I’m really glad we did this one: In our latest subscriber-only Boiled Leather Audio Hour podcast, Stefan Sasse and I discuss the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes—why they’re happening, what they mean, and where Hollywood and labor go from here. Subscribe and listen!

I don’t think I’ve posted about it here, but for the past couple of months I’ve been involved with a group of organizers from the Freelance Solidarity Project in developing ways we as culture writers, freelance or otherwise, can show solidarity with the striking workers of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. Their fight is our fight!

To that end, we developed a pledge people can publicly sign, agreeing to support the strikes in various ways through our writing. We also came up with a nice simple statement anyone can slap into any piece they write: “This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the [series/movie/etc] being covered here wouldn’t exist.“

If you’re in the position to do so — this includes podcasters, folks who write about TV and movies just for fun, you name it — please sign the pledge and start using the statement. Power to the writers, power to the actors, solidarity forever!