We hear every day about how technology is dehumanizing, crushing lives, and polluting souls. Enough of that. Let’s talk, for once, about us: the humans, unbowed, who are challenging the deranged gambit of the tech oligarchs.
Tech Workers Coalition is proud to invite you, tech workers from all over the world, to contribute your lore, your feelings, and your wins to Tendrils, a zine created to reveal and connect the global struggle we share; for those who fight today and for the many more who come after. This zine will be printed and available digitally.
Tell us your story. In this first phase, we are collecting pitches in the following categories:
- Organizing in the Tech Labor Movement — What does it mean to organize? What does it mean to win? What does it mean to you? Forget the theory. Speak with your heart and guts. Why do you do what you do? An anecdote, a piece of poetry, a confession, a conversation: we can accommodate different formats, as long as the content is passionate.
- Organizing in the Province of the Empire — the spotlight is too often on the Imperial Core: Silicon Valley, Big-Tech companies, fancy start-ups. But it’s where the asphyxiating poisons of techno-capital cannot reach that the tendrils of labor are free to search for a new, solid connection with technology. We want to showcase examples of successful organizations, strategies, and practices that challenge our ideas of what collective action or organizing around tech can be like. The preferred format is 600-1200 words of a specific organization, network, or organizing ecosystem you’re part of, explaining the theory of change, but also the concrete, day-to-day experience of participating in it..
- Faces of TWC - Accelerating Shift — We want to reserve a portion of the zine for TWC local chapters. If you’re a local TWC organizer, we want to compile a collection of your reflections, experiences, and suggestions around the changes happening in the last few years. “Business as usual” is dead, but how does it look where you’re from? What have been the changes for you as a tech labor organizer and for your chapter as a whole? How does your near-future look? Format can be a 300 to 800-word contribution, but we welcome visual material to complement the text.
Pitch deadline: April 30th. Please note that pitch submission does not guarantee your piece will be selected to be in the zine. If we select your submission, we will confirm with you by May 6th and share format requirements, editorial involvement, and additional insights.
Final draft deadline: May 30th 💌
For any questions, please email helen@techworkerscoalition.org or find us on the TWC Slack base-building channel.