We are now a registered, member driven nonprofit.  We outsource operations to Eve-volution Inc. If you would like to weigh in on our editorial direction, complete the reader survey here. If you want to write for us, click here.

Our Vision: A socially just economy that centres care, equity, environmental restoration and flourishing for all beings.  #feministsforchange

Our Role: Create an innovative, sustainable intersectional, feminist media enterprise that: 1) Makes visible the feminist economy 2) Supports entrepreneurs who work at the intersections of feminism, social justice, and innovation; 3) Publishes researched and fact-checked narratives that stokes our imagination; 4) Ignites critical discourse and learning; 5) Create fair income and professional development opportunities for both experienced and emerging feminist journalists and writers.

Our Community

• Freelance contributors, journalists, editors creators with stories that have the ability to ignite curiosity, elevate feminist discourse, speak truth to power, and inform.
• Creative, bold, feminist-identified entrepreneurs, community organizers, policymakers, activists, investors, scholars, innovators, and artists of all genders who think beyond binaries, beyond colonization, beyond modern capitalism, beyond linearity, beyond short-term outcomes, and beyond the patriarchy. Over 20 percent of our readers identify as men.
• LiisBethMX community members.
• An ecosystem of supportive, engaged, allied, and aligned organizations, investors, philanthropists, activists, creators, institutional funders and suppliers.
• Once-in-a-while site visitors who are feminist curious and beginning to question the world we live in.

Our Collective Resource Model

Both rabble.ca and LiisBeth.com depend on allied sponsors, paying subscribers and donors to fuel and sustain our work. Our goal is to create a thoughtful engaged diverse community that finds enough value in our spaces and the idea of women-led inquiry into a what a “post capitalist, non-patriarchal, anti-colonial and anti-white supremacist SME-led economy” might look like. For more about how we are governed, click here. For our entrepreneur’s manifesto, click here. If you are ready for news and views, sign up to our free newsletter today!

Our To-Do List

• Publish an open-access digital magazine and subscriber-only monthly newsletter. Our original stories, op-eds, and columns aim to inspire, inform, and elevate feminist discourse, plus mobilize and nourish our reader community
• Highlight, strengthen and support the innovative enterprise crafting work by creating a space for this community to gather, nourish and support each other. 
• Speak truth to power—ethically and responsibly
• Produce thought-provoking online meet-ups and offline events
• Co-produce the Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum (EFFS) or similar events.
• Facilitate change making by showcasing innovative feminist toolkits, current research, useful frameworks and post capitalist and feminist practice advice.
• Show up and advocate for gender and social justice on behalf of our readers at every opportunity.
• Create fair income and development opportunities for feminist editors, journalists, and writers.
• Model post-capitalist (i.e.: post growth, non exploitative, non extractive market economies), non-patriarchal and post white supremacist ways of doing business. 
• Offer the world a uniquely Canadian perspective on this type of work that is happening all over the globe.

Our Feminism

Feminism is a 200-plus-year-old multicultural, multi-national, intergenerational, pluralistic, post capitalist, contextually responsive, social justice–centred movement unified by one purpose: To create an environmentally healthy world without sexism, exploitation, and oppression.

Our space is unequivocally trans and queer-inclusive, anti-racist, intersectional, pro-choice, questioning, brave, compassionate, and safe. Our feminism lives at the intersection of visionary and eco-feminism and is informed by socialist feminism (systems change) and intersectional feminist theory. This means we work to re-imagine capitalism, support climate-change activism, and work to advance environmental justice. The stories we publish are selected for their potential to shift cultural narratives by helping to mainstream new ways of being, creating, and working in the world. We seek and publish stories which draws attention to issues, solutions, and new models which address systems and values that no longer serve people and planet. We work to uphold Indigenous rights.

We acknowledge feminism’s complicated history, all it’s teachers, and the fact that it has evolved significantly since the 1970s. We believe its diversity is it’s strength and is the foundation of its resilience as a movement. We acknowledge the movement has advanced gender equality, albeit unevenly. Not all women are feminists. Not all feminists are women. For a visionary definition of feminism by bell hooks, click here. For a short, new read about contemporary feminism, we recommend Feminism for the 99%. For new ideas about feminism in business, read Feminism: A New Idea for Business and Society by CV Harquail.  To learn about Canadian Black feminism, read Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectivies on Black Feminist Thought, an anthology edited by Notisha Massaquoi and Njoki Wane.

