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Jan. 17th, 2016 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sajia_kabirI'm starting to think that online activists should stop posting the majority of their stuff on social media. Post stuff to test the waters, yes. But focus on writing essays and articles and get those publishing credits, otherwise mainstream academia and media will mine your hard work and not credit you. There is alternative media out there that will publish your material, you just have to be willing to settle for very low pay, possibly for the rest of your life, but the alternative is not getting credited at all.
I was one of the first Muslim feminists online to critique the New Atheists, but understandably, because my critiques took the form of five sentence squibs and poems and not full-length essays and articles, I haven't been credited for that. But I don't want my friends and colleagues to be developing ideas on things like emotional labour and then it makes the NYT op-ed and they never see a dime. THAT's appropriation which in my view is much more a serious issue than the latest Taylor Swift kerfuffle.
I was one of the first Muslim feminists online to critique the New Atheists, but understandably, because my critiques took the form of five sentence squibs and poems and not full-length essays and articles, I haven't been credited for that. But I don't want my friends and colleagues to be developing ideas on things like emotional labour and then it makes the NYT op-ed and they never see a dime. THAT's appropriation which in my view is much more a serious issue than the latest Taylor Swift kerfuffle.
