C Somnus McGill writes personal, opinionated essays on disability, culture, politics, and games, with a sharp, irreverent voice. Recent issues cover Chicago's transit and climate, a critique of US post-9/11 foreign policy, and a Magic: The Gathering card's take on Paul Bunyan folklore.
Website: https://seesomnus.com/
Disability Debrief explores world news and first-person writing through a disability lens, mixing original essays and reporting with curated links from many countries. Readers get coverage of disability rights, independent living, housing, education and chronic illness.
Bitchy History is a feminist history newsletter that examines women erased from historical narratives, the systems that constrained them, and persistent myths that treat those constraints as natural. Recent issues connect historical episodes like the rest cure and The Yellow Wallpaper to contemporary debates about women's visibility and disability.
Personal essays from a Toronto-based writer and former academic on books, illness, grief, housing and disability. Issues blend memoir with cultural criticism, covering a book on a Toronto homeless encampment, a tribute to a mentor, and the experience of chronic illness diagnosis.
Bluntshovels offers first-person analysis of Australian disability policy, the NDIS and the economics of care work, written from a disabled advocate's perspective. Readers get critiques of government decisions, budgets and mainstream economic framing, informed by lived experience and policy engagement.
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