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Consumed

By Jane Black

Two veteran journalists pry the lid off the food industry

Remotely by Lucy Williams

By REMOTELY by Lucy Williams

A curation of nice things from a self-confessed homebody with too many clothes.

Lucy really scratches the itch for what we in the biz used to call LIFESTYLE JOURNALISM, with lots of home design candy plus some solid culture recs.

- The Spread

My So-Called Feminist Life by Maggie Mertens

Essays, interviews, and book reviews that wrestle with what it means to be a feminist today.

If a 30-something Angela Chase wrote a feminist newsletter while living in Seattle, this would be a lot like it!

- The Spread

40 Ingredients Forever

By Ali Slagle

Recipes that are abundant in flavor and joy yet streamlined in process and shopping (because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients).

Lordy, lordy, look who's....got 40 ingredients in our kitchen—that we now actually know what to do with.

- The Spread

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

This newsletter fills the More magazine-size hole in our hearts.

- The Spread

Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

I read a lot and share what I learn. Spiritual seeker. Pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are so we can re-write a truer version. Podcast host and author of the New York Times bestseller ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR.

@heymrssolomon

By Hey Mrs. Solomon on Style

style ahas for grown women - discovered + shared here. and no judgement.

Hi Everyone with Hillary Kerr

Shopping suggestions + recommendations + occasional advice

In Haste

By Keziah Weir

Short essays about literature, the act of writing, pop culture, fashion, and the strangeness of being a human in the world.

"Our Keziah" is one of the industry's most discerning lit girls, a pop culture watcher with excellent taste, a fancy novelist, a wonderfully nosy journalist, an editor's editor, and a great person. If it comes from her fascinating and generous mind, we're reading it!

- The Spread

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

By Sara Petersen

Unpacking my obsession with momfluencer culture to destroy the myth of the perfect mama.

Now We're Talking with Doree Shafrir

A newsletter about navigating life as a human and a mom.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Screenshot This by Zara Wong

Screenshot This is the go-to newsletter for those who value style and substance, curated by former Vogue editor and content marketing expert Zara Wong. It is said to be Australia's #1 most-read style Substack, so she's running with that.

Zara is a queen who really gets it. She's our spiritual stylist and one of our favorite industry insiders. We feel confident we'd be best mom friends, too—if only we lived on the same continent!

- The Spread

Back Row

By Amy Odell

The fashion and culture newsletter that publishes what legacy media can't.

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

For 27 years at ELLE magazine I answered sticky questions. NOW, I'm asking the questions, and YOU---you brilliant person---are solving the world's problems by answering them!

Confidence and Joy by Emily Nagoski

Science-based answers to your questions about sex and burnout, by best-selling authors Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski.

How Not to F*ck Up Your Face

By Val Monroe

philosophical and practical advice for anyone who's ever looked into a mirror

morning person

By Leslie Stephens

Obsessively-curated recommendations and reflections, best served with coffee.

Though your Spreaditors are more, well, ladies of the night, Leslie's sunny-yet-soulful outlook sooths our harried souls.

- The Spread

Rich Text

By Claire & Emma

Cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. You can sit with us.

Elizabeth’s Newsletter from Italy

By Elizabeth Minchilli

Food, drink, fun links & travel (not necessarily in that order)

Elizabeth helps us live out all our Under the Tuscan Sun fantasies, via our inbox.

- The Spread

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Hung Up

By hunter harris

A newsletter about movies, tv, the celebrity industrial complex, and personal pop culture obsessions. Delivered twice a week to your inbox, written by Hunter Harris.

Feed Me

By Emily Sundberg

A daily newsletter about the spirit of enterprise.

Emily does the impossible: She keeps us young and makes us feel very old. Thank you, Emily!

- The Spread

Maybe Baby

By Haley Nahman

Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.

Ask Polly

By Heather Havrilesky

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Abortion, Every Day

By Jessica Valenti

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

Jill Filipovic

Politics, women’s rights, foreign affairs, and law

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)

Not only is VSS a culture-shifting force for good, she's a generous and hilarious writer and community builder. Plus, she'll always pass us an Oreo if we ask really nicely.

- The Spread

Evil Witches Newsletter

By Claire Zulkey

We are people who happen to be mothers.

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

The Present Age

By Parker Molloy

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter.