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Why do you ask for donations? For this blog and community to be run as a safe space, it is a full-time job, and it also means that I cannot subsist on ad revenue: Just as there is a "misogyny tax," there is a tax to be free from misogyny and all other forms of bigotry; there's a cost to providing a safe space. Traditional sources for monetizing a blog are not an option: Content-generated ads (like Google Ads) frequently yield ironic advertisements—diet plans on fat acceptance threads, and anti-gay ads on pro-gay threads. Ad submissions had to be turned down which feature sexualized imagery of women, inappropriate language, or endorsements of companies that are union-busting or bigoted.

While Shakesville had a good relationship with BlogAds for some time, I eventually had to terminate Shakesville's relationship with BlogAds after their automatic overnight approval policy resulted in several ads being placed on Shakesville with content that violated the rules of the safe space.

Thus, this blog is now totally ad-free—and will remain so unless and until I can accommodate advertising without compromising the tenets of the safe space.

So I solicit donations, because I cannot run Shakesville as the community wants, and as I want, and get paid for my work in this space from somewhere else. That's just the reality. We must sponsor ourselves, so that we may continue to be both safe and independent.

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