Substacks recommended by Ani Simon-Kennedy

Recommended by Ani Simon-Kennedy

Seven creative explorations for your senses.

Sabrina's newsletter is a sensory delight! She's a French friend by way of New York currently living in LA. Once a month, you get a curated list of 7 recs, one for each sense. It's a celebration of creativity and the meditations/journal prompts are a real massage for your brain.

- Ani Simon-Kennedy

Cake Zine

A print publication exploring culture through cake.

Birdseed

By Jess Mack

Reflections on the glitter + grime of life through a slightly Buddhist lens. Dharma seeds on the womb, the tomb, the natural world, + more. Humorous too, I swear.

Can I Start You a Fitting Room?

By Darren

Great clothes, well-made shoes, and other stuff you'll want to try on.

thot pudding

By Sarah Thankam Mathews

newsletter about fiction, power, beauty, and how we live and think. i'm a novelist (All This Could Be Different, finalist for the National Book Award), sometimes-organizer, nice things enjoyer, a product of public schools and the post-colonies.

Between a Rock and a Card Place

By Caroline Donofrio

Essays, interviews, and a weekly card reading. A place to be human, together.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Annika is Dreaming

By Annika Hansteen-Izora

A newsletter on multimodality, creativity, and the wonder of small things. From Annika's lens as a Black queer writer, designer, and social media technologist.

FEMINIST GIANT

By Mona Eltahawy

Global feminist resistance to patriarchal fuckery

FEMINIST GIANT is the newsletter giving me hope right now in these times of antifeminist backlash. Each missive is a dose of progressive global journalism to withstand the dystopian tides.

- Ani Simon-Kennedy

The.Ink

By The Ink

On politics and culture, money and power, from Anand Giridharadas

digestivo

By jake & salonee

we got a lot of time and a lot of thoughts and also a decent pantry

The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

A critical review of beauty culture from “the woman the beauty industry fears” (the Sunday Herald).

pop culture musings

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

Jill Filipovic

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

From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy

Essays, criticism, and interviews on food culture, media, and politics sent out on Monday morning. Paid subscribers receive additional posts on Fridays and have access to commenting, the recipe archive, and more.

Flow State

Every weekday, two hours of music that's perfect for working (no vocals).

My brain is a sieve

Recommended by Ani Simon-Kennedy