Examples of Entrepreneurial Feminist Changemakers?

Feminist changemakers strive to end gender-based oppression through their entrepreneurial actions. Examples of entrepreneurial feminist organizations in action include Emergent Strategy Institute, Stocksy, Moxie Trades, Her Braids, PowerbitchesGather, Feminist Art Collective, Feminuity, Lunapads (now called Aisle), The White Ribbon Campaign (started by three men), DriveHer, Alinker, Kelly Diels Marketing, Ellevate Network, Allied Media, SheEO, Fresh Collective, Feminists at Work, Don’t You Want Me, Eve-Medical, XXcelerate Fund, HerVolution, Women on the Move, not to mention the many feminist media/press, environmental, health and wellness, art/design, culture-making and bookstore organizations in our respective communities.

Allied Indie Media Souls?

Bitch Media, Yes, Bust, The Broad Side, Adbusters, Herizons, Ms. Magazine, just to name a few. We aim to collaborate with and support the broader growing feminist and social justice–leaning media ecosystem globally.

It’s here! LiisBeth’s Feminist Enterprise Commons, a new membership-based community of practice is now open! Click here to join!

Our Theory of Change

Micro and small/medium scale founders and enterprise work can, and has throughout history, amplified the voice of the people and when engaged and leveraged, can accelerate needed social, economic and political change.

Women/marginalized gender entrepreneurs are over-represented in social change work yet under supported and under recognized for this work.  We hope to change that. 

Why the Name LiisBeth?

LiisBeth was inspired by Stieg Larsson’s fictional character Lisbeth Salander in the global bestselling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. Lisbeth is a fictional character, but a complex status-quo-challenging total entrepreneurial badass, and ergo an inspiring feminist action hero for many real-world women. Salander fought male and female “oppressors” but also worked to fight the patriarchy, violence against women, racism, classism, fascism, and corruption. We also loved the company culture, activism, and journalistic ethos created by the story’s Millennium magazine.

We are now a registered, member driven nonprofit.  We outsource operations to Eve-volution Inc. If you would like to weigh in on our editorial direction, complete the reader survey here. If you want to write for us, click here.

Our Vision: A socially just economy that centres care, equity, environmental restoration and flourishing for all beings.  #feministsforchange

Our Role: Create an innovative, sustainable intersectional, feminist media enterprise that: 1) Makes visible the feminist economy 2) Supports entrepreneurs who work at the intersections of feminism, social justice, and innovation; 3) Publishes researched and fact-checked narratives that stokes our imagination; 4) Ignites critical discourse and learning; 5) Create fair income and professional development opportunities for both experienced and emerging feminist journalists and writers.

Our Community

• Freelance contributors, journalists, editors creators with stories that have the ability to ignite curiosity, elevate feminist discourse, speak truth to power, and inform.
• Creative, bold, feminist-identified entrepreneurs, community organizers, policymakers, activists, investors, scholars, innovators, and artists of all genders who think beyond binaries, beyond colonization, beyond modern capitalism, beyond linearity, beyond short-term outcomes, and beyond the patriarchy. Over 20 percent of our readers identify as men.
• LiisBethMX community members.
• An ecosystem of supportive, engaged, allied, and aligned organizations, investors, philanthropists, activists, creators, institutional funders and suppliers.
• Once-in-a-while site visitors who are feminist curious and beginning to question the world we live in.

Our Collective Resource Model

Both rabble.ca and LiisBeth.com depend on allied sponsors, paying subscribers and donors to fuel and sustain our work. Our goal is to create a thoughtful engaged diverse community that finds enough value in our spaces and the idea of women-led inquiry into a what a “post capitalist, non-patriarchal, anti-colonial and anti-white supremacist SME-led economy” might look like. For more about how we are governed, click here. For our entrepreneur’s manifesto, click here. If you are ready for news and views, sign up to our free newsletter today!

