I read this every morning, and it’s led me to research local mutual aid organizations, and to contact my local and federal representatives about current legislation and issues. Learn how practices embedded in our politics, criminal justice system, and workplaces enforce systemic oppression – and what you can do about it.”
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Others are free resources for everyone supported by Patreon or alternate means of direct support. Some of these are paid subscriptions, but many allow you to preview issues already published before you pay to subscribe. I asked the review team here at SBTB HQ about their favorite newsletters, and whoo-yeah, we have some suggestions to share. What writers do I look forward to reading? Whose bylines and topics always make me think? Who is doing the difficult, sometimes impossible work of researching and then reframing things I take for granted, allowing me a new way to see the world, and how I can create change and improvement around me? A person with time and said access point (which isn’t universal, dammit, but can and should be) can start a blog, a channel, a social media feed, or, ahoy there, a newsletter to connect directly and globally with many other people.Īs a result, I can curate and choose the topics I want to learn more about and access information directly from individuals who are doing the investigation and work, whether it’s in podcast format, image curation, or arrives as text in my inbox once a week. That said, right now, connectivity and connection are easier to create and have a lower barrier to access. This may be historical myopia on my part, as I am not as fluent in the period of time between 19, as I was only alive for half of it and conscious and aware for even less of that timespan. I don’t know if there is a definitive answer, but one topic I brought up was the current and increasing prevalence and reach of decentralized new media options that have become available globally, and to a wider community of people since 2001.
This prompted a debate in our household: are there more differences between 19, or has more changed in the world between 20? There was a Twitter post going around this past week (month? What is time, again?) about how if a show like The Wonder Years were going to be made now, with the same difference in time, it would be set in 2001.
Newsletters are a form of decentralized media that I’ve come to absolutely LOVE. My inbox used to give me a LOT of stress, but now that I’ve managed it more aggressively, I have time, space, and eagerness for deliberately and carefully reading newsletters from journalists and writers I respect and admire on topics I want to know more about. She has recently launched Roxane Gay Books, an imprint with Grove Atlantic.I’ve recently added several paid subscription newsletters to my inbox – which is hilarious because if you told Past Sarah that Present Sarah was going to be paying for more email, she’d have erupted. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. The Los Angeles Times says of the collection, “There’s a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play dark fables and twisted morality tales sit alongside the contemporary and the realistic…” She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She also released her collection of short stories, Difficult Women. In 2017, Roxane released her bestselling memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which was called “Luminous…intellectually rigorous, and deeply moving” by the New York Times. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered.