · last yr.1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!
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...
Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’
CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.
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CUPE's strategy appears to be working, as Air Canada has returned to the bargaining table. ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #canlab #aircanadaflightattendants
Air Canada strike updates: Airline, flight attendants in negotiations, union says
Air Canada has announced it will suspend all flights through Tuesday afternoon after flight attendants still defy a federal back-to-work order.
ctvnews.ca
It’s kind of beautiful that our collective hatred of Air Canada is building class consciousness
CUPE SCFP@cupescfp.bsky.social · last yr.88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms cupe.ca/88-canadians...
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.
CUPE SCFP@cupescfp.bsky.social · last yr.CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025
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.
Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has ordered binding arbitration in the Air Canada flight attendant strike.
ctvnews.ca
"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
Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
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@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
Home | Unfair Canada
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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/...
Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining
This article examines how media workers tackle equity and diversity from below via collective bargaining. In a review of 69 contracts negotiated during the new media union movement’s most active years...
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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!
Daily Union Elections@unionelections.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: 88 museum workers in Louisville are unionizing with @uaw.org.
📚 🌟 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...
After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience
The latest phase of the Starbucks Workers United campaign includes sit-ins at stores, where union members have been arrested. They say the escalation is necessary to call attention to their fight.
fastcompany.com