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Madison Trusolino

@madisontrusolino.bsky.social
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Visiting Scholar & Incoming Assistant Professor in Sociology (LTA) at UNBSJ | Studying Labour Organizing in the Cultural Industries | Eyeliner aficionado www.madisontrusolino.com

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Spending Sunday thinking through queer precarity
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Solidarity forever with the workers at DC's cat cafe who were put out of work by their union-busting owner after they announced they intended to unionize. www.popville.com/2026/02/crum...
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Crumbs & Whiskers, DC’s first cat cafe, temporarily(?) closed in Georgetown, Staff says this happened right after they decided to form a union. - PoPville
photo by Ryan Maxwell Ed. Note: There is no announcement about a temporary closure on the Crumbs and Whiskers website (or socials), having said that, appointments are not available to visit until Marc...
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
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Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent
In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I know this app is notoriously no fun, but my bestie Dan James released his comedy special & you should take a break from doomscrolling to watch it youtu.be/fHEElS1hl0Y?...
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Dan James: Community Service | FULL SPECIAL
YouTube video by Dan James
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
New article out in the Canadian Journal of Communication about the definitions, opportunities & limitations of queer safe(r) spaces in the comedy industry cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Saint John is continuing to respond to a homelessness crisis by criminalizing homelessness. The money being spent on private security could go to actually addressing the systemic issues at hand, but no no small business owners are the REAL victims www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Saint John launches 2-year security pilot program to address city public safety concerns | CBC News
Saint John is launching a two-year, $780,000-per-year security pilot in crime-affected areas starting in early February. Guards will focus on de-escalation, not arrests, with oversight from the city.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Yes, let’s trust AI
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 26/11/2025
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'. even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become. they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 26/11/2025
📄 Pub alert! ✨ My piece with @madzbrutal.bsky.social is out in the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies @transstudies.bsky.social 🦇 We analyze how gender critical forum users on Ovarit and Mumsnet were radicalized through anti-trans media literacy and storytelling practices. doi.org/10.57814/wjd...
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“I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as GC” - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Following the closure of the anti-trans subreddit r/GenderCritical, gender critical (GC) internet users have migrated to more obscure, invite-only spaces. A side-effect of this GC dispersal is that ac...
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📚 New Book Review in Feminist Media Studies: "Sex Work in Popular Culture" by Lauren Kirshner 📚 Kirshner's book is infused with a deep and unabashed respect for sex workers and a fierce critique of capitalism. Highly recommend! Review Link: tinyurl.com/ymezvrdk Book Link: tinyurl.com/5drdze2v
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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New Post on Substack: "So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You" I discuss how Section 107 requires the Minister to believe that ordering the end of strikes will "promote settlements." It is now clear that the opposite is true. thelawofwork.substack.com/p/so-long-se...
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So Long Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, We Hardly Knew You
Why it is time to retire Section 107 to the Labour Law history books
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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Today. Locked out. This was an especially dirty move by Dal when the faculty were in the process of voting in the latest offer. Join a picket line and definitely don’t cross one. #solidarity
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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/air...
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Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’
CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.
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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
CUPE's strategy appears to be working, as Air Canada has returned to the bargaining table. ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #canlab #aircanadaflightattendants
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Air Canada strike updates: Airline, flight attendants in negotiations, union says
Air Canada has announced it will suspend all flights through Tuesday afternoon after flight attendants still defy a federal back-to-work order.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Absolute Scum over at @aircanada.bsky.social Stay strong @cupescfp.bsky.social! Flight attendants are making history
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
It’s kind of beautiful that our collective hatred of Air Canada is building class consciousness
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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Good time to repost our piece from last year tracing history of federal government’s cute misuse of S.107 of Canada Labor Code to end strikes simply by emailing the CIRB and ordering it to ban the strike. Story begins with #AirCanada flight attendants in 2011. lawofwork.ca/the-mysterio...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
@cupescfp.bsky.social & the Air Canada flight attendants are defending every single Canadian’s right to strike & bargain.
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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Tell me again how ‘great’ Carney is. Canada Post and now these seriously underpaid workers for A PRIVATE COMPANY ordered back to work. I guess our constitutional right to collective bargaining is only ‘protected’ some of the time.
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Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has ordered binding arbitration in the Air Canada flight attendant strike.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike." Amazing that flight attendants are standing up this back to work order. Shame on @aircanada.bsky.social
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Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@aircanada.bsky.social does not pay their flight attendants for essential duties that they perform. The quality of the Air Canada flight experience has plummeted & flight prices have skyrocketed, but AC can't be bothered to properly pay their crew. Take action here: unfaircanada.com
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Home | Unfair Canada
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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New article out in Media Industries on how media workers tackle equity from below via collective bargaining, co-authored with @madisontrusolino.bsky.social and Natasha Grzincic. Open access: journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
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Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining
This article examines how media workers tackle equity and diversity from below via collective bargaining. In a review of 69 contracts negotiated during the new media union movement’s most active years...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New publication out in Media Industries looking at how CBAs are used to address issues of equity and diversity in digital media workplaces. "Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining." Co-authored w/ @nicolecohen.bsky.social & Natasha Grzincic.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Big News from the East Coast: in January 2026 I’ll be joining the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John as an Assistant Professor (LTA) in Sociology. I can’t wait to join UNBSJ’s wonderful community. Thank you to everyone who helped me get here.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📚 🌟 New Publication 🌟 📚 In “A labour of love: cancel culture as an accountability practice in the comedy industry,” Diandra Ships & I disentangle comedians’ demands for safety from the narrative of ‘cancel culture’ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPZPR...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
cultural work is work writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics happy may day!
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📚 🌟 New Publication 🌟 📚 In “A labour of love: cancel culture as an accountability practice in the comedy industry,” Diandra Ships & I disentangle comedians’ demands for safety from the narrative of ‘cancel culture’ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HPZPR...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Toronto: get tickets to the launch of the Zine “Movies Men Ruined for Me” at The Revue on May 30th! I have a piece in it about terrible millennial men trying to seduce me to American Beauty (1999) revuecinema.ca/films/revue-...
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
USA: After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience www.fastcompany.com/91321619/aft...
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After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience
The latest phase of the Starbucks Workers United campaign includes sit-ins at stores, where union members have been arrested. They say the escalation is necessary to call attention to their fight.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I sat beside a talker on the plane who told me he was "undecided" on who to vote for. When I told him Poilievre was a transphobe, he said he didn't know that bc he was only focusing on the "economic" policies. Oh yes, bc economic policies famously have nothing to do with issues of social justice
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Karen Dewart McEwen @karendewartmcewen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This summer, I'm offering a free academic writing group that meets semi-regularly on Tuesdays from 1-3 pm ET. The first session is on April 22. I hope you'll join! Full schedule and registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Xbtfj53ERJKa4dLeKmGxiQ.
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Georgian College OPSEU Local 350 @opseulocal350.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Congratulations to all part-time and sessional faculty in the college system who voted overwhelmingly to unionize and join OPSEU! opseu.org/news/after-2...
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After 20 year battle, over 16,000 part-time and sessional college faculty across Ontario join OPSEU/SEFPO in one of largest organizing drives in Canadian history
Toronto, ON – College faculty union leaders had much to celebrate around the historic table at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) today. After a long day sorting through thousands of ballots, w...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The statement names farmworker union leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, who was picked up in what appears to be blatant retaliation for his organizing; SEIU Local 925 member Lewelyn Dixon, a University of Washington lab technician detained on her way home from visiting family; SEIU Local 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student whose detention by federal agents was captured in chilling footage; sheet metal worker Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a SMART Local 100 apprentice who was sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison complex; and United Auto Workers Local 2710 member Mahmoud Khalil, abducted by federal agents in front of his eight-months-pregnant wife.

