In 2016, management at the Conrad Miami hotel in Miami, Florida fired Marie Jean Pierre, an African-American woman, for not coming into work on Sundays. Pierre worked as a dishwasher at the hotel for several years. She requested to have Sundays off in 2009 due to her religious beliefs, saying that on those days, she…
For a lack of something else to do, and because bills don’t pay themselves, I ended up going back to a company that I knew was horrible. I’d been there for two weeks a few years ago until things went south and they showed their true colors- which didn’t take long. It all happened one…
When I was in school I was told that I had an issue with authority. I was disruptive in classes, would constantly daydream or drift off from my studies and I reacted poorly to people telling me what to do. When I was a child who had ADHD and didn’t understand autism as much, it…
It’s easy to feel like your previous works were a mistake and especially if they were done when you were a different person. Right down to my name and pronouns I’m not the person I was when I came out with a book I edited called Abolish Work, released by Little Black Cart. There are…
Me and another moderator of the anti-work subreddit (come on in, the water’s not OK because of global warming!) saw an album posted a few months ago. The artist was excited to share it on the subreddit because the album (here) was full of anti-capitalist manifestos, as well as a few songs that decried work…
Although many of us would like to see the current exploitative capitalist system overturned tomorrow in favor of something more compassionate, more humane, the reality is that it’s going to take a lot of work for even the least noticeable change to occur. And then, if I’m being honest, the kind of revolutionary change that…