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Everyday fashion edits and conversations about style, culture and motherhood. For discerning women who want to look good and feel like themselves in the process.

KHÔRA

By Khôra

KHÔRA is a dynamic online arts space produced in collaboration with groundbreaking author Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing. Subscribe for full access to KHÔRA’s monthly newsletter and publication highlights.

Pine State Publicity

By Cassie Mannes Murray

Pine State is a newsletter that offers chatter on publishing, DIY publicity advice, and as much fun as the Hokey Pokey for writers & readers by Cassie Mannes Murray of Pine State Publicity

Playing with Fire

By Shannon Watts

Playing with Fire is a community of badass women (and supporters!) who want to find and nurture the spark inside and learn to live on fire.

Rich Text

By Claire & Emma

Cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. You can sit with us.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Real Self-Care

By Pooja Lakshmin MD

Helping you feel human again

sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Ask Polly

By Heather Havrilesky

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

Listening in the Dark with Amber Tamblyn

Creative-minded community and cultural catharsis. Full of feminism and always algorithm-free.

radical love letters

By raechel anne jolie

thoughts and feelings on sex, pop/culture, feminism, & radical politics.

Now What

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

A newsletter that brings science and nuance to parenting advice and challenges fear-mongering, shame-inducing content.

Be Less Careful

By Nancy Reddy

sustaining creative work in a busy life, midlife reinvention, and figuring out how to be happier at home

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Abortion, Every Day

By Jessica Valenti

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

By Sara Petersen

Calling bullshit on America’s love affair with Perfect Mamas

Wise and witty cultural criticism from one of our smartest voices on motherhood, gender, influencing, and identity in the digital age.

- Amanda Montei

the braid

By Rebecca Woolf

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.

Evil Witches Newsletter

By Claire Zulkey

We are people who happen to be mothers.

Recovering

By Holly Whitaker

Examining current cultural trends through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

Dispatches From The Shed

By Lyn Slater

Essays, Ideas, "Butterfly Thoughts", Vignettes, Experiments and more by Lyn Slater

the examined family

By Courtney Martin

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

Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!

By Caroline Moss

Products we love and where you can buy them. Plus exclusive discounts, really good sales, and some of the best gift guides around.

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.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

More to Hate

By Kate Manne

Misogyny and more

Kate is THE leading voice on misogyny, male entitlement, and fatphobia. I deeply value everything she writes.

- Amanda Montei

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.

LOST ART

By Sarah McColl

A monthly collage essay on the creative lives & works of (mostly) dead women

Momspreading

By Sarah Wheeler

The inexpert endeavors of a supposed parenting expert.

Love Story

By Laura McKowen

Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.

The Mother Lode

By Cindy

A feminist exploration of motherhood, marriage, and divorce

Butt News

By Lindy West

we're here to watch movies and talk about butts, and we have a lot of both, don't even worry about running out AT ALL

Hmm That's Interesting

By Clara

Culture thoughts of/for/by the Chronically Online, from that girl you may have seen on Instagram or TikTok (alas). Essays, pop culture, interviews, and literature.

TCF Emails

By Tracy Clark-Flory

A newsletter on sex, pop culture, and feminism.

One of my favorite feminist thinkers.

- Amanda Montei

The Culture Study Podcast

By Anne Helen Petersen

A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts

Miseducation of a knife

By MisEducation of A Knife

Surgeon and writer in Seattle.

To the Bed

By Loretta

Musings on post-divorce life, sex and culture by a mid-40s mom whose libido has gone through the roof.

astrology for writers

By Jeanna Kadlec

spiritual practices for creative living.

Write Like a Mother

By Sara Fredman

how to do a hard thing when you're already doing another hard thing

FLESH WORLD by Jessica DeFino

Reporting on the absurd world of beauty culture. / “The newsletter the beauty industry fears.” - the Herald.

Dire Straights

A feminist podcast critiquing heterosexual love, sex, politics, and culture.

Loving Sylvia Plath

By Emily Van Duyne

Hot goss about Sylvia, bad jokes about Ted

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

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.

Lyz is a national treasure. Where would we even be without her thoughts on marriage, misogyny, politics, feminism, and getting free?

- Amanda Montei

a little something sweet

By Becca Rea-Tucker

A Little Something Sweet is a space for people who have abortions to feel seen, supported, and affirmed. Also, simple recipes for decadent things and the occasional gift guide/movie review/pet photo because we all contain multitudes.

Donita Reason

By Angela Garbes

explicitly laid out like a fruitcake

Cult of Perfect

By Sara & Virginia

A podcast about the intersection of motherhood, public performance and bodies, from Sara Petersen and Virginia Sole-Smith.

Cup of Stars

By Carmen Maria Machado

Inconstant essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, food, rage.

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!

Reading the Comments 👀

By Reading the Comments Podcast 👀

A podcast that digs into the comments sections of buzzy articles, essays and posts, from Amanda Montei and Veronica Wong.

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Your body liberation community. And good snacks.

Virginia has long been a leader in exposing the misogyny of diet culture, fatphobia, and anti-fat bias. Now she's given us the gift of Burnt Toast—a community for all bodies who want to revel in abundance and eat in the face of those who seek to control us.

- Amanda Montei

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