"I give a damn about... Gossip, which I believe is subversive women's work. Loose talk, blind items, neighborhood news, my kids' schoolyard tales—nothing is too trivial to be parsed, analyzed, and passed along. This I've watched Tarot Readers channel, Kate Middleton, I've scrolled Reddit threads about influencers I'd never heard of, and my group chats course through my veins. I feel like I should say something more serious since 2024 is "giving" civilizational collapse, but I also hope and expect I'm honing important skills here for when things go full Hunger Games, and gossip becomes a form of currency, spycraft, mutual aid, #resistance, etc...Gotta hold on tight to our ways of making sense of the world!"

Claire Stapleton is a writer, comms consultant, and one of the lead organizers of the Google Walkout in 2018. She lives in Brooklyn and is writing a memoir called TECH SUPPORT for St. Martin’s Press.

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