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At Rest Day, we’re all about a choose-your-own-adventure mentality, and that applies to our writing just as much as anything else. Follow the signpost to sign up for our newsletter where we talk about the deep deets of our business and share resources, take a detour to read what we have to say about restful rate finding, or go off the trail where business meets personal/emotional/extra human with our (unofficial) newsletter.
The Rest Day Read Through
Resources, recs, and reading for your inbox.
Our newsletter where we share Rest Day inner workings, insights into our worker cooperative and business model, and recs and thoughts on anticapitalist work and mindful, human-centered systems.
You’ll also be the first to receive access to all free resources we create and get the most transparency around the way we run our business.
curious what free resources you’ll get access to?
start with restful rates 101, our free 5-day email course.
Considerations for rate finding that keeps economic justice in mind along the way
Using needs as a starting point for income calculations to keep exploitation and burnout at bay
Overcoming the self-exploitation of underearning
Specific strategies for countering the extraction of overcharging
Hourly Rate Finder: calculating an hourly rate that can provide a baseline for pricing your services that you feel like you can stand behind
A foundation of emotional reflection to meet fears, stories, and cultural expectations around earning and number-finding
PSST…want to get more dirt from our “less official” writing channel?
soft animal bodies
Written essays on living softly in a hard world, and experiments in creating more of the world we want to see.
If you just can’t get enough, our copywriter, Iris, has a Substack newsletter that is one-part exploration and experimentation in creating our co-owned, community-oriented business model, and — because we want to dismantle barriers to work around “professionalism” and invite the whole human into the workplace — one part personal essays of their life as a queer, non-binary, autistic person who is both very into hiking long distances in nature and also intensely invested in the outcome of each season of Love Island.
Rest Day Creative
Writing about Rest Day in real-time, to make our experience (and our experiments) as a team as transparent and accessible as possible.
We hope to show what’s possible, potentially become a community resource, and be able to be mutually resourced by a community of people invested in the idea of what we’re doing.
Soft Body Personal
Writing that explores what it’s like being in a body and mind as a queer person, as a genderqueer person, as a writer, as a hiker, as a disabled person, and as a person with intersecting privilege in all of those pieces.
It’s about an inner landscape, it’s about getting serious about what matters, and not taking ourselves too seriously in the process.
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![Substack post: Values only have value if there's agency]()
Values only have value if there's agency
Questioning whose security we treat like it matters (and whose we don't), plus a snapshot of our values as an anticapitalist worker cooperative.
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![Substack post: Human wellbeing as a priority — creating a microcosm of reality]()
Human wellbeing as a priority — creating a microcosm of reality
Accidentally creating the change you think someone else is going to do, and looking behind-the-scenes of one worker cooperative.
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![Substack post: Leveraging empathy, and not being afraid to look]()
Leveraging empathy, and not being afraid to look!
Gauging our relationships with enoughness and each other to bridge the distance of privilege and understanding.
Soft Animal Bodies is a reader-supported publication.
All writing and the full archive will remain free, but paid subscriptions are a tangible way to support our business’s pursuit of equitable work structures.
100% of earnings from paid subscriptions goes to building and sustaining Rest Day Creative as a worker cooperative is shared equally amongst our team.
A portion of all shared income also goes toward our team’s redistribution and reparations fund, and we each choose organizations and causes to give to on a quarterly basis.
Some posts may be paywalled if they are particularly intimate in nature, which is primarily for the personal wellbeing of Iris as the writer and not as a means to require payment. If you are a free subscriber and want to read any of the emails, let us know and we will grant you access, no explanation needed.
Consider becoming a free or paid subscriber as a vote toward the idea that mutual care in work and out is possible.
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