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OKAY INTERNET, this is s.e., knee-deep in baking for my equinox dessert party, and I'd like to see if we can get TEN subscribers this hour. Get one year of feminist cultural criticism in your inbox three days a week for $39! YOWZAS!!! www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

While I have a few minutes before I have to turn the temperature down on this cheesecake for the second half of the bake, a bit about why The Flytrap is so important to me, and how members like YOU (that inbox better have a notification when I refresh!!) make it possible.

It was also COMPLETELY UNSUSTAINABLE. Running a blog is a LOT of work, especially a group blog—and all the best feminist blogs were groups of diverse people bringing their own perspectives to the table. Wrangling the collective. Guest posters. The blogroll. MODERATING COMMENTS.

Some feminist bloggers made the transition to other media formats. Many quietly faded away. A lot of those blogs disappeared, eaten by link rot, platforms closing, failing to renew hosting, etc. That was a huge cultural loss. Andrea wanted to see if we could do that, but better.

We knew that reviving this tradition and preserving this heritage was important, so we turned to the internet and said "hey, will you help us launch this?" A cavalcade of Kickstarter supporters said YES. In two days. We got fully funded in two days! There was a lot of screaming in Slack.