Substacks recommended by Blaise Allysen Kearsley

Recommended by Blaise Allysen Kearsley

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.

Blackstack

A corner of Substack for the Black community. We can call this a little safe hub F.U.B.U. If you don't check the box for Black on applications, don't click the subscribe button to this publication. They not like us!

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By J Wortham 🌿

a semi-regular dispatch on the intersections of culture, creativity and wellness by j wortham. you may know me from my podcast 'still processing' or 'black futures' or pieces at The New York Times Magazine. welcome.

W. Kamau Bell asks, "Who's With Me?"

Come hang out with a pop-culture-obsessed, antiracist, lefty, OG Blerd who lives in Oakland, CA.

passerby

Dispatches from passerby — an ongoing photographic and oral archive documenting women since 2015.

What Comes Next?

By Abigail Thomas

Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Impossible Colors

By Tom Hawking

Yes I used the American spelling

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Things That Don't Suck

By Andrea Gibson + Megan Falley

One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention

MUTHR, FCKD

Deep thoughts and petty bullshit about feminism, pop culture, and the human condition by journalist Vivian Manning-Schaffel. Gen XXX. Unbothered.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

The Social Life of Beauty

By Mia Chae Reddy

A cultural lens on beauty—its rituals, stories, and the people who give it life.

Sitting in Silence

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin

On writing, craft, worry & joy.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin LIFTS US UP.

- Blaise Allysen Kearsley

The Querent

By Alexander Chee

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

Narratively

Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity.

This Teenage Life

Helping teens and preteens—and the adults who support them— feel less alone in the world.

"This Teenage Life" is a gift to society. Personally, it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

- Blaise Allysen Kearsley

Literary Liberation

We're a learning community for artists, writers, and activists offering workshops & space to work toward collective liberation. Stay radical.

MOON LISTS

By Moon Lists

Prompts + experiments in thinking differently.

Mental Currency With Nicole Vignola

Welcome to Mental Currency with me! A weekly newsletter about how to protect your most valuable resource, your energy and attention. In a world of digital distraction, I aim to help you cut through the noise and make life a little easier to navigate.

Brian Broome

What It Is I Think I'm Doing

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

Cultural criticism at the intersection of pop culture, the archives and Black womanhood

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.

Sari Botton is the bomb.

- Blaise Allysen Kearsley

Recording Memories

By Kera Bolonik

Gen X Queerdo. Writer. Editor. Casual collector of vinyl. Mediocre guitar player. Born and raised in Chicago; New Yorker since 1992.

Still looking for the Joke

By Merrill Markoe

I probably started writing the piece you are about to read because I thought it contained something funny. Fingers crossed I was correct in this assumption.

the utter

By Yrsa Daley-Ward of the utter

the utter; a weekly field guide for people who want to think clearly and make better decisions. Notes on creative courage, attention, emotional patterns, and the small shifts that change the direction of your life.

Crossroads by Nicole Miras

A newsletter at the intersection of art, history, and folklore.

bitches gotta eat!

By samantha irby

judge mathis recaps + milf-on-milf romance

I've asked Samantha Irby if I can move in. Even just live on the property. Just somewhere in the back. I'll wait.

- Blaise Allysen Kearsley

Subtle Maneuvers

By Mason Currey

On wriggling through a creative life—with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

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.

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

The Small Bow

A newsletter, podcast, and growing community making sense of what it means to recover. Grief, loneliness, addiction, mental illness -- whatever you're here for, we got you.

Who We Are To Each Other

By Jessica Nordell

Rich conversations with Earth's wisest and most buoyant. Questions they've never been asked.