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Personal Essays for Peanuts

Are Feminist Sites Exploiting Their Contributors?

Beth Winegarner
5 min readJun 18, 2018

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Sam Dylan Finch began blogging about mental health and queer topics in 2014 — right in the middle of the personal-essay boom. It wasn’t long before he realized he could make a little money with the same kind of writing he was already producing for free.

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Beth Winegarner

Journalist, editor, author, opinionator. Bylines: Guardian, New Yorker, Vice, Mother Jones, Wired. Much more at www.bethwinegarner.com.