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ok so let me just legit have a holler for a minute about co-running/co-founding an indie media collective in an era when slop is dominant, technofacists have unprecedented access to policy-makers, and we're all so goddamned tired making real shit is hard and costs money

in late fall '23, I wrote about what the fall of twitter did to independent journalism, which was never a safe bet even before. i tracked just a little bit of how fucked up the non-corporate news sphere was gonna be without Twitter.

Substack remains a Nazi haven, shored up by leftists who refuse to leave the platform because they either wrongly believe it's too profitable to abandon or don't care. Buncha folks left the platform anway, including me. We were all thinking how to make a business work.

Roundabouts this time, Jezebel — arguably the most visible online feminist property of the 21st century — got jostled around a couple of times, folks were laid off, etc. This in the wake of the loss of Bitch Mag and the death of other feminist outfits that had made and shaped my own career.

This time-ish, I'm hollering at my sweet husband at the bar, four old-fashioneds deep, about the loss of feminist media and the dearth of feminist cultural criticism that shaped me. I loved/still love short-form video, but I LOVE TO READ AND I LOVE TO WRITE, TOO. And I thought: other people do too!