Now, several people have asked me if they could donate or send some Paypal or Patreon funds my way. I feel extremely awkward about this because it was never my intention to ask for money. I tried to be truthful to my reality in order to explain how I live while I come across my name printed on tote bags I cannot afford.
To all the responses regarding my last piece about feminism and appropriation — Medium
The responses to my piece about the commodification of my work have been very touching and emotional. Many people have reached out with support, offers of donations and comments. Since it would have been impossible to respond to each comment individually (and it would have mostly been a copy/paste of the same response), I wrote one single post addressing all of this (and including a link to the tip jar requested by several people).
For the past decade and a half I have been making all my content available for free (and never behind a paywall) as an ongoing practice of ephemeral publishing. This site is no exception. If you wish to help offset my labor costs, you can donate on Paypal or you can subscribe to Patreon where I will not be putting my posts behind a lock but you'd be helping me continue making this work available for everyone. Thank you. Follow me on Twitter for new post updates.