TOP 25 CULTURE NEWSLETTERS ON SUBSTACK
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A full list of the top 25 culture newsletters and podcasts on Substack. Read about the latest pop culture moments, style, movies, music and beyond, and how culture impacts the wider world.
Where pop culture deep dives mingle with quality conspiracy theories, lifestyle highlights, and trending water cooler gossip
Depp Vs. Heard / Pt. 3
The Sex Parties
Michael Cohen's "Bad Dad" Claims Debunked: Turns Out Trump Attended All of His Children's Graduations
"You can't give up," Trump continued. "You are going to have times when you feel there's no light at the end of the tunnel. I had times like that and I had a choice: I could sit in the corner with my thumb in my mouth, or I could fight. My advice to you is: Punch like hell and don't take no for an answer"
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.
Members Only #117 - Roe Deathblow (with Damon Root) / Who’s Beating Gilbert Grape?
Listen now | To get this episode into your new premium RSS feed, please click the button below from your phone: So here we are, freed from the shackles of Patreon, having sprinted into the welcoming arms of Substack, and ready to deliver our first weekly Members Only dispatch. Yay! And you’re in for a treat, dear citizens of the Fifdom. Many of you have requested that we address the
Mailbucket #4: Insane TV Art
Also: Woke punk vs. girl dad
A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist
Think more about the culture that surrounds you
My mission to save millions of street dogs around the world
Your No. 1 source for style, culture, & “unbeatable recon”
A twice-weekly newsletter about movies, tv, and personal pop culture obsessions. Hung Up is essays, interviews, recommendations, reviews, gossip, line readings, love notes, cool stuff to share with your friends.
Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.
#173: My birth story
I’m still processing my birth, but I wanted to document it before the details slipped and I started hand-waving it away like a bad dream. In those early weeks, I cried whenever I thought or spoke about it. I wanted so badly to feel differently—to love the way she got here, even if it was difficult. I’m less delicate (and hormonal) about it now, but I still don’t think I’m there yet.
15 things I consumed this week
Hey! Just ate a bowl of tomato soup with little chunks of melted Babybel in it, feel free to steal. “Throwing Yourself Into the Dark: A Conversation with Anne Carson,” by Kate Dwyer for The Paris Review, full of amazing answers. I love Anne Carson!
Webworm is an award-winning newsletter that sees documentary maker & journalist David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist, Mister Organ) diving down various wormholes, both online and in the real world. Thanks to its generous readers Webworm holds power to account, and finds compelling stories that shock, entertain and inform. With various contributing writers, keep up with the world through Webworm's eyes - and join in the kind, smart and funny Webworm community.
Obsessively-curated recommendations and reflections, best served with coffee.
Issue #51: Reading Between the Lines
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it! 📺 “Uncoupled” on Netflix: Michael (Neil Patrick Harris) has been with his partner for 17 years, when he is unceremoniously, suddenly dumped. From there, he has to navigate an entirely new dating landscape in New York that calls to mind another breezy show from the same creator (Darren Star),
Recipe: Kismet's Tahini with Green Olives + Calabrian Chile
A spicy little number, for entertaining.
All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.
Essays, updates and arguments from an eyewitness to a new dark age, with thoughts on how to keep liberty, justice and human rights alive.
Cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. You can sit with us.
cool but rude
Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand
you don't get to insist that no one talks about your political project and it's weak and pathetic that you think you do
Publishing is Designed to Make Most Authors Feel Like Losers Even While the Industry Makes Money
everything in modern culture is about status resentment
Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.
A Family
Last fall, my wife Debbie and I got a puppy named Maximus Toretto Blueberry Millman Gay. He is six months old. He weighs 7.5 pounds. He is confident, outgoing, and sweet. He enjoys eating paper, leaves, disgusting trash, and murky street water. He is not interested in food unless you are eating it, and then he is very interested. When Max realizes he is…
Lessons for Survival: Mothering and Palestine
In the chapter “Mother of All Good Things,” Emily describes in detail the trip she took to Palestine. What did you learn about the occupation th…
A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.
Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)
A critique of Tordoff et al. (2022)
Michael Hobbes Is Spectacularly Wrong About Youth Gender Medicine
That’s because he doesn’t care what the truth is
Things That Don’t Suck is a digital bouquet filled with flowers that bloom on the bright side. Andrea Gibson will help you notice the silver linings, and hunt for the truffles of joy in this sometimes muddied life.
All the latest on gender woo from beloved Internet personality, Glinner
I have news
Hey everyone, First off, I owe you an explanation. You might have noticed that I’ve not been updating this Substack as frequently over the last few months. It's not because I've run out of things to say about the current state of women’s rights, free speech and comedy! If only! Rather, I've been putting the finishing touches on my memoir, ‘Tough Crowd’.
The Good News Supplement: Monday 15th April - Sunday 21st April
Yet another jam-packed edition just bulging at the seams with good news from the gender beat this week. Enjoy! Cass In Parliament The Cass Review remains very much in the news. This week it was discussed in The House of Commons with Health and Social Care Secretary,
An eclectic portmanteau of culture, religion, politics, books, food and ideas
EXCLUSIVE: US Judge Kyle Duncan Interview
Jurist silenced by elite Stanford Law mob explains why it matters for democracy
Happy People In An Unhappy World
That’s a photo a friend at Alliance Defending Freedom took of me and the group at ADF’s Arete Academy, a week-long training session for young Christian professionals, held at a small castle in Slovakia. The guy with his head thrown back, over my right shoulder, is Paul Coleman, head of ADF International. To Paul’s left, with her hands covering her mouth…
A Pop Culture Cocktail Served by the Fug Girls
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An ongoing conversation about the daily mess of life: Family, politics, books, teaching, writing, journalism - and dogs, always dogs. In my world, hope is a fact.
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