Women Supporting Women is the revolution

Here's the update:

Come April 1st, our subscriptions will begin charging. To the 21 out of hundreds of sisters & readers paying for this work, THANK YOU! Your open palm is everything to us.

As you've seen, we're ambitious. Publishing, researching, making original work here, podcasting, soon making video shorts, all the things! Come April, we will be sharing those elements of our work in a tiered way. We hope the samples you have seen so far will inspire a Yacumama, Naga, Ouroboros, or Pythia subscription. (So many snake goddesses!)

We'll be clear: our founder Esmée Streachailt put her money where her mouth is. She wants this project to support and to amplify support for women's thought, action, and creativity. She seeded Medusa Rising with several thousand dollars of her own money to make sure contributors get paid and overhead is worry-free for a while. But that risk is the limit of risk she can take. The team has agreed to forego payment until the project makes a profit.

We will need your support to make this project go long-term.

Here's the ask:

Medusa Rising wants women paid for work — all of our work. Until the end of capitalism, keeping the bodymind together is a matter of gathering lucre. The Manifesto for a Radical Materialist Feminism is clear about this:

The writers, reporters, artists, poets, researchers, & theorists we publish deserve to be paid for their time, energy, practice at their crafts, and for their good works. The movement cannot liberate women if we are not materially supporting women!!

To pay our brave contributors we must ask for your support. If you are supporting us with your attention and by sharing our posts and media, we are eternally grateful. Feminist Ideas Must Walk The Earth! But the women who make them must also walk, and eat, and keep a roof.

This team, this project, and the women we platform are builders of worlds. Your support is the foundation of that world.

We hope to be part of a thriving ecosystem. That's why we've priced our subscriptions to ask as little as possible of each woman. We hope you will share our contributors, the other organizations, projects, and efforts that we will make sure you know about. We want you to give your support to them, too, as you can afford and as fits your vision for women.

To your most courageous imagination!
Medusa Rising
A'Ja, Erin, Esmée, Victoria, Zara

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