Interview Portfolio: An interview with Fletcher Williams III

Williams, Fletcher; Rowell, Charles H.

doi:10.1353/cal.2017.0014

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“…She soon founded her own socially-driven production company-Art Impacts, LLC-and after securing grant and donor funds, alongside invitations to workshop and perform her show, she gradually cut back on her work for others from full-time to part time and finally to work solely for herself. Combining her work as an arts leader, singer, and producer, she plans to launch a series of socially engaged multimedia works (Williams 2024).…”

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From Portfolio to Platform Career

Clague

2024

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Written as a concise guide for students and working professionals, this article examines and critiques the “portfolio career” in arts professional development to offer an alternative conceptual strategy to forge a sustainable life. Eight modes of arts work are explored (performing, teaching, creating, writing, healing, manufacturing, distributing, and administering). The “Platform Career” is proposed as an extension of and possible solution to the shortcomings of the portfolio career. In the platform model, one professional activity serves as a financial base for the artist’s panoply of creative work, providing health insurance and other employment benefits plus additional financial stability to reduce financial and emotional precarity.

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Section: The Platform Career: One Solution To Reduce Precaritymentioning

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Clague

2024

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“…155 As Chris notes, "We kind of had an Occupy Wall Street issue." 156 These structural problems were exacerbated by the challenges of organizing in the gig economy. Gig workers face a lengthy period between the start of the campaign and certification, especially when they have to challenge their misclassification.…”

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“The Same Tools Work Everywhere”

Gray

2022

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Foodsters United, a workplace organizing campaign by Toronto food couriers, shows that, even in the gig economy, the classic organizing methods work. The Foodsters successfully challenged their misclassification as independent contractors, got over 40 per cent of a large workforce to sign union cards, and triggered a union vote that they won with 88.8 per cent support. These victories were tempered by a devastating setback: their employer, Foodora, exited from Canadian markets. Nevertheless, what Foodsters United achieved through workplace organizing sustained its transformation into Gig Workers United, which is organizing all delivery platform workers in Toronto. Although platform companies like Foodora promote the idea that the gig economy is unprecedented, its historical continuities are more important than its discontinuities. This is also true of the workplace organizing in the gig economy. Foodsters United achieved substantial victories, not because they invented new organizing methods but because they adapted the classic methods, in often ingenious ways, to their gig economy workplace. This article is based on interviews with the campaign organizers. It is organized thematically according to classic workplace organizing methods, particularly those developed in the industrial organizing tradition, including organizing conversations, mapping, charting, leader identification, issue identification, and the creation of democratic organizations.

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“…For example, SOGIECE have been associated with poor self-esteem, internalized stigma and discrimination, self-harm, self-hatred, depression, anxiety, and adaptive substance use (i.e., as a form of coping or suppression) [ 2 , 14 ]. More generally, SOGIECE can lead to isolation from both communities of origin and SGM communities, as many survivors of SOGIECE feel that they have lost years of their lives and are not able to embrace their authentic selves [ 12 , 15 ]. Most alarmingly, it is estimated that over a third of those who experience SOGIECE attempt suicide [ 2 ], a statistic that does not capture those who have died of suicide.…”

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The scope and nature of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts: a systematic review protocol

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Background Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts (SOGIECE) are a set of scientifically discredited practices that aim to deny and suppress the sexual orientations, gender identities, and/or gender expressions of sexual and gender minorities (SGM). SOGIECE are associated with significant adverse health and social outcomes. SOGIECE continue to be practiced around the world, despite denouncements from professional bodies and survivors, as well as calls for legislative advocacy to prohibit SOGIECE and protect SGM. There are substantial gaps in the availability of consolidated international research to support and refine legislative proposals related to SOGIECE, including those currently underway to enforce bans in Canada and elsewhere. We therefore propose the first systematic review of international data on SOGIECE that will outline the scope and nature of these practices worldwide. Specifically, we aim to estimate how many SGM have been exposed to SOGIECE, which sub-groups of SGM experience higher rates of SOGIECE, and how estimates of SOGIECE vary over time and place. In addition, we aim to describe when, where, how, and under what circumstances SGM are exposed to SOGIECE. Methods To locate an interdisciplinary swath of papers, nine (9) bibliographic databases will be searched: Medline (OVID), Embase (OVID), PsycInfo and Social Work Abstracts via EBSCO, CINAHL, Web of Science Core Collection, LGBTQ+ Source, and Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global and Sociology Collection (ProQuest). A gold standard search will be developed for Medline and adapted to the other databases. Grey literature will be searched at relevant websites, and reference harvesting will be performed in relevant SOGIECE scientific consensus statements. Two authors will independently screen abstracts/titles, screen full texts, abstract data, and apply risk of bias assessments. A narrative synthesis will be implemented to summarize findings. Discussion This review will address the gap in synthesized data regarding the prevalence of SOGIECE, social correlates of SOGIECE, variations of SOGIECE over time and place, and the circumstances, settings, and time-points of SOGIECE exposure. Findings from this review will directly inform ongoing and new legislative efforts to ban SOGIECE and other interventions that aim to stem SOGIECE practices and support SOGIECE survivors. Systematic review registration Registration with PROSPERO can be found under the registration number: CRD42020196393.

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Interview Portfolio: An interview with Fletcher Williams III

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The scope and nature of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts: a systematic review protocol

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