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.
Libs of TikTok recently put my statement piece on my Designing page on blast, when this was the real space where I was charging different rates to individuals. To be clear, I’m offering a discount to folks who are marginalized, because we tend to have lower incomes, less generational wealth, and because I can offer a discount to whomever I like.
Wealth Inequity
This sudden visibility (days before Transgender Day of Visibility, no less) for a site that was never meant to be anything but amusing to me and a place to house my portfolios in case I needed them, means that I have an opportunity to educate a little bit, so here it goes:
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. It’s historically only been accessible to white folks through purposeful policies, like Jim Crow laws, internment, the reservation system, redlining, restricted covenants, mob violence that destroyed the businesses and towns of Black entrepreneurs, racial pay disparity, etc. All of these practices served to prevent BIPOC families from accumulating wealth and increasing the opportunity for white folks to excel at the expense of others.
The end result of all of this (and, I’m focusing on mostly Black vs. white since the discrepancy for these two demographics has been highly studied; most of the time, Indigenous peoples are not studied at all — or are lumped in with “other,” which is how we got labeled “Something Else” at CNN during the 2020 election) was the creation of these conditions:
- The average Black family would need 228 years to build the wealth of the average white family today;
- Black wealth is still not growing at the same rate as white wealth (although the gap is starting to shrink), so that disparity continues to grow (and even if the growth rate was the same, white wealth has such a huge head start, it would never close on its own);
- Black workers earn less than their white counterparts for the same work when they have the same qualifications;
- Black women are the most educated demographic currently in the U.S. but their wages haven’t reflected this.
What about transgender and nonbinary folks? I’m glad you asked! While a study showed that weekly median earnings for all workers in the U.S. in Q3 2021 was $1,001, it showed that trans men, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and Two Spirit folks made 70% of that, and trans women made 60% of that.
What about disabled folks? In the U.S., 20.4% of disabled folks lived under the poverty line in 2022. On average, they make $0.66 for every $1 earned by workers without disabilities.
Now, is charging different rates for BIPOC, gender variant, or disabled folks going to make a difference in this intentional wealth disparity? Not at all. Only wealth redistribution can do that. But, I can give a discount to marginalized individuals to do my part.
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 BIPOC, gender variant, and disabled folks. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Identity of the Author | Page Rate |
| BIPOC, gender variant, or disabled | $5/page |
| White, cis, and abled | $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)
Libs of TikTok recently put my statement piece on my Designing page on blast, when this was the real space where I was charging different rates to individuals. To be clear, I’m offering a discount to folks who are marginalized, because we tend to have lower incomes, less generational wealth, and because I can offer a discount to whomever I like.
Wealth Inequity
This sudden visibility (days before Transgender Day of Visibility, no less) for a site that was never meant to be anything but amusing to me and a place to house my portfolios in case I needed them, means that I have an opportunity to educate a little bit, so here it goes:
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. It’s historically only been accessible to white folks through purposeful policies, like Jim Crow laws, internment, the reservation system, redlining, restricted covenants, mob violence that destroyed the businesses and towns of Black entrepreneurs, racial pay disparity, etc. All of these practices served to prevent BIPOC families from accumulating wealth and increasing the opportunity for white folks to excel at the expense of others.
The end result of all of this (and, I’m focusing on mostly Black vs. white since the discrepancy for these two demographics has been highly studied; most of the time, Indigenous peoples are not studied at all — or are lumped in with “other,” which is how we got labeled “Something Else” at CNN during the 2020 election) was the creation of these conditions:
- The average Black family would need 228 years to build the wealth of the average white family today;
- Black wealth is still not growing at the same rate as white wealth (although the gap is starting to shrink), so that disparity continues to grow (and even if the growth rate was the same, white wealth has such a huge head start, it would never close on its own);
- Black workers earn less than their white counterparts for the same work when they have the same qualifications;
- Black women are the most educated demographic currently in the U.S. but their wages haven’t reflected this.
What about transgender and nonbinary folks? I’m glad you asked! While a study showed that weekly median earnings for all workers in the U.S. in Q3 2021 was $1,001, it showed that trans men, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and Two Spirit folks made 70% of that, and trans women made 60% of that.
What about disabled folks? In the U.S., 20.4% of disabled folks lived under the poverty line in 2022. On average, they make $0.66 for every $1 earned by workers without disabilities.
Now, is charging different rates for BIPOC, gender variant, or disabled folks going to make a difference in this intentional wealth disparity? Not at all. Only wealth redistribution can do that. But, I can give a discount to marginalized individuals to do my part.
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 BIPOC, gender variant, and disabled folks. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Identity of the Author | Page Rate |
| BIPOC, gender variant, or disabled | $10/page |
| White, cis, and abled | $20/page |
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