As an editor, I’m always interested in people being able to decolonize and tell their own stories. I want people from marginalized communities to show up authentically and be able to tell their own stories and I want to help in any way that I can. Here’s a great quote that encapsulates how I would love to see all writing show up:
Writers from a minority, write as if you are the majority. Do not explain. Do not cater. Do not translate. Do not apologize. Assume everyone knows what you are talking about, as the majority does. Write with all the privileges of the majority, but with the humility of a minority.”
-Viet Thanh Nguyen
I am committed to editing with an equity lens, ensuring that any edits are for clarity and not stylistic in nature. I am committed to never altering a writing style, the intention of a piece, or change the voice in any way.
At the same time, I vow to only work on and amplify voices that uphold the humanity of others, especially people from marginalized communities. Sometimes, this can mean directing authors toward conscious style guides or guiding them to different words or phrases, and sometimes this can mean telling authors with relative privilege “no.”
Publications I’m Currently Editing
The B’K — a quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all.
All My Relations — a biyearly at and lit, online and printed magazine, exploring themes. The themes are only open to those with lived experience with the theme.
Community-Centric Fundraising’s Content Hub — a weekly online collection of essays, infographics, multimedia, podcasts, and videos exploring community-centric fundraising and the nonprofit industrial complex.
Services and Rates
Editing Fiction or Nonfiction
Editing will include a look at title choice, structure and flow, jargon, redundancy, continuity, grammar, equitable word choice, and own voices.
My editing services, like everything else I do, is delivered on a sliding scale basis, which I determine according to gross income and identity. Why do I do this? Because a lot of wealth has to do with access, privilege, and power. Most generational wealth was accumulated through either extractive or exploitive practices which have disproportionately impacted marginalized people (myself included). My pay rates ensure that others who also similarly impacted receive a discount and those that are not impacted but benefit from these systems (or may have done the impacting) pay their fair share or subsidize those they may have harmed.
If dollars are tight, I am all about the barter system, so if you believe you have goods or services I may need, please let me know what you have to offer. I occasionally offer pro bono services to organizations that are Black-led, Indigenous-led, gender-variant-led, or disabled-led, depending on my availability. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Identity of the Author | Page Rate |
| Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $5/page |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $10/page |
Sensitivity Reading
I am willing to act as a sensitivity reader for the following intersections of identity (while I hold others, these are the ones I feel confident to read for sensitivity):
- Queer (asexual, pansexual, panromantic, queer)
- Trans nonbinary
- Mixed-race and separated (raised with the white identities centered, away from BIPOC family)
My sensitivity reading services, like everything else I do, is delivered on a sliding scale basis, which I determine according to gross income and identity. Why do I do this? Because a lot of wealth has to do with access, privilege, and power. Most generational wealth was accumulated through either extractive or exploitive practices which have disproportionately impacted marginalized people (myself included). My pay rates ensure that others who also similarly impacted receive a discount and those that are not impacted but benefit from these systems (or may have done the impacting) pay their fair share or subsidize those they may have harmed.
If dollars are tight, I am all about the barter system, so if you believe you have goods or services I may need, please let me know what you have to offer. I occasionally offer pro bono services to organizations that are Black-led, Indigenous-led, gender-variant-led, or disabled-led, depending on my availability. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Identity of the Author | Page Rate |
| Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $15/page |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $30/page |
Reach Out To Contract
If you are interested in contracting with me, please email me and let me know what I should call you, where I can reply to you, what you need, and which hourly rate pertains to you. Initial conversations will never incur a charge.