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I have been brainstorming with partner and some other dw folks about a potentially very cool and exciting project. Also it is one that I cannot do alone (even if I had the spoons I did in high school, which was a LOT of spoons). So I'm going to talk about the idea and then see if anyone else is interested, and what they might want to do possibly.
~Idea~
A blog-zine-website type thing a la The Toast or Autostraddle, but aimed at disability-type issues or interests. Potential posts or sections or topics could include (but are by no means limited to):
Kinds of things to maybe have in the store (Zazzle? Cafepress?):
~Kinds of tasks I can think of atm (but we can totally bitesize it and share srsly folks)~
~In the comments or via PM~
Note: not helpful right now, anything along the lines of, "This is cool but totally unrealistic." My brain weasels can rain on the parade on their own without contributions so it would help if you did not feed them.
If there is a lot of interest I would be up for starting a dreamwidth comm about this, but would need a name.
Signal boosting appreciated
~Idea~
A blog-zine-website type thing a la The Toast or Autostraddle, but aimed at disability-type issues or interests. Potential posts or sections or topics could include (but are by no means limited to):
- a section of things to look at when you have brain weasels
- "how to do X when your body/brain does Y" (kind of like
bitesizedcleaning tips, but not limited to cleaning)
- cross-promoting people who have their own writing sites (fiction or non) or tarot readings
- "why austerity is terribad" and other political topics related to disability
- disability and history
- science!
- recipes for when your body thinks food is the enemy
- fandom reviews and recommendations that deal with disability
- terminology and ableist language
- Artwork/comics
- Poetry!
- Podcasts of written works and other accessible features (like being accessible to screen readers)
- Other things I may not have thought of yet!
Kinds of things to maybe have in the store (Zazzle? Cafepress?):
- Coping cards for people with chronic illnesses (as opposed to "get well" cards)
- T-shirts or buttons or whatever (maybe ones that warn readers not to touch you today because your body hurts, or perhaps say things like "not your inspirational crip")
- A print zine of things on the site
- Funny shit to look at when you feel like crap
- Other possibilities!
~Kinds of tasks I can think of atm (but we can totally bitesize it and share srsly folks)~
- Organizing system/emotional labor of "how does this work, how do we make decisions, how do we handle conflict, etc"
- Legal side of "how do we do banking, setting up non-profit or whatever kind of corporation status, etc"
- Web development (accessibility important)
- Web maintenance (moderation, posting, etc)
- Content creation!
- Content decision making (when to post certain things, how often to post, etc)
- Are there things we decide *not* to post? How do we handle conflict about that?
- Networking (social media promotion, finding new creators, outreach to other sites, etc)
- The store - content creation for that, legal side, banking! homg
~In the comments or via PM~
- Your preferred username (dw, tumblr, whatevs) and pronouns
- What you might be interested in helping with, if anything. Any mad skillz?
- Some sort of ranking of how realistic helping is right now or in the future? ("I am finishing my degree right now, but later..." or "This sounds amazing and also I have a couple of spoons I could use for this while I lay on my recovery sofa" or "I would totally read this but I can't commit to anything new right now" or "I have ideas but I can't help implement them right now")
- name ideas?
Note: not helpful right now, anything along the lines of, "This is cool but totally unrealistic." My brain weasels can rain on the parade on their own without contributions so it would help if you did not feed them.
If there is a lot of interest I would be up for starting a dreamwidth comm about this, but would need a name.
Signal boosting appreciated
So many ideas (syntaxofthings/xe/xem probably would use Witchling in Flight pseud for this)
Date: 2015-10-27 07:15 pm (UTC)* I am very pro-paying-people-for-their-work, so I'd encourage that once it's running - even just $25 for an article contribution. Also, I'd be willing to pass ideas around of how to raise those funds. (i.e. Kickstarter for start-up costs?)
* Articles about working around capitalism (there was a great quote in my local newspaper yesterday about someone who started a business around here because he kept getting fired for taking care of his chronic illnesses, so now his business gives lots of sick time)
* Once this gets started, I have leads of people who are great writers and understand living with chronic illness to tap into to see if they're interested in writing
I'mma probably add more ideas later.
Things I have skills for:
* Accounting and legal research
** Figuring out how to structure such a web site and organization
* Writing articles once it's going
Re: So many ideas
Date: 2015-10-27 09:27 pm (UTC)Another thing I think important to keep in mind: we can put a timeline on this of something like 6 months to get ideas together and a group of people interested in implementing it and organized.
Also, I can make spreadsheets for you of people who express interest. >_>
Fellow commenters: would be great to hear interest in reading such a site.
Re: So many ideas
Date: 2015-10-27 10:48 pm (UTC)Re: So many ideas
Date: 2015-10-28 01:54 am (UTC)Re: So many ideas (syntaxofthings/xe/xem probably would use Witchling in Flight pseud for this)
Date: 2015-10-28 04:38 pm (UTC)(a) i am also pro pay-for-labor
(b) if you get any kind of benefits, pay for labor can get super tricky really fast. like, "yay I got an extra $200! i can pay for X! wait crap what do you mean I'm no longer eligible for food stamps??? but this was a one time thing!" or alternately, "i shouldn't have to file taxes on this because I didn't earn much but now I am going to do all the really complicated self-employment taxes because I don't want social services to think that I am hiding that I made money and audit me and I am crossing all my whatevers and oh god this is so much work."
(c) perhaps some sort of option of "you can get paid X amount OR we can donate it to your charity of choice" built in, or some other something so that there are no benefits system shenanigans.
Re: So many ideas (syntaxofthings/xe/xem probably would use Witchling in Flight pseud for this)
Date: 2015-10-29 06:58 pm (UTC)