Grateful to Molly White for pointing out the legal precarity of freelance journalism. For most people, the law is more of a threat than a protector.

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I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”

Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.

Beyond excited for Erin Kissane’s new venture. Not only is this work of such deep, fundamental importance, but Erin is exactly the person we want tackling it. And the fact that she’s doing this work in community—with us, not for us—is evidence of that:

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Into the wreck

What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be e...