#56: Take It or Leave It
A weekly drop of things I love
Take It or Leave It is a weekly highlight series for paid subscribers. Pretty much every Friday, I share a quick hit of things I’m loving.
Most of my writing is long-form and requires time for research between essays. Hopefully, this helps fill in the gaps for you with new finds (or things you want to revisit).
If not, all good. Take it or leave it ✌️
If you’re reading this, you survived last night’s debate. Way to go. Here are some Friday updates:
- & I published part two of our ‘Dancing in the Dark’ newsletter series—conversations on love, Black masculinity, embracing softness, and more. If you missed the first installment, you can read it here. In part two, we share a list of newsletters written by generative Black men. It’s been beautiful to see the response to these posts. Our people really showed up. I’m still sitting with this comment from :
“I could cry knowing our Black men are having these conversations with each other. I did cry.”
For Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m joining
and a few other special guests to have a conversation with ourselves about our experiences of masculinity within patriarchy. The goal is to create space for positive, healthy masculinity. I’m honored to be a part of this series and can’t wait to share it with all of you. Read the intro post below:
I just hit 1,200 newsletter subscribers! Thank you for believing in me and my work. Also, I want to give a special shoutout to all of you who have taken the leap to support my newsletter financially. It helps me to keep coming back here. I’ve been writing Feels Like Home for a year and a half. In that time, I’ve gotten to build a body of work I’m deeply proud of. I hope my personal essays and weekly content recommendations continue to connect with you in a way that feels like home. It’s beautiful to receive confirmation of that. Here’s a kind note I got earlier this week from my newest Paid Subscriber,
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