I am a woman of many interpersonal struggles. One of my ongoing struggles is with the New York Times. Earlier this year, I posted about an interaction I had with a New York Times journalist named Natalie. Recently, another one named Nellie Bowles contacted me.

Nellie Bowles wants to know what my thoughts are on California’s AB5. I texted her to set up a specific time in which we could chat on the phone. Nellie seemed to have a lot of problems with making an appointment. She was either unwilling or completely uninterested in setting up a specific time to talk. Instead, she played phone tag with me on Christmas Eve, at random intervals, while I watched a Harry Potter marathon on the USA network. I wanted to mourn the death of Cedric Diggory and wallow in my own nostalgic misery on Christmas Eve, not play phone tag with the New York Times. By the end of the night, I decided to go ahead and pass on the newest opinion request from the New York Times. I don’t really like that magazine and I don’t think that shitty journalists have the best interests of stripper labor rights in mind when they write their articles. There are plenty of great writers who are also strippers, who can post their own comments about California’s AB5. While I may link to articles in these posts sometimes, I also wish there were alternatives.

I am really happy about California’s AB5, because while the near future may make the life of misclassified employees, who think they’re freelancers, more complicated— in the long term, they will be happy about having employee rights. I think the people who are opposed to AB5 are sorely misinformed about how much power this bill will give to workers, both employees and true freelancers who don’t want to get bossed around. That’s my opinion, a StripperLaborRights.com exclusive, hot off the presses.