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Alma Avalle
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writer, union hottie, biblically accurate alma. one half of NYC's Picnic Magazine
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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.
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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.
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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
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
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The absolute baby behavior of these executives is galling. If you’re big enough to take people’s livelihoods away, you’re big enough to take an ass chewing over it.
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.
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.
I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love my union. I'm devastated the company made this move. There are so few trans women in media at all — particularly ones who aren't confined to "Queer Media" — and I was incredibly proud of what my position at Bon Appétit meant within the industry.
I was acting as a union member and concerned employee when I questioned Stan Duncan, well within my legal rights.

I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.
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.
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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.
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Conde Nast hates its workers more than any company I've ever worked for
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.
being they/them’d sucks when your arent nonbinary in the same way being he/him’d or she/her’d sucks when you are? it’s silly to act like people are making a value judgement against nonbinary people when they’re just upset about being misgendered
I'm sorry cis people sometimes weaponize my pronouns, but it kinda stings when a binary trans person acts like "being 'they/themed'" is the worst fate in the world.
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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if you wanna help you can Venmo or cash app me — to cover every kid they’d need about $4000 more
Venmo @ lexi-McMenamin
Cashapp $LexiMcmenamin
my high school teacher mom is individually raising money to help cover the expense for the kids who are losing SNAP coverage at her school and members of Congress make roughly 2-4 times the income of the average high school teacher in America
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my high school teacher mom is individually raising money to help cover the expense for the kids who are losing SNAP coverage at her school and members of Congress make roughly 2-4 times the income of the average high school teacher in America
what i mean is, there is no special sauce that makes the US some haven for trans healthcare. as far as i can tell, one class of trans americans just got kind of lucky in the 2010s until now.

personally i’d credit that luck to organizers on the left and not capitalism
like sure, living in a country with informed consent rules, but praising a system that demands trans people constantly beg each other and strangers for donations to afford hormones and surgery misses the mark
meanwhile states with similar liberal-democratic models to ours have significantly stricter rules around hormone and surgery
the american healthcare system is not uniquely capable of enabling transition. it is so bad at enabling transition that many american trans people need to go abroad to Thailand, Spain, Argentina, etc, to access these services, even if they are (sometimes!) legal and available in their own state
accuses Mamdani (who has campaigned primarily on affordability, housing, and transit) of monomania over Israel.

writes an entire column about why Mamdani's views on Israel — including some from a decade ago! — outweigh every other issue.

they should invent an accusation that isn't a confession