Kirby is a Chicago-based writer, artist, and zinemaker who sells her work on Etsy. On April 11, I logged onto Etsy, put my virtual shop on pause, and joined more than 20,000 others in organizing a ...

In February, ecommerce platform Etsy revealed that a record fourth quarter had earned them $717.1 million in revenue and added 10 million active buyers. Etsy also hiked its transaction fees by 30%, ...

"Molly and the Pancakes" (2021), a work by artist Jane Rhoades, who is one of many planning on striking Etsy in protest of increased transaction fees. (image courtesy the artist) Despite these gains, ...

This article was originally published by The 19th on April 15, 2022. For Brontë Grimm, Etsy was supposed to be a reprieve from the pandemic’s economic toll. Like so many others, Grimm, an artist based ...