Substacks recommended by Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Recommended by Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

My Personal Substack

I'm a Gen-X former street urchin. Strong, real, advised. Author of forthcoming book, "American Waif," seeking publishing collaborations.

Passengers, Let Me Break It Down For You

By Julie Steward

Writer, mom, worm farm survivor. I was that fun friend you had on social media until you left it all for Substack. Welcome to the cool kids' table!

Rick Wilson’s Substack

Thoughts and observations on the American Crisis.

𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗

𝐄𝐗-𝐏𝐈𝐌𝐏 STANDING ON BIZNESS, WRITING REAL SHIT bout LIFE/LIBERTY/PROPERTY & The PURSUIT of FUCKING 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝑼𝑳𝑷 𝑭𝑰𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵. AUTHOR of 3 NOVELS. 𝑶𝑾𝑵𝑬𝑹 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝑼𝑳𝑷 𝑭𝑰𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑼𝑩LISHING HOUSE

Wonkette

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Kingdom of Culture

By Janine

Big and small ideas about living in the first half of the 21st century (and also, excerpts from a memoir-in-progress).

Janine de Novais is as prolific and fascinating as she is beautiful and funny. Check her out!

- Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

FULLY CRAZED

By MICK STINGLEY

(Assorted writing)

Counter-Narcissist Intelligence

By Sam Ray

CNI’s mission is to provide intelligence & strategy to good people looking to better understand narcissists, sociopaths & psychopaths, because as all current targets, victims, survivors & observers of predatory narcissists know, it's a hidden epidemic.

Sam Ray has made it his mission to protect others from Cluster B personality disorders. His writings have really educated me and helped me to heal.

- Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Radical Moms Union

Let down and rise up.

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

The Infinite Creator

By Beth Lapides

The infinitely creative life. From the inside. The work and the life that goes on around it. And the connection between them.

: lower black pain

By Jd Michaels

A weekly series of words arranged, typed, and spoken by Jd Michaels.

JD is a genius, and everyone should listen to him.

- Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Media Report

By Janice

Deeply biased opinions on TV, Books, Movies, and Podcasts

Janice's media reports mean: there is an extremely smart person who is ingesting, digesting and critically processing an outstanding amount of relevant cultural information, weekly. Janice goes there so you don't have to! And is fun in the process.

- Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Still looking for the Joke

By Merrill Markoe

I probably started writing the piece you are about to read because I thought it contained something funny. Fingers crossed I was correct in this assumption.

I highly and unequivocally recommend all of Merrill Markoe's work. She may still be looking, but she has actually found the joke a number of times, and passes the pleasure on to you.

- Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

WOODRUFF

By Frederick Woodruff

I use astrology as next-level psychoanalysis…of the culture, the arts, the individual. I'm the House astrologer for Corridor Menswear NYC.

Hermette Magazine

By Risa Mickenberg

The aspirational lifestyle magazine for they/hermits. Leave us alone!

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.

Counterpoint

The world according to Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonists — Democrat, Republican, Independent and IDGAF.

ASK MOLLY

By Heather Havrilesky

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)