Every byline listed on my website that's appeared since 2014 has been in exchange for money. I work a day job. I ruthlessly pursue free products from PR flacks. I used to share a Google doc with pay rates for major pubs. It's all monetized. I can't afford to do anything else
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When you're rich, you can afford to work for free. Me? I've got a family. I'd like to see a massive easing of these capitalist pressures, through actual wins in Politics (because the govt controls the purse strings and the nukes), but until then, I just do the work. Here for it
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Someone was like...from your webpage to your videos to your tweets to whatever, it's so obvious you're selling yourself. No shit! I'm not rich enough to do things for my health (unless healthy things make me money). A chunk of the stuff I've sold is about what I'll do to make $
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Why no Onlyfans? Well, I'm not above any work -- I certainly wouldn't valorize that labor, as we do in a society where long term criminalization has made it taboo -- but I have enough income streams to avoid that for the time being. It's not my first or fifth choice work
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Normalize selling out!
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I plan to! Everyone sells out under the current state of capitalism except for people who go to great pains to make you think they aren't (yet they also attack the notion that they're "sellouts" on moral grounds, as if the work is so Important and Good sales are beside the point)
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