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Old school wisdom, soulful stories, and other mystical stuff to explore inner life and enhance outer life.

This is a monthly newsletter of my rants, musings and some other things.

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

In Search of Expertise

By Megan

A newsletter about knowing, not knowing, and the experience of writing from the space in between.

New Means

By Joshua

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.

Radical Matriarch

By Sara

I write about the intersection of connection, creation, community, care, and co-liberation in a society not (yet) designed for it.

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

Musings, Memories, & Manifestos from a lyrical-non-fiction writer & spoken-word-prose-poet, who is also a somewhat-chaotic ADHD-er, social-justice tarot reader, intersectional climate-designer, soul-searching qoya dancer, & refusing-to-age roller skater.

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.

Who Gets the Bird?

By Jonah Furman

Organized labor in the U.S.A.

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.

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

- Garrett Bucks

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 interspersed with occasional culture thoughts.

the examined family

By Courtney Martin

figuring out how to be and raise 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

BASKETBALL FEELINGS

By Katie Heindl

Reconciling life with basketball, or else the other way around.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Chris La Tray often jokes about his own grumpiness, but that grumpiness is reserved for exactly the right targets-- forces of domination and hatred and destruction. He's also full of love-- for this planet, for those who are building a better world, for ancestral legacies of conservation and care. An immediate read for me every time this hits my inbox.

- 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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