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Personal essays and cultural commentary from a trans writer who reflects on illness, memory, community and a formative cult upbringing. Pieces combine sharp analysis of whiteness and assimilation with candid, reflective accounts of everyday life.
A personal, community-minded newsletter from Afro-Irish artist Love, Builder of Worlds sharing poetry, essays, photography and music rooted in Yorùbá spirituality, anti-capitalism and queer and Black diaspora experience. Issues mix reflections on money, nature and freedom with calls to support marginalised people and promotion of the artist's own releases.
Savage Minds delivers investigative reporting and social commentary on politics, public culture, the arts and science, with a strong essayistic voice. Recent issues cover Italian protests over austerity, an attempted attack on an Australian independent MP, and the detention of opposition leaders in Pakistan.
Comedian Francis Foster writes jokey, opinionated essays on dating, marriage, Gen Z gender divides and self-deception, using anecdotes and British comic asides. The newsletter gives readers a humorous, politically aware take on contemporary social issues from a commentator who talks about politics for a living.
The Skull and Boners Club is an irreverent newsletter that covers fandom culture, including the Malfoid trend and debates over boundaries and etiquette in fan spaces. Its posts mix personal essays, commentary on online manosphere backlash, and reposted older writing, with a crude, anti-fascist and sex-positive voice.
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