Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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The Creator Economy and

We need more than first responders to navigate crises and create change. Source: https://buildingmovement.org/blog/mapping-our-social-change-roles-in-times-of-crisis/

How past trauma impacts emotional intelligence: Examining the connection

frontiersin.org

Emotions @ Work

Whatever conditions people grow up with are the ones they generally consider normal. This is a tribute to the amazing plasticity of the human mind, but it means that we tend to take for granted things that should never be accepted.

resilience.org • The Ideology of Human Supremacy

The Mythical Norm

Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.

Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

The Creator Economy and Media & Culture

Because here is the thing: every bit of communication to a group of people is ripe for misunderstanding. But the true delusion exists when we pretend like it isn’t. Even if we have been on the other side of the dynamic many times before, misunderstanding things.

Elise Granata • How to Keep Your Cool When Misunderstood By Entire Groups of People

Community

Ultimately, Agreements are a collective wish we make about how we might be in the same space together. That space could be a classroom, a sports team, a club, a conference, committees or boards, an organizing group. They reflect what we need to participate while feeling joyful, trusted, and brave.

But they also can be flimsy as hell.

Elise Granata • The Occasional Flimsiness of Group Agreements

Community and Community Design

‘Fandom Has Toxified the World’: Watchmen Author Alan Moore on Superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

Alan Moore theguardian.com

Media & Culture and Fandom & Capitalism

“A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn’t about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

While being underrepresented is a fixed state that requires coordinated action to remedy systemically, being underrecognized is an ongoing, active state that we can change from moment to moment. Intuitively, it has an agent. That’s what makes this word an actual call to action. It puts the onus on the folks with the power to act, and it makes the... See more

N. Chloé Nwangwu • Why We Should Stop Saying “Underrepresented”

On Empathy