Williamsburg Freelance Writer Rejected Because She's "Not Bushwick Enough"
A freelancer writer who we’ll call “SS” had hoped her second article for a New York City print publication would be running next week. Last night, she optimistically tweeted, “2nd article will be running next week in the [paper name redacted so she can keep trying!].” However, much to her dismay, the Williamsburg resident was rejected this morning because she’s “not Bushwick enough.”
She updated her followers, “wait, just kidding, got rejected because i’m “NOT BUSHWICK ENOUGH.” what, i live in williamsburg, can’t write about bushwick? whatevs.”
Whatevs indeed! So what does she write about? Well, I don’t know. But a word cloud of her most recent LiveJournal blog post might give you a clue:
What is it to “Be Bushwick”? I mean, it’s different than to “Be Williamsburg”? Is the great media magnification glass that’s been hovering over Williamsburg for the last few years shifting slowly to Bushwick? Regardless, this particular paper seems to be going hyper-local by declaring all writers who write about a neighborhood must indeed call that neighborhood home. It’s like politics! Notice to all freelance hopefuls, start the Great Media Land Grab now.
i’m the person this entry is about.
for the record, my second article IS running in the print & web publication i originally tweeted about.
the rejection of being “NOT BUSHWICK ENOUGH” was issued by a brooklyn-based website.
this is pretty obvious when you are literate enough to read the entirety of my twitter feed. just saying.
who cares?
Really? You “redacted” the paper name as if the rest of the tweet couldn’t be searched on Twitter? I’m not going to be a jerk and post it, but it’s pretty easy to find out.
Fuck that paper anyway though. Writers and illustrators are pretty much the only people who still care about print media.
I would take that as a compliment, personally.
if you read her livejournal, that first entry is actually an email she received from someone.
“who cares?”
people who think their importance in life somehow has something to do with what neighborhood they live in. so, pretty much everyone who has moved to williamsburg since 2002.
I’m the person this “entry” is about and I just wanted to let you all know (since you really, really care) that my 2nd article IS running in a print/web publication. my “rejection” was by an entirely different brooklyn-based website.
What’s that, Brian? “What is it to “Be Bushwick”? I mean, it’s different than to “Be Williamsburg”?’”
Did you conveniently forget you already have an opinion on this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpthMRbnJIk
Not as funny now that you’re the alienated one, huh?
My boyfriend and I are moving to NYC in July and were planning on seeking out an apt in Brooklyn.
But, it seems we’ll be surrounded by arrogance regardless of which neighborhood we settle in.
Perhaps we should look elsewhere.
sh*t, i lived on ross st 30 yrs ago. u r all bozos. living there sounds like crap. find a ‘hood wth a soul.