Gay Agenda Recap and Transcript: Autostraddle’s Leaders Talk About the Vision!
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You DID IT! See Our Slack Office Freak Out When We Met Our Fundraising Goal, and More!
You, our community, raised $118,000 for Autostraddle, for independent queer media, for our vision and goals for the future. And we want to celebrate YOU!
#1 Best Community Of All Time Raises $100k+ For Queer Media In Two Weeks
Y’all aren’t f*cking around — we’re almost to our goal! Also, you wrote some VERY cute tweets that we would like to review with the whole group.
Get These Limited Edition Fundraiser Perks While You Can!
Look at all the cool things you could buy during our last fundraiser of 2020! Get your holigay shopping done early! Tell a friend!
You Got Us 45% of the Way There in 6 Days, Will You Get Us to 50% Today?
Hi hello fellow gays and queers, lesbians and bisexuals; it is Monday and look where we are! $53,713 of the way to our goal. That’s 45% in six days, people.
Yes, Fundraising Is Part of Our Business Model: Here’s Why
You may have noticed we just launched our second 2020 fundraiser. This is exciting news for a lot of you, but we recognize that it also might be an alarming or even annoying announcement to others. So we wanna answer some questions about our fundraising that we’ve gotten in the past, and just dig into what we’re doing and why.
What’s On Our Gay Agenda? Ask Questions, Get Answers at Our Live Town Hall
Autostraddle leadership will your questions live (virtually) with our voices and faces! Ask about the vision, the fundraiser, what we’re planning, our favorite cookies — we want to hear from you and then talk to you through a screen!
New Vision for Us, New Perks for You: Autostraddle’s August 2020 Fundraiser is Here
If you’re asking “why fundraise now?” the answer is twofold.
Queer Miracles: You Defied the Odds with Collective Action & LGBTQ Community, Earned My Undying Love
I hope you sit for a moment and know that you gifted us — and so many other people — with a serious dose of hope. You are making sustainable, community-supported independent queer media possible.
This Is It: We’re In the Final Hours of Fundraising and You’re Defying the Odds!
Because we all need some queer joy in our lives, we’re going to throw you a (pay-what-you-want) variety show if we meet this goal! Think comedy, think music! Think of all of us pretending we’re bumping into each other in front of a stage and spilling drinks and showing off haircuts maybe done by a professional (or a friend who was able to come over) and laughing (well, you can still laugh from where you are) all together. That’s what it will be like in spirit. I want this so much for us! If everyone who clicked away the pop-up today gave $9.35, we’d ZOOM past our stretch goal!
Autostraddle’s Future Is Your Future, So Let’s Make Plans?
Instead of preparing for doom, I can’t help myself from planning for the utmost beauty and enjoyment, for pleasure and laughter, for sharing stories and connections, regardless of whatever else is happening. Here are the near-future plans I’m inviting you to invest in with me on Autostraddle, during this final stretch of our fundraiser!
You Are THE BEST and Raised $100k; Now We’re Shooting for $50k More!
You ALL came together to get us to $100,000 and we believe you can get us to $50,000 more. 79% of the donations that made $100,000 possible were $50 or less! We mean it when we say that this is an effort of everyone coming together and donating what they can to make a huge difference. Together, you and we are powerful. We can make change happen. Let’s never forget that.
Well Hot Damn: Announcing a Limited-Time Action-Packed Fundraising Flash Sale and New Perks for $100K!
You’ve done so much for us, we want to do something for you, too — something fun and high-energy! So we’re bringing back last summer’s intensive and deeply fulfilling one-day fundraising flash sale!
You Raised $50K, Unlocked $23K in Match Funds, Are the Wind Beneath Our Wings!
Do you know?! Did you hear? WE MADE IT TO OUR MATCH GOAL! That means we’ve unlocked $23,000 in match funds. We’ve also reached a total of $76,217, which brings us 76% to our goal! Thank you. It’s because of you.
Ensure Autostraddle’s Future: Announcing Our Spring 2020 Fundraiser & $23,000 Match Gift!
In a time when digital resources and connection are more vital than ever — including workplaces that employ LGBTQ people sustainably — Autostraddle wants to not only keep our lights on, but ensure they’ll keep burning as brightly as possible.
You Should Join A+ So We Can Have a Merch Giveaway!
Help us reach our stretch goal and you could win an Autostraddle merch package!
You Need Help: Closeted Girlfriends, Pregnant Butches, Straight Weddings and More
Our fundraiser perk super special You Need Help is here!
We Did It! We Raised $90K! Now We’re Thinking Bigger!
We hadn’t planned anything beyond our original goal, but your belief in us has taught us a new kind of hope. Today, we’re introducing a fundraising stretch goal of $25,000 intended to help bring our senior staff salaries to a more manageable place.
For Your Consideration: Donating to Autostraddle
For the past five-ish years, I have worked in the hellish, uncertain landscape known as the media industry. I have written for well over a dozen publications. None have made me feel more valued for my work than Autostraddle.
We Need Help: Autostraddle Is Raising Money!
We’ve spent years — our whole lives, sometimes, it seems like — talking about what our community could look like if we weren’t spending all our time and energy on just staying alive, a feeling that queer and trans people know all too well. With your help, we’re excited to find out what thriving looks like.