A letter from the Managing Editors: Introducing our Launch Fundraiser
Today, anti-racist and anti-imperialist writing about early American history is under threat from austerity, executive orders, and historical erasure. Universities are exploiting the economic crisis to continue slashing budgets, the academic job market has collapsed entirely, and U.S. white nationalist mythmaking continues to hold sway within a violent police state and a chaotic election season. As early-career scholars facing these dire circumstances, we founded Insurrect! to honor the ongoing resistance to settler violence, slavery, and imperialism in the colonial Americas. Our goal is to publish the writing of contingent and independent scholars, graduate students, archivists, and library and museum workers who do not have a voice in academia. Insurrect! is not just for academics, but for a public eager for radical change in historical writing.
In the final two weeks of October 2020, the Managing Editors of Insurrect! are holding a Launch Fundraiser so that we can compensate our writers and content editors. The content published by Insurrect! is made possible entirely by graduate students and contingent academic workers; compensating our writers and editors is therefore of the utmost importance to us.
We are asking for your financial support so that we can continue to publish writing that confronts the histories, institutions, and narratives that perpetuate violence and inequality in our present.
Our goal is to raise $10,500 to cover Insurrect!’s operating funds for the first quarter of our duration as a publication. This amount will enable us to continue publishing through February 2021, with fair rates for our writers and content editors, as well as support for upkeep and management. The work of the Managing Editors currently remains voluntary and uncompensated. Your donations to Insurrect!’s Patreon and Paypal accounts go directly to paying Insurrect!’s contributing authors and content editors.
Join our Insurrect! community by making a monthly commitment or a one-time donation:
We appreciate your support.
In solidarity,
Insurrect!’s Managing Editors