Substacks recommended by Emily Bazalgette

Recommended by Emily Bazalgette

At Refugia, our mission is to inspire and empower individuals and communities to design and nurture healing-centered ecosystems rooted in care, connection, contribution, and community.

Beautiful reflections on being human, from the perspective of living with breast cancer

- Emily Bazalgette

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

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

Beautiful meditations on sickness, aliveness and creativity

- Emily Bazalgette

Regenerative Transmissions

By Rūta Žemčugovaitė

A newsletter about moving away from extractive relating to the living world, into regenerative and mutual interbeing. Transforming perceptions of multispecies design, healing, and remembering.

Deconstructing "wellness" with lyrical explorations of the interconnectedness between our beings and our environments

- Emily Bazalgette

The Impairing Curse

The Impairing Curse is a long-form, serialized experiment in lyric essay, science journalism, and policy analysis, on being ill in a pandemic.

Fantastic writing that sift through the destruction of Long Covid, marrying personal essays with healing justice analyses

- Emily Bazalgette

Moving Mountains

By Louise Kenward

Writing and connection with nature, from the small (and slow) to the vast.

I love Louise's writing, always deepening into the living connections between our bodies and the more-than-human world

- Emily Bazalgette

Grief Spells with Mara June

Grief Spells & Other Writing on Grief, Death, and Loss

Mara has such a unique way of encountering grief, I learn so much from her writing

- Emily Bazalgette

bimblings by Josie George

I am wide awake in a strange and wonderful world and this is what I see.

Josie is a wonderful writer, the premier chronicler of chronic illness and its slow, eddying, exquisite joys

- Emily Bazalgette

Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Within this sanctuary, all who quest for the sacred hallows are welcome: we hear the ancestral voices and sing the ancient stories, remembering who we are. This Sanctuary is hospitable to all people of good will, without persuasion or judgement.

Care Curriculum

By Rachel Piper

Thoughts and guidance on the work of care. Weaving together lived experience, gender and queer theory, social ecology, disability justice and a whole lot more.

Deep explorations of care and aliveness from a disability justice perspective

- Emily Bazalgette

Inner Workings

By Rachel Katz

Literary essays, published occasionally. On work culture, mothering, mysterious women’s diseases, and redefining success. Striving to deliver little nuggets of beauty and sparks of insight.

Rae writes so beautifully about chronic illness and productivity culture. She's also an empathetic, incisive interviewer, check out the Lady's Illness Library!

- Emily Bazalgette