Because the legacies of colonialism, enslavement, and systemic oppression have tilted the scales of access to care and healing against indigenous people everywhere, people of the global majority at large, people who are gendered outside of white cis maleness, people who are undocumented, and people with varied physical and cognitive abilities, I find it necessary to account for this when engaging in financial exchange. I want my offerings to be utilized by people most often denied access, so I create greater access for those people by how I set prices and structure exchange. My rates are often situated on a scale that allows you to pay at your level of access on that scale. I often will offer for certain populations to pay by donation while others pay on a specified scale. It’s important to me that I get creative to increase accessibility to my work. I never turn anyone away because of lack of resources, and I continually invite donations widely to ensure that my needs are met and to cover the rates of people who are unable to pay. There are more than enough resources to go around if we maintain a culture of sharing and collective resourcing.

In any case, I make community offerings whether I am guaranteed full payment or not because it is my work to do. I rely on the collective care of people who have greater access to resources to support my work by offering monthly donations on Patreon, donations in exchange for grief ritual attendance or other offerings, and one-time donations. Please consider this as you explore my work and share about it with others; encourage others who are able to support my work financially. My work is primarily funded by generous people of integrity like you, not by direct exchange of services. This is what it can look like to interrupt the habitual patterns of capitalism that limit access and contribute to overexertion and burnout.