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N. K. Jemisin

ETA Update: Folks, thank you. As of July 1st, 2016, I've quit my day job and am living my best life as a full time writer with the help of my patrons. I am no longer actively soliciting patrons, but I'm leaving this page here so that other creators can see how my initial campaign was structured/written. (Good luck, fellow creators!) I'm N. K. Jemisin, and I need time.

I'm an author of 
science fi

Channel 5

From the crew that brought you All Gas No Brakes, we are so excited to have you back to witness the genesis of Channel 5 -- a completely independent, digital journalism experience brought to you by Andrew Callaghan, Nic Mosher and Evan Gilbert-Katz.A few months ago, we lost our platform, Patreon page, and primary source of income due to a contract dispute which was detailed in this New York Times 

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Since our start in 1998, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency has provided the information superhighway with daily humor almost every day. Our audience has grown over the years, and now millions of people visit our site each month. Some people read our articles to help get through their workdays; others find our satire helps them make sense of the madness of the world.We are proud of our legacy. While we

CANADALAND

Independent Journalism Needs Your Support, Right Now. One thing has become clear as the news crisis deepens: the only way forward is in partnership with you. We can't count on wealthy funders, government subsidies or advertisers. The people who value journalism need to fund the work that they feel deserves it.Put us to work for you. 

Laurie Penny


Hi, I'm Laurie Penny and I've been a journalist for ten years and a writer all my life. I report and write features about politics, social justice, culture and mental health. I'm a contributing editor at New Statesman, and I’ve written six books, and am working on the next one right now. I’m travelling the United States trying to get under the skin of the political nightmare we’re all living in. 

Brandon Stanton

I’m hoping Patreon will be a place for people
who’d like to engage with Humans of New York beyond the stream of daily
stories.  I feel like HONY is most impactful
when the stories speak for themselves, so I’ve done my best to keep my voice
off the blog.  But here it will be
different.  This will be more of a
personal space where I’ll share my process, my thinking, and my ideas for the
future of th

Gaslit Nation

Gaslit Nation is a weekly podcast covering corruption in the Trump administration and rising autocracy around the world. It is hosted by writers Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa, experts on authoritarian states who warned America about the threat of Trump and his criminal cohort long before they took power. Here they take a deep dive on the news, delivering analysis, history, context, and sharp i

Wait But Why

Here's our situation. Back in 2013, my kindergarten bff
and long-time business partner, Andrew Finn, and I were running a test prep
company we had started five years earlier. We're the excitable types, and
whenever we come up with an idea for a new creation, we try to figure out if
there's a way to make it happen. I'd been lamenting to Andrew how badly I
was itching to do one of my creative side-p

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