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Alma Avalle
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writer, union hottie, biblically accurate alma. one half of NYC's Picnic Magazine
the least realistic part of Heated Rivalry is that seemingly every gay person is a vers?
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Beyond targeted layoffs and firings, oftentimes the strategy when pushing newsrooms rightward is to 1) create conditions where real reporting is impossible and 2) wait for the good journalists leave on their own
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
thanks to my union, I:
-met countless friends
-got gender affirming surgery
-learned how to negotiate
-got annual salary raises when my company otherwise wouldn’t
-kept my life together after losing my job

unions rock, start one today
i love being a union member
December 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
i love being a union member
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
it’s literally kuzcotopia
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
a straight dude comedian did a long “what’s gayer, having sex with Bailey Jay or Buck Angel?” bit last night and my main response is that those are pornstars from like, 15 years ago. get with the times grandpa
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
the dumbest part of the “d&d is too woke” conversation is that if you don’t like the new content you can just? ignore it?

the original 5e books still exist online and irl, there’s still a ton of fan content being made for 3.5e, not to mention all of the alt systems available to play *for free*
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I know I keep saying this but I can't express how proud of I am of Mattie. This book is such an accomplishment, a huge leap forward in her work, and it'd be a shame if you didn't have a copy.
thrilled and honored for SIMPLICITY to be on here. thank you NPR~
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
gap in the market: au pays du cocaine nightcore remix
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I think Alma did a great job here at explaining the basics of this whole situation and why it matters for labor law
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance we're thinking of Faltas by Celilia Gentili. Faltas is a radical act of self-making and self-redemption. The book felt like the beginning of something special, but was not to be.
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Town Who Isn't My Rapist
In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both And more A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, or even grow.
portersquarebooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For @thenation.com, I wrote about the Condé Nast Fired Four and what our fight means for the labor movement

www.thenation.com/article/acti...
If Condé Nast Can Illegally Fire Me, No Union Worker Is Safe
The Trump administration is making employers think they can ignore their legal obligations and trample on the rights of workers.
www.thenation.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you enjoy the episode our petition is still live!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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New It Could Happen Here

Mia talks with Alma Avalle, a former staffer at Bon Appetite and VP of the News Guild of New York, about her firing in the wake of Conde Nast’s Teen Vogue purge

@miawong.bsky.social @goodbyealma.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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2 Timothy 4:3-4: "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Some Guild friends set up a fundraiser to help the illegally terminated employees while we fight back

www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Donate to Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper, organized by Louryn Strampe
On November 5, 2025, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union l… Louryn Strampe needs your support for Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thank you all so much for your support 💛💛💛 our petition demanding the company reinstate us and reverse our illegal terminations is now live! show your support at the link below

actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Day two since three coworkers and I were illegally fired from Condé Nast
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions
More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Add Conde Nast to the media companies that are bending the knee in this midst of our slide into authoritarianism. Shameful.
I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.

I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Justice for Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut and the two other employees fired by Condé Nast for questioning their management’s decision to fold Teen Vogue
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM