A personal essay newsletter by an artist writing about living with chronic pain and neurological flares, grief, identity, and Filipino-American lineage. Issues blend raw emotional reflection with broad critiques of patriarchy, colonialism, and late-stage capitalism.
Website: https://signalsandseeds.xyz/
A personal newsletter by Leah Reich covering chronic illness, the psychology of being sick, writing, faith in creative work, and taking breaks from output. Its writing is candid, witty and conversational, drawing on lived experience and small observations.
A personal newsletter by a former lawyer turned travel writer, now living with a spinal CSF leak, mixing memoir, reflections on chronic illness and curated reading. Readers get long-form, candid personal essays about loss, health, and life after a career built on travel.
A personal newsletter from a chronically ill writer who shares raw, first-person reflections on health struggles, financial strain, trauma and mental health. Recent issues also include a long, opinionated take on a criminal trial and an argument for systemic change for the chronically ill.
TBQ Talks is a personal blog-style newsletter by a disabled writer mixing practical advice on living with disability, such as product tests for staying clean without showering, with opinionated pop culture criticism, especially episode analyses of AMC's The Vampire Lestat. Readers get candid, first-person takes that blend personal experience with fan-literate commentary.
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