“The ancient Greeks believed the artist’s responsibility was in building and maintaining the physical universe. For artists, this should be the true meaning of Labor Day — to recognize the power of our labor — and to demand the compensation, benefits, and rights necessary for us to bring art into the world.” - Billie Anania
I’ve dropped my Substack founding member rate to $50/year. If you believe art is labor, now is your chance to support it at this rate.
Yesterday I shared my roundup of all things that happened here on Create Me Free in August. Well, almost all things. With each article that I share here, I try to highlight the work of other amazing writers and creatives who are doing things that I think you might like. Today, I wanted to extract those and round them up for you, in case you missed them the first time around. What I shared from other awesome people in August:
Please do check out the inspiring people on this list: Anne Stephens, INNA, Dilara Melisa Yaman, nadia g, Wolfangel888, Carolyn Yoo, Stoic Wisdoms, Nicole Meier, Wild Awakening Collective, Kelly Wilde Miller, Victoria Bolduc, Sue Clancy, Rock Bollinger, Lois Mac, Terry underwood, Emily Yvonne, Andy Adams, Avinash Sai, Verticul, Océane Meftah, Emily Male, Tuğba Avci, WilM, Álvaro García, Ben Cardew, Sam Galloway (she/her) 💕, Tara Leaver, Jody Shield, Mari Colbert, Danielle Styles, Colin Beattie, K.L. Rockwell, Ngozi Aboajah, Kate Speer, Suzan Colón, Madelleine Müller (she/her), and Andrew Smith.
In August, I also reshared the following post which has quotes from more inspiring writers:
Keeley Rees, Jami Attenberg, Holly Becker / Decor8, Jackie Knapp, Priya Iyer, Mason Currey, Farrah @Substack, Jeannine Ouellette, Michael Rich and Eric P. Rhodes.
I love helping others understand themselves creatively.
There are some great reads here Kathryn! Thanks so much for sharing them all!