The fact that I am currently struggling not to be broke, and am planning to cure this affliction by going back to college, of all things, kind of makes me not have to worry about donating. It would be fiscally irresponsible for me to do it right now.
But. . . what if it weren't?
The only thing I know about this new publishing venture is that it is 1) new and 2) POC-and-other-minority-class-centered. And that is a good and fine thing.
But I don't know anything about the people running it. I don't know if there's a track record for me to go on. That means I have no way to make an educated guess on what's going to get published, and if I wind up even inadvertently financing the publishing of a POC version of Christopher Knight? Why, I'm going to go on a worldwide killing spree, and that will be only because I cannot figure out how to kill the entire universe for fucking with me on something this important.
But I don't want to see something like this-- something that has the potential to be big and important in a way that no longer allows fandom to ignore us, or the N-H's of the world to attempt to silence us-- die because of a comparatively trivial thing like lack of startup funds.
Is there anywhere I can go to find out more information? Or am I simply going to have to take a leap of faith (when I can afford to)?
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Date: 2009-03-13 07:59 am (UTC)The fact that I am currently struggling not to be broke, and am planning to cure this affliction by going back to college, of all things, kind of makes me not have to worry about donating. It would be fiscally irresponsible for me to do it right now.
But. . . what if it weren't?
The only thing I know about this new publishing venture is that it is 1) new and 2) POC-and-other-minority-class-centered. And that is a good and fine thing.
But I don't know anything about the people running it. I don't know if there's a track record for me to go on. That means I have no way to make an educated guess on what's going to get published, and if I wind up even inadvertently financing the publishing of a POC version of Christopher Knight? Why, I'm going to go on a worldwide killing spree, and that will be only because I cannot figure out how to kill the entire universe for fucking with me on something this important.
But I don't want to see something like this-- something that has the potential to be big and important in a way that no longer allows fandom to ignore us, or the N-H's of the world to attempt to silence us-- die because of a comparatively trivial thing like lack of startup funds.
Is there anywhere I can go to find out more information? Or am I simply going to have to take a leap of faith (when I can afford to)?
tl;dr: Arrrgh.