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Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 4: An Obscenity

When I was 17, my parents cautioned me not to pursue a career in the arts — lots and lots of dire, strong warnings because I had been…

8 min readMay 1, 2024

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Skibidi Toilet & Freud: Reluctantly Penned Thoughts

Ugh… am I really writing this essay? Dear reader, I want to let you know that as I type this, I am struggling. I’ve gone back-and-forth on…

4 min readApr 8, 2024

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4 Theses on Boyfriend Dan-GPT

For those not in the know, Boyfriend Dan-GPT has been going viral on TikTok and Instagram Reels. What is Boyfriend Dan-GPT? Boyfriend…

3 min readMar 31, 2024

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What Has Become of Social Justice

Controversial opinion: I want to hear way less about racial & gender diversity in elected government.

3 min readJan 2, 2024

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Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 3

Three months ago, I turned 30 years old. A month before my 30th birthday, I ended my ten-year career as an external union organizer, ending…

6 min readOct 29, 2023

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4 Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner

In April 2022, my political media business was making a clear transition from a steady hobby into a “real” business that was starting to…

8 min readOct 9, 2023

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TikTok Dialectics & the Labor Movement

As tensions between the U.S. and China escalate — and as more and more states within the U.S. are putting more and more restrictions on…

6 min readAug 17, 2023

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‘The Invisible Homeless’ Director’s Speech

FWIW, this is the director’s speech I gave at Guild Theater last night after the screening of “The Invisible Homeless”:

2 min readNov 6, 2022

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3 More Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner

About 5 months ago, I wrote an essay titled “3 Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner.” The title of that essay was pretty…

7 min readSep 15, 2022

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A Short Thought on Healthy Confidence

There’s this mindset that you should be supremely confident in your words, all the time, and command respect everywhere you go because —…

2 min readApr 26, 2022

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Ian Lee

Ian Lee

I've worked as a union organizer for 10 years. I write about pop culture, philosophy, politics, and my personal life. Connect with me: linktr.ee/ianjolie

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