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Online fundraising platform Kickstarter has canceled a campaign for a book about “Save Women’s Sports” activists, which will feature interviews with Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, Paula Scanlan, Brooke Slusser, Payton McNabb, Stephanie Turner, Selina Soule, Kaitlynn Wheeler and several others.
The campaign page for Arwen Becker’s upcoming title “She Handled It” currently says “suspended” on the Kickstarter website.
Becker told Pak Gazette Digital that he’s been told campaigns are suspended when the platform discovers “strong evidence” that a campaign violates “the spirit of Kickstarter’s rules.”
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Becker added that one of the possible reasons Kickstarter provided the suspension was “It is hateful or offensive content that does not meet Kickstarter’s spirit of inclusivity by promoting discrimination, intolerance, or bigotry toward marginalized groups.”
Pak Gazette Digital has reached out to Kickstarter for comment.
Becker has since moved the campaign to the Christian-owned digital fundraising platform GiveSendGo, which is famous for hosting fundraisers that are not allowed on other platforms.
Becker says that the recent removal of his campaign and the viral reaction it has caused has actually helped bring more attention to his project.
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“It’s definitely helped. There’s no doubt about it,” Becker said. “There are people who are actually upset that this happened, so of course it’s getting attention because it’s so absurd.”
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Stephanie Turner, Paula Scanlan, Payton McNabb, Selina Soule (Courtesy of XX-XY Athletics/Getty Images)
He added that he made no effort to contact Kickstarter after his campaign was suspended.
“I don’t have time to fight with a company that treats authors/creators this way, so I instantly opted for a different way to fund the campaign,” Becker said.
