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There Are No Girls on the Internet

English - May 20, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB
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150 staffers, many of them from marginalized identities, were laid off from Netflix amid the company’s first dip in subscribers in over a decade.

Let’s revisit our conversation with B. Pagels-Minor, a former Netflix program manager, who was fired in the wake of Dave Chapelle’s transphobic comedy special.

Netflix Blames You for Its Stock Problems, but the Real Problem Is Netflix: https://gizmodo.com/netflix-subscribers-stock-down-why-1848892573

Read B’s piece in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/netflix-walkout-b-pagels-minor-fired-chappelle/

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