SHERO Needs You to Survive

I hate to sound alarmist, but the impact of Covid and the economy has hit SHERO drastically in the last year. As many of you know, newsletter revenue supports all of my work across several platforms — it is because of paid subscriptions that I am able to continue my work on Twitter.

It is also paid subscribers who ultimately support all of the articles I have been publishing at no cost. For the last year, I have published roughly 75% of my articles for free, because I wanted to make sure that anyone who needed access had it, and that Covid affected SHERO readers as little as possible. I don’t want to have to change that ratio, so I am hopeful that many of you, who have enjoyed a free subscription, will now consider a paid subscription so that female-driven, independent journalism is still accessible.

Many of you have sent me lovely messages to explain why you could no longer support my work here at SHERO, and I completely understand that many have lost jobs and times are tough for everyone. That is why I have held off on letting you know about how much SHERO’s patronage is slipping. If any of you who can afford it right now could consider a paid subscription to SHERO for the next year, it would help tremendously. SHERO needs you now.

Thank you for your continued support.

— Amee Vanderpool

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Amee Vanderpool writes the SHERO Newsletter and is an attorney, published author, contributor to newspapers and magazines, and analyst for BBC radio. She can be reached at avanderpool@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter @girlsreallyrule.

Paid subscriptions and one-time tributes embedded in each article allow me to keep publishing critical and informative work that is sometimes made available to the public — thank you. If you like this piece and want to support independent journalism further, you can forward this article to others, get a paid subscription or gift subscription, or donate once, as much as you like today.