Hillary Rettig (she / her)

@hillaryrettig.bsky.social

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Author of Productivity is Power and other works that examine productivity from a social justice perspective. Underproductivity = disempowerment; laziness, etc., are symptoms, not causes. www.hillaryrettigproductivity.com for free articles and downloads.

Missy, a rescue puppy, curled up with a copy of Molly Crabapple's new history of the Jewish Bund, Here Where We Live is Our Country.
screen cap of this text: "In their lawsuit, the workers revealed they were forced to pay weekly kickbacks averaging $100 per worker, in cash. Workers living in Rhode Island were required to be transported in vans owned by the Marder Seafood general manager and to pay an excessive illegal transportation fee of approximately $60 per worker per week, in violation of state law. This scheme began around 2021 and continued through 2025, when workers came to the Pescando Justicia committee of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (CCT), a workers’ center in New Bedford, MA, that supports workers in low-paying jobs demanding dignity at work. "
Back of Melania Trump's infamous coat bearing the words, "I really don't care do u?"
Simpsons meme featuring Principle Skinner wondering if he's out of touch, but deciding it's the children who are wrong.
Simpsons meme: Principle Skinner asking if he's out of touch, but deciding that "it's the children who are wrong."
Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. "I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate...the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative piece which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the preservation of justice." Background image of Dr. MLK, Jr.
Cover of Naomi Klein's book Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, featuring a doubled picture of her own face.
Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III in 1983's Trading Places.
Cover of Hillary Rettig's book Productivity is Power 2: For Creative, Business, and Other Professionals.
Dark-haired woman holding up foraged head-sized puffball mushroom in "Alas Poor Yorick" position.
picture of Hannah Arendt
Cover of Hillary Rettig's new book Productivity is Power 2: For Creative, Business, and Other Professionals.