Substacks recommended by Jodi Rhoden

Recommended by Jodi Rhoden

Plant love letters + invitations for weaving our humanity with the natural world.

Mary Plantwalker is a wisdom-keeper and culture-maker in the heart of Southern Appalachia. Reading her reflections and recipes from her vast knowledge of medicinal plants helps to expand my relationship to the earth and keep me connected to the seasons.

- Jodi Rhoden

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 writes vivid and poetic personal reflection on grief, love, culture, and family, with a keen clarity of vision towards liberation.

- Jodi Rhoden

Preserving the South

By April McGreger

A newsletter about preserving fruits and vegetables with sides of history, science, radical homemaking, & a sense of place.

April is a culinary whiz kid if I've ever met one! Each post is chock full of practical wisdom and kitchen witchery, rooted in humble histories and homemade love and care.

- Jodi Rhoden

Hand Full of Stars

By Sarahbeth Larrimore

Dreaming • Making • Writing • Teaching -about the magic & muck of a handmade life.

Sarahbeth shares potent reflections on life at the intersection of handmade and hard-won: she is a badass mama, an exquisite sewist and teacher, and a paragon of Southern-queer-rural style and power.

- Jodi Rhoden

Ground Shots Ecologies

By Kelly Moody

Kelly Moody of the Ground Shots Podcast, I write about heart and grief, ecology, society, grit and curiosity found in worn landscapes.

Kelly writes authentically and truthfully from a life lived with the land. I learn so much from everything she writes, but mostly I want to be part of the community that supports her way of being in the world.

- Jodi Rhoden

Cosmic Anarchy

By Ayesha Khan

The abolitionist, decolonized medicine guide + collectivist care toolkit to build community, unplug from capitalism, ground in culture & our ecosystems to fight for collective liberation

Ayesha Khan synthesizes science, culture, community, and liberation into a powerfully orienting resource of information and reflection.

- Jodi Rhoden

Pleasant Living

By Keia Mastrianni

Farm life and rural living from a small farm in Western North Carolina. Essays, recipes, seasonal snapshots, and a peek into the lives of two people trying to build something honest.

Keia generously shares her incandescent light in these pages: the beauty and the struggle of building and nurturing a bakery, a farm, and a life, in love and community.

- Jodi Rhoden

Therapy for Social Change

By Rebecca Hyman

Tools and strategies to heal the self and join with others to free the world from systemic violence and oppression

Rebecca's writing helps to clarify the emergent discourse in our field (mental health) through the lens of liberation.

- Jodi Rhoden

ClementineMorrigan.com

By Clementine Morrigan

Clementine Morrigan is a writer and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, ethics, relationships, sexuality, and trauma.

Clementine is an incisive and wide-ranging thinker, writing with integrity, insight, and purpose.

- Jodi Rhoden

The Querent

By Alexander Chee

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

How To Cure A Ghost

By Fariha Róisín

An exploration of all the ghosts that haunt me. I’m working through it as an act of healing.

Fariha's is a rare voice of clarity, honesty, beauty, and full-spectrum humanity.

- Jodi Rhoden

Home + the World

Recommended by Jodi Rhoden