The Flytrap officially launched Tuesday, a little over a month after its 10 co-founders announced a Kickstarter campaign for the project. The outlet has raised nearly $57,000 and follows in the tradition of feminist blogs through reporting and cultural criticism told through a feminist lens and delivered via a weekly newsletter. The first issue, free to all, is a piece from co-founder and journalist Katelyn Burns called “The U.S. Election Cycle Is Too Damn Long.”
It was the “perfect” piece for The Flytrap’s Election Day launch, said Andrea Grimes, a journalist and activist who decided to create The Flytrap after feminist website Jezebel briefly shut down last year. The Flytrap was founded with the goal of providing readers content that goes “against the algorithm,” which Grimes said means not participating in the news cycle in ways that feel inauthentic or “icky.”
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