November Salon Insider - Does AI Have a Place in Creative Work?

November 20th, 2025

Last week’s salon exploded the “is AI good or bad?” binary and asked instead: Who gets to decide what counts as creative work, and whose privilege determines the rules?

Four writers brought disability justice, extraction ethics, class analysis, and structural critique to a conversation that refused easy answers. If you’ve been wrestling with AI use, questioning your creative process assumptions, or trying to critique harm without reinforcing gatekeeping, read on. The tensions we held, and refused to resolve, might reframe everything you thought you knew about authenticity, access, and complicity.

Below the paywall, you’ll find:

• Full salon replay (panel + group discussion)

• Salon Summary - Don’t have time to watch the entire thing? We’ve summarized for your comments in the comment section.

• Curated collaboration clusters matching writers with shared themes for co-creation

• Journal prompts that won’t let you escape into easy answers

• Resources that go deeper than the conversation could

This is what happens when you gather women who’ve outgrown coaching-speak and want to actually think together.