NAMING BLUE
by Dana Rayin 🎭️ Culture
NAMING BLUE
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"Sharp, dark, and smart." -Erin Shetron
Feminist reflections on culture, body-ness, and making the world through words. For feelers and artists who don't mind getting pissed off now and again. By Dana Ray: essayist, idea wrangler, and language strategist.
Free Subscription Benefits
- All the wordy-words twice a month. Can include: interviews with brilliant souls, Things I'm Loving recs, essayish things.
Paid Subcription Benefits
- Monthly Voicemails. Just me on a walk sharing my unedited, In-Real-Time thinking.
- Open-call for topic requests, reviews, interviews, and more. Shaping the thinking and topics that end up on the page.
- Real talk: all $$ goes into the support I need to create consistently and effectively.
Paid Subscription Plans
- $50 a year
- $5 a month
About Dana Ray
Language strategist.
Writer.
Opinion holder.
Idea wrangler.
Tea drinker.
Your most assertive friend.
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