Literary agent fired for GC tweets on personal Twitter, feminists (and sane people) worldwide rally around her

submitted by BEB from self.GenderCritical

Sasha White was an assistant agent at the Tobias Literary Agency until the agency fired her for GC tweets on her personal Twitter account.

People worldwide are rallying around Sasha and I hope whoever is on Twitter goes and lends their support (!!!) because we need to show the world that GC beliefs are held by the Silent Majority.

Sasha's twitter: @iamGrushenka

IStandWithSashaWhite

Tell the Tobias Agency what you think too! @TheTobiasAgency

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[–]Comatoast 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't a lot of companies have addendums in their employment policies that restrict what you can say on your social media nowadays? I've seen it stating that you're considered a representative of the company (which is far reaching as fuck) and can't post things that would be considered socially unacceptable.

[–]BEB[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm guessing it depends on the country. In some US states, I think that there are some First Amendment protections that extend to employees, but I'm not sure.

Sasha White seems to be becoming the new Maya Forstater (sp?) in terms of people from multiple countries rallying around her right to speak about biological sex, etc., on her private twitter without being fired.

[–]leaveandletleave 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. A lot of companies in creative fields also include in the contract that anything created outside of work hours still belongs to them, too. I get an exception for personal creative works, but getting an exception for social media is nigh impossible. The implication is if you ask for one, you must be planning to say something inflammatory, so they might just cut their losses by not hiring you in the first place.

[–]Daraincork 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Done. Spineless creeps. They may not read all the emails. But if there is a big enough volume it might rattle their cage a bit .

[–]writerlylesbian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This actually has a high potential to backfire. If she’s a good agent, she will take her clients with her when she goes. And will quite likely attract a lot of writers who are otherwise worried about being cancelled for wrongthink.