Substacks recommended by Joletta Belton

Recommended by Joletta Belton

Author of There There

MSKMag combines cutting edge clinical opinion with light hearted relief from the daily grind! Featuring insights from the finest minds in the MSK industry, MSKMag will keep you up to date with best practice evidence and the best topical memes.

Playing with Fire

By Shannon Watts

Playing with Fire isn't just a free newsletter, it’s a community of badass women (and supporters!) who want to find and nurture the spark inside and learn to live on fire.

In Retrospect

By Frederick Joseph

In this ever-evolving thing we call life, we find ourselves at the crossroads of society's reckonings and personal awakenings. Here, we delve into the profound nuances of our global narrative, while traversing the corridors of politics and culture.

Graphic Rage with Aubrey Hirsch

Comics about gender, justice, aging, and life as a woman in America.

That Anna Marie Newsletter

By Anna Marie

Sunday morning musings on education, abolition, transfeminist issues, and engineering a better world.

Sluggish

By Jesse Meadows

Re-politicizing mental illness and embracing the weird

Deep dives and slow paces :)

- Joletta Belton

Happy Doggo

By Niall Harbison

My mission to save millions of street dogs around the world

Love this initiative in Thailand to rescue street dogs

- Joletta Belton

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

For all my science-y friends - this is an EXCELLENT substack by Adam Mastroianni challenging the way we do things, including academic/research publishing. It's also funny, engaging and entertaining - how reading science should be!!

- Joletta Belton

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.

Better Movement

By Todd Hargrove

Science about chronic pain, movement practices, evolution, play, and complexity.

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

For US politics and other stories

- Joletta Belton

Black Eyed Stories

By Marcie Alvis-Walker

I Wanna Say This Newsletter Is a Black Eyed Burst of Light Because It Sounds Good But Really It's Just a Newsletter Written By a Black Woman Giving Her Black and Beautiful Take on the Things We're All Talking and Thinking About

Steady

By Dan Rather

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Dan Rather and team keeping us Steady

- Joletta Belton

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Love this Substack by Roxanne Gay. The weekly round up makes my week every single week.

- Joletta Belton

Tom’s Nerve Root Newsletter

By Tom Jesson ⚡

Everything lumbar radicular pain, aka sciatica