Privacy Policy

from Richard Wright’s photographs of pre-independent Ghana, 1953

Threadings.io collects your email address, the name you provide us, and the location of your IP address. This is to help us (1) deliver quality essays, interviews, and analyses to your inbox and (2) help us understand where the readership resides. Through these metrics, we know that only half of the readers of Threadings. live in the United States. With this information, we broaden the scope of our writing viewpoint to a necessarily global perspective.

Ghost (the operating platform), ismatu gwendolyn (writer in residence) and ismatu’s administrative assistant have access to the above information. No party will sell your information for any reason. Exports of these identity markers are kept in an encrypted, cloud-based filing system. You can rest assured all reasonable security practices to safeguard your information have been taken.