Kailey

you might know me from the publishing industry before I saw it for what it is & resigned. now editing essays @thepuritan. words & opinions are my own.

[Kailey @bigblueframes]

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength & skill to fight academia

[Kailey @bigblueframes]

Writing people: send ⁦@theonlyelitareq⁩ & I your essay pitches! Send us graphic essays, literary essays, personal essays, polemics, anything vibrant & compelling & out-there for ⁦@thepuritan⁩ 🖋 https://t.co/iPdEBZo7wF

[Kailey @bigblueframes]

@TheRedhead_Said @VaxHuntersCan @ETHPnews I got it without issue! You should be good to go.

[Kailey @bigblueframes]

@MichStaples @MGHToronto I would also like to know! Michelle, were you able to find an answer?

[Koonoo ❄️ @KoonooHan]

Inuvik, NWT.

Canada. That’s right. In Canada.

[Pariah Carey @DesmondCole]

mayor @johntory has put a respectable face on rob ford's austerity agenda, cutting city services while increasing the police budget, which he's proposing to do again today with cameras

tory says what he thinks we want to hear, then votes to keep killing us. he's gotta go

[Pariah Carey @DesmondCole]

the TTC mandatory face mask plan does not include enforcement. instead, transit officials will hand out masks for free

this is the approach we should always take, knowing that enforcement always targets poor and racialized peeps. help us be safe instead of punishing us

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

In response to widespread calls to defund police & invest in communities - borne of rampant police killings of Black and Indigenous people across Toronto and Canada -the city votes instead for on an increase in police funding for “reforms” already known to be ineffective. Shame.

[Lil Ms Springfield @casonsharpe]

smdh @TorontosMayor was like "we will defund the police by giving them more money❤️"

[Jael Ealey Richardson @JaelRichardson]

Don’t pee on my back and tell me it’s rain, Can Lit.

[Jael Ealey Richardson @JaelRichardson]

On a very basic level, I still don’t feel like white publishers get the concept of #OwnVoices, and the dances they’re doing to justify their arguments is a little concerning. Look at your lists and have honest conversations. We need books by AND about marginalized voices...

[Kailey @bigblueframes]

@vjbarnier @amakeshiftlib And the first four months I worked there was an unpaid internship with a $3k honorarium, full time hours. Was made a contract worker for my first year there, so no vacation pay or health benefits.

[Kailey @bigblueframes]

@vjbarnier @amakeshiftlib My starting salary in 2017 was $27.5k, raised to $30k after I called out the fact that I was working 50 hours a week (bc they don’t consider required manuscript reading to be payable work) well below minimum wage.

[hana is OPEN to queries last week of every month! @hel_no_wai]

ugh sucks that this has to be said but i'm gonna: if any author/artist/editor/agent/creative of any kind that i work with or know has been a creep or worse to you, PLEASE, i beg you, tell me. i will believe you and respect your wishes for how you want that info handled.

[m 🍊🧡🍉 @amakeshiftlib]

fun fact: did you know Canadian publishing currently has full time employees based in Toronto receiving salaries below minimum wage?😊not even living wage, MINIMUM wage. fun right? so fun

[Layla Mohamed @styleatthetime]

Wrote a little something for @thebookseller about the colonial nature of publishing and why "diversity and inclusion" isn't enough.

Publishing Must Decolonise | https://t.co/gNVOBuRYvv

[BIPOC of Publishing in Canada - UPDATES ONLY @BIPOCPub]

PSA for white leadership in publishing: if you're going to ask your BIPOC employees and colleagues to sit in meetings about how to fix this industry, please actually come into the room willing to listen and hear some difficult truths. Leave your defensiveness at the door.