Talia Jane Versus Yelp: BEST OF TANGOTI

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, we spoke to labor reporter Kim Kelly about the wave of union organizing at places like Amazon and Starbucks. In light of that, let's revisit our conversation with Talia Jane, who made headlines back in 2016 for asking her company Yelp to pay workers a living wage.

After Talia Jane called out Yelp for failing to pay a living wage, she became the "entitled millennial" poster child. But she was actually right.

Read the Wired profile on Talia's life: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/the-revelations-of-lady-murderface/

Read Talia's Medium piece: https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, Nimini here.
0:02.7	I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records.
0:08.7	Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman.
0:13.1	Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop.
0:17.5	Flash slam, another one gone.
0:19.8	Bass bam, another one gone. The cracker to bat and another one gone Bass bam, another one gone
0:21.6	The crack of the bat and another one gone
0:23.8	A tip of the cap is another one gone
0:26.2	Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history
0:29.9	Like this one about Claudette Colvin
0:31.9	A 15-year-old girl in Alabama
0:34.0	Who refused to give up her seat on the city bus
0:36.7	Nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing.
0:40.5	Check it.
0:41.0	And it began with me.
0:43.3	Did you know, did you know?
0:45.2	I wouldn't give up my seat.
0:47.5	Nine months before Rosa.
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