Did you know I created my original website, tattooedbibliophile.com , on Wix? Yes, the same Wix that is part of the big BDS movement to support Palestine. I won't defend my choice with the typical "I didn't know" excuse, because frankly, I should have done my research. I SHOULD have known.

I've honestly not kept up with current events until the past two years, before which I was too focused on drowing in late stage capitalism, grind culture, attempting motherhood with a career full of men who had stay at home wives, all culminating in an eventual burnout/nervous breakdown.

It took that last part for me to realize how much I'd failed at community in my life. To realize that individualism fails us all, and the only way to survive is community.

And thanks to a call out one day by an amazing creator, who minced no words in telling me publicly that I was being a selfish bitch, for me to realize how much that failure, and my lack of focus on my growth as a human being and failure to actively care for those around me, had imapacted the lives of everyone. I'll come clean again and tell you what I did. I make a tiktok lamenting that I couldn't buy the Harry Potter book Lego set, because JKR is a TERF and I wasn't supporting her. This creator told me that while I was whining over a toy, trans people were literally dying because of the policies JKR was putting her money behind. That I should value human lives more than commodities, that it shouldn't be something I was doing without, it should be something I was doing with love and care for my fellow humans.

And I listened. I immediately took that post down and entered into dialog with them. And since then they've taught me so much. I've told this story a couple of times and have never outed the creator, in fear that some of my following would troll them, doxx them, spread hate in their direction in an attempt to "support" me. But the person who actually supported me through education and tough love was that very creator, the one who called me out, and I hope that they know how much I view that as a turning point, how much they changed me and everyone I've interacted with since. Since then I've done a lot of unpacking my isms have become a person my community can trust, if not to do things right all the time, to listen when they tell me I've screwed up and do my best to make it right, and to get my mind right, and to keep trying, to keep caring, and to keep acting on that care. Care not as a noun, but as a verb. As a revolution.

So back to my website, I pay for Wix yearly and I've been looking into options to divest before my renewal. And I've decided to move EVERYTHING here. All of my lists full of links to collectable books, the catalog of my collection, will now live here in my Bindery.

In the collector community I've actually taken quite a lot of flack for making and sharing my lists and links. Why? Well, it makes the information more accessible for people who want to find things, which makes those items even rarer because people don't have to hunt for them as hard. But I want everyone to be able to experience the joy of collecting a set, the absolute necessity of having books at hand all the time for every mood. That may not be something everyone wants or needs, but to those who do, I want to help. That's why I started the lists.

I did in fact email Wix through my customer service portal expressing my concern for their support of the genocide in Gaza. To which I received not even a fuck you, but NO RESPONSE AT ALL. So if you're wondering what kind of company they are, I think that says it all.

Here today I am making the commitment to move everything from my website here before my renewal on May 8th of 2025.