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Life Is a Devastating Diagnosis

By Amy Starr Redwine

Personal and theological reflections on finding meaning in the face of life's inevitable challenges and uncertainties.

Rev. Amy Starr Redwine is wise and kind and I'm so excited that she's sharing her writing here now.

- Garrett Bucks

Dads for All

By The Dads

Dads for All is a national network of caring Dads, acting as change agents and credible messengers, working 365-days-a-year in our nation's rapidly changing communities to foster connectivity and work through the pain points facing American families.

The Mother Of It All

A podcast where we go deep into the culture of modern motherhood, from Sarah Wheeler + Miranda Rake.

The Double Shift

By Katherine Goldstein

Join us for The How to Find Your People Club, an IRL community-building project for the 21st century. Research, reporting, and storytelling on building a world that cares.

WITHIN by Ben Katt

Seek Wisdom. Wake Up. Live Fully.

Prisons, Prose & Protest

By Prisonculture

This is a monthly newsletter of my rants, musings and some other things. Please support our Giving Circle: https://ko-fi.com/prisonculture

I can't think of a single living writer and organizer who has influenced the way I relate to the world more than Mariame Kaba. I could not be more excited for this newsletter!

- Garrett Bucks

The Dirty Middle

By Megan

Notes on living with yourself and with other people.

New Means

By JP

Writing that zooms out. New Means discusses politics in the broadest possible ways, from our neighborhoods to our workplaces to our religious lives to organizing to the ways we collectively think.

Folkweaver

By Sara

At Folkweaver, I explore how connection, freedom, and collective care weave the culture we want to live in — through essays on motherhood, diasporic identity, creative practice, self-directed learning, community building, and care-centered politics.

Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

By Meg Conley

Hi! I’m Meg Conley. I write about the intersection of capitalism, culture and care work at Pocket Observatory. Select essays are republished to Substack. If you'd like to receive my official (FREE) newsletter, subscribe here + I'll take care of the rest!

Meg has this incredible ability to translate her own learning/processing/research about the intersection of race/class/gender and the home into some jaw-dropping, make-you-mad-for-not-having-written-it prose.

- Garrett Bucks

Tami's Got Something to Say

By Tami Sawyer

Like the South which raised me, I got something to say.

The Rising

By LaKay Cornell

My thoughts on ... {mostly} revolution. But a lot of other things too.

Moving Toward Humanity

By Athena

I write about moving toward my and our humanity, what it takes from us to do that, how we can do it together, and why it's so damn critical we do.

hold everything

By Lauren

small thoughts, big feelings

Matriarchy Report

By Lane Anderson

A feminist newsletter about care work, family, and capitalism and how to make things better for everyone. Gender, motherhood, occasional rants. By two journalists + uni profs.

A smart, thought-provoking feminist newsletter. I read every issue.

- Garrett Bucks

Let Your Life Speak

By Asha Sanaker

Rediscovering the lost art of integrity

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

Ownership, property, and what is stolen in the privatization of the commons.

Absolutely gorgeous reflections on our relationship to place, space and each other.

- Garrett Bucks

Creaturely

By Lyndsey Medford

You are not a machine; you're an ecosystem. Creaturely is spirituality and social justice at human scale.

Momspreading

By Sarah Wheeler

The inexpert endeavors of a supposed parenting expert.

The funniest and smartest writing you'll find about motherhood, parenting, 90's R&B and (when we're really lucky) the NBA Playoffs.

- Garrett Bucks

Blood Harmony

By Shawna

Seasonal music mixes, thoughts about popular culture, musings about mending, chats about cooking, alliteration for days.

the examined family

By Courtney Martin

figuring out how to be and care for ethical, joyful humans in beautiful, horrible times

Week after week, Courtney Martin keeps putting out sentences that stop me in my tracks. Nobody writes about humanity-- why we're beautiful, why we're frustrating, what we owe each other-- like she does.

- Garrett Bucks

Notes on Class

By Kathleen McLaughlin

Essays, interviews, reporting somehow related to economic class and inequality, some of the most obvious divisions, and ones we are very bad at talking about.

If you love working people and can’t stand what the bosses and billionaires are doing to all of us, you need to read Kathleen McLaughlin

- Garrett Bucks

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Whatever way you cut it (writing about politics, gender, race, class, the Midwest, gas stations, life, etc, etc) Lyz Lenz is one of the best in the game.

- Garrett Bucks

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

If there were a Newsletter Hall of Fame, Culture Study would be in it. If there were a Newsletter Hall of Fame and Culture Study was not in it, than that Hall of Fame is probably a Peter Thiel-funded front organization on the University of Austin campus and you shouldn't go to it. You get the point: Perfect newsletter, literally the best in the game.

- Garrett Bucks

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