I cannot pay. Can I still participate?

Yes. Absolutely. We do not want money, or not having a credit card, to be a barrier preventing anyone from joining the Community.

In fact, we would have had a $0 option directly on the sign up page if our Membership software supported it.

If you want to participate without paying, the only thing we need you to do is prove to us that you’re you.

While the members of the Community will remain anonymous to one another, we need to verify that only real humans are signing up, and that a person can only enroll once – we do this as a safety measure for everyone else.

So, here’s what we ask you to do to verify who you are:

• Email [email protected] from your personal email address
• Make the subject “Verifying Identity to Join Community”
• If your name isn’t attached to your email account, tell us your name
• Include a link to as many active social media profiles as you have under your name (e.g., your Facebook profile, Twitter, Instagram, as long as those accounts aren’t anonymous)
• To prove that you’re the owner of those accounts, make a public post on one of them that includes the hashtag “#sjmd” or mentions that you’re trying to join the community (it’s okay if you delete this after we’ve verified you!)
• Finally, link us to that post

Give us a day or two to check the links, then we’ll enroll you or follow up!

Note: If you can’t do any of these steps, just explain to us why in the email, and provide an alternative way to prove you’re you. We’re flexible!