Substacks recommended by Mariah Burton Nelson

Recommended by Mariah Burton Nelson

Expert opinion, research, & news by champion athletes, leaders, & lifelong women's sports advocates who formed the Women's Sports Policy Working Group in 2020 to restore girls’ & women’s legal right to the female-only sports & intimate spaces we deserve.

Heterodorx Podcast

By Corinna Cohn

Collectively praised as “based TERF and Tranny,” Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn talk about gender — and anything else they find interesting and/or horrifying — with warmth, sarcasm, respect, cutting intelligence, more sarcasm, and disarming honesty.

Musings of a Crone

By Donna Druchunas

I’m here for the warrior women, the wise old crones, the powerful witches, the ones who won’t go back. I’m here to imagine a better future so we can build it together.

Helen Joyce

I’m a journalist, campaigner for women’s rights and author of “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality”. “Utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy” – Lionel Shriver; “A sane, humane book” – Daniel Dennett. Newsletter: thehelenjoyce.com

In the Arena with Jackson Katz

A weekly newsletter of critique and analysis of gender politics, masculinities, media, and violence

Maia’s Substack

By Maia Poet

I am a 25 year old writer, public speaker and bow tie connoisseur. I am also a detransitioner. My Substack is a compilation of my best long-form writing on all things "transgender."

My personal Substack

Byrd Street is my take on the news in Orange County, VA.

Microcosm of life in America. Insightful writer and reporter explores Orange, VA asking big questions about people, politics.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

My personal Substack

Descending into Genderland is a little like Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole: slow, headfirst, and never-ending. This blog aims to poke holes in gender ideology, one nonsensical caterpillar riddle at a time.

Brilliant, witty analyses of the most interesting debate raging today.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

EyesOpen

Advocate for Parents and Women

Gender: A Wider Lens

By Wider Lens Podcast

An Informed Look at the Shifting Gender Landscape and How It’s Impacting Kids, Families and Society

The Lesbian Project Podcast

All the sapphic traffic - for anyone who wants more lesbian in their life.

Lift by Anne Marie Chaker

A newsletter devoted to helping women (re)build.

Bad Facts

By Glenna Goldis

How does a movement win in court when the facts are against it? This is a newsletter about "trans rights" in the US from the 1960s to today.

MA 4 Women

By ma4women

Advocating for the sex-based rights of women and girls in Massachusetts; nonpartisan and nonreligious.

Informative, inspirational, nonpartisan voices for women's rights in Massachusetts, with implications far beyond. Clear writing, compelling thinking. Highly recommended.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Tales from the Gender Trail

By Amanda Kovattana

How I came to find myself on the gender trail, where it led me and the merry band of intrepid sex realists I befriended along the way.

Witty feminist takes on gender jabberwocky. And I highly recommend her book with the strange name: The Unexpected Penis: Conversations On The Gender Trail.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

You know how some books are just okay and others tell a story with such grace and expertise they make you smile? This pub champions points you toward those: The ones with beautiful writing.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

TheFemaleCategory

By Sarah Barker

Read interviews, studies, and essays from those who support sex-segregated women's sports.

Sarah Barker is such a good writer and thinker.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

KnownHeretic’s Substack

By Amy Sousa

My personal Substack

Creative Crones with Stella Fosse

Stella holds forth about creativity after midlife along with health, sexuality, anti-ageism, and building an age-positive culture for women.

A B’Old Woman

By Katrina Biggs

Not being quiet about gender ideology, and any other matters which threaten women's and children's hard-won rights and protections in New Zealand. I didn't get older for nothing.

As Katrina says: "Making waves around gender ideology in New Zealand. I'm not going to be quiet while it wrecks women's and children's hard-won rights and protections. I didn't get older for nothing."

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Graphic Rage with Aubrey Hirsch

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

Comics artist with a point of view & humor too.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Bodies get in the way...

By Lucy Leader

Gender critical birth, breastfeeding and more

Everything the casual reader needs to know about so-called "gender affirming care," which is better described as sex mutilation for profit.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Arty Morty's Substack

Thoughts on the gender mess, social media and the strange times we're in.

Artful Living

By ArtNotes

"I have thoughts, but I'm not my thoughts. I have desires, but I'm not my desires..." Ken Wilber I create art, but I'm not my art. I learn from and practice astrology, but I'm not my astrology. They are things I do. So who or what am I? I'm being human.

Woman: Adult Human Female

Weekly news roundup + commentaries on forces impacting women's rights/interests

Fearless feminists share info and courage.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Sey Everything

By Jennifer Sey

A newsletter about woke capitalism and standing up to group-think. And anything else I feel like writing about.

Fearless, insightful former elite athlete speaks out for female athletes, calls out big companies like Nike, makes great little videos.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts

Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die?

Brilliant, brave, visionary. Fun, too.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Corinna Cohn

Ideas about gender, gender identity, and its effects on culture, policy, and health.

I have so much respect for this self-described "tranny" who respects and supports women. Great podcast and incisive writings.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

The TERF Report

By Kara Dansky

Your go-to resource for all things related to the radical feminist movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex in the United States (and occasionally in other parts of the world).

Astute legal, feminist analysis of the gender madness, in lay terms.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Cogitemus

By Lisa Simeone

Rare posts. Everyone else already has everything covered.

Stella O'Malley

Everything you need to know about gender (but were afraid to ask)

Brave leader helping gender-confused kids.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Inspecting Gender

By Genspect

Subscribe here for a thoughtful look at gender and country-specific news about Genspect's work!

gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen

All things gender identity.

Sleuth lurks on trans subcultures and reports back.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT)

By PITT

Personal Stories and Essays by Parents Impacted by Transgender Ideology - FREE TO SUBSCRIBE

OMG the stories here! Brave parents share all.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

buttonslives

By Christina Buttons

Critical reporting on the evidence base behind biological explanations for transgender identity, gender-transition treatments, and psychiatric models—seeking a better path forward for mental health.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Reality’s Last Stand

By Reality's Last Stand

Holding the line on free speech, science, and reality.

Colin Wright explains important bio-facts clearly.

- Mariah Burton Nelson

BROADview

By Lisa Selin Davis

A newsletter about the gender culture wars, & the history, science, psychology & politics of gender nonconformity—misunderstood by the Right and Left. Where do our ideas of normal for boys and girls come from? Speaking the unspeakable. Pro-complexity.

Fascinating writings here and in Lisa Selin Davis' books, especially Tomboys: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

- Mariah Burton Nelson