Gwen
@gwenfulton.bsky.social
Working class storytelling. Race, class, gender, & the South. 🥖🌹
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Over a quarter of Americans work in retail-- why do we overlook them?
For Black Friday, I've got some good old retail horror stories plus some blessings for all y'all.
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For Black Friday, I've got some good old retail horror stories plus some blessings for all y'all.
workingclassstories.substack.com/cp/180177466
Heaven bless the retail worker.
Overworked, everywhere, and never fully seen.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Over a quarter of Americans work in retail-- why do we overlook them?
For Black Friday, I've got some good old retail horror stories plus some blessings for all y'all.
workingclassstories.substack.com/cp/180177466
For Black Friday, I've got some good old retail horror stories plus some blessings for all y'all.
workingclassstories.substack.com/cp/180177466
North Carolina, how you impress me.
My latest for Courier News, published here in Cardinal & Pine, about DHS and the overwhelming community response against border patrol last week.
cardinalpine.com/2025/11/24/a...
My latest for Courier News, published here in Cardinal & Pine, about DHS and the overwhelming community response against border patrol last week.
cardinalpine.com/2025/11/24/a...
Charlotte meets DHS raid with remarkable show of community
When federal immigration agents swept into Charlotte, residents mobilized overnight with an intergenerational response that transformed fear into a remarkable grassroots defense effort.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
North Carolina, how you impress me.
My latest for Courier News, published here in Cardinal & Pine, about DHS and the overwhelming community response against border patrol last week.
cardinalpine.com/2025/11/24/a...
My latest for Courier News, published here in Cardinal & Pine, about DHS and the overwhelming community response against border patrol last week.
cardinalpine.com/2025/11/24/a...
After the third day of CBP and ICE chasing people across Charlotte, hundreds of community members are filing into Dilworth United Methodist to find out how they can protect and defend their communities. @siembranc.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
After the third day of CBP and ICE chasing people across Charlotte, hundreds of community members are filing into Dilworth United Methodist to find out how they can protect and defend their communities. @siembranc.bsky.social
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Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.
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So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
I ran into card dealers striking for union recognition out in rural Indiana. Working folks are resisting everywhere. In my latest on Working Class Storytelling, what we all can learn from unions: open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
Solidarity forever and ever and ever.
A casino picket line in rural Indiana makes our choices and sides abundantly clear.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I ran into card dealers striking for union recognition out in rural Indiana. Working folks are resisting everywhere. In my latest on Working Class Storytelling, what we all can learn from unions: open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
What would it look like if you and all your friends fashioned yourself into a powerful voting bloc? That's what the UFO Skate Collective is doing in their hometown. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
How to Build a New Skate Park: Get the Skaters to Vote.
The UFO Skate Collective sees themselves as a small-town voting bloc
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November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What would it look like if you and all your friends fashioned yourself into a powerful voting bloc? That's what the UFO Skate Collective is doing in their hometown. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
Have you ever felt frustrated about what's happening around you, but felt like you were just one person? This is a story about how a small group of strangers transformed into hundreds of people taking action in their hometown over just one summer:
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/this-will-...
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/this-will-...
"This will all catch up with him."
A summer of organizing turned a group of 13 strangers into hundreds working together to hold their Congressman accountable for harmful legislation.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Have you ever felt frustrated about what's happening around you, but felt like you were just one person? This is a story about how a small group of strangers transformed into hundreds of people taking action in their hometown over just one summer:
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/this-will-...
workingclassstories.substack.com/p/this-will-...
There's a lot of confusion about who receives SNAP assistance.
This past spring, I met Jocelyn, a single mom who works at a local radio station and who prepares and serves a meal twice a week in her hometown of Roswell, NM. She also receives SNAP in order to make ends meet.
This past spring, I met Jocelyn, a single mom who works at a local radio station and who prepares and serves a meal twice a week in her hometown of Roswell, NM. She also receives SNAP in order to make ends meet.
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There's a lot of confusion about who receives SNAP assistance.
This past spring, I met Jocelyn, a single mom who works at a local radio station and who prepares and serves a meal twice a week in her hometown of Roswell, NM. She also receives SNAP in order to make ends meet.
This past spring, I met Jocelyn, a single mom who works at a local radio station and who prepares and serves a meal twice a week in her hometown of Roswell, NM. She also receives SNAP in order to make ends meet.
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For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
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"The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power," @katierogersnyt.bsky.social writes of the Ingrassia case. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker
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October 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power," @katierogersnyt.bsky.social writes of the Ingrassia case. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Hey friends. I'm working on one of my monthly columns. If your town has municipal elections coming up what is the ONE local issue you are thinking about most when you cast your vote?
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Hey friends. I'm working on one of my monthly columns. If your town has municipal elections coming up what is the ONE local issue you are thinking about most when you cast your vote?
