@MsJoelyFisher I’ve got SUPER EASY MATH for
@sagaftra to protect blacks, women, stalking/domestic violence survivors, the disabled, GLBTQ, religious minorities, older adults and other marginalized groups they trumpet being an advocate for on social media.
First, do what other unions like
@ActorsEquity and
@WGAWest do better (though not perfectly): publish granular yearly earnings data broken-down by advocacy cohort.
Second, disclose what percentage of each advocacy cohort has recouped join fees and member dues, broken down by local, every year since SAG-AFTRA’s founding. Member and FiCore, cause you know you have that data. And you know it kneecaps the union’s ability to do theocratic—rather than material—advocacy for the downtrodden.
Finally, drop Hollywood’s voodoo bastardizing of “representation” theory. Do what Cheryl I. Harris, Sara Ahmed, bell hooks, Gayatri Spivak and other women who wrote the theories you appropriate recommend: liberate the marginalized from higher forced symbolism, demand union and Hollywood processes do the same, and track progress as a guiding KPI/Key Performance Indicator of SAG-AFTRA’s future.
That’s MATH so EASY, any secretary-treasurer and proud activist can do it!
Thank you for your service to ACTORS . . . and absolutely NEVER “good-washing” guilty Hollywood insiders who bestow status and paychecks for “depravity rehab.”