Support trans lives: Become a Champion for Amplify Respect
Become an Amplify Respect Champion today to support trans lives
My work building empathy for LGBTQ+ folks doesn’t pay for itself. Champions sustain my work with $180 a year.
Will you become 1 of 10 new Champions right now?
Extra gift: If you subscribe as a yearly Champion by December 1, I'm happy to schedule a 1:1 call with you to chat about whatever you would like!
What your funding will make possible
- Answers to the questions about trans people you’ve been unsure who to ask
- 50 more weekly articles next year
- Videos sharing the message with folks who prefer to watch
- Interviews and collaborations with amazing LGBTQ+ folks and allies
- Growing our readership and community
- A message of hope, inspiration, and solidarity for trans people and allies
What Champions get
- Your name on my thank-you page (or stay anonymous)
- If you support by December 1, schedule a 1:1 call with Rey to chat about whatever you'd like
- Receive an impact report on what your funding made possible
- Keep Amplify Respect going for people who need hope and inspiration about being trans
HEADS UP: Amplify Respect is not a nonprofit, so memberships aren't tax-deductible
Goal for next year
Reach 10,000 people with a hopeful message of empathy, understanding, and advocacy for trans rights.
This year's impact
Check out our current success!
My 250 articles have reached over 1K subscribed readers, plus over 2K visitors this year.
This is amazing progress, and also, I'd love to expand our audience even more.
Access to funding will allow me to devote more of my time to growing the audience and finding more people to join our community, as well as paying for advertising in queer spaces (newsletters, not Meta ads!) and creating more video for folks who would rather watch than read (it's all good! we all have preferences.)
I know some of you support art and culture regularly.
Biking home past Symphony Hall at night, I admire the well-dressed folks stepping out into the street, still glowing from the performance.
I’ve gained so much from theater. As a teenager, I watched my friend kiss another man on stage. That scene in a play showed me it was okay to be gay, and it changed what I thought was possible for me.
More recently, I loved going to a queer cabaret body-positive drag show, where people had fun tossing dollar bills at the performers while cheering them on.
My newsletter and videos form a different kind of stage, but the message is the same. I am creating art. I am building empathy by sharing stories about being trans, nonbinary, queer, and gay.
If you're reading this, we agree building empathy for LGBTQ+ folks is an important mission. I appreciate you!
I need you to buy your ticket to this show by becoming a Champion of Amplify Respect.
Your support - reader support - is the only source of funding currently for this newsletter and my other media. I truly appreciate those who have contributed already - thank you so much!!
At the current level of support, I'm running this whole publication as a volunteer project, even dipping into my own savings to pay for tech expenses and advertising.
And I'll be honest - while I love the work, sustaining and even growing this project is feeling really challenging unpaid and with a tiny marketing budget.
This is why I'm asking for your help. I need TEN CHAMPIONS to step forward by the end of the year to keep this project going.
Readers love Amplify Respect
River Selby, author of Hotshot: A Life on Fire, says:
Rey is truly a treasure- their writing is so down to earth and accessible and also so, so important and enlightening.
Becky Bullard of Democrasexy says:
Lovely ... SO thoughtful and HUMAN in all the best ways.
Frankie de la Cretaz, author of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League, says:
Rey is lovely and I’m glad to see them having an impact.
Maddie Poore, cofounder of The 51st, says:
Caring, well researched, and doing important work to build a better world.
Russell Nohelty, USA Today bestselling author, says:
They’re the best. I learn so much from them.
Kari Ginsburg, author of Hey Glitterbomb, says:
Informational, hopeful, and welcoming, and I'm psyched when the latest issue arrives in my inbox.
Johnny B. Truant, author of Fat Vampire and 100+ books, says:
Thanks for being you. It’s taken me time to see through the binary/hetero/cis that I took as standard and unwavering through most of my life, so it’s always great to hear voices I haven’t heard before.
Julie Holstein of Ward 6 Brooklyn says:
So accessible, full of emotion and authenticity, and I learn something new all the time.
Chris Musei-Sequiera, post-capitalist & post-colonial business designer, says:
Rey has an amazing ability to listen deeply and patiently in conversation. The clarity offered by Rey makes collaboration joyful and easy.
Jude Jones of Tiny Memoir says:
I have been trawling for uplifting posts about trans/non-binary people. Unfortunately most of what I’m finding is hateful rhetoric, but your helpful article emerged like a shining beacon of hope!
LC Sharkey, writer, says:
I love how good you are at asking questions and initiating dialog that prompts us to think more about gender as a cultural phenomenon, and our own relationship to, and experience of, gender.
Allegra Chapman, author of Creativity Is Your Self-Care, says:
If you're keen to be an ally to your trans and non-binary siblings on this planet but feel unsure of how to go about it, [Amplify Respect is] accessible, welcoming, supportive, and entertaining.