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*sees the icon of a mutual I literally never talk to* oh look it’s my Friend
It's Friday, and I'm here to hijack another day of your week!
Introducing:
✨FORGIVENESS FRIDAY✨
Here's the deal. Whatever thing you're convinced you screwed up this week, forgive yourself.
Having trouble letting it go and giving yourself absolution? Then I forgive you.
You are forgiven.
Go into the weekend knowing that whatever you are beating yourself up over doesn't make you less worthy of love and acceptance. You are still a good person, even if you made a mistake, or failed, or didn't do something you said you'd do.
Forgive yourself.
America really is irredeemably evil. This article in the new york times ADMITS that prisons are an industry in America, yet tries to convince its readers to empathize with the people enforcing US law in these prisons, with NO empathy for the people incarcerated there
Literally “things were good until the Racism Factory shut down”
Not an expert but from personal experience this is true. Firms will also try to build a case representing multiple clients as well, which can strengthen their case and give a bigger pay out. If they win.
If your company is stealing wages from you there is a good chances their stealing from others. Talk to your coworkers about your wages (but be smart about it).
You absolutely have the power to sue their asses if you need to. You might need to take the time to do your research and talk to multiple lawyers first but don’t let the fear of lawyer fees be the Only thing that stops you.
just a reminder that you do not know the names of most of the people in SAG-AFTRA. They are not multi-millionaire A-Listers, not even beloved D-listers with a cult following. They are ordinary people struggling to make a living, living paycheck to paycheck just like the majority of WGA members. The push for SAG to strike was from the bottom up and that is who we have to thank for this moment of entertainment labor solidarity.
Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund to support those striking, as well as teamsters and IATSE members affected by the strikes
"writers deserve attention more than actors" literally only 2% of actors can pay the bills with acting. For every megastar on screen there are a dozen other people in the shot who are SAG. Acting gets so glamorized but there are SO MANY people in SAG who NEED residuals to live on. Background Party Girl #4 needs her check too!!!! There are people who play recurring characters on syndicated shows who cant afford health insurance!!! Ke Huy Quan gave an oscar winning performance and LOST HIS HEALTH INSURANCE the next year.
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A lot of non-speaking background actors aren't even union. And you even see them on screen clearly.
I know this because I'm married to one of them. Sean was in an episode of Grimm. He poured some wine, and then you see him in a pan describing something to a responding officer.
He made minimum wage in Oregon for the first 8 hours, then time-and-a-half for the rest.
You know how you get a union paycheck? You somehow manage to get a line or a reaction shot. If you're not in the union before, THAT gets you in. It's definitely a Catch-22. To get the role that gets you a union card, you have to show up without a union card and get the chance at the role.
So, to even get INTO the union is a fucking hoop jump. But then to stay in, you have to scrape together dues when you're trying to just do whatever you do when you're not standing in the background. And if you lose your union status, congrats. You're back to square one.
This is not to say that SAG-AFTRA doesn't want to take care of its union workers, but I think there's a conversation to be had about how fucking hard it is to get into and STAY in the union in the first fucking place.
When Sean went to work at a grocery store because I'd lost my job shortly before, he'd been informed all he had to do to be in the union was show up to a meeting, sign his name, and let them take a few bucks out of his paycheck.
We scraped by for 18 months because of that. Most notably, we scraped by WITH HEALTH INSURANCE because of that.
I think there are ways SAG-AFTRA could improve for both non-union and union actors, but my first recommendation is to look at how the WGA brings on members because it seems like literally no one in the creator system can write without being WGA, so SOMETHING there is being handled better than with SAG.
It could literally be as easy as saying someone has to be background in X number of productions over Y number of years. It wouldn't catch everyone trying to make a living, but it'd widen the fucking net.
you’re allowed to get up one day and just decide to change who you are. dress differently, speak up more, laugh out loud even though you’ve never liked your laugh, say what you want to, say hey to people you wouldn’t normally, get that confidence going. we don’t have to stay the way people see us out of the fear that they won’t like the us we want to be.