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Midnight Sun is a new online magazine for everyone watching today’s social catastrophes deepen and wondering with urgency, even with desperation: What do we do? And how? And with whom? From Indigenous land defence to Black Lives Matter, from the International Womens Strike to tenants organizing their apartment blocks one conversation at a time in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, were witnessing an upturn in dissent which brings with it a multitude of visions of the way forward. What kind of future do we want, and how do we get there? How do we build the power necessary to realize our hopes for a better world? And what are the roads we don’t want to take? The dead ends where our collective potential is bound to dissipate? How do we build a mass socialist movement for our time? We seek to be a point of convergence for those asking such questions, and especially for those asking them on the territory currently known as Canada. Neither a news magazine nor a scholarly journal, Midnight Sun is a forum for writing that tries to bridge revolutionary theory and practice, that weds a deep curiosity about how the world works to an urgent interest in how we might organize most effectively for justice. Since we launched in May, we’ve published an essay on organizing strategies for hairstylists, a neglected layer of the working class; reflections on Indigenous land defence, and the care that builds the solidarity that strengthens the blockade; poetry about political despair and violence; literary nonfiction on madness as a political tactic and strategy; a new translation of a celebrated poetic reflection on the Paris Commune; a deep dive into storytelling as a radical organizing tool; a moving epistolary essay reaching out to Palestine; a reported feature on how mutual aid and community care networks form a crucial foundation for abolitionist organizing; and much more. Work originating in Midnight Sun has been republished in Spectre Journal, System Change Not Climate Change, Palestine’s Al-Quds daily newspaper (in Arabic translation), and a journal of the Resistncia current of the socialist party PSOL in Brazil (in Portuguese translation). We pay for what we publish (currently up to $200 for full-length articles), and we’d like to pay more authors higher rates, as well as cover our modest operating costs. Our process for developing new writing for Midnight Sun involves significant time and care dedicated to each piece we aim to publish a small number of thoughtfully edited offerings each month and your recurring donation helps make that patient approach sustainable. Besides author fees, our main costs are web hosting/development and a wage for one very part-time staff person, who leads our substantive editorial work, manages the website, runs our social media, coordinates our volunteer editorial board, and handles the magazine’s general administration. Our vision is to develop Midnight Sun to a level of vibrant activity that would require and sustain at least one full-time staff role or an equivalent number of part-time staff roles, allowing us to devote even more hours to supporting new writers who have important things to say. In the short term, here’s what could be possible with your help: At $500/month in Patreon support, we’ll raise our standard author rate for full-length articles by $50. At $1250/month, we’ll raise our author rates again. At $1750/month, our current operating budget will be fully sustainable. At $2000/month, we’ll raise our author rates again. At $2500/month, we’ll expand our staff hours: either we’ll make our very part-time staff editor slightly less part-time, hire an additional part-time staff person to support our growing work, or both. At $3000+/month, we’ll dream even bigger, in conversation with you about how those dreams should look. We have no fixed Patreon benefit tiers; please set your own custom amount. An hour of your wages each month would mean the world, as would the cost of one monthly coffee. Warm thanks for any contribution you’re able to make. Cover photo: Javier Allegue Barros

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