[WAM!Van] Warning! Founder of "Real Women Real Stories" has not paid female writers from his previous project

[Joanna Chiu]

Thank you! I posted to the international WAM listserv as well and someone
on there recommended a feminist lawyer based in Israel.

Love the support of the feminist media/activist network.

Thanks for your interest and support. I'll keep y'all updated, hope I have
some good news soon!

And it looks like Matan is now focusing on reaching out to former sex
workers and models to "tell their stories". If you know people in either
industry feel free to let them know to be careful about him.

Joanna

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Janet Hudgins <jhudgina at sfu.ca> wrote:

> I don’t have any contacts in Israel so not very helpful but keep me
> informed as I’m as mad as you are about this kind of male predator; they’re
> a dime a dozen in the business world. I’ve always tho’t women especially,
> ought to have references of employers just as they have of employees and
> posting this is just as good. Let’s have more!
>
>
> *Janet Hudgins*
> *Treason: The Violation of Trust*
> http://www.amazon.com/TREASON-Violation-Trust-Janet-Hudgins/dp/1436349249
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there, I'm a founding member of WAM! Vancouver. I'd appreciate any
> thoughts or advice on the below, but also wanted to just send out a warning
> to everyone to not make the same mistake I did of working with Matan Uziel.
>
> *Please keep the below information confidential for now, we haven't
> decided whether to go to press yet. *Off-list, please let me know if you
> have any feminist/media/lawyer contacts based in Israel.
>
> Background:
>
> A group of former writers for Glammonitor.com <http://glammonitor.com/> are
> working on a strategy to pressure the founder of Glammonitor to pay the
> amounts owed to us. Since around September 2015, he has not paid many of
> his full-time staff (including editor in chief) and freelance contributors.
> We had all signed contracts with Glammonitor.
>
> Matan, who is based in Israel but had staff working full-time in New York,
> fundraised for the publication on the basis of promoting respect for women
> and supporting female writers. He's since either ignored writers' requests
> for payment or lashed out against writers over email.
>
> Kat George shared one such email on Twitter, where he accused her of
> "misandry": https://twitter.com/kat_george/status/713348864032522241
>
> Now, Matan has started a new project, Real Women Real Stories, which some
> people have called out for seeming problematic. It's described as "a unique
> project curated by men with the goal of embracing women who are silent in
> their pain but want to speak out."
>
> https://twitter.com/PROJECT_RWRS
>
> https://www.facebook.com/realwomenrealstories?_rdr
>
> The project has gotten some media attention recently for a Bree Larson
> interview:
> http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/26/entertainment/bree-olson-video-feat/
>
> I'd warn people against getting involved in this project, even if it seems
> like the contracts he's worked up look legitimate.
>
> Best,
>
> Joanna
>
>
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