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 exploitation. That is how the myth protects itself from the people most capable of dismantling it.
The people most vulnerable to the myth are also the people who most need this work. That includes the people who cannot afford it. It also includes you, if you are white. You have been shaped by manufactured history and cultural doctrine installed before there was a self developed enough to question it. The harm the myth produces is invisible to you, not because you are incapable of seeing it, but because the invisibility was intentional. A population that cannot recognize the harm it is absorbing, or producing, is a population the myth can maintain indefinitely. This work exists to interrupt that. Pricing everything to meet the demands of a successful 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.
Direct financial support changes what is possible in this relationship. When the work is sustained, I can share thinking, writing, observations, and reflections without every act of sharing needing to generate revenue to justify itself. That does not mean everything is free. It means that what gets shared is not determined by whether it carries a price tag. A social media post, a research finding, a reflection sent to a group of people after a week spent together, none of these are free to produce. They cost time, energy, and sustained thinking. Direct support is what makes it possible for those costs to be absorbed by the work rather than solely by me, passed on as a barrier, or simply not produced at all because the conditions to produce them do not exist.
That is a different relationship than the one the myth’s economic model makes possible. And it only exists because some people have decided to sustain the conditions that make it real.
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.
Traditional funding structures replicate the same gatekeeping this work is built to interrupt. The application process requires translating this work into the funder’s language and priorities. The reporting cycle requires producing evidence of impact on the funder’s timeline. The renewal process requires remaining acceptable to the people holding the resources, which means remaining acceptable to the systems, institutions, and policies this work names directly. That is not an alternative to extraction. It is extraction with a different face.
Patronage refuses that bargain. It sustains the work on the work’s own terms, which is the only arrangement that allows this work to remain what it is.
If you are in a position to do that, this page is how.
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. 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.
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. What all of those forms do, at their core, is make the invisible visible. Intellectual and theoretical work does exactly the same thing. The difference is that the myth cannot extract from it the same way. 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
This is not a subscription. You are not purchasing access to content. You are not buying a product or a service.
This is not a donation. Donations imply charity. This work is not charity. It is infrastructure. It exists because someone is building it, and building requires conditions, and conditions require sustaining.
This is not transactional. Every exchange in this work does not need a dollar attached to it to justify its existence. Patronage is what makes that possible. When the work is supported, what gets shared is simply what it is, a reflection, a newsletter, a research finding, a training, a thought sent to a group of people after a week spent together, offered because it matters, not because it generates revenue.
If you understand that distinction, this page is for you.
Make a monthly commitment
Monthly patronage is the foundation. It creates the consistency and stability that makes long-term work possible.
If monthly patronage is not where you are yet, Buy Me A Coffee is the entry point. It is a way to participate in the same logic, at whatever scale makes sense for you right now, without a recurring commitment.
Both matter. The monthly patronage sustains the conditions. The one-time support says you understand what those conditions are for.
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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