Matthew’s tweet stood out for me, precisely because of her point about how this stuff catches up with you because guess

Many of these people are being lauded by our communities but if you talk to the most vulnerable amongst us, you will know how these people really treat those they see as having no value to them.,As with most victims of gaslighting, it is when you have left a toxic relationship or workplace that you realize that you had done nothing wrong, and the anger you feel at being gaslit comes up.,Nasreen’s point about a progressive ethos in front of the screen versus the hypocrisy of how un-progressively you treat the women of colour who work under you has really stuck with me. It is because, in my experience, this is what most social justice spaces have been like. For women like me, who have neither pretty or thin privilege, or light-skin or class privilege, social justice “activists” shun women like me because I do not have the connections and networks that they want access to in order to further their careers.,I’ve been thinking all day about @prachigu and @amalykinz’s tweets on their former workplaces, and how much courage it must have taken to speak out. So I’d like to join them and say, I’ve never been more unhappy than when I was working at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj.,That Kumar has worked in a lot of places, and has probably seen a lot of terrible workplaces, especially workplaces run by white people, and still consider Patriot Act to be something that she has never experienced before, hints to us just how bad a working environment Patriot Act was.,Clearly, a number of women who worked on the show as well and even the men who witnessed it felt compelled to speak up. This hints at a truly toxic work environment that clearly implicated Minhaj, in much the same way that Ellen was implicated in how her show treated its workers. Juggernaut writer Sarah Thankam Matthews tweeted in response to these women sharing their pain.,Octavia fell into a depression. Days went by, and she wouldn’t leave the safety of her bed. Neighbors stopped by to talk with her and encourage her to resume normal life, to no avail. Even her beloved husband couldn’t rally her spirits to eat more than a bite or two of dinner.,And I just held onto that feeling. I held onto it when I launched my first product that sold zero sales. I held onto it when I barely made a dime for my first couple of years of writing. The alternative looked worse to me — stuck in a cube having to listen to people I didn’t want to fucking listen to.,Nasreen’s honest tweets prompted other women who worked on and around Patriot Act to talk about their experiences or what they have heard from others. New York Times writer Iva Dixit tweeted about how her friends on the show were made to feel.,The Hatchers were the toast of Pikeville, Kentucky. Older ladies helped Octavia keep the house straightened and with dinner. They gave more assistance the closer to the due date the young woman got.,Baby Jacob died on May 2, 1891. When the doctor arrived on the scene, he could not understand what happened with the baby. During this era, infant deaths were at an all-time high; the doctor believed it was another statistic.,When Octavia gave birth to baby Jacob, the new parents were proud and happy. Their small family became the envy of the town. Loved ones stopped by to wish them well and look after mom and the baby while James was at work.,James and the men of Pikeville celebrated his impending fatherhood. It was the culmination of a lifelong dream for him. From the time he could speak, the father-to-be spoke about wanting children and how he would lavishly love on them and his wife.,The dissonance between the progressive way these people present themselves and how they actually treat people is THE reason I have stopped going to social justice events or being part of these c̵l̵i̵q̵u̵e̵s̵, oh I mean, communities.,In response to Sheila Vee’s tweets, other women of colour who worked on Patriot Act also came forward with their stories. These include Pakistani news producer and writer Nur Nasreen.