Direct Financial Support
Access is not an afterthought in this work. It is part of the argument. The myth has conditioned everyone to believe that work like this should cost nothing to access and nothing to produce. That is not generosity. That is how the myth protects itself from the people most capable of dismantling it. What I charge and what I absorb the cost of myself are both decisions made against that logic, with the people the myth has made most vulnerable to it at the center.
The people who most need this work includes those who cannot afford it. Pricing everything to meet the demands of a profitable business would create the exact barrier this work exists to dismantle. That is not a compromise I am willing to make. It is also not sustainable without direct support from the people who understand why it has to stay this way.
There is no The Predator's Table audiobook. Not because this work does not belong in that format, but because producing one requires resources this ecosystem does not have. That means every person who could benefit from that level of accessibility is someone who cannot reach it. That is the real cost. Every resource constraint is a person who does not get access, and this work becoming the exclusive domain of those who can afford it defeats the entire point.
Grants and institutional funding are not the answer. Any funder can change its priorities from one cycle to the next, and this work cannot survive being dependent on commitments that can be withdrawn the moment supporting it becomes politically inconvenient or financially uncomfortable. That kind of instability does not just threaten the ecosystem. It makes me, the person building it, the one who carries the burden of those costs when those decisions change. That is extraction by another name. What this work needs, and what makes it possible to build and maintain long-term, are people who have decided to sustain it because they understand what is lost if it stops.
If you are in a position to do that, this page is how.
This kind of support matters. Not because it is generous, but because of what it makes possible. This is patronage. Not a subscription. Not a donation. Patronage in the historical sense: financial support that creates the conditions for work that would not otherwise exist.
What those conditions look like in practice is this: the Profit Without Oppression theory did not emerge from a productive work schedule. Neither did Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth. Both came from periods when I had time affluence, the freedom to think without the pressure of immediate output, to stay inside the work long enough for something genuinely new to emerge. That is what this work requires to be what it is. And it is also what allows me to make the decisions I make about access, to absorb costs that would otherwise be passed down to the people least able to carry them. Patronage is not separate from the accessibility argument. It is what makes the accessibility argument possible to keep.
That work is artistry. Not in the narrow sense the myth permits.
The myth has spent centuries deciding which forms of creative and intellectual work count as art. Dance, music, fashion, sculpture. Forms it can display, commodify, and control. What all of those forms do, at their core, is make the invisible visible. They give people a way to understand and move through their world. Intellectual and theoretical work does exactly the same thing. The difference is that the myth cannot extract from it the same way. It cannot hang it in a gallery, sell it on a stage, or strip it of its context and profit from the aesthetic alone. Work that names how power operates and builds frameworks for living outside it is a direct threat to the myth's continued existence. So the myth decided it does not count as art. That is not a judgment about the work. It is a design decision about who gets to survive by making it.
This is that kind of work. And this page exists because people who understand what that work requires have asked for a direct way to support the conditions that make it possible.
What this is not
If you have seen the advising rates at kimcrayton.com, you may be wondering why someone charging those rates needs additional financial support.
The answer is straightforward. The advising rates at kimcrayton.com reflect 30 years of expertise, the industries I operate in, and a quality over quantity model that limits the number of clients I can work with at any given time. That work is what has been funding this ecosystem, and it cannot be scaled without compromising what makes it worth what it costs. That was already a weight I was carrying alone. The current political climate has made it heavier. As institutions and organizations have used the shift away from equity as permission to pull back from this kind of work, the pipeline of clients willing to engage has narrowed, which means the advising business absorbs that loss, and so do I.
This community development work is a separate undertaking. Right now, approximately 80% of it is funded by the advising business. That is not sustainable and it is not the design. Community development work should be sustained by the community it serves. This page exists because that is not yet fully the case, and because the people who understand the value of this work and want it to continue have asked for a direct way to support it.
Why $100 is the floor
When I first created this offering, $100 a month was the number that reflected what was actually needed to sustain the work. That has not changed.
Lower options, like $25 or one-time contributions, were not added. Not because the gesture is not appreciated, but because someone who can only afford $25 a month may not be in a position to provide the kind of consistency and stability this support is designed to create. For those who want to support in other ways, there is a merch store.
Why three tiers exist
The $250 and $500 options were added because people asked for them. Some people understand the value of this work and want their contribution to reflect that without needing to negotiate it. The tiers make that possible without requiring a conversation.
Choose the amount that is honest for you. No disclosure required. The decision is yours.
Why both Stripe and PayPal are available
Stripe was added because PayPal has a documented history of closing accounts and creating barriers for trans people, including around name changes. Both platforms are offered here because access to this work should not depend on which payment processor someone can use without risk.
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