04/08/2022
I'll be participating in the week-long Etsy seller strike from April 11-18 in protest of the 30% fee increase they're offloading onto sellers while also making record profits during the pandemic. This will kill tiny shops like mine, where every penny over breaking even counts. Please consider boycotting Etsy during that week, signing the below petition, and if you'd like to order from my (or, honestly, any) Etsy shop before the 19th, please do so over the next three days! Thanks
Etsy was founded with a vision of "keeping commerce human" by "democratizing access to entrepreneurship." As a result, people who have been marginalized in traditional retail economies -- women, people of color, LGBTQ people, neurodivergent people, etc. -- make up a significant proportion of Etsy's....