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Recommended by Rasha Refaie

Articles, poems, stories and thoughts by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. Everything published here will always remain free to read.

Letters from a Muslim Woman

By Noha Beshir

Dispatches from one woman's life as a Western Muslim told through the lens of mental health, faith, and the multi-generational immigrant experience.

Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter

Non-fiction horror stories. Politics, history, travel.

Auraist. The best writers on Substack.

By Sean

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Grief, Gratitude, Love & Laughter

By Simone Senisin

An exploration of eternal connections and other gifts that grief affords; grace; gratitude; love and laughter.

Claire’s Substack

By Claire Carroll

Snippets of my life from my early days in Ozone Park, NY, to my current perch in México City, shared in the effort to exercise disciplined expression, engage in reflection, and learn to surrender. I'm a long-time yoga practitioner and quintessential Virgo

One of my Iyengar yoga instructors gives us thoughts and insights into the practice.

- Rasha Refaie

Queerly Enlightened: Releasing the Barriers to Joy

By Skylar Lyralen Kaye

Let there be rule-breaking enlightened queer award-winning writing & video about love as a practice! Including memoir, the fae gender, spirituality and poetry. Releasing the barriers to joy! Because we can. We really really can.

This whole dumb world needs help practicing more love and joy!

- Rasha Refaie

The Mizrahi Perspective

By Alon Mizrahi

Renounce, deconstruct, repeat (I know my heart, the rest it easy) (left Zionism, never looking back).

Brilliant writing, essential reading!

- Rasha Refaie

Naked Shadows on a Black Wall

By I. Rida Mahmood

My personal Substack

Opalescent Ghost

By Tina Rowley

(ō″pə-lĕs′ənt gōst) noun 1. mysterious being 2. thought experiment 3. invisible friend 4. clever ethereal guide who weaves us through life 5. something fun to imagine 6. newsletter by Tina Rowley and her Opalescent Ghost

if you need an invisible friend and like opals (as i do)

- Rasha Refaie

Pen>Sword

By Khaled Beydoun

Pen>Sword. Where stories ignored by mainstream outlets and erased from media headlines are focal.