This is a list of the shortform reading I've been doing lately. As a part of my professional work, I make sure to read at least two articles a week that pertain to diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DI&B), and this page used to be used for that specific purpose. However, it's gradually become a place to record any shortform reading I've done in addition to that goal as well.

I care very much about making sure I am consuming a representative and wide range of topics in this area, and so welcome suggestions and recommendations! If you know of anything I ought to be reading, please send it my way.

Shortform reading list

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"Jordan Peterson's 'Postmodern Neomarxism' Is Pure Hokum".
Luke Savage in Jacobin. March 16, 2022.
Read during the week of May 8–14, 2022
class, philosophy, socioeconomics
"Israeli police beat mourners at funeral of slain Palestinian journalist".
Maayan Lubell, Rami Amichay, et al. in Reuters. May 14, 2022.
Read during the week of May 8–14, 2022
Israeli–Palestinian conflict, policing
"Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason".
Evgeny Morozov in New Left Review. April 2022.
Read during the week of April 18–22, 2022
class, tech industry, technology
"Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon" (Podcast).
Paris Marx in Tech Won't Save Us. January 13, 2022.
Read during the week of April 18–22, 2022
class, philosophy, socioeconomics, tech industry, technology, workers' rights
"Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize in Landmark Win for Labor".
Karen Weise and Noam Scheiber in The New York Times. April 1, 2022.
Read during the week of March 28–April 1, 2022
Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union. It was seen as a rebuke of the company’s treatment of its employees.
Related reading: Amazon worker organization
workers' rights
"This Company Tapped AI for Its Website—and Landed in Court".
Tom Simonite in Wired. November 11, 2021.
Read during the week of March 28–April 1, 2022
Under pressure to make their sites accessible to visually impaired users, firms turn to software. But advocates say the tech isn't always up to the task.
ability
"Black Tesla employees describe a culture of racism: ‘I was at my breaking point’".
Margot Roosevelt and Russ Mitchell in Los Angeles Times. March 25, 2022.
Read during the week of March 21–25, 2022
In interviews with The Times, three Black former employees described how jobs at the pioneering automaker devolved into personal nightmares due to a pattern of rampant racism and harassment at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory.
anti-Black racism, race
"Google Fiber contractors vote to join union".
Kim Lyons in The Verge. March 25, 2022.
Read during the week of March 21–25, 2022
A group of workers for a Google Fiber subcontractor in Missouri has voted to unionize, the first of its kind at Google’s parent company Alphabet.
tech industry, workers' rights
"Wells Fargo Rejected Half Its Black Applicants in Mortgage Refinancing Boom".
Shawn Donnan, Ann Choi, Hannah Levitt, and Christopher Cannon in Bloomberg. March 11, 2022.
Read during the week of March 14–18, 2022
Fewer than half of Black applicants were approved by the biggest bank mortgage lender.
anti-Black racism, class, race
"Texas judge blocks investigations of trans youth parents".
Andrew DeMillo in AP News. March 11, 2022.
Read during the week of March 7–11, 2022
A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth.
children's rights, trans issues