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Follow Your Arrow: Designer Sarah Gottesdiener On Creating Feminist Propaganda
“I offer products that strive to act as feminist propaganda, as a reality disruption. To pay my gargantuan monthly student loan debt by selling weird feminist gear? It seemed like an awesome joke on the universe.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Entrepreneur Alyah Baker on Uplifting Queer, Trans, POC Makers and Brands
“After 13 years of corporate work I just needed to do something that felt like it mattered to me and to the communities that I was part of. I’m passionate about self expression, human connection, building community, and subverting the status quo by creating environments and experiences where women, POC, and queer and trans folks are prioritized.”
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5 Options for Banking Institutions (With Apps!) That Aren’t Funding DAPL
It can be tough to find a bank that’s not funding the Dakota Access Pipeline and that also still has the technology infrastructure you need. Here are a few places to start!
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Follow Your Arrow: Hot Tips From Queer Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business in 2016
Will this be the year you finally quit that job and launch your own project? Or the year you plan to up your game in your existing business and outshine all of your competition? Wherever you’re at, let these awesome queer entrepreneurs inspire you to follow your own arrow in 2016.
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Follow Your Arrow: Coach Elizabeth Cooper on Grounding Her Business in Self Care
“An integral part of my business is to create and cultivate positive, meaningful, supportive relationships with everybody from my clients to my colleagues, people I’m renting space from, potential clients, etc. It’s important to me that my actions demonstrate my values that every person and every body deserves love, respect, and care.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Dog Trainer Mary Tully on Clear, Loving Communication
“I knew I wanted to train animals by the age of 3. I didn’t know that I wanted to start this business until 3 years ago.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Natural Builder Barbara Jones on 35 Years in Construction
“I’m doing something I really believe in, that can change people’s lives for ever, that’s good for the planet. I never get tired of talking about how to use natural materials, why they work, and looking at how they were used in the past.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Artist, Activist and Academic Miyuki Baker Wants to Do It All
In this inspiring and hilarious interview, Miyuki introduces us to her life as a continuously-evolving process of creation and discovery, and what it’s like to live solely off your art. (She also shares pictures of the tiny house she built, which are amazing!)
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Follow Your Arrow: Gym Owner Nathalie Huerta on Hard F*cking Work
“I didn’t get any funding until year three and it came from a member who truly believed in me. Now in year six, funding opportunities are coming from multiple places, thank you baby Jesus, but all of those opportunities are coming my way from relationships I have formed, not from banks or investors.”
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Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Pathfinder Pace Smith On Chasing Your Heart’s Calling
“Own it, grrl. The world is getting queerer and queerer, and all the big businesses that refuse to acknowledge that are in their death throes. Your time is coming. Follow your heart. Do what you love. Start now.”
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This Business Of Art #27: Your Problem Is That You Make A Lot Of Cheap Shit
Topics include bold ladies, The Awl co-founder getting his first “real job,” a new Facebook algorithm, additional ad-blocking-related panic, a profitable “college paper on steroids” supported by 10, 0000 unpaid writers and more!
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9 PR Email Lists I’m Not Sure How I Got Added To
I don’t even know what materials research is. (Please don’t tell me.)
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This Business of Art Fix #25: Totally Prepared For The Digital Apocalypse
Topics include Gawker losing the Hulk Hogan case, digital media’s lack of geographic diversity, analytics-driven content production, Genius annotating personal sex stories, drinking with your clients and other crucial stories!
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Follow Your Arrow: Photographer Michelle Davidson-Schapiro on Confidence and Caring
“It’s the kind of work that makes me look forward to eight hours on my feet holding five pounds of camera in my hands with another seven pounds slung across my back. It’s wonderful to create not just art, but art that makes people feel special and good and beautiful.”
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This Business Of Art Fix #21: Nothing Is Off-Limits, Everything Is Content
How to be a person and/or a brand and/or a confessional female memoirist, Huffington Post Gay becomes Queer, optimizing your to-do list, a reporter in trouble at The Intercept and more pressing stories from the edge of your supportive office chair!
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This Business Of Art Fix #20: A Headline With The Word “Naked” In It
Topics include celebrity clickbait, the National Magazine Awards, the truth about the public interest in quality journalism, the end of Al Jazeera US, foods that boost productivity and more!
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Follow Your Arrow: Virtual Assistant Lizzy Goddard on Entrepreneurship and Chronic Illness
“In 2013 I was too ill to work, living on disability benefits, and had just dropped out of my masters degree. I was introduced to the world of lifestyle design, which then led me to the world of online business. Here were all these people, working from home/travelling, and running fun businesses from their laptops. About 2 months in I was making more than enough to live off, had doubled my rates and was hovering around fully booked…and now I’m a full-time, accidentally permanent VA!”
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Follow Your Arrow: Plumber Hattie Hasan and Her Army of Female Tradespeople
“About half our plumbers are lesbian or bisexual, but that is by accident, not design. We think that women living outside the dominant box are probably more likely to also work outside of it.”
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This Business Of Art Fix #19: In The Future, Everybody Will Be Famous For 15 Dollars
Topics include being both YouTube famous and broke, Nieman Lab’s predictions for journalism in 2016, the year’s funniest media corrections, productive things to do while job-hunting, a new website for conservative women, LGBT folks and people of color, and moar!