Hi, We’re The Flytrap!

The Flytrap Media is a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group that thinks beyond clicks and hashtag-engagement.

Our flagship newsletter, The Flytrap (the thing you’re reading right now!), features fresh, surprising, and sometimes challenging critiques, analyses, and reporting on culture, politics, and current events. You might have read about us in The Verge, The Objective, Poynter, MSNBC, OpenDemocracy, or Flaming Hydra.

Free subscribers get one issue each month, and we’ve got three paid subscription options for folks who want to read The Flytrap weekly in their inboxes, join the conversation in the comments section, and much more.

The Flytrap’s founding cohort includes writers and artists who, if we do say so ourselves, bring a dazzling array of identities and experiences — both professional and personal — to our mission: Bringing principled and diverse cultural criticism from a feminist perspective back to the internet. 

We are: Katelyn Burns, Evette Dionne, Nicole Froio, Christine Grimaldi, Andrea Grimes, s.e. smith, Chrissy Stroop, Rommy Torrico, Tina Vásquez, and Aria Velasquez.

Our bylines have appeared in the New York Times (sorry), the Washington Post, Bitch Magazine (RIP), The Toast (RIP), The Establishment (RIP), The Counter (RIP), Esquire, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, Politico Magazine, MSNBC, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, The Nation, The Atavist Magazine, In These Times, SELF, DAME, Vogue, Vice (RIP-ish), GEN magazine (RIP), The Rumpus, The Verge, Civil Eats, Racked (RIP), Rewire News, Longreads, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Nieman Reports, Vox, Catapult (RIP), The Baffler, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Texas Observer, Playboy, Foreign Policy and many more.

We’re inspired by the success of Flaming Hydra, Defector, the Aftermath, and other exciting new independent media projects, and we believe the time is right to launch an explicitly intersectional feminist publication owned and powered by workers, not bros and Big Tech bosses. The Flytrap has a ferocious commitment to editorial freedom and a values-led investment in exploration and play, with writing and art you won’t find anywhere else. We’re not publishing to cater to a Meta feed, a megacorp, advertisers, or an audience of thirsty centrists clamoring for “both sides.” We’re producing what we want to read, watch, and listen to — for us and for you, actual humans. 

And we’re real glad you’re here.