Our To-Do List

• Publish an open-access digital magazine and subscriber-only monthly newsletter. Our original stories, op-eds, and columns aim to inspire, inform, and elevate feminist discourse, plus mobilize and nourish our reader community
• Highlight, strengthen and support the innovative enterprise crafting work by creating a space for this community to gather, nourish and support each other. 
• Speak truth to power—ethically and responsibly
• Produce thought-provoking online meet-ups and offline events
• Co-produce the Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum (EFFS) or similar events.
• Facilitate change making by showcasing innovative feminist toolkits, current research, useful frameworks and post capitalist and feminist practice advice.
• Show up and advocate for gender and social justice on behalf of our readers at every opportunity.
• Create fair income and development opportunities for feminist editors, journalists, and writers.
• Model post-capitalist (i.e.: post growth, non exploitative, non extractive market economies), non-patriarchal and post white supremacist ways of doing business. 
• Offer the world a uniquely Canadian perspective on this type of work that is happening all over the globe.

Our Feminism

Feminism is a 200-plus-year-old multicultural, multi-national, intergenerational, pluralistic, post capitalist, contextually responsive, social justice–centred movement unified by one purpose: To create an environmentally healthy world without sexism, exploitation, and oppression.

Our space is unequivocally trans and queer-inclusive, anti-racist, intersectional, pro-choice, questioning, brave, compassionate, and safe. Our feminism lives at the intersection of visionary and eco-feminism and is informed by socialist feminism (systems change) and intersectional feminist theory. This means we work to re-imagine capitalism, support climate-change activism, and work to advance environmental justice. The stories we publish are selected for their potential to shift cultural narratives by helping to mainstream new ways of being, creating, and working in the world. We seek and publish stories which draws attention to issues, solutions, and new models which address systems and values that no longer serve people and planet. We work to uphold Indigenous rights.

We acknowledge feminism’s complicated history, all it’s teachers, and the fact that it has evolved significantly since the 1970s. We believe its diversity is it’s strength and is the foundation of its resilience as a movement. We acknowledge the movement has advanced gender equality, albeit unevenly. Not all women are feminists. Not all feminists are women. For a visionary definition of feminism by bell hooks, click here. For a short, new read about contemporary feminism, we recommend Feminism for the 99%. For new ideas about feminism in business, read Feminism: A New Idea for Business and Society by CV Harquail.  To learn about Canadian Black feminism, read Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectivies on Black Feminist Thought, an anthology edited by Notisha Massaquoi and Njoki Wane.

Examples of Entrepreneurial Feminist Changemakers?

Feminist changemakers strive to end gender-based oppression through their entrepreneurial actions. Examples of entrepreneurial feminist organizations in action include Emergent Strategy Institute, Stocksy, Moxie Trades, Her Braids, PowerbitchesGather, Feminist Art Collective, Feminuity, Lunapads (now called Aisle), The White Ribbon Campaign (started by three men), DriveHer, Alinker, Kelly Diels Marketing, Ellevate Network, Allied Media, SheEO, Fresh Collective, Feminists at Work, Don’t You Want Me, Eve-Medical, XXcelerate Fund, HerVolution, Women on the Move, not to mention the many feminist media/press, environmental, health and wellness, art/design, culture-making and bookstore organizations in our respective communities.

Allied Indie Media Souls?

Bitch Media, Yes, Bust, The Broad Side, Adbusters, Herizons, Ms. Magazine, just to name a few. We aim to collaborate with and support the broader growing feminist and social justice–leaning media ecosystem globally.

It’s here! LiisBeth’s Feminist Enterprise Commons, a new membership-based community of practice is now open! Click here to join!

Our Theory of Change

Micro and small/medium scale founders and enterprise work can, and has throughout history, amplified the voice of the people and when engaged and leveraged, can accelerate needed social, economic and political change.

Women/marginalized gender entrepreneurs are over-represented in social change work yet under supported and under recognized for this work.  We hope to change that. 

Why the Name LiisBeth?

LiisBeth was inspired by Stieg Larsson’s fictional character Lisbeth Salander in the global bestselling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. Lisbeth is a fictional character, but a complex status-quo-challenging total entrepreneurial badass, and ergo an inspiring feminist action hero for many real-world women. Salander fought male and female “oppressors” but also worked to fight the patriarchy, violence against women, racism, classism, fascism, and corruption. We also loved the company culture, activism, and journalistic ethos created by the story’s Millennium magazine.