Lauren Gerlowski

Geography PhD Candidate & TA at Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, she/her/hers.

Focus in cultural industries, urban, economic, & feminist geo

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This demonstrates the success of labor activism in the arts! After more than 6 months of organizing, these dancers go down in labor history & have demonstrated that creatives have 'worker power'!

Dance & creative labor = WORK!
Creatives deserve fair & just working conditions!

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Dallas Black Dance Theatre dancers made history in May of 2024 when the dancers voted to unionize.. Last week, DBDT admin fired all dancers not long after their DBDT union's parent guild filed unfair labor practices against the company's administration. https://t.co/B5IZmIp3Eu

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This deal is of historic scope for the arts: over $500,000 of monetary compensation for terminated dancers, personal apologies, public accountability, training on workers' rights & more.

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Lecturing Geog 305 has been the biggest achievement of my graduate career - I am so proud of these students & their wonderful poster presentations!

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Geog 305 (Intro to the City) students presented their final research this week on contemporary urban issues. Instructor Lauren Gerlowski said, “Welcome to the final day of Geog 305 – Congrats, we made it!” as students cheered. We can’t think of a better way to end the semester!

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@GlobalHigherEd @UWMadisonGeog Thanks Kris :)

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Photocredit to @zrschmidt, Colbie’s favorite pawtographer (that was ruff, apologies)

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Writing a thesis is hard, here is a picture of my puppy

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Times Square, home (8 shows a week) to singers, actors, dancers, stage managers, set designers, audiences, & more, has been dark for the longest time in Broadway's history. How does the re-opening move from the ghost light to a full stage? What won't resume?

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Particularly interested in the depictions of comdians and singers in NYC in this read ~ the re-opening of the 'spraying arts' https://t.co/Ig63YGWkWB via @NewYorker

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"Ripley [a New York performer] described the experience of walking through Times Square when the city was largely shut down: “It was a cardboard cutout, a piece of scenery."

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I feel like I embrace my dance-self most when I try to do extensive quantitative analysis and feel like I don't know how to count past 8