As we approach the end of another publishing year, Scalawag remains grateful for the support from our community of readers and contributors that keeps this publication thriving. This year, our publishing theme, “rePRESSion,” emphasized just how high the stakes of the work that we do truly is. In April, following the recension of grant funding from one of our longest-standing philanthropic donors In August, we lost funding again: This time from a donor identified by multiple organizations as one who had been defunding publications and organizations standing in solidarity with Palestine and other oppressed people across the world. And despite funding cuts, a shift in funder’s priorities, and backlash for our coverage, still we RISE. Scalawag is Rooted in Southern Experience, meaning our resistance, our radicalism, our resilience, and our revolutionary thought reflects the long tradition of Southerners who have struggled against slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, structural anti-blackness, and capitalist exploitation. The Southern structure of violent exclusion and exploitation means Repression is also a Southern experience. In addition to funding loss, we have continued to publish writing, art, and cultural commentary that is critical of the repressive structure, historically and present. Donate to the RISE campaign via the link in our bio and on our site now through the end of the year to ensure Scalawag and our community of readers, writers, and organizers are sustained in this work