I live in a "dangerous" neighborhood:
I heard a commotion out front and saw two young men arguing. I recognized both; one walks back and forth in front of my house half a dozen times a day and is usually strapped. I don't know if the other one carries. 🧵1/3
I heard a commotion out front and saw two young men arguing. I recognized both; one walks back and forth in front of my house half a dozen times a day and is usually strapped. I don't know if the other one carries. 🧵1/3
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I live in a "dangerous" neighborhood:
I heard a commotion out front and saw two young men arguing. I recognized both; one walks back and forth in front of my house half a dozen times a day and is usually strapped. I don't know if the other one carries. 🧵1/3
I heard a commotion out front and saw two young men arguing. I recognized both; one walks back and forth in front of my house half a dozen times a day and is usually strapped. I don't know if the other one carries. 🧵1/3
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“The last few months have been a lesson in power: who has it, who is trying to hoard it, and how regular people—teachers like Morgan, her students’ families, the working folks of this town—go about getting it.”
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Lessons in Power
Even as the rules feel rigged, Morgan Nudelman and her neighbors are determined to hold a big outside developer accountable to local needs.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“The last few months have been a lesson in power: who has it, who is trying to hoard it, and how regular people—teachers like Morgan, her students’ families, the working folks of this town—go about getting it.”
@gwenfulton.bsky.social
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@gwenfulton.bsky.social
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I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
October 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
Professor Dwayne Dixon has been reinstated by UNC CH -- turns out it's a BAD IDEA to try to terminate professors based off loose allegations of being "antifa" made by far-right Brietbart/Fox News journalists supported by VDARE and Groypers. Who would have thought?
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Professor Dwayne Dixon has been reinstated by UNC CH -- turns out it's a BAD IDEA to try to terminate professors based off loose allegations of being "antifa" made by far-right Brietbart/Fox News journalists supported by VDARE and Groypers. Who would have thought?
How do you hold a millionaire developer accountable to the working class in your town? Morgan, a Colorado teacher, is trying to figure out just that.
Latest on Working Class Storytelling.
Latest on Working Class Storytelling.
Lessons in Power
Even as the rules feel rigged, Morgan Nudelman and her neighbors are determined to hold a big outside developer accountable to local needs.
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
How do you hold a millionaire developer accountable to the working class in your town? Morgan, a Colorado teacher, is trying to figure out just that.
Latest on Working Class Storytelling.
Latest on Working Class Storytelling.
Professor Dixon is a friend to many folks across NC and a beloved teacher at Carolina. Yesterday, he was put on leave for being "antifascist." No other allegations or complaints against him. He's now barred from the campus where on Friday he worked.
www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
Sign the Petition
Reinstate Professor Dixon at UNC
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September 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Professor Dixon is a friend to many folks across NC and a beloved teacher at Carolina. Yesterday, he was put on leave for being "antifascist." No other allegations or complaints against him. He's now barred from the campus where on Friday he worked.
www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
We can't let them pick people off. Ain't a soul @uncchapelhill.bsky.social who feels unsafe with this prof there; ain't a student who can't form their own beliefs.
Don't let them label any of us as extremists when we are anti-fascist or anti-racist. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...
Don't let them label any of us as extremists when we are anti-fascist or anti-racist. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...
UNC professor placed on leave following alleged affiliation with 'anti-racist, anti-fascist' organization
Dwayne Dixon, a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, has been placed on administrative leave effective immediately.
www.dailytarheel.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We can't let them pick people off. Ain't a soul @uncchapelhill.bsky.social who feels unsafe with this prof there; ain't a student who can't form their own beliefs.
Don't let them label any of us as extremists when we are anti-fascist or anti-racist. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...
Don't let them label any of us as extremists when we are anti-fascist or anti-racist. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...
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“You don’t necessarily need people doing things that are high-risk. You just need large numbers of people doing them,” says Hardy Merriman in an episode of @newyorker.com’s ‘The Political Scene’ discussing strategies of resistance in a backsliding democracy. Tune in now!
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
The comedian has returned to late-night TV. What can the response to his suspension teach us about countering Trump?
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September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“You don’t necessarily need people doing things that are high-risk. You just need large numbers of people doing them,” says Hardy Merriman in an episode of @newyorker.com’s ‘The Political Scene’ discussing strategies of resistance in a backsliding democracy. Tune in now!
Gamers get stereotyped as weird recluses, but what if I told you there is a whole movement of gamers who use their platforms for connection, support, and community building? open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
A Cozy Gaming Empire
The gaming industry is increasingly controlled by corporate profits, but gamers themselves are intentionally creating grassroots, people-focused connections.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Gamers get stereotyped as weird recluses, but what if I told you there is a whole movement of gamers who use their platforms for connection, support, and community building? open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
Libs of TikTok and the Cape Fear Proud Boys have spent the entire week trying to get things to pop off at #UNCW. This is where our kids go to learn, to become adults. Adults stoking fire at a campus is not just childish, but cruel. Tonight the kids are sheltering in place. It shouldn't be like this.
September 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Libs of TikTok and the Cape Fear Proud Boys have spent the entire week trying to get things to pop off at #UNCW. This is where our kids go to learn, to become adults. Adults stoking fire at a campus is not just childish, but cruel. Tonight the kids are sheltering in place. It shouldn't be like this.