The unions are also calling on employers, university administrators, and local governments to refuse to cooperate—and demanding that elected officials “find their spines.”
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Plane read ✈️ 📖
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
McCarthyism for the 21st century
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Starbucks union-busting continues to be absolutely wild. Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org from a former barista!
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Call for Papers Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@karendewartmcewen.bsky.social is helpful & aspirational! Check out her free (and paid) services
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social. Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE)
We are delighted to welcome applications for the position of Research Fellow within a new ERC-funded research group on Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE): Rethinking Conceptual, Ontologi...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The University of London Press is now accepting for new proposals for short-form books (20,000–30,000 words) on Digital Cultural Heritage on themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #BDCAM25
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Digital Cultural Heritage Archives - University of London Press
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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Breaking! Video Game Workers Vote to Authorize Strike at Microsoft. cwa-union.org/news/release...
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Video Game Workers Vote to Authorize Strike at Microsoft
A bargaining unit of hundreds of video game workers at Microsoft subsidiary ZeniMax Media has overwhelmingly voted, by more than 94%, to authorize union leadership to call for a strike.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Amazon producing a movie where the “hero” protects one of the most heinous capitalist institutions is just too much.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
PLEASE PARTICIPATE & SHARE! All 2SLGBTQ+ ppl in Canada (16+) are eligible to complete the survey! Link: smuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
New film review up in Films for the Feminist Classroom. I review two films on LGBTQ+ comedy: 1) Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement. Directed and distributed by David Pavlosky 2) Julia Scotti: Funny That Way. Directed by Susan Sandler.
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Films for the Feminist Classroom - Issue 13.1
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Currently reading @ericblanc.bsky.social
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States. Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks. Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
PLEASE PARTICIPATE & SHARE! All 2SLGBTQ+ ppl in Canada (16+) are eligible to complete the survey! Link: smuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Currently reading (with Robot the cat)
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