This is the newsletter to the Policy Out Loud blog, where I talk about all things people + policy.

This newsletter is my inner-circle. The place where I get a little more intimate with my readers about my life, travel, and love affair with mac n’ cheese, while also still talking all things policy. It’s a place for grace and critical thinking, soap box professing alongside a decent amount of laughter, and a raw Q&A section.

This 4 parts love letter and 1 part soap box. This is Policy Out Loud personified.

Thanks for being here. And thank you for supporting the blog.

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By opting-in to this email, you A) never miss an update and B) support a small writer who has waged a weird war on mainstream social media. This means you will never miss a blog update + you will get to see all the bonus things that come out in the email but never see the blog.

You waged war on social media…?

It’s no coincidence that as a policy blogger, I try to steer clear of most (free) mainstream social media outlets. ‘Privacy rights,’ ‘data breeches,’ and ‘creator exploitation’ are all soap boxes I love to stand on.

Crazy concept I know, but I believe in a world where your information is not for sale and technology is used to make leadership more transparent to the people, rather than make people more transparent to the leadership. Taking my work off platforms I believe are unethical, abusive to small writers, and dangerous to free-thought is my protest. 

It may seem like a stupid protest (it’s definitely one that is slowing down my growth), but it’s the protest I believe in. 

Because I rarely do the whole social media thing, I do my damndest to bring you a really cool email publication that you look forward to receiving in your inbox every other Monday. Being off most mainstream social media outlets means my voice will spread slower as a writer. If you love what you read, please consider sharing this email with your friends or your social media (if you are on it). This helps me grow.

Why help crowdfund this effort?

So here’s the deal, there’s only a few ways bloggers can make money. Because I give away the knowledge I’m in a ton of student debt to know for free on the blog, am seriously trying to avoid ads on my site because I too am sick of the constant barrage of people trying to take my money, and being an Amazon Influencer doesn’t currently align with my views on sustainability, I work really hard to create badass content.

There are two ways to support:

  1. The first way is to click the button and buy me a coffee once a month. This is the cheaper option.

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  2. The second way is to sign up for the premium subscription, though I want to be clear, at this time I am not producing content that lives behind a paywall. I want everyone to have access to this information because I actually believe understanding this stuff makes the world a better place.

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I write a blog that I am proud to put my name on, but it isn’t a cheap undertaking. Neither was graduate school. It’s an endeavor I invest a lot of time, money, and sweat equity into because I believe we need dynamic voices on the internet. I want to bring you polished material that is easy to navigate, well-researched, and purpose driven.

Your contribution helps pay for the website, research databases, and allows me to make the blog my full time job (which I am so grateful for). It also means I get to lead a badass community of passion-driven people whose data isn’t manipulated or being sold to the highest bidder on mainstream social media outlets. This means I can focus on bringing you excellent content, instead of running this as a hobby blog that can only fall within the margins of my work day.

Thank you for being here, for supporting this platform with your readership and financial support, and most importantly, thanks for making the world a better place for us all to be. I think that’s radically cool.

Your Partner in Policy,

Taylor Patrice

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