The Waves: Hollywood is On Strike. Let’s Burn it Down.

On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re talking the Hollywood
strikes. Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined
by longtime journalist and author of Burn It Down, Maureen Ryan to
unpack the systematic oppression that has taken place behind the
scenes of your favorite movies and television shows for decades.
They dig into the structures in place to keep women and
marginalized voices from getting to the top of the ladder, and how
none of these stories are examples of one bad apple. They also
explore how the ongoing writers and actors strikes are an
inevitable result of years of injustice - and what they need to
bargain for to make true change in Hollywood. In Slate Plus: A
recap of episode 8 of Max’s And Just Like That… If you liked this
episode, check out: How to Survive in Hollywood  Podcast
production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario
and Alicia Montgomery. Additional help from Paige Osburn. Send your
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