Jane Clare Jones now on Patreon

[AcerbicAndroid]

I don’t know about you, but I think JCJ is marvellous. She’s set up a Patreon account, so if you value her work, you can support her with a monthly contribution. The page is here.

You’ll need to create a Patreon account, if you don’t already have one.

I'll say it again, I hugely admire the Women's Organisations that do exist but they/we have to sort out enough funding for them so that they can pay women for their intellectual labour. They have so many excellent minds who are effectively subsidising this work out of their own pockets.

We badly need more women's groups and financial support for them.

What is Patreon? I've seen it mentioned a couple of times.

HumourlessFeminist: it’s a crowdfunding website, but unlike, say, GoFundMe, supporters don’t just make one-off payments. Subscribers to JCJ’s page will pay a certain amount per month. I support another project on Patreon, where payment is per podcast episode.

I agree, Arran. The problem for me with Patreon is that it's a monthly sub. I have a sum of cash that I donate each month but I like to spread it around. So one month, I'll give to three or four women/groups/crowdfunds and the next to a different three or four.

It would be great if there was a communal pot somewhere that I could pay into and it aggregated the donations so that everyone got something every month.

It would be great if there was a communal pot somewhere that I could pay into and it aggregated the donations so that everyone got something every month.

We badly need this. I'm convinced that we need it for the groups that exist to survive and because (personal hobby horse) we need funding for the groups to collaborate on a woman-centered version of a fact checking organisation to have responses to new stories and to obtain corrections and to fight against the use of zombie claims (like the suicide statistics).

fullfact.org/blog/2017/dec/2017-factchecked/

Thanks AcerbicAndroid.

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