Hi friend,

A few days ago, we emailed you to ask for any messages of support you had for those in places affected by wildfires. Here are a few messages that you all sent in to us:
 

To the feminist community on the West Coast of the USA, with love and solidarity.

To all the kind folks out there, keep fighting the good fight!!!!

To the fucking awesome west coasters

To undoing as much of climate change's effects as possible and to being united as we do so!

To those in California, my first home

Stay strong Portland!

To the people out there who simultaneously have to deal with COVID AND with fires

Hey West Coast, Y’ALL ARE THE BEST

We’re here for you West Coast bitches! Thinking of you from Florida

I can’t even imagine what you all are going through with these fires but I hope you know the rest of The Rage is here and keeping up the fight while you’re holding it down in the West Coast.

All my love to our West Coast community, who are enduring an unbearable crisis right now. We are with you.

Bitch’s community of feminists—wherever in the world they might be—are a community of smart, engaged, rightfully angry people who demand change in the world. They show care and concern in the face of a world that is often cavalier (if not outright hostile) to the values we hold dear as a feminist community. We see the work that our readers are doing as educators, activists, authors (and all other fields where your existence makes an impact in this world), and as friends and family members working to leave the world a better place for future feminists.

Whether you’ve come to Bitch through the magazine, from interacting with us on social media, or adding our emails to your reading list, we are so appreciative to have you as part of this community. The kindness that you showed here is precisely what makes the community of readers like you who have come together around Bitch so special.

We’re entering the final week of this fundraising effort to raise $75,000 by September 25 so if you haven’t yet, please consider making a one-time donation, joining The Rage as a monthly member, or subscribing to Bitch magazine today to continue to support independent feminist media and its community through a trying year.