FAIR PAY
Let’s talk about money. Yeah, I know. It’s terrible. I hate it too!
I believe in fair pay for fair products. I work hard to ensure the products are good. Now it’s up to you to pay what’s fair. Only you know what that means to you.
Here’s what you need to know about me to make your decisions.
I am a fat, queer, Black femme. My brain is rather spicy: I’m autistic, clinically anxious, and struggling to thrive in the face of post-traumatic slave syndrome. I have multiple chronic illnesses and am slowly accepting the reality that I am disabled. I have been impacted by multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACES).
Most of my work centers Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. I believe decolonizing is the purview of indigenous people and I cede that space to those who are indigenous to the continent on which I reside.
Although I sometimes write “we” because I include you all in this farm community, there is only one dedicated farmworker. Surprise, it’s me!
I used to inhabit a position of privilege and power as a professional academic. I no longer have access to that same privilege and still have some power as a paid speaker and thinker. It’s privilege because my mind isn’t better than yours, I was raised by someone who really believed in telling me I could do anything. I, in turn, believed her back and here we are.
I don’t offer Fair Pay because I don’t need the money. I do. Last year, I paid myself $20,095.80. I worked three self-employed jobs and various consulting gigs. I sold $11,888.05 worth of products and spent $6,014.51 on commercial kitchen rent.
The farm is partly grant funded through Oregon Food Bank. We received $10,000 in grant support last year and gave away over $5,000 in free products. All of those grants are taxed as self-employment income at about 20% between federal and state, which means I also paid to give away the free products.
At this time I am only able to offer Fair Pay for face to face markets. I get eaten alive in service fees and shipping charges for online purchases and have not solved that barrier yet. As is I eat about 30% of shipping charges. I promise to keep working on it. Scratch that, let’s work on it together.
xox,
shiny
P.S. This work doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Here is some writing from herb folx whose approaches I respect:
FAIR PAY
Let’s talk about money. Yeah, I know. It’s terrible. I hate it too!
I believe in fair pay for fair products. I work hard to ensure the products are good. Now it’s up to you to pay what’s fair. Only you know what that means to you.
Here’s what you need to know about me to make your decisions.
I am a fat, queer, Black femme. My brain is rather spicy: I’m autistic, clinically anxious, and struggling to thrive in the face of post-traumatic slave syndrome. I have multiple chronic illnesses and am slowly accepting the reality that I am disabled. I have been impacted by multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACES).
Most of my work centers Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. I believe decolonizing is the purview of indigenous people and I cede that space to those who are indigenous to the continent on which I reside.
Although I sometimes write “we” because I include you all in this farm community, there is only one dedicated farmworker. Surprise, it’s me!
I used to inhabit a position of privilege and power as a professional academic. I no longer have access to that same privilege and still have some power as a paid speaker and thinker. It’s privilege because my mind isn’t better than yours, I was raised by someone who really believed in telling me I could do anything. I, in turn, believed her back and here we are.
I don’t offer Fair Pay because I don’t need the money. I do. Last year, I paid myself $20,095.80. I worked three self-employed jobs and various consulting gigs. I sold $11,888.05 worth of products and spent $6,014.51 on commercial kitchen rent.
The farm is partly grant funded through Oregon Food Bank. We received $10,000 in grant support last year and gave away over $5,000 in free products. All of those grants are taxed as self-employment income at about 20% between federal and state, which means I also paid to give away the free products.
At this time I am only able to offer Fair Pay for face to face markets. I get eaten alive in service fees and shipping charges for online purchases and have not solved that barrier yet. As is I eat about 30% of shipping charges. I promise to keep working on it. Scratch that, let’s work on it together.
xox,
shiny
P.S. This work doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Here is some writing from herb folx whose approaches I respect: