Celebrating Six Months of The Flytrap

Readers! Hello! Thank you for being a part of The Flytrap’s first six months in the universe. The community you’ve helped us build since we launched last November has shown us (and the world) that there’s a huge appetite for intersectional, worker-owned feminist media.

This week, the Flytrap is celebrating our six-month anniversary, and we’re thrilled to offer a Flytrap fire sale to celebrate, with a 15% discount on all new subscriptions with this gift link. Thinking about a gift for a friend or trying to sell a comrade on a Flytrap subscription? Now’s your chance! And, by special request, we now offer a MONTHLY subscription option with instant access to our whole archive for just $6.66 a month—for, for the next week, $5.66! On the opposite end of the scale, we’ve had supporters ask if they could give us MORE MONEY, and we’re delighted to announce that yes, you can! Sign up for our Big Chungus tier to support independent feminist media for $1,000 a year!

If you don’t need the hard sell, here’s that link again, and we salute you: 🫡

If you’re still thinking about it? Please allow us to hype our work the fuck up. Because we’re real proud of it.

We hope you’ve already enjoyed our monthly free posts: there was Nicole Froio on “Brazil money” and Bad Bunny, Tina Vásquez on the rise of Latino cookbooks, and Evette Dionne explaining why it’s critical to pay for feminist media, plus more—but there’s a heck of a lot else going on behind the paywall. Katelyn Burns wrote about why trans people are so into radical transit and urbanist policy, s.e. smith dove into #DeathTok, Andrea Grimes unpacked the right-wing marriage panic, Aria Velasquez luxuriated in the excesses of the Real Housewives, Chrissy Stroop called out the normalization of fascism, Christine Grimaldi endured the “red mass” up her ass (sorry, we still love that headline), and Evette Dionne reveled in the joy of seeing fat Black women represented in pop culture.

You’ve probably noticed that everything we run is illustrated with absolutely badass art: that’s all down to The Flytrap’s creative director, Rommy Torrico. We were also able to publish our first freelancer in April, with Cezary Jan Strusiewicz making the case for magical anime boys—and there are more great freelance pieces to come, paid at industry-standard rates. And if you haven’t yet tuned into our sister podcast Cancel Me, Daddy, hosted by Flytrap co-founders Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi, the time is extremely now. By popular demand, we’ve also opened a merch store where you can order your very own posters of our post art and pick up fun Flytrap swag, including a killer trucker hat.

We’re committed to publishing the feminist cultural criticism, reporting, and creative work that we want to see, and that our community craves as much as we do. To keep The Flytrap lights on for another year and beyond, we need to sign up 1,000 new paid subscribers. We’ve sweetened our subscription prices to entice new bites, but these special six-month anniversary rates won’t last long.

Join us for a nibble?

– The Flytrap co-founders
Andrea, Aria, Chrissy, Christine, Evette, Katelyn, Nicole, Rommy, Tina, and s.e.