Dear Reader, YES! Fest is coming up on Oct. 7-8, and I want to share some more details about the program for the second day. After hearing from Vandana Shiva,
Q&A with Jude Ellison S. Doyle on why Substack isn’t about Substack. Substack is still chugging along as a company and a content management system (although we’ll be leaving it soon). The company, now in a fresh new round of fundraising, has either ignored or combatively engaged with the criticism it’s fielded over the last few months namely, that it does not enforce its community guidelines when it comes to the harassment of trans people, and that it has been (opaquely) providing money to a selection of writers in its “Pro Program.”
Here is a snipper of the conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity. You can read more here.